Things I think about sometimes...

Things that I used to think were bad ideas(1), then I thought were good ideas(2), then I learned some stuff and thought they were bad ideas(3) again, then I learned even more and thought they might be good ideas(4) again, then looked at the current state of the world(5) -- and projections of the future state of the world -- and concluded they were bad ideas after all:

1. Nuclear power

(1) Nuclear bombs (I was a kid of the 60s)
(2) Nuclear power! (and the 70s!)
(3) Nuclear waste from fission power plants and the always-30-years-away fusion power plants. (I was alive for Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima... so far.)
(4) Molten salt reactors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor)
(5) Which fascist, proto-fascist, neo-fascist, capitalist (but I repeat myself), oligarchy (there I go again), authoritarian, or threatened-by-fascism states in this world would you trust with the power to make nuclear weapons and/or "safe-for-all-time" nuclear power plants?

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