The meanings of words changes over time due to their usage. This is true for all living languages. If you want words with static definitions you want a dead language, like latin.

One of these things ended the other is still ongoing.
Perhaps we just need to wait a bit.

Here in reality Nuclear plants are closing because they can't compete with wind and solar on cost.

So all the math in the world is rather pointless when reality shows us that it is wrong.

The issue is simple to solve.

Tax CO2 output by power plants. Heck, just tax heavy metal and radioactive releases. That alone would shutdown coal plants.

This place is now mostly home to right wing kooks and racists, but I repeat myself.

Sad to see what happened to it.

Yes, people get older and wiser over time.
Spread of information is not always a good thing. See the anti-vaxxers and the damage they are doing to our nation and it's economy.

Or maybe you are just stupid.
The fascists aren't defending free speech, go to their safe spaces like gab and say something they don't like. You get the same outcome.

Reddit is a private service, it is not tax payer funded.
Reddit cannot impact your right to free speech. Start your own forum.

Naw, that senator and a certain fixed income website got banned because they didn't follow the script.

The WHO is playing by the official playbook. Folks are already past the point of being shocked to the level that they will cause excessive social and economic disruption, so it's OK to be a bit more open now.

Note that it is actually probably a good and necessary thing to keep the machine that is society running when this sort of black swan event hits. Folks get so shell shocked by what's happening that they give up on the whole thing, or worse, burn it all down, the whole problem gets worse. But for those who have an idea of the actual severity of this thing, it is a frustrating process to watch.

Because China would shut down half of their economy for months over an "ordinary flu" during a trade war. Pull the other one... it's got bells on.

The CDC has done its job well in terms of controlling panic, keeping societal stability, and markets operating (and therefore, goods, including food and medicine flowing).

But now that the coronavirus has gone global, the real numbers can't be hid by the CCP anymore. So, everybody's shifting gears from "controlled release of information" to "active measures".

Anybody paying any real attention to what's been happening in China - if via the CCP's response only - should have realized that what was being said and what were being done were at massive odds.

The nicest thing that I think someone can say about the narrative presented by various governments and international agencies is that without keeping the economies going (and thus, food, medicine, and everything else dependent on functioning supply chains) and ensuring social order, it all comes crashing down. But that may be giving too much credit.

... after the pandemic is over... /s

... this is the one that makes it to /.?

Whelp, that's going to be fairly and equally administered, no matter who the speaker is, and who the target of the speech is, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever at all. Really.

Why did I think that even with 15 comments this joke might not yet have been made....