It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.

If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      nuclear is going to transition to fusion rather than fission over the next century. funding for it is of critical importance. the fuel is salt water for fusion and will produce so much energy we will have no clue what to do with it all. its important to fund fission as a stopgap till we get fusion in order to build expertise on nuclear energy.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        will produce so much energy we will have no clue what to do with it all.

        Looking back at human history, odds are good that we will use it to kill each other.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          i'm talking billions of years of renewability here lol. the whole point of fusion is we're basically creating a tiny sun that we can just feed energy in and get double out of it.