Why do you think they've been systematically dismantling the public education system?
halcyoncmdr
joined 2 years ago
Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.
The problem is they think that they are educated and that they have researched these topics by going to websites run by conservative think tanks. Once that's in their minds, they begin pushing any alternative viewpoint away as liberal propaganda because, in their mind, they've already researched it. They can't even consider that their research might have been compromised from the beginning to lead them to a purposefully wrong conclusion.
It can be corrected, but it takes a LOT of effort to undo 40+ years of misinformation and propaganda being drip fed to the populace through media conglomerates like Fox News, moonlighting as far and balanced sources of information. Purposefully sprinkling bits of reality in to point to when confronted about it.
You're not actually working to change someone's point of view on one topic, you're having to show them that potentially their entire belief system is based on lies and deceit to manipulate them, and not based on reality and facts.
Of particular note, most of that low level waste has a half-life of about 30 years. It is most often planned to be stored on site at the nuclear plant and included in the decommissioning plan made before the nuclear power plant is even built.
Similar low level waste comes from nuclear medicine, used at most hospitals worldwide. Radiotracers, PET/CT scans, etc all use nuclear radioactivity in your local hospital and produce low level nuclear waste. Hell they send people home while they're still actively radioactive all the time.
Common understanding of radioactivity is ridiculously uneducated.
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Private fire departments with annual or monthly fees are extremely common outside incorporated cities. If you don't live directly inside city limits, your fire department is probably funded by separate fees. Most people don't pay much attention though and homeowners just pay their mortgage with all the taxes and fees in their area calculated into that bundled monthly amount. If they actually looked at how it breaks down they'd see several things they would probably refer to as taxes that aren't really.
To be honest, it wouldn't be at all surprising if the majority of Americans are actually covered by these departments. The majority of physical housing by land area is absolutely covered by departments funded by sources like these rather than city taxes.
Also, FYI, fire departments as an idea started out as private subscriptions you paid to protect your home or business, they did not start as taxpayer funded solutions until after several cities nearly burned to the ground and they decided to handle it directly via taxes instead.
They're often still relevant. Private fire service is very common across the US. Especially outside major cities.
Private fire departments are how they started in the first place after all. Only after some entire cities nearly burned down did cities start to operate their own fire departments to help prevent that.
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Which arguably is a decent use case for it. As it is there's some stranger or in-between going through them for the same reason, at best. And most likely then just putting them into categories, not actually applying any sort of analysis whatsoever for most governments or politicians that receive those emails.