Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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Damn I was just thinking of buying some hue lights for my computer monitor since they change color based on the screen. Any non-shitty alternatives for that?

In some places you're legally allowed to reject a product and get a refund if you don't agree with the EULA. Wonder of there'll be reforms allowing people to do that of they don't accept a revised EULA.

This reads like a joke. How many apps does it take to change the brightness of a bulb?

Absolutely clown shit from Philips.

We have a Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra style system where we reference memorable past events.

What's next, riding the bus being cheaper than calling a taxi?

"We all wanted to boo him but Putler used his Havana Syndrome gun to brainwash us into clapping for the Nazi."

I worked there for a good while.

Tell us of the deep abiding wisdom you gained from teaching English at a barely-regulated "school" for 12 months.

Ceausceau still the most popular Romanian leader to this day lmao.

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Broken Hindu Fascist clock, correct two times a day.

One factor might be that persecution of Chinese-Americans has led to many prominent scientists returning from the US to China in recent years. Their new output would contain and be domestic citations.

Coping westoids on Twitter: "Nooooo we're only citing them to laugh at them!"

China may not have religious nonsense in textbooks post-genocide Cultural Revolution, but it does have superstitious nonsense so your distinction isn't really valuable.

China has superstitious nonsense in it's textbooks? Such as what?

Nah the real reason the UNSC seats are what they are is that they're the winners of WWII.

If anything, kick France out because they did fuck all.

There is, however, precedent: the UN General Assembly in 1971 stripped Taiwan of the veto power it held as the representative of China, handing it instead to the communist government of the mainland.

Strip Russia of its veto power and give it to the PRC. Xi can have two vetoes, as a treat.

You ever hear of the bikeshed effect? It's the idea that if you get a committee of laymen to make a decision on something extremely complex, like a nuclear power plant, they'll hyperfixate in on the one thing that they think they understand - the bike shed. So instead of oversight and planning of the important bits of the plant like the reactor or the safety system, each decision maker will take their turn altering the color and the dimensions and the positioning of the bike shed.

I'm gonna guess that the wall was their bike shed.

The lead gas thing is as you described but heroin and tobacco especially were in wide use for many years without anyone really knowing the full extent of damage they caused. Sometimes it does actually just take science a while to gather the data and catch up.

I think it's about 69,420 London busses.

Following the law? When there's profit to be made?

The counter nuance to that nuance is that:

• You can't undo years of release if theres problems down the line
• Current science says that this release is probably fine, but as you said independent labs and neighboring countries have posed objections based on insufficiency of evidence
• "Current science" is really key here because it wasn't so long ago that science was convinced that heroin could be given to babies, smoking was harmless, and leaded gasoline is safe. Our state of the art has a habit of becoming the next generation's "how could they be so stupid?"
• There have been alternative treatment and disposal options proposed and the Japanese government just happened to chose the cheapest one? That doesn't pass the sniff test.
• Even if the release turns out to be completely safe in retrospect, all of the factors above will cause a significant amount of people to turn their opinions against nuclear power because it sets a precedent for perceived reckless handling of nuclear waste.