…but the people are retarded

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Cites Mawr · 2023-02 · on “Japan Adopts Plan to Make Maximum Use of Nuclear Power”

> People are scared of nuclear energy. "But the people are retarded." [1]. "The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and *remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan*. The earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami, with 13–14-meter-high waves damaging the nuclear power plant's emergency diesel generators, leading to a loss of electric power. The result was the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, classified as level seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) [...] and thus joining Chernobyl as the only other accident to receive such classification. [.

Cites DiggyJohnson · 2024-09 · on “Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week”

I thought you were referencing this: [this video] > people don’t want what they want Which makes the opposite point, funny enough. Who is the “they”

Cites byearthithatius · 2025-09 · on “50 Things I Know”

[this video] Not all people. But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

Cites throwforfeds · 2025-10 · on “Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k”

> Though why do you Americans put up with all this? I have heard the US is a democracy. So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want? It's because our politicians are largely owned by our corporations and spend a ridiculous amount of money protecting their interests [1]. We almost had a public option with the original "Obamacare", but it was forced out of the bill [2]. Also, just turn on Fox News for an evening and realize it's been the number one news channel in the US for 20-something years. They've been a right wing corporate propaganda machine for a long time, all while brilliantly portraying themselves as the "underdog" fighting the mainstream media. Americans a

Cites chii · 2026-07 · on “Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech”

for such a wide ranging effects, brexit's vote had only 2% margin of error, with 48% against. The people's stupidity is why "important" questions like that should not be put to a vote; they can't be expected to understand the entirety of the outcome and consequences. As the other comment has posted: [this video]