If I wear a Velcro suit while hugging you would wacky sitcom level shenanigans occur?

It is a luxury so is.grocery shopping. Meanwhile we are told that there is no inflation

Greenpeace: we should save the planet!

Me: great, let’s build nuclear power so we can shut down fossile fuels

Greenpeace: …No

Apparently what happens is you are rich, well-liked, respected, powerful, have a big family, and you live to a pretty old age.

Got to say your skydaddy is sending some mixed messages here.

Remind me again: doesn’t the Book of Job make it clear that anyone who says “x happens because you were bad, y happens because you are good” (without direct prophecy) is worthy of death? Doesn’t Leviticus make it pretty clear that you are not to interpret signs and omens? Doesn’t Solomon teach that good and bad happen to people regardless of how they act? Isn’t the actions of Jesus proof that success doesn’t mean virtue and neither does misfortune?

Try being an atheist, it is a lot easier. You get to just accept that if there is any justice in this world, it is the justice us humans make.

Ok Carl Sagan you have a way with words and rock the leisure suit turtleneck combo but this isn’t the 90s anymore. It is 2024. The Middle East is on fire over who has the best skydaddy, American democracy has under a year left before the evangelicals start opening concentration camps, Russia is about finished up in Ukraine, and the PRC is going to make sure that there is one China soon.

So excuse me for not being hopeful when I am having to spend money and time making sure my daughters have citizenship in another country to flee to before we go all Gilead.

In other words you want special pleading. All other energy techs are allowed to have problems and produce waste except for one.

Maybe one day we will produce a civilization capable of using technology as it comes out instead of one that decided to call it quits decades ago. Oh sure we got cellphones but we are still burning coal. Because nuclear is scary.

Cannabis? Oh man we can’t break the law. Better not chance it.

Some weird Bitcoin mortgage backed security being bought by Goldman Sachs to resell to their pension holders? Oh so good.