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by erentz 7y ago
Is he paid by the nuclear industry is what I was wanting to know? This label “lobbyist” gets used to malign people and cast aside anything they might have to say a lot. It’s usually only used against those which are promoting an idea that s
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by erentz 7y ago
> The author of this piece is the President of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear lobbying group. He's posted multiple articles to Forbes to try to discredit the Chernobyl show.... I’ve seen this pseudo ad-hom rolled out every ti
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s a value judgement people are making about something they don’t like and justifying it with this emissions thing. Gambling isn’t useful either, what are the megatons of CO2 emitted by casinos? Movie theaters are pretty useless, how much
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by erentz 7y ago
This argument is so misguided and I’m surprised whenever it comes up how many people bite. How many megatons of CO2 are released globally every year due to people setting their air con to 72 when they could just deal with it being at 76. Or
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by erentz 7y ago
Has a “enforce the laws” vibe in the first half which might turn people off, but I think it’s important to wait and see the “provide the intervention, treatment, and training” part at the last half.
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by erentz 7y ago
The people of Hong Kong should have been just as entitled to self determination as any other people, and establishing full democracy and self governance would've been the ideal solution. But China apparently made it clear in the 60s th
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by erentz 7y ago
That makes more sense to me. It’s not like these waste canisters are going to somehow float to the surface. The biggest problem would have to be sealing the entrance and descending tunnels in such a way to keep the site hidden. Is that poss
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by erentz 7y ago
This is not to be insensitive to the problem, but I don't grasp why we only talk about dealing with homelessness at the city level? Cities are small and surrounded by other cities, it's a terrible level of government to provide an
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by erentz 7y ago
> The Three Mile island accident mostly teaches us that we got lucky. Why is it considered luck? For it to be luck wouldn't we have to show that there was some way in which the explosion breaching the containment was possible and sh
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by erentz 7y ago
I had these guys send me a giant oversized WiFi router I never ordered and never used. Then three months after I terminated my plan they sent me a bill for $100 for unreturned equipment. I had to waste about three hours of my time fighting
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by erentz 7y ago
ISTR thinking the documentary “The Witness” by her brother was good. It’s on Prime.
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by erentz 7y ago
> Another great example of the apathy I'm talking about is the collective shrug Talking about collective shrugs and apathy, I am still absolutely stunned by the complete apathy to half of the Great Barrier Reef dying. Here is this a
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by erentz 7y ago
Could this be some kind of automoderation perhaps related to this recent announcement? > “First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate...” https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5&
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by erentz 7y ago
I can't find anything else backing up Konstantin Checherov's claims. It seems like this is very much just his opinion, and they don't seem to add up: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/2006053048810128&#x2F
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by erentz 7y ago
> I mean the US likes to forget it had concentration camps for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. An odd comparison to make. It’s taught in public school and there are memorials to this at several locations including the national mall in W
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by erentz 7y ago
Insurance won't cover tests without the "allowed" ICD codes for it. It's silly and just another part of the bureaucracy making things inefficient.
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by erentz 7y ago
This 1 GW claim is nearly useless information. They should share the number of gigawatt hours instead.
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by erentz 7y ago
Read Lost Connections by Johann Hari recently. It’s a touch repetitive but a quick and easy read. And I think it hits some important notes on why we might be seeing this. A lot has changed about how we live and that deserves more attention.
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by erentz 7y ago
> False equivalency, as you are measuring the total land mass, to two specific accidents. I really don't understand how this is false equivalency? You're saying you're only allowed to consider land loss due to nuclear. All
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by erentz 7y ago
Radiation is definitely creepy and poorly understood. There was a great video by the Veritasium guy on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRL7o2kPqw0 Punch line, you definitely wanna stay away from ciggarettes if you don&#
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by erentz 7y ago
There was a campaign by the Maine Chamber of Commerce running against it on the grounds that the privacy protections didn't go far enough. They only applied to ISPs (carriers) not to companies higher in the stack (Facebook, etc.). [1]
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by erentz 7y ago
> 1. While average deaths per kWh might be relatively low (compared to other forms of power generation) the worst case scenario is much, much worse. A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for
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by erentz 7y ago
Note over that time Britain is importing on average something like 1.5-2.0GW from France and ~1GW from the Netherlands. And producing on average about 15GW from gas. (Not sure how much oil is still used.)
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G20 countries eye tax policy for internet giants: Nikkei(france24.com)
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And: Hyperloop actually made sense when you put it in the context of mars. You want transport to link your distant colonies. By running it in tubes you protect it from the storms. And to top it off there’s an extremely low air pressure on M
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by erentz 7y ago
Of course its serious. Did you read my comment in the context of the subject of this post and the comment it was replying to? Because it seems like you didn't. > First, the land that's being covered is mostly a desert, where no
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by erentz 7y ago
I think it started before the Chernobyl series. There have been a lot of increasingly serious climate change reports over the past year, and when you start looking into what can be done, you have to take another neutral look at nuclear powe
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by erentz 7y ago
Not to underplay the seriousness of the event or heroism of all those involved in the aftermath, but the show does make it look scarier than it deserves. For me part of this is simply down to the Russian equipment - it just looks scarier se
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by erentz 7y ago
> Why are we ignoring the fact that this geographic location is unusable now? Everyone always ignores the huge amount of land made unusable by hydro and increasingly solar. It’s unfathomable to me how okay people seem to be with the amou
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by erentz 7y ago
While there are bigger changes we may need to make in terms of growth capitalism you refer to, for the simple subject at hand - advertising - there is a simple fix. Simply ban advertising in more places and ban more types of advertising. It

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