Considering the entire prison population was about 7,500 last year and they only have about 5,000 beds across all facilities… That’s a pretty large percentage.

And to add to that, from this specific article:

According to a recent Kriminalvården report, Sweden’s prison population could – in the most extreme scenario – grow from 7,800 this year to 41,000 in 2034 as a result of more punitive policies driven by the far right.

They’re looking at a 500% increase in the prison population within a decade because of the new policies. If that’s not a shift towards mass incarceration I’d like to know what your definition would be.

Scientific education rather than emotional reactions to the unknown does that.

If you were to take all of that nuclear waste ever produced in the US, processed and stored inside dry cases, it would fit within an American football field less than 100 ft high. That’s an insanely tiny amount of space for all the waste ever created for an entire type of energy production. For some comparison the amount of coal removed from the ground each year would form a cube over a mile wide.

However, most nuclear waste is low level waste and decays within a decade or less. Some of the medium level waste lasts a few decades. The longer stuff is a small fraction of overall waste. But some of it can be reprocessed and used as fuel again. It is also perfect for the starter fuel for some Thorium-based nuclear breeder reactor designs. Some are useful for various nuclear medicines. Very little of it actually has no use whatsoever.

Coal on the other hand is relatively cheap, the technology is fairly simple, running them is fairly cheap, there’s no waste to get rid of etc

Well, the waste gets thrown into the atmosphere. And that coal ash contains radioactive waste. Radioactive particulates up to 10x more concentrated than the raw coal fuel are injected directly into the atmosphere and spread by the winds. You know, the actual dangerous part of those nuclear accidents everyone is always thinking about.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

If a nuclear plant leaked even a fraction of that amount of radiation it would be shut down immediately. But all of that gets to be ignored, because it’s not a nuclear power plant.

Well it’s not working. Got a paywall here on mobile Firefox, no extensions that modify or strip links.

How were the switches designed such that they prevented accidental activation? Because it looks like they just get simply flipped down. Could it be pull-out-and-down? Or maybe there’s a lot of resistance during the switch action?

The lever-lock fuel switches are designed to prevent accidental activation - they must be pulled up to unlock before flipping, a safety feature dating back to the 1950s. This isn’t a new or weird design. It’s essentially the standard used in basically every plane because it works.

“It would be almost impossible to pull both switches with a single movement of one hand, and this makes accidental deployment unlikely,” a Canada-based air accidents investigator, who wanted to remain unnamed, told the BBC.

Also, you can access the website from any device with a web browser. The same goes for Apple.

It’s ironic that his original pick, while a blatant issue due to nepotism and coming from Elon… Jared Isaacman does actually know Space and has experience in orbit. Anyone that’s experienced the Overview Effect is almost surely a better option for leading NASA than most other choices, especially this dude.

What sort of ass-backwards State allows direct Voter-approved laws to be repealed by the politicians. The purpose of having that process is to deal with situations where the State can’t get their shit together.

That’s the only place he gets any information, news, events, entertainment, all of it comes from TV. Anything coming from a different place is ignored.

They have never considered actually competing have they?

They totally did, because they’re indiscriminate and remain well after conflicts are over.

And then Russia started mining because they don’t give a fuck. So mines are already being used in the conflict. Ukraine not having that option just ties their hands.

Removed by mod

Effectively changing nothing since it wasn’t enforced already.

After a bunch of departments including the IRS were restructured over a decade ago, the position explicitly mentioned in that rule to investigate no longer existed, meaning it basically defaulted to the Commissioner directly to handle, which obviously never happened.

This right here is a perfect example of how misinformation spreads so easily, intentionally or not.

Most people simply don’t pay much attention to details about things that aren’t directly affecting them. Signal and insecure were the things taken away from that debacle, not that it was entirely Hegseth that fucked up.

Not that the issue boiled down to simply adding someone to a thread they shouldn’t have been in, which happens all the time to people with regular text messaging. We expect that government officials should be verifying what they’re doing when handling classified info. The fact it was a modified and insecure version of the app wasn’t actually part of the issue. And that Hegseth fucked it up a second time didn’t even register apparently.

So, what are the chances he was told to do this a while ago, but to wait a bit so they could deny involvement like this? That’s probably giving them too much credit.

Right? Did they think the name wasn’t a description of the music they play for some reason?

It’s probably just a traditional 3D render, it’s a pretty simple design honestly.

Well, it was published in 2019 so…

The fact an order of magnitude made functionally no difference is ridiculous.