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  • Always buy local if you can. It has the lowest climate impact.

    Even buying a less-green local product vs. a more eco-friendly import might have less climate impact due to resource extraction, production in areas with possibly less environmental protection regulations, and above all shipping.

    Climate cost-benefit outweighs all other arguments for rational people.

  • Yeah, for being brilliant physicists, they weren't particularly smart. From the second incident:

    On May 21, 1946, one of Daghlian's colleagues, physicist Louis Slotin, was demonstrating a similar criticality experiment, lowering a beryllium dome over the core.

    Like the tungsten carbide bricks before it, the beryllium dome reflected neutrons back at the core, pushing it toward criticality. Slotin was careful to ensure the dome – called a tamper – never completely covered the core, using a screwdriver to maintain a small gap, acting as a crucial valve to enable enough of the neutrons to escape.

    The method worked, until it didn't.

    The screwdriver slipped and the dome dropped, for an instant fully covering the demon core in a beryllium bubble bouncing too many neutrons back at it.

    After an initial bout of nausea and vomiting, he at first seemed to recover in hospital, but within days was losing weight, experiencing abdominal pain, and began showing signs of mental confusion.

    A press release issued by Los Alamos at the time described his condition as "three-dimensional sunburn".

    https://www.sciencealert.com/the-chilling-story-of-the-demon-core-and-the-scientists-who-became-its-victims-plutonium-bomb-radiation-wwii

  • My point of view is that a human rights violation is a human rights violation regardless of the context in which it happens, and is therefore an important thing to discuss and give visibility to.

    Labeling it as "political" and using that as an excuse to hide discussion of it feels like bootlicker behavior to me.

  • ICE's actions are political.

    Discussing ICE's actions is not necessarily political, unless you consider human rights violations to be necessarily political as a topic.

    Silencing discussion of human rights violations implies tacit support for the action, so I guess we know now where .ml stands. Any claim of leftist ideology on their part is a sham, they just have a hard-on for authoritarians.