"This disaster has rung a big alarm for Sino-Metals Leach and the mining industry," [says company directly responsible.]
Yeah, no it hasn't. This isn't the first mining dam to fail with consequences. It won't be the last. No one at that company is losing sleep over this.
Both mines have now halted their operations after orders from Zambian authorities, while many Zambians are angry.
Gotta let it die down. Placate the masses. Then back to business as usual.
Anime Character: "I'm just a little baby girl."
ProZD: "Zero [years old]?!"
Anime Character: "I'm a thousand!"
ProZD: "NOPE."
Well, we don't usually see a Day in the Life of a Normally Functioning Transporter. It'd make for a pretty boring episode. It's kind of like "Well, where ARE the bathrooms on the ship? What do they look like? How do they work? Do they also use the three seashells?" I mean, getting an answer might be mildly interesting, but really... do we need to see the space toilet? They only kind of got value out of complaining about a lack of showers on Voyager.
Transporters are perfectly safe, and we just see those ultra rare times when they aren't.
No, what you should really worry about is whether it's you that arrives on the other end of that transporter or not. Is there a soul? Does it survive? What is actually transmitted down to the planet? What makes you you, basically? Some people find that line of thought the stuff of nightmares.
2020: "I can't believe they fell for that. Oh, well, they chose better next time. Let's give them a chance."
2024: "...Yeah, they're just fucking dumb. Countless countries would have loved a chance to get rid of a shitstain like that without needing a violent revolt and the United States just... invited him back into office. Just... so fucking dumb."
"Gas is too high! Why doesn't the President just pull the lever to make them not high?!"
Biden releases strategic reserves to lower prices.
"Ye-- Ye-- Well, the price of eggs is too fucking high. Pull that lever! I dare you!"
Hm, we don't have a strategic egg supply to make simple people happy. This will be a challenge...
Trump claims he'll lower it by getting elected. How? Who the fuck knows and no one cares.
"Why aren't the prices lower yet?!"
Well, gosh, it couldn't have to do with a complex system where there aren't magic levers one just pulls to make things happen... Guess it's Trump's fault. What's good for the goose (Biden) is good for the gander (Trump), after all.
"The prices need to be this high!" /insert picture of sieg heil/
Petah says, "Unlike a carnival ride, 'this high' is literally over one's head. As in, we're in over our heads."
Well, you'd have to ask, was there a reason they took Alaska? They might have a good reason. Maybe they think there was something wrong with how we bought it from them. They might feel we took advantage of them. I mean, wouldn't you sympathize with someone that felt taken advantage of? They'll have a good reason. Russia wouldn't do anything on a whim. Not just to enrich themselves or establish a beachhead for the rest of the continental Americas; surely not.
Of course... even if it were a beachhead... Russia might have a good reason, and we like Russia, they're good friends. Maybe we should join together in some kind of union...
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PS: If someone was nodding their head along with the above, just know you're on the wrong side of... well, everything.
According to some (now in power):
States have Rights only while the States conform. (See the Governor of Maine's "I'll see you in court" to Trump?)
Much like Speech is Free so long as it conforms. (The Washington Post continues to find out.)