There’s a second factor at work, which is that the institutions targeted by more “extreme” actions also don’t want those actions publicized.

Consider an action like the one depicted in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” If they don’t have a perpetrator in cuffs, the oil company and the cops would not want to admit the action happened at all, because it makes them look vulnerable.

Guarantee this guy pays a statuesque blonde to beat the shit out of him, or wishes he could afford to.

A good friend of mine from high school got his physics PhD at University of Texas and went on to work in the high energy plasma physics lab there with the Texas Petawatt laser, and a lot of the experiments it was used for involved plasma turbulence and determining what path energetic particles would take in a hypothetical fusion reactor.

Recently on the geologic scale, so roughly 100,000 years.

Look up Jaime Loftus’ excellent podcast “My Year in MENSA” for an in-depth look at the organization.

“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”