@iridaniotter
@hexbear.netBecause governance is determined by material interests of the ruling class, not rationality. There's no Big Bike, and Big Car isn't going to dissolve itself after reading a few articles by scientists. And yeah you're not going to get a clear answer if you ask. This stuff is generally obfuscated in public speech.
It's a tossup between Three Mile Isle and Centralia for who gets to be called Pennsylvania's Chernobyl. (Personally I vote Centralia since it's still a hazard... I should visit)
They're not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn.
You don't need that for planning and in fact the People's Commissariat for Energetics' secret police would send you to super gulag for suggesting such a preposterous thing.