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splendoruranium

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  • Censoring Nipples

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  • Yes, I guess what I’m asking is are we pretending that this “conditioning” isn’t a real thing? I also read recently (sorry if this is wrong) that there was a study done on arousal of breasts between societies where they are covered up vs where they are not. It found the level of arousal remained consistent.

    Why wouldn't having to deal with that arousal be the problem and responsibility of the aroused instead of, by default and preemtively, limiting the rights of any prospective and involuntary "arousee" in existence?

  • Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button

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  • Remember the Cookie Banner is nothing to do with Cookies, and everything to do with commercialised mass monitoring.

    That is very much true, but there's plenty of things that can happen before the final death rattle of commercialised mass monitoring in the wake of some hypothetical future Glorious Revolution. I have my doubts I'll live to see it so I'll take what I can get.

    As always, it’s not the technology that’s the problem, it’s the grifters running the show. Cookies are great for remembering what’s in a shopping basket, language settings, etc before you sign in and if those were the only kinds of things the sites were using they wouldn’t even need the Cookie banner.

    Well, all these useful things require some form of user action. There's no need to remember a language setting until a language is set and there is no need to remember things in a shopping basket until they are put there. I'd draw the conclusion that there is no need to set any cookies for anyone before any of these actions happen.

    It's probably a meaningless gripe though... I mean, let's be honest here, tracking cookies are so 2010s anyway, even if they were to disappear completely, I doubt the grifters would meaningfully miss them for long, there's much better stuff in the arsenal by now.

  • Denmark to raise retirement age to highest in Europe

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  • Much obliged!

  • Fairphone releases open letter to the Community - Apologizes for 3 month support time and says the FP4 will skip Android 14 for Android 15

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  • Using LineageOS on my FP4, so... 🤷

  • First deputy PM: Georgia's EU accession 'moves in a very active way'

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  • More than a decade ago I had a course together with a Georgian exchange student and it was a massive surprise for me when she very matter-of-factly referred to herself as a "European". It would have never occurred to me that there could be some kind of European identity beyond the Black Sea back then and it still somewhat makes me cock my head. But then again who am I to judge, the more the merrier.

  • Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button

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  • Next up: No more

    <Allow all button>

    allowed" followed by "No banners allowed, setting cookies is only even possible after user account creation"... please?

  • Pocket shutting down

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  • Good riddance, maybe at least now FF will stop trying to push it so hard.

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • You dudes don’t like my comment was popular so now you’re sealioning me, does that count?

    I'm just one person trying to engage with you over something that I initially found intriguing. Though it is a little bit less intriguing if it indeed didn't reference anything real. I don't know what else to tell you.

  • German firm closures at highest level in 14 years | dpa international

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  • True

  • German firm closures at highest level in 14 years | dpa international

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  • Well, if one wanted a large amount then it might be as good a time as any to split up some of the big conglomerates into lots of tiny little chunks.

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • No, China, 1950

    It’s relevant because this site is crawling with tankies and people who unironically support landlord execution.

    There's no actual person doing that in that article or in this thread though, is there?

  • Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France

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  • I appreciate your time but I feel like I'm possibly thinking and talking about a completely different optimization problem than you (and please correct me if that's an incorrect reading). I'm trying to solve for: "What's the quickest path to reducing total carbon emissions to near 0?"I see it as a given that it's reasonable to max out every bit of production capacity into increasing battery storage and into carpeting every last residential roof and former rapeseed-field with solar panels. So the only question left to me is: How can the time until the last combustion-based power plant is shut down be minimized?

    No, this is not the case. The alternative for on-demand is batteries, not nuclear. Building sufficient battery capacity is often already cheaper than nuclear and by the time a nuclear reactor is finished building it’s guaranteed to be much cheaper. Nuclear is also terrible at being on-demand: it’s extremely expensive to shut off and restart, and pretty slow at it too. That means that it has to compete with cheap renewable energy at peak hours, which it easily loses. So you’d either have to subsidize it to keep it open, or force people to buy nuclear power which makes power more expensive (see France which has to subsidize the reactors, requires people to buy that power and as a result is constantly having to subsidize the people’s electricity bills too, covering a part of it. It costs the French government billions every year).

    Nuclear also doesn’t help to get you off coal and gas quickly. It’s extremely slow to adopt.

    For the environment, it’s likely best (eg lowest total emissions) to invest in renewables and storage, and to fill up the gaps during this adoption with gas. Gas is not great but it’s much better than coal, it’s great at on-demand scaling and it’s pretty cheap. This frees up enough money to keep investing in renewables which accelerates adoption.

    What are the time scales for the calculation here? How long does it take to manufacture enough battery capacity? How long does it take to reactivate Germany's existing nuclear power infrastructure? I mean if the former takes 40 years and the latter 4, then I assume we'd still get to kick fossil fuels to the curb earlier at the low low cost of... some money.

    Economic considerations are important. If you get can 1MW of clean power for X money, or 2MW instead, which is best to use? Less money spent per green MW means more green MWs in total.

    I don't see how it is quite that simple. Isn't it rather something in the realms of either A) 1MW of clean power and 1MW of combustion-based power for X money. B) 2MW of clean power and 1MW of combustion-based power for 2X money. C) 2MW of clean power, 0.5MW of combustion-based power, 0.5MW of nuclear power for 4X money

    I'd strongly prefer something like option C.

  • Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France

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  • The point is that no sane company touches nuclear with a ten-mile pole unless heavily subsidised, because it’s economically very challenging (if not impossible) to get it to run at a profit. It’s essentially a big money sink that also produces power.

    Whereas alternatives, like renewables, cost a lot less and have a much more immediate return. It’s why companies do like to invest in those.

    Nuclear as an option is badly outclassed economically.

    I understand that. What I don't understand is why economic considerations are on the table at all. My technical understanding is that the electric grid under current consumption habits simply cannot function without large-scale on-demand providers like coal, gas or nuclear plants. Wouldn't that imply that if one wanted to come off of coal and gas quickly, nuclear has no alternatives? Is there an option D?

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • I mean I can see that, I just don't know what it has to do with this article. Nothing there or in this thread suggests to me that violent autocracies were ever under serious consideration as a contender for "solution to housing crisis in Wales". It looked like the original comment was replying to some kind of previous conversation that I was unaware of.

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • Oh

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • Were there some politically motivated murders in Wales?

  • Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France

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  • And I assume the energy companies will be footing the bill from construction till deconstruction and long term storage, the later two as a trustee deposit, on their own without any state subsidies. Given that all the pro-nuclear folk always tout so many benefits to nuclear, this should be a non-issue and be very profitable.

    I don't really see profitability being a factor if there is already a universal understanding that reducing carbon emissions will always come at a cost anyway. Or am I misunderstanding your point?

  • Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working.

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  • Wow, look at that, turns out legislative action representing the people’s best interests has been proven infinitely more effective than empowering a dictator to execute everyone who initially refuses to redistribute.

    Er... I have to admit I'm not up to date on politics in Wales. To what is that referring?

  • Does Europe Need it's own Social Media Platforms?

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  • I think over the course of the past two decades we have firmly established that nobody not actively trying to take advantage of others needs a social media platform.