ValiantDust

I also hate discussions with people who miss my point and argue against things I never claimed.

But what if it turns out we do need it in 10 years?

That’s the point, we likely wouldn’t have any new nuclear power plants in ten years, even if we started planning them now. The one they are building in the UK was started somewhere around 2017 I think and maybe, fingers crossed, it might be finished by 2029. Right now the estimated cost is around £46 billion, up from originally about £23 billion.

That’s one plant. We need many more for any relevant effect. Not even starting on the fact that nuclear energy is very inadequate for balancing out short term differences in the grid since you can’t just quickly power them up or down as needed.

Pumping all of our waste into the atmosphere is a much better solution!

I never said that. But there are ways we have to do neither. Why not concentrate on those, especially since they are magnitudes cheaper.

If we had started building them the first time that question was asked we’d have them by now.

That might be true, but how is that helping us right now? That’s why I said it doesn’t matter how the horse died. It’s dead now. There are many faster solutions, why take the one that takes longest?

I deeply wish that people would understand that this horse is deader than dead. There is no Frankensteinian experiment and no virus that will bring it back to even a zombie-like half-life. So would you, please, please, just stop beating the poor thing.

It doesn’t matter anymore how it died, it’s really time to get a new horse.

Edit: Instead of just down voting, could you explain to me:

• How should we get nuclear plants running in any time frame relevant to our current problems?
• Who is going to pay the billions of Euros to build new nuclear power plants? The energy companies are not interested.
• Where we should keep the waste, since we have not yet found a place for the decades’ worth of nuclear waste we already have.
• How this is making us independent of Russia, our former main source of Uranium

I just fail to see any way how this could right now solve our problem.

I can’t say I know enough about the topic to have formed an opinion on whether or not reparations would be justified or not. But here is a point I’ve seen made that has stayed with me

While it’s true that none of us actively participated in colonialism, we still continue to profit by it. Many businesses were founded by money made in the colonies or by wares imported from them, many institutions grew by exploiting and stealing from the people living in them. At the same time the people in the former colonies still suffer from the consequences.

It’s a bit similar to calling for the higher taxation of rich people. Often they inherited their money and huge parts of it were made by exploiting poorer people, which is why it seems unfair to many (including me) that they should give back something to society. Some of my ancestors made good money owning a colonial goods store and I’m sure I owe at least part of my privileged situation to this money. I can understand that the descendants of the people who laboured for these goods might not think that that is fair.

I’ve recently learned about bourdaloues. I wonder how many of them had a second life as a gravy boat.

Wenn man mal eine Weile in Tübingen oder der Region gewohnt hat, ist “Hat Boris Palmer wirklich xy gesagt?” keine Frage mehr, die man sich jemals stellt.

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In my experience mathematicians don’t really concern themselves with numbers between 2 and infinity.

I love that this guy decided that GitHub is the place to share his socio-economic essay. Next to a guy who used it for his sourdough guides my favourite use of GitHub yet.

This is a few years old but still a good visualisation:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Start scrolling.

Relevanter xkcd

In Germany marital rape is punished in the same way as any other rape since 1997 (which to me always seemed horrifically late). But one of the guys who voted against it is his party’s candidate for the post of Chancellor in the election next year.

Maybe we are not as far beyond these misogynistic worldviews as we like to believe.

We have that in German as well. But I think that one is accelerated by the fact that keyboards suck at predicting compound words and often it’s just easier to type them as two separate words. I have been guilty of that, even though I would never write them with a space by hand or typing on a physical keyboard.

Except for Scheuermilch (scouring cream, literally: scouring milk). That one we can keep. Probably because it has the same nutritional values as cow milk or something… The argument never made any sense whatsoever.

As a developer I can freely admit that without the operations people the software I develop would not run anywhere but on my laptop.

I know as much about hardware as a cook knows about his stove and the plates the food is served on – more than the average person but waaaay less than the people producing and maintaining them.

8 hours in theory. Let’s not forget it has to cross a large part of Germany. I’m sure Deutsche Bahn will work its magic and suddenly it’s 16 hours with four unplanned stops and five hours of uncertainty as to whether you will ever arrive at all.

Sekhmet seems more appropriate, though depicted with a lion’s head not a housecat’s.

Sekhmet acted as the vengeful manifestation of Ra’s power, the Eye of Ra. Sekhmet is said to breathe fire, and the hot winds of the desert were likened to her breath. She is also believed to cause plagues. (Wikipedia)

She would sort that shit out.

Also, what height is the counter supposed to be? It only reaches to the hips / lower stomach of the girl. That would be like… just above the knees for a tall man? How low is the ceiling? The longer you look at it, the less sense it makes.

You don’t get it, they are only sluts when they are giving other men attention. When they are giving OP attention, they are graceful, heavenly creatures (who should also give him some sex).