Fair. When I read “no one actually wants to use nukes” I think “no nuclear power’s public geopolitical doctrine involves a nuclear first strike.” But individuals will not necessarily toe that line.

Sure, in the same way volcanologists could mutate to survive being submerged in lava.

I’ve heard the exact same analogy applied to alcohol killing bacteria and it doesn’t convince me

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I’m lacking context or something because I don’t understand why that is so significant.

Man that does sound mildly infuriating.

Is there a “lostlemmings” community?

I’m sure this was (mildly) infuriating but it’s not relatable to 99.8% of people

I was about to ask if, since you’re “extremely worried” about this (seemingly esoteric) potentially unconstitutional move, how you cope with the rest of the world.

Then I saw the second paragraph and it seems that you don’t.

Deterrence is a thing, do you think it doesn’t work?

I like Bunion

As a paying NYT subscriber, I’d just like to add that unfortunately they still advertise to me.

I use the Keepa browser extension