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  • Imagine

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  • Actually holding platforms accountable for hate speech and propagating dangerous misinfo would solve 90% of the problem. Some shitty guy self hosting his Nazi rants was never the problem. It's a problem when he's allowed to push his content directly to users unprompted.

    Believe it or not people hated minorities and drank bleach before social media, they just weren't on the front page.

  • Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington

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  • Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.

    Just want to step in here and say that no interpretation of the second would cover a civilian killing a foreign diplomat, no matter how tyrannical 😂

  • anon realizes we’ve been played

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  • I have examined the goat entrails quarterly metrics and determined that gods markets require more human sacrifices corporate tax breaks

  • “Anarchism wouldn't work because there will always be people to ruin it for others.”

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  • I don't disagree that anarchist ideals about localization make sense as a reaction to our modern, global, hierarchical world. I'm not arguing to preserve the efficiencies of centralization but pointing out that their gravity makes opposition by other means impossible. Here's the issue that I never see resolved:

    if one group starts consolidating power and turning coercive, that’s a problem. However it’s not solved by having centralized oversight in the first place. That’s how we got here.

    Then how does it get solved? History shows a thousand instances of empires expanding through piece meal conquering of fragmented autonomous polities. Look at the European conquest of Mesoamerica, how the Roman's picked apart most of the world, the colonization of Ireland, the fate of the Iroquois Confederacy, etc... The aggressor doesn't even need a material or martial advantage, as in Macedonia's subjugation of the loose federation of Greek city states.

    Generally, the expansion only stops from an internal shift (dynasty change, leader death, coup, etc...), hitting a geographical limit, or when the aggressor runs into someone too large to bully.

    I'll point out as well that this doesn't even need to be a nefarious, expansionist scheme. Changes in climate can apply a survival pressure to take what you need from neighbors. Take for example, sea level rise reducing arable land for the Vikings, one of the causes for their invasion and settling in Britain.

  • “Anarchism wouldn't work because there will always be people to ruin it for others.”

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  • I asked this in a thread a while ago but I'll repost it here since I never got an answer:

    [I don't see how anarchism] would work in practice. Hierarchies form to simplify the logistics and social cohesion of a disorganized network of subunits.

    As a basic example, how the hell do collectives even communicate with those on other continents? It took millenia for humans to develop reliable seafaring technology, only made possible through the direction of state actors. Sea cables cost millions to maintain; satellite communication is even harder to achieve.

    Assuming that any of these could even be accomplished strictly via collectives ("Why the hell should I give you my Chilean copper so you can throw it in the ocean to talk to Europe?"), operating these essential services gives access to power and coercion.

    Somebody has to launch the ships or run the heart of the telegraph network. Will you centralize the authority of multiple collectives to regulate and monitor it?...

    And if you don't do anything to bridge the ocean, what's to prevent ideological drift for that continent; getting a little too centralized for more efficient resource use? Even if your accessible web remains strong and ideologically pure, you have to pray that completely separate webs will be just as strong.

    Anarcho-primitivism is the only critique that seems to own the inherent anti-civilization logic, but even then there's nothing stopping a collective-of-collectives from making a bigger pile of sharp rocks to subjugate you.

    The gist of it being that hierarchies form due to the natural gravitation of civilization towards efficiency. Delegating someone with power to direct the actions of a large group will always be more efficient than getting N subunits to reach a web of equilibrium. If you've ever tried to horizontally coordinate a group of a large size it's pretty obvious.

    Efficiency begets power and power propogates and entrenches the system that it's derived from.

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • I assume it's supposed to mean magically find the raw materials and production somewhere else? These people have no rational thought, they can't even put 2 and 2 together and see why solar is cheaper.

    Why do these people have such frothing opposition to nuclear? You'd think a meltdown killed their whole family, but somehow only at 2% coverage.

    They bought the oil lobby's ancient anti-nuclear propoganda hook-line-and-sinker and don't care about any of the actual data. But I'm the shill 🙄

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • Lmfao holy shit you're dense. You know you can't just drop wind turbines in any location? That insolation and geography can limit effective solar usage? That nuclear has way more flexibility?

    Do you know how to read that chart? Did you notice that the majority of emissions happen upfront during construction of those sources, unlike nuclear which is amortized over its whole life span?

    Did you realize that might matter quite a bit when we need to halt/reverse emissions NOW to stop spiraling?

    Ignoring all that and you even admit I'm right in the end. Someone here is coping and it definitely isn't me.

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • Are you agreeing with me or did you just not read your source?

    The best solar technology in the sunniest location has a footprint of 3gCO2/kWh, some seven times lower than the worst solar technology in the worst location (21gCO2/kWh).

    Solar averages at 6gCO2/kWh compared to nuclear's 4gCO2/kWh

    Here's another breakdown of the same data to make it more clear.

  • A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China: A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century.

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  • I believe it was this article. The main point was on how incredibly shitty coal is but I thought it was interesting how the others stacked up as well

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • By all means, enlighten me. Show me your sources. Everything I've looked at shows current gen solar having a larger construction impact and higher lifetime greenhouse gas emissions per unit electricity.

    Or is this just your "common sense"? Surely if you have such a strong opinion it's not based on sound bites and headlines?

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • It's very telling that you think I should be more concerned about my backyard and neighbors rather than the billions of people who will suffer while we try to dig our way out of this pit with more palatable tech that can't do the whole job.

    Also funny that you think having a radioactive hole in the ground that loses the majority of its potency in less than 100 years is too high a price to keep our planet habitable. I'd rather be relocated out of my neighborhood than deal with billions of climate refugees moving in. Your NIMBY-ass logic is why our planet is fucked.

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • Did I miss something or are we moving the goalposts from dirty to hazardous?

    The average operating age of nuclear plants in Germany was 30+ years old. Yes they're not built to modern safety standards. Yes, operating with radioactive materials is more dangerous than not doing that. But they still ended with a minimal impact to climate change over their lifetime.

    If you want sensational claims about energy saftey you can write a whole expose about working conditions in Xinjiang, which produces 45% of all of solar grade polysilicone. Are those deaths less important because they didn't happen in your neighborhood?

    So yes, it's political because a handful of human deaths override an energy technology that is, mathematically, one of the best tools to save our planet. Throwing away nuclear energy because people can get preventable cancer is like throwing away wind energy because an aluminum blade can drop on your head.

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • Again, efficiency is not the same thing as scalability. You're optimizing for investment cost (maybe build time? I can't tell). If we planned/regulated our usage better that's irrelevant because power usage is predictable.

    People won't need more tomorrow than today unless they make a drastic change. If electricity isn't cheap and elastic by default, they just won't buy that high watt GPU or electric car. Bitcoin isn't such an important social good that it needs instant access to a continent's worth of power, but it gobbled it up because nobody stopped it.

    And even if you do need account for something unpredictable, you can still adjust with other sources. That doesn't mean they need to be the foundation of your whole grid.

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • "After all, why wouldn’t we burn billions on a technology that requires destructive mining and large scale plastic waste production for a worse climate footprint? What a solar shill"

    See, I too can make emotionally charged statements with no basis in reality. All energy solutions have more nuance than "radiation bad" or "cheap good"

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  • What do people mean by "less efficient" in these conversations? Energy generated is energy generated, the number one efficiency we should talk about is using less of it. Past that you're just choosing to optimize for cost, ecological impact, carbon footprint, etc...

  • Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan

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  • Well if we're talking about lifetime carbon footprint, renewables. The drawbacks for nuclear are almost entirely political and economical, but that doesn't make the technology irrelevant.

  • A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China: A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century.

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  • IMO, any energy plan needs to have reduced consumption as priorities 1-10 and past that nuclear isn't always worse than renewables.

    Let's bring back lead, CFCs and all the stuff we have band because we were careful

    Lead, CFCs, Asbestos and the like have all been banned for consumer use, but that's not what we're talking about here. Being unhealthy doesn't mean they have no application and can't be carefully used.

    still has no real waste solution

    At scale, neither do renewables. Solar panels are a sandwich of dozens of trace elements, heavy metals, plastic and everything else. Nitpicking nuclear here is silly because the amount of waste generated is the least by an order of magnitude. Keep waste generation under control and its management basically an afterthought.

    Nucular is extremely expensive

    These conversations always get bogged down in $/kW, which is not what we should be worried about. Nuclear has a lower lifetime carbon footprint than renewables, which is worth the extra spend in our current climate crisis. It's an important tool for sustainable energy usage; you can't use renewables as a drop in replacement for everything.

  • ‘Rogue’ devices found in Chinese solar inverters raises cybersecurity alarm in Europe

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  • Unnamed "people" of some unnamed US spook organization

    People employed by a state actor to screen hardware (or closely related to screening) probably aren't supposed to leak stuff like this. Nobody wants a potential adversary knowing what you do/do not know.

    rogue devices in an undisclosed number of Chinese solar inverters and batteries of not named brands

    Again, there's no benefit to telling, especially when this could tie back to a leaker. How could they disclose a number? They deconstruct a sample selection, not every single one that's installed. What would the public even do with brand information? Throw away the commercial utility grade inverters tied into their nonexistent home grid?

    which alerts Europe

    Spain just had a very public massive grid failure. Even if they don't trust the US diplomatically, they could very easily take this info and verify it on their own devices.

    Every smart car on the road has a backdoor killswitch and GPS tracking, "just in case" it needs to be used against a private individual. You think a state actor supplying 30-40% of the global market (allies and adversaries alike) wouldn't do the same thing?

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Here's a wrench for you: the Luddites were 100% right