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[–] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The US gets 1/5 of its power from nuclear energy, and produces 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste per year – only enough to fill about half of the volume of an olympic-sized swimming pool (and about the same weight as 10 wind turbines).

Only 3% of all of that waste is actually long-lived and highly radioactive, potentially requiring isolation from the environment. In France, this number goes down to 0.2% due to fuel being reprocessed.

Taking that into consideration, that means it would take about 2/3 of a century for the US to produce enough dangerous nuclear waste to fill this pool completely. And it can still be way more efficient.

Nuclear produces negligible amounts of actual waste for the amount of energy it gives us. The problems with nuclear aren't at all the waste, rather it's the current highly used methods that are used to harvest the fuel (slave labour and unsafe, dirty, destructive drilling). Very similar problems faced with, say, lithium and cobalt.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bang should be a schedule 1 drug, it's the worst thing i can imagine putting in your body lmao

[–] current@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Retirement being supported through taxes rather than individuals choosing to save would be far better. It's wealth based so people who can afford to save for retirement are already doing it by default, and people who make an egregious amount of money are taxed so those who can't afford to save for retirement aren't left to rot.

Same concept as other social services, really. Having the means for basic survival should be guaranteed by society, especially for people who can't support themselves.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

william taft died in a bathtub due to his terrible health, a month after resigning from the supreme court.

his health had been mentally and physically declining for about a decade before that point, but despite that he insisted on staying as a justice on the supreme court the entire time because he viewed hoover as too progressive and was paranoid he'd be replaced by a dirty commie. so he stayed a supreme court justice and caused a lot of problems by having increasingly worse memory and having a worse and worse ability to actually attend his job.

he was also the president before ww1 started, he lost re-election because teddy roosevelt (the person who helped get him elected in the first place) no longer viewed him as a suitable president and ran against him as a 3rd party candidate.

also, taft's son was the co-sponsor of the taft-hartley act of 1947, which took away many worker's rights and crippled unions in the united states, criminalizing things like solidarity strikes (what's happening in sweden with tesla now), wildcat strikes (striking without union leader approval), jurisdictional strikes, and most forms of picketing. ;)

[–] current@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

bottom left has some scary scenes ngl, i'll go with him

[–] current@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

"Hello, losers"

[–] current@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

damn guess every speaker of multiple english dialects sound like idiots

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

and the 2 inch waists

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

like 99% of animes? yea

i mean it's embarassing to even recommend a majority of animes, because of how absurdly they portray women and how excessive/creepy they are with the fan service. it's hard to even watch when the characters are just completely objectified and the creators go out of their way to overly sexualize them. it's just completely normalized in the anime community and it's disappointing to say the least – it definitely doesn't help the image of people who say they like anime, it's why even a lot of mega weebs won't be caught saying they like anime as a genre. just the concept and extent of waifu culture in anime communities is icky...

as for non-anime, i think shows which aren't like that are a lot more common, like the first animated shows i can think of are things like king of the hill, avatar, boondocks, regular show, south park, etc. they generally aren't as bad with objectifying women (but there are definitely some that do it really badly, don't get me wrong)

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

liberal propoganda

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I literally stated it in the comment. It's clear I was talking about providing kids the food they need to develop properly and not suffer from malnutrition.

It's not about "ham sandwich worse than nothing" it's about the fact that you're taking people's shock and complaints, and immediately going to use these "ham sandwiches" to deflect from the issue of kids' lunch debt being legal in the first place. And many of your comments under this post are just "actually it's not technically the child's debt". You're presenting parents not sending kids in with barely-meals as the problem.

The issue to focus on isn't "the parents". The blame often isn't even on parents. The blame is on conservatives, on our society, on people who rail against the basic welfare that every civilized, developed, first-world country has.

As far as everyone else is concerned, you're just trying to make excuses for the right causing our country's dysfunction, and you're trying to defend the existence of school lunch debt by using parents as a scapegoat and saying they're the ones that really cause this.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure the only difference would be that people with a jailbroken switch can extract prod.keys from it. But afaik most of the tools people made to assist with that got obliterated so I don't think it's worth doing for most people.

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