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Hah, there was no bitching, you don’t need to take everything personally. Life is absurd and fleeting, enjoy it when you can

No I’m taking about OP’s quote of the article right here on this lemmy page

The article quoted in this post seems to be unrelated to the title

Bad Santa

All measures are imperfect, that doesn’t mean it’s totally meaningless and should be disregarded. And it also seems like you’re referencing outdated data, as the cost of battery storage seriously decreased in 2025. But by any measure i can find, nuclear is significantly more expensive than renewables+storage. Regarding China, their data is generally not trustworthy on any topic, but yes I’m sure nuclear can cost a lot less there than elsewhere when you can steamroll over the citizens that would be effected by a powerplant’s construction, operation, and waste storage.

I’m not an expert in this at all, but I believe that private capital isn’t investing their own money in new nuclear construction, and that tells the whole story about the cost per watt of nuclear. If nuclear was cheaper per watt after all costs were considered then private capital would be building new nuclear, but they aren’t, so that means it clearly isn’t.

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I just looked at your link and it pretty clearly says the opposite of everything you said. Quote from the intro of your article:

[renewable energy] largely prevails over nuclear in China, the United States, and Europe – the world’s three largest power systems, as well as in Japan.

And

New wind and solar projects are much cheaper than new reactors.

The main problem with nuclear power is that it’s the most expensive form of electricity. People who say otherwise are only looking at the cost of running the generator, rather than including all the true costs involved in generating each watt, which is called the “Levelized Cost Of Electricity” (LCOE)

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

So there’s no reason to build any new nuclear generators now that renewables+storage are the cheapest form of electricity, and are also the easiest and fastest to build.

Sounds slightly like a similar experience to how people describe seeing the new color olo

https://www.science.org/content/article/superprecise-lasers-show-people-whole-new-color

Signal is great for texting and chats

https://signal.org/

Depends on if you’re looking at a specific issue or overall. If you’re looking at some specific issues like say trans rights then the dems are center-left, but in the overall total tally the dems are center-right, and the repubs are far-right

Strong gun laws doesn’t mean a test of political views for gun ownership. Strong gun laws means things like for example to have access to a gun a person must not have a recent conviction of initiating physical violence. Calling these things “strong gun laws” is really a purposely misleading term, because what we’re actually talking about is truly dirt-basic levels of obviously warranted restrictions.

But imo if you meet these extremely reasonable precaution requirements then after that you should be able to own basically any type of weapon you want short of WMDs. As long as you can meet increasingly tighter training and ownership restrictions then imo you should even be able to own the top of lethality weapons like a tank, rpg, or jet fighter

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully situated authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

Not OP, but my position has always been the constitutional position of “a well regulated militia”. Like imo you shouldn’t be able to have guns in your home, but it would be fine if there was a single gun locker on literally every block where you could store an entire personally-owned arsenal, as long as the locker met strict security rules and the gun users met strict and recurring training requirements.

This is a topic I’ve gotten disagreement on from my fellow lefties for a long time, and I’m glad they’re finally starting to understand. I’ve always believed in strong gun control laws, but not a ban.

Yeah we all go through a stage where we haven’t mentally matured yet and have this tween-like rebellion reaction to any idea about changing for the better. Some grow out of it at a younger age, some at a normal age, and some not at all. I remember a bunch of examples I’ve seen happen through the decades;

“You say i shouldn’t eat meat, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna eat twice as much!”

“You say i shouldn’t smoke cigarettes, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna smoke cigars too!”

“You say i shouldn’t be racist, well i say nuh uh! Now I’m gonna be even more outrageously racist!”

It’s just a non-thinking reactionary response to the idea that you aren’t perfect.

Abortion - till i was about 14 i had thought it should be illegal, but then i grew up a little bit more and realized the topic wasn’t like it was being presented at all. The truth is that in many cases an abortion is the best outcome for all parties involved, including the fetus, the person who’s pregnant, and all of the rest of us in the world.

And when you start thinking about how to build a system in charge of differentiating which pregnancies should be aborted vs which should be carried to term it immediately becomes clear that if anyone besides the pregnant woman gets to decide then it becomes a literal waking nightmare of horror movie scenarios.

In any non-juvenile view it’s obvious that abortion has to be legal, easily available, and entirely up to the pregnant woman to decide on

Checks and balances in the US government would stop a president from doing anything truly egregious. Unfortunately that belief has been proven very very incorrect

(There was always the regular corruption and killing that the US was doing, but that was the “regular” accepted type of horribleness built into our system. But i truly thought the checks and balances would prevent the occurrence of extremely out of the ordinary radically new nakedly illegal tyrant style horrors.)

We do know about it. Most of the big name ai services are all public about working for government enforcement agencies. Palantir, Flock, Boston Dynamics, Tesla xAI, etc