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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 03:03:41 JST Charlie Stross

   @newsguyusa

   Politely, alarmist bullshit.

   23,000 people died in the great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami. The reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant *were a sideshow* which didn't directly kill anyone at the time: if the operators hadn't put the diesel fuel for the backup generators somewhere stupid, or had built the sea wall just one metre higher, the meltdowns wouldn't have happened. (The reactors survived the quake intact, the meltdown happened when the coolant pumps stopped.)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 03:03:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @cstross @newsguyusa Steve has been reporting news for VOA and on the Fediverse for years. I think this is an honest mistake, not intentional bullshit.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 03:53:10 JST Charlie Stross

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     @evan As a professional journalist @newsguyusa should know the importance of fact checking and source validation.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 04:18:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @cstross @newsguyusa Fair enough.