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hungie commented on Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/rustoo
Nuclear waste slowly leaks into the groundwater and river water. Also, waste is only one of the two major concerns I noted.
Comparing it with coal is 100% disingenuous. Coal is never an option going forward.
Nuclear waste leaking into the groundwater? Sure, if someone is being absurdly callous. But if we're going to invent a villain with no morals as just dumps the stuff then we might as well do the same for any other form of energy.
I prefer to assume we're comparing competent operators of any energy type in our portfolio. Saying it leaches into the groundwater is like saying "dams break and destroy towns". Yeah, it does happen I guess, but not often. And we've got lots of systems to prevent it.
hungie commented on Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/rustoo
The problem is not how small the waste is, it is the effects.
High level radioactive waste can cause Goiânia like outcomes, or leach into the groundwater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
It is quite intellectually dishonest to try frame it as pixie dust rather than the true problem it poses.
If, and only if, you store it stupidly. There's plenty of ways to safely store it for millennia. It's not a truly difficult problem.
And I'm just doing my best to present the facts as they are -- no fud.
hungie commented on Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/rustoo
The word temporary is only used to placate people who don't understand nuclear / nuclear waste (waste is a bad term) and who have been badly influenced by 70 years of misinformation from The Sierra Club and others.
None of this spent fuel is really that spent, has plenty of other use cases, and should be used. Also, storing it in concrete casks for 40 years is perfectly safe and has caused 0 harm.
The cost is largely due to regulatory hurdles that are slowly being eroded.
It's also minuscule. A US person would generate roughly a chicken egg worth of waste across their entire lifetime.
hungie commented on Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/rustoo
Nuclear fission is basically pushed by those who don't think to worry about: (1) nuclear accidents/terrorism (2) nuclear waste.
Th hallmark of a great civilization is one that saves its future self from problems, not one that piles on problems for its future self to deal with. In this light, nuclear is not great.
Geothermal using fracking toxins is not great either if it irreversibly pollutes the water supply as fracking often does.
Solar and wind have no such issues for us to deal with, considering we don't domestically produce the solar panels anyway.
How much nuclear waste would be generated, across 100 years of American levels of energy use, per person?
I'll save you the effort, it's about one chicken egg, maybe as large as a tea cup.
For your whole life, all the energy you'll use across all sectors. Over 100 years you don't think we capable of finding a space to safely fritter away a chicken egg? Or even 300 million chicken eggs?
And even more amazingly, that "waste"? It's still fuel, we could reprocess it.
Coal, you'd need 50-60,000 kilograms to create the same energy. The waste disposal for 60k kg of coal's ash is non trivial (and much harder to prevent from spreading). To say nothing of the 150-180,000 kg of CO2 emitted.
Solar panels would need to be replaced 2-5 times in that timeframe. They are a whole lot less wasteful than coal, but that'd still be a significant volume of difficult to reprocess material.
So, before wringing your hands about waste from nuclear, make sure you understand just how small the amount of waste is and think about the waste of alternatives. There's not a free lunch here, but waste just isn't a material concern compared against other power sources.
I wonder if Elon would also not comply with a secret FBI warrant. I highly doubt it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...
He's complied with Indian and Turkish authorities, choosing to censor. I'm sure he'd comply if asked by the trump admin and fight if asked by the Harris admin.
hungie commented on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics matthewball.co/all/fanspr... · Posted by u/mef
I can go on any known porn site right now in Incognito and the front page is full of cuck, incest and trans. We aren't just talking about intercourse we are talking about certain acts of depravity being pushed into the collective conscious.
Trans people having sex is not an act of depravity, lol.
Trans people are people, and deserve sex just as much as anyone else.
Cuck porn is extremely not my thing, but strikes me as a pretty tame fetish if all parties consent. Playing with power dynamics can be a lot of fun and very strengthening for a relationship. (Good BDSM practitioners are often very consent focused and amazing listeners.)
The incest stuff is gross though. I'll shake hands with you on that.
hungie commented on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics matthewball.co/all/fanspr... · Posted by u/mef
> don't see it as any less dignified than any other work
You do not, and that is your moral judgement. Rationalizing earning money by any means necessary is a very slippery slope, and the discussion is much more nuanced than popular media would lead you to believe.
My gut feeling is that people joining the army is a whole lot more destructive than people doing sex work. Especially on only fans or whatever.
hungie commented on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics matthewball.co/all/fanspr... · Posted by u/mef
> sex work is just work. Bodies are just bodies. Relationships and past sexual history are in the past.
Emotions are just emotions. Might as well just stop with the whole "dating" thing and only use each other transactionally when we want kids. Or better yet, just don't reproduce, right?
Your words, I didn't say those things.
hungie commented on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics matthewball.co/all/fanspr... · Posted by u/mef
Thats a fine opinion, and I fully agree with you.
However its slightly different to the discussed point here, which is that people who use their dick or vagina to make money publicly can later have that used against them.
Theres nothing wrong with dating a sex worker, but when you want to make them a wife and have children, there becomes a risk that some crazy drug addict is going to spot them in the future and do something. Mabye they are going to call out to your wife while she is dropping the kids off at school. Maybe they will be a bit more sinister and threaten to send old OF videos to your kids ands kids teachers email address unless you give them some money, or do it again etc.
These are of course hypotheticals, but they have happened in the past and it is a risk, however small, of having an ex sex worker as a life partner.
It can only be used against you if people think it can be used against you.
Like, imagine a world where we said, " you flipped burgers in college? Eww gross, you've robbed your life!"
It sounds absurd because we've collectively decided one of those jobs is good and one is bad. We can collectively decide they are both fine, actually.
Also, if you're that model includes "random drug addict who is aware of my wife's porn career notices my wife, then chooses to act on it" I think your threat model may need revising. Yes, I'm sure that happens hundreds of times a year in the US. Driving a car to school seems statistically MUCH more dangerous.