The_Walkening [none/use name]

Here’s an explanation

TBF to the Dutch, the regular food they serve you at a restaurant nowadays beats the USA by a mile.

One of the big buttons on that story is that in 1993, Los Angeles County Hospital had like… 2 incubators.

I drink water, water comes out. I drink soda, water comes out. It’s pretty obvious, my body don’t want the water.

They’re definitely worth caring about (and for) but I’d say it’s really important to put the dangers of nuclear power in the context of what we’re already doing, and it’s magnitudes safer. While I feel like we should be pushing for more renewables regardless, at the same time nuclear’s still really viable because it doesn’t have the availability (renewables are weather dependent) and storage (you can just keep running it on demand) issues.

IIRC Chernobyl amounted to about 46 people dead from the disaster itself, (the Fukushima incident did not kill anyone at the time it occurred IIRC, three mile island didn’t kill anyone) and while it did release a lot of radioactive material that did result it more cancers/excess mortality, coal burning releases about ten times more radioactive material than a nuclear reactor (coal has trace amounts of radioactive material in it). So even if we’re just comparing the hazards of radiation nuclear is probably the better/cleaner option if there’s a robust and quick response after incidents.

The guy was pulling down 6 figures making everyone else’s life worse, so fuck 'em

clip the wings of the oligarchy,

“Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle”

Like seriously, you’re arguing that Ukraine’s liberal democracy is somehow better than Russia, when the point of liberal democracies under late capitalism is to strip all the copper out of the walls (privatize, austeritize, union-bust), everywhere, all the time.

It’s from '06, I think? Apparently Vin Diesel actually turns in a pretty good performance in this, from what I’ve heard.

This war is a result of Ukraine’s internal political issues, namely it’s insistence on claims to territories that don’t want to be a part of Ukraine.