CLOTHESPlN

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I've only learned (so no first hand experience) about radiation exposure limits and such around power plants in college, plus I agree with the sentiments you mentioned, but isn't it common that being inside a powerplant has less radiation than being in a standard home? The amount of water, shielding, concrete, etc around a powerplant results in less radiation than being near your TV, microwave, any number of foods like bananas, or getting an X-ray once in a blue moon or something like that

Or I'm misremembering my professor and talking out of my ass but I'm more than happy to learn one way or another

Lived here most of my life, there is no like about it. Everybody can be at the mercy of the weather and if you can help somebody you do. I've had strangers help me twice with shovels, sand in their car, pushing etc. You would have to be a massive dickhead for people to not help you, and a despicable kind of human to be heckled for it.

That's a bit of a gross oversimplification. Overseas or foreign product? Sure tariffs apply 100%.

But what if the modified corn gloop is processed with a machine from Germany? And quality inspected with a sampling device from Canada? And the cameras used to inspect the packaging come from Japan? And the computers to power the logistics operations come from Taiwan, Korea and China?

Sure the corn gloop isnt taxed via tariff, but every single part of its manufacturing just got 20-120% more expensive (and supply chains got that much less predictable). Most businesses would go under if they tried to eat that cost.

The answer? Sweeping tariffs mean sweeping price increases. The list of which prices won't go up will be infinitely smaller.

Realistically you don't get to react at that speed. Best you can do is slow down and hope.. Anything more than small adjustment of the steering wheel and you're no longer on the road. If I crashed at even half that speed I would probably wish I was dead because it's going to be a very long time if ever I function correctly again.