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That's a lot more than "just the tip" tbh

The waste is still very much a non issue in the short term (i.e. 100 years) while we desperately need clean energy options now. And that waste is nothing compared to the billions of tons of c02 we release yearly. And we DO have ways of stopping it from getting into the environment. It's not some new thing that they are just now figuring out. That issue was solved years ago! The storage containers they use can literally be hit by speeding freight trains and not leak. There have been almost no incidents of spent nuclear fuel causing environmental damage. I honestly think that oil companies have been gaslighting people (no pun intended) about how "dangerous" nuclear is just so they can keep building more refineries.

Yes those designs are already in use today. Modern reactors are incredibly safe. The only modern disaster was Fukushima and that didn't even cause any deaths and was brought on by a tsunami.

And here is your source. And this is for ALL nuclear waste in the world.

The volume of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) produced by the civil nuclear industry is small. The IAEA estimates that 392,000 tonnes of heavy metal (tHM) in the form of used fuel have been discharged since the first nuclear power plants commenced operation. Of this, the agency estimates that 127,000 tHM have been reprocessed. The IAEA estimates that the disposal volumeb of the current solid HLW inventory is approximately 29,000 m3.1 For context, this is a volume roughly equivalent to a three metre tall building covering an area the size of a soccer pitch.

This is a good video to learn more about nuclear power and how many people misunderstand it.

Those problems literally HAVE been solved. You're talking about a disaster from 50 years ago. Nuclear is quite literally one of the safest forms of energy production we have. And the waste is really not much of an issue. Not only is most of it recycled into new fuel, the entire United States hasn't even made enough fuel to fill a football field since we started using nuclear power.

Cops are cops everywhere. Progressive police do not exist.

Incredible argument. Can really see the thought you have put into this.

The people who don't know how I understand completely. But honestly people who have the know-how are underestimating how easy it has got. I can torrent a movie at a much higher quality than Netflix will even stream to my PC and do it all within 5 minutes.

Put some peanut butter on the pancakes and then syrup on that. You get extra protein and your pancakes don't get soggy. Also it's delicious!

Saying "it comes down to y chromosome basically" is extremely reductive. The way minor genes are expressed can result in vast differences in biology.

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if most people chose it as a joke.

This was kinda overstated though. It really only works when you already have a dataset of that specific type on that specific keyboard. It's not gonna just work on anyone.

You can't deny the amount of crazy progress in machine learning in the past 3 years. The hype is pretty understandable, far more than crypto ever was.

Do it. Mods can really enhance the game, adding new classes and mechanics.

Especially with a lot of new EVs on the road that use regenerative breaking if your foot is off the gas.

I doubt Microsoft even thinks about Linux as a competitor in the consumer space. People on Lemmy are seriously delusional about how many people use or even know about Linux.

Nope. Because you don't know when it will collapse,. Imagine you have 2 balls, a red and a blue. They are both put in boxes and each ship takes 1 box. After you travel a long distance you open your box. You have just collapsed the "superposition" of what color the balls were. You now know what color both balls are, but you don't know if the other person has looked in their box yet.

I think a lot of people get confused by the term "observe" when talking about collapsing quantum uncertainty. Observing requires a photon to interact with the particle which is what caused it to "choose" what state it is in.

No, measuring one particle collapses the entanglement and they no longer affect each other. It is a one time thing. You can't modify them after they have been observed.

C is more than just the speed of light. It is the speed of Causality. No information can travel faster than C in a vacuum. Gravitational waves already reach us faster than the light from events that cause them (i.e. neutron star collisions) Because small particles slow down the light over long distances, as they absorb and then re-emit the photons.

Inequality has lessened somewhat in recent years as wage growth has favored poorer workers

Also that means pretty much nothing without also looking at how much more money the richest of us have. Their wealth increases by the trillions during covid. To say that inequality is now better because some of the lowest earning workers might be making a few thousand more each year is disingenuous at best.

These numbers are put on by grocery clerks with a price-gun. All they did was add on however many days the product is supposed to last after it got put on the shelf. So it's really just some grocery worker not worrying about a date not existing. I woulda done the same thing if I was stocking these tbh.