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  • Nice to hear this.

    Do you know the Pirika app? I learned about it today. It's kind of a social sharing of picked up plastic. On one hand it makes picking up trash a positive social experience, and on the other hand they use the pickups to analyse where how much trash is thrown.

  • Be a fossile fuel company and lobby the government: Police protects you despite all the climate genocide.

    Be a citizen paying taxes and protesting harmlessly to bring the government to action: "OMG U r dangerous! We need to protect the companies your fellow citizens from you!!11"

    And before someone says, that the protests are ineffective Check this out.

    https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac110/6633666

    Further, it is the use of radical tactics, such as property destruction or violence, rather than a radical agenda, that drives this effect. Results indicate the effect owes to a contrast effect: Use of radical tactics by one flank led the more moderate faction to appear less radical, even though all characteristics of the moderate faction were held constant

  • But how would that solve the "works only on chrome" issue? It's certainly very bad website design to make the website only work with chrome and not other Browsers. And neither Firefox nor Vivaldi are blink engine based (which is what chromium, edge, safari etc. use). I'd have the same problem with Vivaldi as with Firefox. When this problem isn't there, I prefer to stick with firefox.

  • Yeah. After years I had to make an urgent booking via chrome browser in an airport on my mobile. The website didn't work with firefox. when using chrome, I always add unlock origin and similar add blockers before I actually browse - and I was surprised, that Google Chrome on android doesn't even allow any extensions at all!

  • Exactly. Those who create and profit from a product are most interested in making money off it and will avoid regulations and restrictions as much as possible. Commercial airlines aren't safe because the companies wanted to keep their customers safe, but rather because the regulations were put in place after all kinds of accidents.

  • I don't understand. Are dolphins campaigning for land rights or something?

    This made me laugh harder than I'm willing to admit

  • Life.

    9 months until your game finally goes beyond loading screen. You pay it permanently and cannot stop playing it - and if you intentionally stop playing, you can't play again. No savestates - which sucks for exploring alternatives. You also don't get asked whether you want to play or not as well - you just get thrown in. Also there is no character selection screen and you start with whatever stats, region, context, etc. you rolled.

    However, it is definitely quite interesting and gives you really very realistic experiences. Did I mention, that it's much better in its immersion than all the AR/VR stuff and co? You even can properly smell and taste stuff there!

  • $250m is so little it's easily just budgeted as "business expense if we get caught legally"

  • What are you trying to say by linking this article?

    I mean, it even says that it was a mechanical issue - and the radiation danger was low. And even then, it's just a single person. Looking at the bigger picture, the numbers game favors nuclear+wind+solar over fossile.

  • Well, that's an unexpected but correct answer

  • Even when things go wrong, it's not as bad as with the other classic fossile energy sources. Exactly this calculation is included in the world in data source on deaths per kWh which I linked.

    When we have car accidents normalised, massive climate change, air pollution from fossile fuels, then even the occasional nuclear accident isn't really a problem.

    The problem is, that these accidents get much more attention than they deserve given how many deaths are caused by fossile fuels. When calibrating for deaths, fossile fuels should get around 100x the attention

  • Oh, I have two good ones:

    1. Nuclear power causes less deaths (per energy unit produced) than wind (source)
    2. You get less radiation when living near a nuclear power plant, than if that nuclear plant hadn't been there.

    To explain the second: A major misconception is, that nuclear power plants are dangerous due to their radiation. No they aren't. The effect of radiation from the rocks in the ground and the surroundings is on average 50x more than what you get from the nuclear power plant and it's fuel cells. (source). Our body is very well capable of dealing with the constant background radiation all the time (e.g. DNA repairs). Near a power plant, the massive amounts of isolation and concrete will inhibit any background radiation coming from rocks from that direction to you. This means, that you'll actually get slightly less radiation, because the nuclear plant is there.

    Regarding the dangers of nuclear disasters. To this day, it's been very hard to find out, if at all any people have even died to Fukushima radiation (ans not other sources such as tsunami/earthquake/etc.) Nuclear radiation causes much more problems by being an emotionally triggering viral meme spreading between people and hindering it's productive use and by distracting from the ironic fact, that the coal burned in coal power plants spew much more radiation into the atmosphere than nuclear power plants themselves. (source)

  • Well, I didn't knew aviation had so many tax exemptions in the first place... I think they had been introduced in the past century to increase travel and business connections - but these days the logic is different and the tax exemptiona should rather apply to video conferencing software and rail infrastructure instead.

  • Aha. Great insight.

    Can we also talk about all the data collection and analysis which the govt. NSA/CIA/etc. do? 😇

  • IIRC the great UI and UX that GitHub offered on top of git was actually essential to the popularity and adoption of git. Without the UI and web interface, I think hit is too complex for people to borther with - except for hard experts.

  • You mean ATP, Glucose, and co?

    Don't forget to buy and COSNUME all the food!

    (For the uninitiated: COSNUME should be a pun for HODL which originates from HOLD (the crypto) and "Hold On to Dear Life")

  • Aka planned obsolescence

  • The probability of such accidents are waaaay to overestimated by the general population. Take a look at this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

    it shows the deaths per kWh for various sources of energy. Nuclear power is really as safe as wind and solar. Nuclear power is sooooo safe honestly. But coal? We have global climate change, dirty air, smog, .... and radioactive materials in the atmosphere due to the coal 😅 Fun fact: Way more radioactive materials are spewed into the atmosphere due to burning coal than is actually by nuclear power plants.

    The human emotions are waaaay too inaccurate in this situation here