I figured out the problem:
It wouldn’t let me post a comment-to-a-comment when the language was set to “Undetermined”. Setting the language of the individual post to “English” allowed it to work.
Weirdly this option wasn’t available to me on Jerboa. Only on the browser site.
I can think of three options, none are perfect, but each could be tinkered with to get what you want:
In the Light of a Ghost Star – This is much further in the future than you intend. But it has incredibly simple rules which are easy to customize. Also I made a psionics supplement for it here. I had pretty good success running it.
Mutants & Machine-guns - A loose, fairly tongue-in-cheek system. Free.
Mutant Future - Basically a cleaned up clone of early edition Gamma World. Less light than other games mentioned.