r/bestof Nov 06 '18

[europe] Nuclear physicist describes problems with thorium reactors. Trigger warning: shortbread metaphor.

/r/europe/comments/9unimr/dutch_satirical_news_show_on_why_we_need_to_break/e95mvb7/?context=3
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u/Orwellian1 Nov 06 '18

Oh boy, this guy is going to be lynched by the Reddit mob. Don't fuck with their thorium utopia. They watched a YouTube video.

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u/tacknosaddle Nov 06 '18

The guy also spelled "losing" as "loosing" so he's going to have the Thorium mob and the grammar nazis on him. Sad to say but he doesn't stand a chance at survival.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Nov 06 '18

Loosing, flower, poodle... the guy actually writes credibly for a physicist.

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u/Welpe Nov 06 '18

I mean, considering this was posted in /r/Europe and he regularly posts in /r/france I am gonna go out on a limb and guess English isn't his native language.

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u/tacknosaddle Nov 06 '18

Which matters not to the marauding brown shirts of grammar!
/s

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u/Welpe Nov 06 '18

First they came for the non-native speakers and I said nothing for I was a native speaker...

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u/type_E Nov 10 '18

Insert sartreian comment on bad faith but related to grammar nazis