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baix777
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The gun nuts have convinced so many people there is only one way to read the 2nd amendment.

"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment
baix777
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Then the music focused tidal.com maybe be for you. They claim to send a higher percentage of revenue to the artists.
baix777
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Also, the learning curve on wind and solar is so much faster than nuclear.
baix777
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Tidal pays more for the artist and has a higher quality streaming option if that matters to you. Qobuz is another good artist friendly stream that historically paid the most to artists but it has a bit smaller catalog than Tidal.
baix777
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I would be more accurate to say parts of the planet will become hostile to human life that currently are not. India, for example, will have human shattering heat waves. And it is hard to live in a city when it is underwater.
baix777
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
However, by the middle of the 16th century supplies of wood were beginning to fail in Britain and the use of coal as a domestic fuel rapidly expanded.[10]: 22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining#:~:text...

Similar comments here about the lack of wood driving the use of coal.

https://industrialrevolution.org.uk/coal-mines-industrial-re...

And:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24953925
baix777
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Nuclear needs subsidies due to a long history of large cost overruns and other issues.

https://energypost.eu/how-profitable-is-an-investment-in-nuc...

And France, with many Nuclear plants, has recently had issues keeping the plants up. Many of the most problematic plants are newer ones.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-3939/frances-energy-woes-wo...

The reality is economies of scale have kicked in for solar and wind energy in a way they never can for nuclear. We are at the point where it makes sense, at times, to overprovision renewals to ensure enough supply.

The issue with renewables is storage, of course. But that problem looks to be more solvable than cost effective nuclear, a problem which we have not solved in over 50 years. One can say if we were only smarter we could make nuclear more cost effective, which is probably true. But we built a nuclear power plant where a tsunami occurred in the past, only to find it occurred again, so we aren't that smart. The issue with nuclear is everything has to be right for it to be cost effective and safe, and nuclear is too complex for humans to consistently do this.

Safe nuclear power that is also cost effective is not a problem we have solved.
baix777
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This does signal what type of person you are dealing with if they don't go along with the word change. For example, if I heard someone using the negro word I would think that there was an excellent chance that person was racist. The renaming also signals to everyone racism isn't acceptable (in a very minor way). It is hard to change a culture but the words we use in one of the ways we do it.

When the world stops being racist this renaming will stop.
baix777
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I believe nuclear can be cost effective. I believe nuclear can be safe. I just don't believe nuclear can be safe and cost effective. We have been trying to solve this nuclear energy problem for over 50 years and we still aren't there.

The issue of renewable energy storage is significant, but look to be easier to solve than how to make nuclear energy cost effective and safe.
baix777
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It is interesting to compare US vs Canadian suicide rates to see what impact gun ownership could have.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
baix777
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The key is in the name, mobility. Being able to look at a map on the web on your home computer is nice, being able to look at map anyplace your phone works is the so much better.