Still better. We know the crooks are in charge, just can’t do much about it without going right to prison if you know what I mean.
I do know what you mean.
There’s irony in that too. Further irony in not actually being able to come out and say what we actually mean.
I don’t know if it is better. It’s different.
The theme of the ‘Chernobyl’ miniseries was it was the lies that did everybody in.
The root cause reason the reactor literally exploded (didn’t melt down until later, it went off like someone had taken a crate of dynamite and dropped it down a hole in the middle of the reactor):
The tips of the control rods were made of graphite. Control rods are supposed to interfere with a nuclear chain reaction where neutrons fly off and split Uranium nucleii. They are made of Boron.
These control rods, however had graphite tips because graphite could handle the steam better, and it was only the tip. Graphite is used to slow down the neutrons so that they will actually split atoms and not just get absorbed by Uranium 238 and turn to Plutonium 239 (the neutron splits into a proton and an electron to do this).
Chernobyl number 4 was dry, steam was building, the control rods were completely out, and the power was spiking. They hit the panic button, which was supposed to stop the chain reaction cold.
Nobody knew the tips of the control rods were graphite, and when the tips of the control rods went in, it spiked the power and blew the reactor wide open like a bomb. Then the oxygen combined with all the heat and free hydrogen in the core and it exploded again.
But they knew about this problem. The KGB classified the document, erased the scientist who discovered the issue from society, and then redacted the article it first appeared in and re-released it without the bit about RBMK reactors being potential bombs.
The reactor explosion caused all the death, but it was the lie that ensured the thing was going off in the first place.
Disney whistleblower is in the news this AM. Says they’ve been overstating their earnings for years.
We live in an all-time golden age of fraud. We may be different, but only very, very slightly.