• culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    thousand people are killed daily to keep travel in entire galaxy safer

    100+ die every day (on average) in US traffic accidents (42,795 for 2022)

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      The population of the imperium is in the hundreds or thousands of trillions or even way more than that. Sacrificing 3000 people a day to make it so that demons don’t attack every single spaceship, and to ensure the reliability of ftl travel, is considered grimdark.

      In a country of 330 million 3000 people a day died during covid to protect 6 months of corporate profits. But its ok because those people died for the freedom to drive to mcdonalds matt-jokerfied

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        But its ok because

        I’ve actually seen people defend the deaths because it was mostly the homeless and the unemployed; a lot of people are just utter trash, but now they can broadcast it through social media.