Imagine seeing this sign in a police station
Socialism is when a corporation does stuff.
And it’s more socialism the more stuff it does.
And if it does a whole load of stuff, that’s communism.
This is new to me, but absolutely aligns with something I have struggled with all of my life. People have always thought it was strange how I always seemed so… neutral. It’s not that I didn’t feel anything, I felt emotions very strongly in fact, I just usually couldn’t interpret or express them clearly. The best way I’ve found of explaining it, is this: imagine that emotions are colours, like red is anger, yellow is happiness, blue is sadness, etc. what I feel inside looks like one of those balls of elastic bands with every colour just all twisted around eachother so it’s really hard to tell where one strand begins and ends.
It’s only during moments of more intense emotion that I can notice one of the emotions more prominently. And because I don’t feel it often, it’s harder for me to deal with due to lack of practice.
Oh man, you just unlocked a memory of me explaining a weird spectrum I had subconsciously developed for emotions - there’s past, present, future - and a negative/positive axis. Past negative is regret, future negative is anxiety or dread. Future positive is anticipation, past positive is nostalgia, and so on. I got into this whole explanation until the person I was talking to interrupted me and explained that most people don’t need a matrix to explain their feelings.
At what point do we say, “enough is enough, a collective of employees and customers is taking control of the company, you are relieved of command”?
I am so sick of things getting worse and worse because people want to unfairly profit from selling us the solution to a problem that they caused.
Edit: I’m really sorry I just noticed that you posted this MONTHS ago. I’m an idiot
A lot of people watch videos on their phones, and ad-blocking is a lot more of a pain there. The official YouTube app is pretty much the only app on iOS that I know of and no ad-blocker works for that, I don’t think - though a good ad-blocker and Safari works quite well to watch YouTube on iPhone.
No real options on Apple TV though, that I know of.
Now now, give credit where credit is due - this kind of Russian attack is better filed under “false flag attack”.
I doubt that even if they are found guilty they’ll suffer much consequences. A paltry fine and a ban from being a company director for a few years, probably.
They deserve nothing less than to be turned over to the people of Sudan for justice there.
This is some late-stage capitalism marketing.
Shot happens
I mean I don't want to go so far as to make light out of shootings but I feel like this typo can't go unremarked upon
The government underfunds the NHS, resulting in fewer staff to meet a greater demand for healthcare. This results in nurses, doctors and hospital staff who are hugely overworked, stressed and completely without time to do their jobs properly, all while being vastly underpaid compared to the rest of Europe or the private sector in the UK. This is done intentionally to make the service so poor that the people who can afford it pay for private healthcare, and eventually, the NHS will be replaced entirely by those private insurance companies and we'll be one step closer to America Lite.
When it comes to generating electricity, nuclear is hugely more expensive than renewables. Every 1000Wh of nuclear power could be 2000-3000 Wh solar or wind.
If you’ve been told “it’s not possible to have all power from renewable sources”, you have been a victim of disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. The majority of studies show that a global transition to 100% renewable energy across all sectors – power, heat, transport and industry – is feasible and economically viable.
This is all with current, modern day technology, not with some far-off dream or potential future tech such as nuclear fusion, thorium reactors or breeder reactors.
Compared to nuclear, renewables are:
Nuclear power has promise as a future technology. But at present, while I’m all in favour of keeping the ones we have until the end of their useful life, building new nuclear power stations is a massive waste of money, resources, effort and political capital.
Nuclear energy should be funded only to conduct new research into potential future improvements and to construct experimental power stations. Any money that would be spent on building nuclear power plants should be spent on renewables instead.
Frequently asked questions:
While a given spot in your country is going to have periods where it’s not sunny or rainy, with a mixture of energy distribution (modern interconnectors can transmit 800kV or more over 800km or more with less than 3% loss) non-electrical storage such as pumped storage, and diversified renewable sources, this problem is completely mitigated - we can generate wind, solar or hydro power over 2,000km away from where it is consumed for cheaper than we could generate nuclear electricity 20km away.
The United States has enough land paved over for parking spaces to have 8 spaces per car - 5% of the land. If just 10% of that space was used to generate solar electricity - a mere 0.5% - that would generate enough solar power to provide electricity to the entire country. By comparison, around 50% of the land is agricultural. The amount of land used by renewable sources is not a real problem, it’s an argument used by the very wealthy pro-nuclear lobby to justify the huge amounts of funding that they currently receive.
No, it’s dirtier. You can look up total lifetime emissions for nuclear vs. renewables - this is the aggregated and equalised environmental harm caused per kWh for each energy source. It takes into account the energy used to extract raw materials, build the power plant, operate the plant, maintenance, the fuels needed to sustain it, the transport needed to service it, and so on. These numbers always show nuclear as more environmentally harmful than renewables.
Not according to industry experts - the majority of studies show that a 100% renewable source of energy across all industries for all needs - electricity, heating, transport, and industry - is completely possible with current technology and is economically viable. If you disagree, don’t argue with me, take it up with the IEC. Here’s a Wikipedia article that you can use as a baseline for more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy