MangoCats

That depends... do you count tsunami? Operator error? Design hubris?

All told, I wouldn't be surprised if a greater percentage of reactors have melted down than big ships have split at sea.

I'd like to see a followup story published sometime other than the first of April.

They don't usually go boom so much as ticky ticky ticky on the Geiger counters, maybe a little glow in the night too...

It's a bit like the old sitcom "Night Court" where the judge would find the ladies of the evening guilty as charged and turn them loose with "time served" as their penalty.

This "lack of sentence" is a bit more than time served since the penalty for this crime can still be applied at any time if the offender is in court for anything else.

It's overly lenient and a bad message, but better than letting off manslaughter charges for a defense of "affluenza." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43621839

It's a naturally emergent property of capitalism.

Uh, no, those are the normal well adjusted people, I'm talking about the psychotics that still support it.

5+ years back Trumpettes threw around the label TDS at Trump detractors, saying they couldn't see reality due to their rage...

Whatever you call it, however you see it, there is significant mass psychosis associated with our nutcase-in-chief.

For what it's worth, I looked around and saw "ready to run" Mastodon hosting services starting at $6 per month, not too long ago. Tempting, but the service is the easy part, maintaining the community can be much more challenging.

Smaller communities don't get targeted for commercial exploitation. But, then, something has to support them even if they don't cost much to run - they still cost something, both for bandwidth/storage and moderation/curation effort.