• Naich@piefed.world
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    8 days ago

    Of course you can. I’m just saying that the criticism is stupid in this case. I mean, I think that fusion power would be a good thing, but fuck me for not working 24 hours a day on a PhD in nuclear physics.

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      8 days ago

      But that’s more like having people talk about how we should do nuclear and renewable power, and you coming along complaining people should be working on developing fusion power instead because fission power just won’t do anything

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 days ago

        Not it isn’t.

        Arguing that fission power won’t do anything is objectively incorrect.

        Arguing that a general strike would be more effective than weekend rallies alone is objectively correct.

        Your analogy is not analagous.

        Beyond that, arguing against doing something is not the same as arguing for doing something else, in addition to /or/ instead of the original something.

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          7 days ago

          Arguing that fission power won’t do anything is objectively incorrect.

          That’s an opinion, regardless of whether it’s true or not. The analogy is analogous because I’m taking the same actions and statements, applying them to analogous topics in a different field. Dismissing that because you believe your beliefs to be objective fact is just dishonest.

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            7 days ago

            … Fission power works.

            It generates energy.

            This is objectively true.

            That is not nothing.

            If you were being hyperbolic, well then your analogy is not analagous because one end of it is hyperbolic.