Well yes there is a very good argument against nuclear and that is that it replaces solar energy.

solar energy might have been expensive in the past but now it’s the cheapest form of energy in history. we needed an absence of nuclear in the past to have a motivation to develop green, safe, efficient energy. and solar is the best way to do that.

i also ask you to consider the future. solar energy gets cheaper the more is deployed of it, so it will get even cheaper in the future. we have seen enormous price drops for transistors (computers) in the past, and solar panels are semiconductors, just like transistors are semiconductors. who says that we wouldn’t also see similar price drops for solar energy in the future? maybe solar panels will be cheap as paper in the future.

Thankfully planning and maintaining the electricity network isn’t done by people commenting on Lemmy. (btw i agree with you)

that’s a very whacky argument though

usually i would agree to the “increase supply to lower the cost” story, but in the case of energy it’s a bit different, because the Energy market uses the merit order principle, which means that whenever the nuclear reactors run, electricity is just as expensive as if nuclear reactors were the only source of electricity, and if they don’t run, only then prices drop.

so, you’re only getting cheaper prices by not needing nuclear energy. but, for nuclear plants, building them is a huge part of the cost, and that still has to be paid by somebody, even if they aren’t used later on to produce electricity.

add to that that construction is typically heavily subsidized by taxes, which means if you’re not using them, it’s just a huge burden on the taxpayers.

in retrospect, i understand France’s long-held stance around 2000 that it wants to rely mostly on nuclear. it wasn’t clear, back then, how long fossil fuels would be available (it was predicted they would last another 40 years) so they thought “oh well, uranium will be available for a longer time”. renewable energy wasn’t an (economic) possibility at that time. now that we have cheap solar energy, i suspect the last nuclear power plant worldwide will be shut down sometime around 2040.

I suspect that we will utilize a gas peaker plants for the last 5% for a long time; i couldn’t think of a much better option.

well yeah i agree that giving companies time to move back would have been better.

I agree that a plan is needed. Still, what would be the other parts of the plan? Tariffs are the only really impactful measure, it seems to me. Tariffs on import and subsidies on export.

Also, maybe Trump is so “on-off” with the tariffs to give companies a warning to bring back manufacturing to the US, and them lifting them again to not cause a recession, giving them a few years to set up the infrastructure, and then re-install the tariffs. One needs to look for the “good outcome”, sothat one steers in that way.

because one specific kid was unruly

Edit: There wasn’t even an unruly kid.

Well, outsourcing labor was a mass phenomenon in the last 50 years.

40 years ago knowledge workers were in high demand, and IT was booming. Now, IT is enshittifying, so what do the workers do next? Where do they go?

tell that to the workers

Well just to be fair - and i know people like shitting on Trump but hear me out - the complaints from workers against out-shoring labor to other countries has been very loud for many years.

Everytime the newspaper reports “Company X has moved its factory to China” you can be sure that lots of people are gonna complain about it. But tariffs are the only thing that actually forces companies to put the factories back to the USA. Or do you have a better idea?

I think it’s good that it exists. I’ve often bemoaned that there’s no easy way to find software projects, so people keep re-implementing them. Maybe having more/better lists and indexes simply of “what already exists”, lots of duplicated effort could be spared, which would be better for everyone.

I’m not sure whether this should be a “standard”, but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don’t want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe and easy way.

you’re right, but i still think the EU should arm itself at least to the point of being capable of self-defence.

it’s not only about waging war, it’s also about deterrence, and giving Europe some self-confidence.

thank you for that idea, that kinda calms me down a bit (actually a lot more than just a bit) :D

I suppose it would (have been) a good start to not cause the refugee wave by not fucking up the middle east. but now that’s done, and can’t be undone.

what could be undone i guess would be to be reluctant to give out citizenship. Without citizenship, it’s a lot less attractive to stay in a country long-term, because citizenship essentially grants right to residence and social safety net, while a temporary residence permit does not.

the mass increase due to relativistic effects is really really small, significantly smaller than the weight loss due to fuel consumption, which btw is described by the Rocket Equation.

The crazy thing that still makes my head spin and that I fail to process properly is that Europe would still be under Nazi regime today had they not attacked Russia … despite all the crimes. How do you deal with that? idk

tldr

no often today we don’t know what the code is actually doing

yes this is an important problem

no nobody really seems to take it as serious as it should be taken today

no i’m not gonna change that over night