others will become inured to the new normal – that we just all lie now

It’s so exhausting…

xD

Should I DEFEND my answer?

Hilarious, but also “defend your answer” basically just means to motivate it. In general that’s a good way to encourage and reward understanding rather than rote memorization.

Oh for sure. Not everyone is cloudflare.

There are plentiful scenarios where 10 minutes of sequential downtime would be a critical issue. Say you’re a telecoms or internet provider - even a one minute delay to a life-saving message can be enough for someone to die.

Furthermore, lots of things are interconnected now. Your business might be able to handle 10 minutes of downtime, but lets say my business relies on 12 different service providers like you, who each have 10 minutes of downtime during a week using your rationale. That could up being 2hrs of downtime each week.

This is just a bad take. Your average nuclear power plant uses the least amount of construction materials per produced unit of electricity during its lifetime amongst the non-fossil options (nuclear fission, hydropower, solar and wind) - this wouldn’t be meaningfully impacted by accounting for fissile material used either.

Furthermore, most of it is concrete which actually contributes to much less emissions per weight when produced compared to metals (steel, aluminium, copper) which wind & particularly solar use a lot of.

Thing is despite a single nuclear plant being big, it is the equivalent of thousands of wind turbines or millions of solar panels.

In the context of emissions per unit of electricity however, these materials become a vanishingly small factor for all non-fossil electricity producers compared to fossil fuel plants.

Source on the environmental impacts of electricity generation

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Still no (practical) way to handle the waste.

That is false. See my other comment here.

The actual problem is a lack of education amongst the populace combined with a huge surplus of lobbying and a dash of politics.

No, recycling spent fuel into new fuel or even the rather wasteful process of depositing it for long-term storage uses only a fraction of the energy generated by nuclear fission in reactors.

Idk where you live but the problem is likely one (or both) of lobbied politicians kicking the can down the road (cheaper in the short term) and ignorant nimby-ists who’ve bought the “nuclear energy is evil” narrative pushed by the fossil fuel industry and useful idiots in green movements hook line and sinker.

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Nuclear waste is an already solved problem, we just have to use the solutions. The vast majority (>99%) can be recycled.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/radioactive-wastes-myths-and-realities

There are examples even in this graphic but slightly difficult to see due to how it’s designed. Due left from the highlighted point you have one such reversal (albeit slightly smaller than this one).

A blip, just like other temporary abberations in other years.

From the article

The same post talks about some of Facebook’s tactics for bypassing the adblockers. A user in the thread described trying to use uBlock’s element picker to block the word “Sponsored” on ads, only to find Facebook splits the word into individual letters, each wrapped in its own line of code. A member of the uBO development team confirmed this isn’t new, and that the technique has been in use for roughly five years. They also added that Facebook has at times gone further by randomizing letter order and inserting fake characters to throw off pattern-matching filters.

Some of the stuff I’ve seen come out of there is on the level of what /pol/ would cook up. Absolutely the most troll instance of the fediverse.

Football firms consist of a special kind of fanatics. They’re there to seek out violence and destruction. Despicable really.

Yes, in financial theory it’s called a “utility function”. Log functions are frequently used to represent risk averse patterns.

Yeah that’s some pretty insane cost/benefit for time.

It’s one of those things I like doing to encourage myself to do things. “OK so if I do this thing by myself, what am I ‘getting paid’?”

…and then I compare that to the number of hours I’d have to work to earn the same amount of money (after taxes).

I can heartily recommend gicing vicky 2 a try despite its’ age (kinda clunky and less polished but plays fast, a campaign can be done in maybe 10hrs). It’s actually the game that got me back into grand strategy during the pandemic. Pick it up on sale like I did or via yarr, heart of darkness is a necessary dlc and not included in the base 25$ price tag, kinda insane for a 20 y.o game.

EV - europa universalis 5?

Part of the problem with Eu4 is that they in the “later” (somewhere post 2018) updates aimed to make every nation “viable”.

Is that really a thing, what’s the lore here?

Feels like something from before my time in the Fediverse. Only really heard of hex when posts from y’all started popping up in “top” after moving to .zip (specifically bc they don’t do defeds).