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Rappaport posted:Username/post combo. But this hits on a real issue, there is a significant contingent of folks who think that anyone not deathly afraid of nuclear power is an idiot at best, insane at worst. What about Wormwood, what about Fukushima? How does one convince people who think the Simpsons are a good briefer on nuclear technology to consider their position differently? if statistics don't work then it may not be worth your time
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Paracaidas posted:Painting Antarctica with an awfully broad brush there, mate. I thought that was a poster from asia talking about europe i say swears online fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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mobby_6kl posted:It seems like nuclear was cheaper or comparable to all other sources until about 2012. I wonder why we haven't been building more back then. the one guy that knows how to build them is on consultant rates and charges like $2b per trip out to the site edit the chart is interesting to me because of the cost of solar. i remember an episode of inspector gadget that must have originally aired in 1985 that mentioned consumer-level solar panels to put on residential housing like it was a normal and common thing to do. just how expensive was that in 1985? i say swears online fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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ted hitler hunter posted:People have a tendency to revolt when basic needs like access to warm shelter and food are not met. Could we see something like an Arab spring in Europe this winter? maybe if by arab spring you specifically mean egypt's experience
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yeah if you have a significant amount of money sitting in a savings account you weren't doing it right in the first place. stocks mostly protect from big domestic inflation, and foreign stocks help guard against your own currency making GBS threads the bed against others
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Aug 25, 2022 14:05
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Baudolino posted:With modern face recognition systems we can prevent a black market trade in ration cards. Get scanned, get your soup and bread, come back next day. Try to go twice and you`ll be banned for four days. People in professions that are critical for the physical functioning of society like doctors, nurses, binmen and nucelar engineers etc get access to better cafeterias that serve more food. lmao (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:There is an absolutely incredible amount of devices that get left in standby/"pretend-to-be-off" compared with back in the 80s, which I wouldn't be surprised to discover amount for more than half the residential energy consumption. is there any basis to that? do cell phones left plugged in at 100% use more electricity than an air conditioner?
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TheFluff posted:SMR is probably a good idea for the future but the Korean third generation PWR's is proven technology that works right now. A friend who works in the nuclear energy described APR-1400 as "really boring", and when I went "isn't that a good thing though", he was like, yeah absolutely, but it's no fun to work with as an engineer. lol does he want to be doc brown at the clocktower VictualSquid posted:Everything I have heard about the subject suggests that unplugging standby devices became unpopular because of a law that demanded that manufacturers reduce their the standby power consumption to insignificant levels. this is also my understanding
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is there any reason corruption is the obvious #1 reason or is this more comparable to the hundred-plus other port deals the PRC has concluded in the last decade
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I mean, you can't outright reject the possibility that corruption was also involved there. i assume people will get some sweet consulting gigs out of it, but it seems insane to me to infer it was the primary driver Perestroika posted:By and large it does seem like a fairly regular deal of the sort that the PRC does all the time, it's just that with the whole Ukraine invasion happening people in Europe are realizing that perhaps it might not be a good idea to hand influence over major infrastructure over to countries who may well end up becoming more hostile in the foreseeable future. Infrastructure that can be readily nationalized in the event of conflict. With a country that has strongly signalled over the past year that its main goal is business as usual. I feel like this diversifies away from Russia and other bad actors.
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I think I'd be more worried if the social democrat chancellor was selling off state-owned operations. It's interesting the FDP is against since this seems to be a market-value purchase of publicly-traded shares, if I have it clear.
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Blut posted:Don't be lumping good Southern Europeans in with this, they're living within their heating means. Its time for the Germans to get some karmic EU imposed austerity. His Divine Shadow posted:Solar panels are utterly worthless in europe with a measly capacity factor of 11% so that's not a problem since it's not part of any solution to europes future energy mix. are solar panels "utterly worthless" in spain
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Mano posted:repeat after me: if electricity was 10% of my income and now it's 20%, and my income didn't change, I think that holds some meaning
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Rappaport posted:Germany's failures aren't entirely their own. Fukuyamaism, which underlies a lot of the technocratic revolution within the EUs inner workings, insists that at the end of history globalism and freedom of movement (mostly capital, of course) are the lynch-pins around which the democratization of the globe revolves. The obvious corollary to this ideological statement is that Russia can be tied to the international order by means of trade and mutually beneficial economic collaboration, and it would not only be unthinkable to start a "traditional" land war of conquest, in Europe (!), it would be rude and very much against this video owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGkiJcEK78
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an 85m euro chipfab is like three people
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't Nokia undermined and basically destroyed by Microsoft and then used as a branding for their failed Windows Phones? their consumer line ate poo poo but they're still in the industrial game
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Sereri posted:Does she know what Brexit means?
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Doctor Malaver posted:I can't afford FT. What's the thread's opinion on Politico.eu? way more pro-war than the US site, it's very weird
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the dumbest anti-China article I've read in quite awhile came out of politico.eu recently as well https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.po...ls-trouble/amp/
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speaking of financial papers, why doesn't the WSJ operate along the same lines as FT as the "honest capitalist" mouthpiece? WSJ opinion pieces are both mind-numbingly dumb and totally fanatical
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who's the target audience then? small business tyrants who think they're captains of industry?
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is sideshow bob qatar or the EU?
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Kikas posted:Qatar, it's amazing how they could have just sat this one out but thought "we bought her, we can buy some more" would qatar or europe be worse off right now if they halted imports? i think they can "buy some more" tbh
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DarkCrawler posted:Price of gas would go up? So probably European politicians would be worse off... right. sideshow bob is the eu's energy situation right now
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Badger of Basra posted:which european leaders, specifically far-right ideologue Francois Mitterrand
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mortons stork posted:The thought experiment is technically superfluous as the Saudis and Emiratis have been genociding Yemen going on a decade now and have experienced zero pushback on it. 100%. The reactions from Europe concerning Yemen and Ukraine is complete whiplash
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Plenty of vocal opposition to nuclear power comes from hippie tree-hugging lefties. It seems to be something of a generational thing: I know several older hippy types who are completely irrational about all things nuclear. It wasn’t enlightened centrists protesting against building new nuclear power plants, or transporting waste. i'm aware of this stereotype but unaware of when they had authority and power
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Pope Hilarius II posted:There's an interesting bit in one of Timothy Snyder's lectures on the history of Ukraine (you can watch them on the Yale Uni channel on YT for free, seriously a big recommend!) where he says the idea that economic cooperation brought peace is a justification after the facts and that what brought peace in Europe was the realization war was no longer an attractive political proposition for European powers after both Germany and France had suffered through the most crushing military defeats of their history (or in France's case, military victories so costly they might as well have been crushing defeats). Obviously the story of economic cooperation bringing peace was a much more attractive sell to the public (and to themselves). This idea gained even more traction after the relatively peaceful crumbling of the Iron Curtain, but that's a historical anomaly. In addition, you could argue that "trade + economic cooperation = peace and liberal democracy over time" has always been an idea not rooted in reality even in non-Russian Europe, if you look at political events and evolutions in former Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. always reminds me of this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGkiJcEK78
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it's absolutely racism lol
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Deltasquid posted:Commemorative / country-specific coins are cooler if they aren't worthless. I had an American friend who lived in Belgium for a while and she instinctively just threw coins onto the sidewalk (already a what on earth lol maybe that person is just dumb as poo poo
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American 'habit' that she insisted was real, but what do I know) until she realized she's throwing out tens of euros every week
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An insane mind posted:I once withdrew 500 euro in zloty at a Polish airport, because I'm a dumb idiot who doesn't realize how badly that would gently caress up my wallet, and managed to lose both the money and my passport in the busride away from the airport to my hotel. 
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those 24 counties combined have fewer people than my little suburb though. each peaked in population about a hundred years ago and have been on the decline since
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Electric Wrigglies posted:huh, one of the reasons that China dominates rare earths processing is because of how environmentally ruinous it is. The stuff is nearly always associated with radioactive and other toxic substances and separation is an absolute pain. yeah my first thought is that they'll be chewing up the alps now
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This seems like a random conspiracy theory that you're now making up out of the austerity crap? speaking of random conspiracy theories, i saw something about latvia requiring laguage skills among its russian minority. is that a thing?
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Doctor Malaver posted:What are those obvious reasons? nobody covers international news unless it's a missing 777
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https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-mateusz-morawiecki-float-migration-referendum-video-election/quote:Morawiecki's video paints a grim scenario in case more migrants were allowed into Poland, showing images of burning cars, street violence and a black man licking a knife. cool edit there's also another ballot question about privatization of state assets which PiS is against and the center-left opposition is for i say swears online fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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Pizdec posted:Dutch goons: What the balls is going on with the nitrogen crisis poo poo and why is BBB tanking so hard in the polls? holy poo poo i hadn't looked at polling since may, which apparently was their peak. i thought they were shoe-ins to form the next government  interestingly the greens and socdems have formed an alliance (that new red line at the recent end of the graph) which i also missed. i'm not sure why, since the electoral threshold to enter the house is less than 1% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroenLinks%E2%80%93PvdA#2023_general_election
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