Short answer is No, they don't. That said, I agree with everything you said about coal and it is a problem. I'd add that the brine from fracking for gas also contains radioactive particles and is used to damp down dirt roads for dust control. Both are a huge problem.

You're 100% right about that. These are naturally occurring isotopes which are supposed to be in the ground where nature put them. I agree that the coal industry should also receive the same scrutiny that the Nuclear industry does for controlling these materials.

Everywhere I look there is something to remind me.

As I recall, it is also stored at 4 to 5 times the density of the waste stored at Fukushima.

The Price Anderson Act (and its amendments) also excludes rate payers from making claims to recover the replacement cost of their homes. Without this Act the nuclear industry would collapse simply because it cannot sustain itself without the insurance indemnities it provides.

I see we also need Picard's wise words: "Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life"

Happy Birthday Star Trek!

That would be illogical.

For sure. BTW - I've never seen someone type with a Scottish accent.

Not at all, more that when sexuality is used as an instrument in hard sci fi, for example in Greg Bear's "Anvil of Stars" it's used in such a way that makes Discovery look tame. Otherwise it's simply irrelevant.

I'll see your TOS and B5 and raise you Blake's 7 - which also created the long story arc to tackle ideas like a powerfully dystopian society.

Which ironically fit's into Star Trek Cannon so perfectly it should be a part of star trek, or star trek should be part of Blake's 7.

It's what happens when you stop sleeping.

Isn't that the show with Captain Janeway in it?

Most people don't read hard sci fi where sexuality is an also ran to much bigger ideas. Discovery made it about sexuality in an in your face way which kind of obliterated some of the really good sci-fi that was in it. SNW seems to have left that behind which is in line with what you're saying probably because it's boring and slightly annoying.

Exactly. All we have to do is remember Captain Kirk's wise words: "We will not kill, TODAY!"

Being trapped in a binary star system while telepathic beings project their requests for hydrogen so they too can escape isn't woke. It's interference with the brainwave modes required for sleep.

Being awake all the time is bad sometimes you need to be asleep so you don't go mad.

Ugly bags of mostly water.

How about just banning advertising, it's a pointless waste of time and obsolete.