irotsoma @ irotsoma @lemmy.world

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That's for normal activity and it's totally irrelevant. So these are some stats about ionizing radiation dosages:

• Average from all sources for an average person for 1 year: 4mSv
• Additional if living within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor for 1 year: 0.09 µSv
• Additional of living within 50 miles of a coal plant for 1 year: 0.3 µSv
• Living within 30 km of Chernobyl before evacuation (10 days): 3-150 mSv
• Maximum allowed dose for radiation workers over 1 year: 50mSv
• 10 minutes next to the Chernobyl reactor after the meltdown: 50Sv
• fatal lifetime dosage beyond our ability to treat: ~8Sv

So, yes, nuclear power plants and storage pools are designed to shield radiation and thus during normal operation release an insignificant amount of radiation so much so that even coal burning releases a heck of a lot more.

But both of those are extremely insignificant if you consider that living near a coal plant will only give you a tiny fraction of additional exposure as the amount of radiation you receive normally from natural sources.

The problem is that with nuclear fission waste, a tiny leak can cause fatal amounts of exposure in a very short time. If a storage pool cracks after the 100 years or so they're designed to last, or if a flood happens and overflows a storage pool, or a tornado picks up that storage water, or any number of other catastrophic events happen within the 10,000-1,000,000 years before that waste is safe, depending on the type, the people living nearby will likely not survive very long and that area will be contaminated for many times longer than human life has existed.

Fukushima was a good example and had to rely on the vast Pacific ocean to disperse the radiation. Chernobyl will be unsafe for 10s of thousands of years even if the coffin is maintained for all that time.

But how does the company know that someone vomited? There aren't smell sensors, and even if there are enough cameras to get a view of the floor, the tech for detecting spills and other issues is not really there yet. Unless you think a person is going to remotely inspect each vehicle between each ride. But that seems highly unlikely. If a company is not wanting to spend money on a driver, then they aren't going to spend money on someone to watch the cameras at all times. The point is they don't want to hire people at all. Just have computers that don't have to take bathroom breaks or food breaks or have any downtime and can work in unpleasant conditions. Customer service is a big part of what drivers do, even if that doesn't mean talking to the customers directly, just knowing how to make then comfortable, not just the driving. If it's just the driving, then public transportation makes more sense to automate than individual cars.

If you like this genre of games, then this is one of the best, so yes, play it. It's a great, addictive, one more... kind of game with a ton of stuff to do, lots of goals short and long term.

I never really care for the dating sim portion of these kinds of games all that much, so I can't comment on that part much, but the rest is great!

Similar thing going on in Seattle.

Yeah, too bad there's no long-term storage for the waste so it will mean more and more leaks polluting land for centuries since the power companies will just go bankrupt when it's time to do anything about it like with most forms of pollution.

So none at all...

Anyone can look better with the right makeup,

Spam/scam mostly.

I got this laptop late last year. It works perfectly with Linux. And it is good as a development laptop while I'm watching TV. I was looking at the Framework and other upgradable laptops. But I couldn't get anywhere near the specs for anywhere near the price.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-zenbook-14-120hz-oled-touch-laptop-evo-intel-13-gen-core-i9-with-32gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-1tb-ssd-gray/6548463.p?skuId=6548463

Right and it's why well never have a left of center candidate at all unless we get money out of politics. Which is not going to happen in the US. We're stuck with moderate conservatives like Biden and Harris as the only option south of fascism.

When planning a party, I assume about 1/3 of the people I invite will RSVP and only 3/4 of them will show. I plan with that in mind. I also explicitly state the plans around food, drink, etc., and if they should come hungry or just expect snacks. And I make sure that I understand what other events or competing parties might be going on to help adjust expectations. Also, planning an annual/regular thing so that people get used to it being something they do every year helps, but it takes a couple of times to get it kickstarted.

Since I started doing that, I've had a lot fewer disappointing events. Event planning is a lot of work.

She seemed like a good alternative to Trump and Clinton at the time. But looking back I realize she was just put there by Putin to draw away lesser evil votes from Clinton so Trump could win. Another reason the Democratic Party fucked up by not allowing centrist or leftist candidates like Sanders even when they'd have a way better chance of winning by getting a lot of people to actually vote because they'd have a candidate they like rather than just voting against the other guy.

Native OIDC support...something I wish more self hosted apps would prioritize. I shouldn't need to maintain a bunch of user account systems on my own servers.

Once again, the type of weapons they use is irrelevant to using them as an example of terrorist/political groups being targeted by an indiscriminate terror attack from a foreign government. Your apologist attitude towards them is exactly why they get a free pass to murder and incite others to murder just because some other group uses bigger guns than them to once in a while murder an overall fewer amount of people per member of their own organization. So if you're incapable of understanding the implications of government sponsored terrorism in a foreign land just because the people use rockets instead of rifles and media pundits as their weapons, I suppose it's futile to continue.

Google it. These groups were attacking Asians (not even Chinese because they don't know the difference) during COVID because Trump said they were responsible for it and/or made it up to allow the government to inject microchips and/or transgender inducing substances and all the other conspiracies. And these groups are highly anti-immigrant and are constantly attacking people they consider "Mexican" and supported calls by Trump and far-right pundits to bomb Mexico to reduce immigration and cartel crime. But again this is off subject as this is an example of what a similar attack on the a US extremist group by a foreign country would be like.

These are extremist paramilitary groups just like Hezbollah. But they still don't deserve to have their families killed by bombs put in their products by foreign governments.

Not the point. They're a paramilitary terrorist organisation that has been denounced by Canada in the past.

But OK then Mexico or China, they preach the destruction of Mexico and China pretty often. And many of their terror attacks have been against people of Mexican and Asian descent. But again, not the point.

Patenting things like this that are obviously unpatentable ideas rather than actual inventions is unfortunately a necessity for defensive purposes in a world where companies will do anything in order to kill competition except risk competing with them since that isn't guaranteed by throwing money at it. Enforcing a bunch of patents against a company with fewer liquid assets is a guaranteed way to beat a competitor with money alone since winning the suit isn't the goal, only draining the assets of the competitor. Sucks that this is considered a valid business practice now.

I'm not sire what you're replying to. My comment was that using smart phones wouldn't be effective in the way you mentioned. Relying on people 100,000 people that belong to Hezbollah to unlock their phones all at the same time to verify that's who is holding the device. There is no possible way to make an attack like this targeted. It would always result in a large percentage of innocent casualties no matter what you do. The only use for it is a terrorist attack, which is what this was.

Hezbollah is a political party as well as a paramilitary group. What if Canada did this to The Oath Keepers or CSPOA or The Proud Boys or another group in the US? They're all objectively bad people, buy only a few have committed terrorist attacks. Do they all and the people who happen to be around them deserve to die by a foreign government's actions?

But this only works if you know the identity of every member of the organization, which is impossible, again making this a terror campaign and not a targeted attack. And you have to detonate them all at once or people will throw away the devices. You can't wait for the 100,00 people who belong to the organization to have just unlocked their devices all at once.