Chernobyl... anyone watching?
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Chernobyl
https://xkcd.com/2163/
You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Goddamned Russians.
Colluding with improper safety protocols.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Not only do you post politically-motivated death threats and death wishes, and claim that you hate many Americans, you also fire people for political reasons.
JewelStaiteFan, you are so fucking stupid it is no surprise you support Trump. This is why I fire Republicans from my business: you guys are more trouble than you are worth because you barely understand what your job is, much like the semi-incompetent people designing, building, maintaining, and operating the nuclear power plants at Chernobyl.-SECONDRATE
Wow, it's a good thing you haven't been doxxed. A lot of investigators might be interested in you.
Unfortunately, it seems that he's already off the hook for firing people based off of their political beliefs. At least in 2019, there doesn't appear to be any grounds for legal recourse.
There are, however, some fairly high profile cases making their way up the courts regarding this as we speak.
I doubt that any laws made against this practice will ever be enforced retroactively. But all the same, I wouldn't want confessions of it all over the internet if I owned a cow farting factory that only employs Democrats.
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Quote:Please cite even one of those cases, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Unfortunately, it seems that he's already off the hook for firing people based off of their political beliefs. At least in 2019, there doesn't appear to be any grounds for legal recourse.
There are, however, some fairly high profile cases making their way up the courts regarding this as we speak.
Federal laws don’t prohibit political discrimination. Neither do Texas laws, comrade.
www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employers-discriminate-based-on-po
litical-beliefs-or-affiliation.html
www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/texas-employment-discrimination-32114.
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On the TV show Chernobyl, they are constantly using the word comrade. It gave them a false sense of equality. Makes them feel better, but after the reactor emergency, it became very obvious, like in Animal Farm, Orwell’s satire about communism, that some comrades are more equal than others. Trump voters also fall for the American version of comrade ("All men are created equal."). They get very bitter and vote for Trump when their dreamed of equal status isn’t recognized by the boss who fired them because he has his own agenda and emergencies. It feels sad and depressing to be roughly treated when all men are created equal in the land of the "free" and the home of the "brave". Vote for Trump, comrade. He will "protect" you from people like me and he will make America great again. He’ll also give me another million dollar tax cut. In his second term he might raise the minimum wage by a dollar. Or not, depending on how Mitch McConnell in the Senate feels about it. We’ll see.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Please cite even one of those cases, 6ix.
You've got Google. Use it.
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Federal laws don’t prohibit political discrimination. Neither do Texas laws, comrade.
Yup. That's what I JUST SAID.
Laws change, however. Every day.
Your gross confessions here are the very reason why they do.
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Originally posted by second:
You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.
Enjoying the podcasts, second. >Pat on back< I was happy to hear Mazin make the same observation that I made about: "only Russia would eff it up like this, and only Russia could fix it (with their sense of blind nationalism, and self-sacrifice to the State").
Also finding the details about the production very interesting. I spent a lot of the show marveling at the perfect level of replication of Russian Brutalism. Of course, that's because they found actual real life examples. You can tell so much about a country from their architecture (and food, and sport, and language...).
And again, props to the music creator and director, and the people who decided to take the chance on using such a unique score.
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I'm sure the US could eff it up just as bad.
No doubt that China could too, what with putting lead paint on children's toys and making microwaveable plastic dishes and pet food that causes cancer.
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Quote:Those laws will not change in states where the GOP is in control because the GOP doesn't want to limit what the bosses can do to their employees. That is why the GOP is hostile to unions, which also limit what bosses can do to employees. In Chernobyl the bosses can do whatever they please, even executing employee/comrades or simply jailing them for years as an example to other employee/comrades.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Please cite even one of those cases, 6ix.
You've got Google. Use it.Quote:
Federal laws don’t prohibit political discrimination. Neither do Texas laws, comrade.
Yup. That's what I JUST SAID.
Laws change, however. Every day.
Your gross confessions here are the very reason why they do.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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You are a very silly man.
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After watching the HBO miniseries, I knew there was more to the science of this. I've also heard a lot of stuff from both credible and non-credible sources that just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
What /Actually/ Happened at Chernobyl
Why Chernobyl Exploded - The Real Physics Behind The Reactor
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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