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White man wonders if yellow man can do things white man can. News at 11.

Yes? Unlike in the US, whether to care about safety or health aren't political issues.

Also, the punishment for severely fucking up isn't a small fine or imprisonment, it's execution. If Fukushima happened in China, heads would literally roll. That's a pretty strong incentive to not fuck up from the plant manager/architect/designer standpoint.

Why doesn't everyone just import Chinese labour for their nuclear power plants then?

Government reporting contraction but Caixin reporting expansion? Only thing that really makes sense is that the government wants a backdrop to justify further economic intervention in the property market.

It's gotten way better, like, shockingly better.

You mean, China doesn't want a US IoT company to install a whole bunch of sensors in China? Say it isn't so!

This war will either grind through the male population of both countries (which is probably good for US interests tbh) or will end in negotiations.

Russia has a few things in abundance: land, labour, and artillery. They can afford to defend for years while taking much fewer casualties than the Ukrainian side (simply by virtue of, y'know, not attacking) and simply waiting to exhaust Ukraine's human capital.

Russia can mine every field from Bakhmut to Moscow. Their domestic industrial capacity is skyrocketing and they (like Ukraine) can still import consumer electronics from manufacturers in China. They've found solid buyers in India for their O&G who are less concerned about international backlash as they are about making money.

Eventually Ukraine will run out of able-bodied men in an offensive op. So will Russia if Russia decides to have another go at the offensive meat grinder.

Attrition benefits neither Ukraine nor Russia, but it does benefit the West. So...

According to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507, the variation of other radioactive isotopes in Fukushima wastewater is rather large between tanks: while tanks are on average within legal limits, different tanks may have different quantities of these radioactive isotopes that bioaccumulate in fish.

Moreover research into bioaccumulation of radioactive isotopes is rather limited (because, y'know, people don't usually dump nuclear waste into the environment), so it's really not super well established how fish process these things.

Plus, Tepco's track record of not cutting corners isn't looking very good... But this will save Tepco and the Japanese government billions of dollars, so I guess go them?

If Japan wanted to be beyond reproach, they would have held the wastewater for a few more years. The discharge will take decades anyway, so it's not like the risk profile has been reduced.

Doesn't stop Ukraine from buying drones built by Xiaomi and sold/distributed by Alibaba.

The government is limited in monetary policy by inflation.

Of course, the Petrodollar doesn't really have this problem, but it ends up exporting inflation around the world.

Wasn't natural gas mostly used because coal was literally causing cancer and dog shit air quality everywhere?

Also, natural gas is a pretty efficient source of heating as far as things go... At least until heat pumps got reliable enough to replace it.

That's the cost of designing education for the worst students.

That's what you're supposed to be voting for.

Sweden realized they couldn't join NATO if they invited Chinese expertise to help build a nuclear power plant.

New EVs in China are going for 10k, so it's clearly possible...

Stopping climate change by...

Removing fossil fuels from the grid? Reducing methane leakage in natural gas transmission? Developing domestic nuclear energy?

Maybe reducing car-dependency to make more efficient use of land and reduce the excessive amounts of taxpayer money being dumped to subsidize suburban development? Reducing inefficient flights between close cities (LAX-SFO, BOS-JFK-DCA)? Building more efficient buildings?

How about taking advantage of the already insanely efficient supply chains in China that allow for the development of sub-10k EVs? Helping those companies launch in the US and bring their expertise with them to accelerate the EV transition like China has?

Nah, let's just give some more money to a few big EV manufacturers, I'm sure that'll fix everything.

Loans are costs too. It's tying up capital that could be used elsewhere

neoliberalism in a nutshell