myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Can pop science writers, documentarians, and science show makers PLEASE stop using ...
Can pop science writers, documentarians, and science show makers PLEASE stop using "the bomb at Hiroshima" as a unit of measure?
It's just unsettling and at worst sounds like the worst kind of jingoism (if the show is US made), at best tone deaf.
Use an atomic test, or Mt. St. Helen or Tunguska, or "tons of TNT" -- just anything else will do.
The worst is when it's treated like a plural noun. "200 Hiroshimas!" If could never hear that again it would be awesome.
It's just unsettling and at worst sounds like the worst kind of jingoism (if the show is US made), at best tone deaf.
Use an atomic test, or Mt. St. Helen or Tunguska, or "tons of TNT" -- just anything else will do.
The worst is when it's treated like a plural noun. "200 Hiroshimas!" If could never hear that again it would be awesome.