• Rimu@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Much of the East German and Soviet propaganda at that time was designed to confuse and cast doubt, not necessarily to fully persuade. The idea was that enough conflicting information would tire people out

    Sounds familiar.

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    14 hours ago

    It’s weird to see this much of a cover-up of the mismanagement of a nuclear facility while people insist we need to build more, bigger, and less regulated facilities.

    I wonder what the Polymarket on Chernobyl would have looked like if it existed back then.

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      Compared to Western, modern designs Chernobyl wasn’t regulated. That’s kind of the reason it became such a catastrophe.

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      Respectfully I think this is interesting conjecture. Intentionally or not, it seems to directly compare modern facilities with Chernobyl. The only factor linking the examples is nuclear. There’s an ocean of time, technology, politics, culture, and regulations between the two.