[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago

I wish all of us had taste, RAMs and DODGEs even existing on our roads proves otherwise, those blowhards would buy a cybertruck too if they could

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago

If you could choose to be hit by a vehicle, would you choose to be hit by a cybertruck or a prius? Be honest.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 6 points 1 day ago

They're back to only talking about migrants.

Shout out to the farmers protesting for cheaper diesel when we had a green gov 2-3 years ago and now crying for subsidies because the dryness is killing their crops. Some real smart salt of the earth

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Ultra processed" is frankly a meaningless label in health discussions.

Raw milk is not healthier than "ultra processed" (i.e. pasteurised) milk for example. Ultra processed baby food is and should be the norm over raw, untreated baby food.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

Bandcamp is owned by the biggest music licensing conglomerate in the world, how is that not corporate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songtradr

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And who said they were ramping up?

What else would it imply to state that Nuclear is actively competing against coal? If they're not ramping up, then it's not an argument because they're not currently choosing new coal over nuclear.

Yes, coal plants are much easier to build than nuclear.

Which is why nuclear is not really competing against coal in the global south...

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago

Not quite. China is planning less coal capacity but existing contracts are still being built. They're not ramping up construction afaik. https://globalenergymonitor.org/research/china-hits-brakes-coal-power-permits-constructions-remain-robust

Most countries of the global south, when faced with the option coal vs nuclear, will err toward coal due to the far lower cost and weaker infrastructure. Nuclear is simply not that attractive an option if you're a poor country.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago

Makes sense, my country has been struggling with this problem for a while because it's tectonically simply not stable enough. And good luck convincing geologically suited countries to take everyone's waste.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 3 points 4 days ago

Anti, pro arguments only work in comparison to coal which is a low bar. We frankly simply have not solved the waste issue. I study chemistry and yes, the amounts are tiny, but some isotopes in waste have half lives longer than any structure we can build would last and scaling up nuclear would scale up this problem before it's solved (just like we did with greenhouse gases). Also it's objectively more expensive than any renewable source, as multiple independent studies have found.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 0 points 4 days ago

Realistically though you should compare the waste it produces to the waste from coal plants,

Why? Nuclear is not competing against coal, it's competing against renewables

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 4 points 4 days ago

it turns out you can basically just put the spent fuel back where you found it

Can you explain what you mean by this? I study Chemistry and am from a Uranium producing country and this frankly just seems wrong.

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