then_three_more @ then_three_more @lemmy.world

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Just because it's safe doesn't mean it's the best we have right now.

• It's massively expensive to set up
• It's massively expensive to decommission at end of life
• Almost half of the fuel you need to run them comes from a country dangerously close to Russia. (This one is slightly less of a thing now that Russia has bogged itself down in Ukraine)
• It takes a long time to set up.
• It has an image problem.

A combination of solar, wind, wave, tidal, more traditional hydro and geothermal (most of the cost with this is digging the holes. We've got a lot of deep old mines that can be repurposed) can easily be built to over capacity and or alongside adequate storage is the best solution in the here and now.

Climate doomerism is the new climate change denial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D0t6ejcGE

Maybe that's the tactic, force Ukraine to divert food and resources to feeding thousands of Korean deserters.

You Europeans are something else, man.

Lol because we expect companies to pay people properly rather than expecting customers to top it up.

Tipping is immoral as it allows companies to underpay. Tipping is anti free market as companies should be competing for staff through their remuneration packages.

The thing I've never understood about tipping culture in general and especially the American culture around it is why some low paid staff get it and some don't.

Why do you tip your food delivery driver and not the guy delivering your Amazon package?

Why do you tip your wait staff, but not your supermarket checkout assistant?

It's double what's standard to tip for good service.

Tipping is just another way for the corporations to reduce the overhead by having the customer pay the wages of the employee directly, reducing both the budget for salaries and also the reducing ancillary expenses like unemployment insurance and employer wage withholding, occupational privilege tax, etc.

It also makes these jobs falsely competitive against other "unskilled" jobs where tipping isn't the norm.

I thought yanks were all for the free market, tipping is the oppositeness to this as it negates the free market whereby companies complete with wages and benefits for staff.

So, you're supporting the unfair system.

Only because you live in a country where they don't pay people properly.

You yanks are crazy with your attitude to pay.

Lol that's so bad.

Even with an insane 20% tip I don't think you've worked it out right. A 20% tip on the food (because why would you tip on a service charge??) comes to 4.09

Ice cold water with a slice of lemon.

3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.

Haha I'd missed that.

On a side note I thought it ended ok. Not great not terrible I'd probably give it 3.6.

The calypso ending was massively tacked on. Instead of putting the tech in the black hole they should have had to have Discovery itself have to hide with it. Then emotional goodbyes under pressure rather than dragged out.

And Stamets. Though, thinking about it I've not seen them about much recently.

Star Trek

Yeah if your desk is stuck just in one position that's obviously going to be bad. Most 'standing' desks are actually height adjustable. You can spend some time standing some time sitting. But maybe even more important, you can adjust the desk to the right height rather than just adjusting your chair.

You could probably label the whole thing mental illness as what we've actually been able to detect makes up about 5% of the universe.