ChairmanMeow

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Nuclear power requires a lot of water for coolant. Usually they use river water and release the heated water back in the river, which quite heavily disrupts the ecosystem.

Additionally, during heatwaves (which we're getting more and more of) the river water may get too warm to use, so the reactor has to shut down (happens in France almost every heatwave), which is bad as that happens when power usage tends to spike.

Nuclear is also extremely expensive, costs many years to build, not to mention we don't have enough educated nuclear engineers nor build capacity to keep up with the demand for new power. It's why investors generally don't bother with nuclear much, outside of specific niche cases. Not to mention the carbon footprint of building a power plant.

It's also likely going to get more expensive to run in the future. As renewables keep contributing more power to the grid (since they're so cheap and getting cheaper still), power generation will also fluctuate more. Meaning, other power sources need to be very flexible in when they output power themselves. Nuclear is famously quite inflexible, it takes time to spin up and wind down. There are reactor designs that are better at it, but even for those shutting down the reactor for a couple hours tends to be economic suicide as well. This exact reason btw is why gas is still used a lot; it's cleaner than coal at least, but also very easy to spin up or wind down without creating much extra cost. And it's much cheaper than nuclear (leaving more money to invest in renewables).

Nuclear could be great, if it was A) cheaper, B) faster to build and C) more flexible. And no, so far SMRs have not proven to be any of those things yet.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, it was Iron Sky (2012), with the Swastika-shaped lunar base.

... Let's not give Elon any ideas.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean he literally felt he needed to point out he didn't think Hitler was the worst, which I'm sure you can have a very academical discussion about but it's really weird to just bring that up out of the blue.

"Oh yeah Hitler is totally terrible, horrible. Not the worst though, but horrible I tell ya!"

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

They accidentally added a zero, it's supposed to be 1000m (doubke 500m).

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago

This totally justifies Russian soldiers using a girl as a human shield after shooting her parents. Thank you for opening my eyes to this moral truth.

Also, this image mostly cites liberal media sources.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They literally have video and audio of this happening.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

At 11s center-left there's an obvious sieg-heil salute and the dude at 14s also is clearly doing one.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

They did. The cabinet also didn't vote on this, the Tweede Kamer (the "House" for English speakers) did. The cabinet doesn't have the power to unilaterally make this designation, it has a specific definition by law which almost certainly would get challenged in courts and revoked (Dutch courts aren't political appointees so hard to influence).

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Apparently someone asked him if they could create a website with an AI Pope Leo that could answer questions.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The point is that they haven't done so yet. This is just a motion to tell the responsible minister to explore whether or not it can or should be done. They don't have the power to simply instate such designations.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yes, in the sense that printing less money reduces inflation. This isn't exactly a shock.

The big issue is what he has sacrificed to get there. Poverty rates initially spiked, causing a lot of people to burn through their savings. Now the poverty rate has fallen, but people below the poverty line report having even less to spend than before.

And of course he slashed the budgets of a lot of services, so people are feeling that too.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Technically one was cloned off him at some point. The actress who played her ended up marrying the Doctor though.

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