XYZinferno
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- Comment on Power drunk mods 10 months ago:
Yeah wtf, the OP is just an asshole Thanks for catching that, and kudos for the “power drunk mod” for not bending
- Comment on Sahra Wagenknecht: German politician launches 'left-wing conservative' party 10 months ago:
I wonder how many people a socially conservative/economically left party would actually appeal to. I can’t say much about European politics in general, apart from Scholz’s low approval rating. Even still, I wonder if people would really pivot away from the more right wing parties, or if this new party would come across as “just another left wing party”. Either way, my initial impression is rather skeptical.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
To my knowledge, these privacy laws prevent corporations from holding onto your data after you have requested to delete it. Lemmy is not a corporation, and there is no single entity that holds onto all of your data. That’s just a tradeoff of being decentralized.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
Might be because of Threads, and Meta seeking to use ActivityPub themselves.
I don’t disagree with you though; I don’t think the fedi is big enough at the moment to register as more than a blip on their radar, as you said.
- Comment on LibLeft painting Venice with the funny colors 11 months ago:
Before Nerd02 goes on a warpath, I should clarify the dyes were temporary
Link to the article here if anyone’s interested in reading: reuters.com/…/italian-climate-change-protesters-t…
- Submitted 11 months ago to pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com | 6 comments
- Comment on Political Compass Fetishes 1 year ago:
How could you forget the best LibRight fetish of them all: a balanced spending budget
- Comment on Introducing user flairs (only for lemmy.basedcount.com users) 1 year ago:
With the addition of flairs comes the targeted bullying of the cringe unflaired.
- Comment on An executive decision has been made 1 year ago:
Even with this newfound freedom, whether or not my un-comedic brain can come up with a meme is a solid 50/50
- Comment on someone was alive and died the most painful way possible 1 year ago:
I don’t see the Tokaimura nuclear accidents (which led to the aforementioned death of Hisashi Ouchi) as a reason to dismiss nuclear energy. Even if this is bait as @CADmonkey@lemmy.world mentioned, I want to make it clear that wasn’t my intention behind bringing up Ouchi’s death, and shouldn’t be twisted into a case against nuclear energy as a whole.
The Tokaimura accident of 1999 was the result of improper safety, due to the facility failing to install the necessary alarms should criticality occur, and cost-cutting by having workers mix uranium in steel drums instead of proper vats that would control the rate at which it’s mixed (which would have prevented criticality). In essence, had the proper safety measures been followed, the incident would not have occurred. The same can be said for most nuclear disasters, especially the famous Chernobyl disaster.
A compiled list of nuclear incidents (which also includes events aside from nuclear reactors) can be found here:
It’s evident that nuclear incidents, especially those pertaining to reactors, are incredibly uncommon, and this is the result of strict safety protocols that cannot be shirked, as well as an extreme number of fail-safes in the event of a malfunction. The most recent major nuclear event- The Fukushima Disaster, required an earthquake, tsunami, compounded with human error- extraordinary circumstances that not only are extremely rare, but have been learned from too.
If the reason to ban nuclear energy is due to a small handful of disasters like these, then logic dictates that this should be expanded to a myriad of products. How about pesticides, due to the Bhopal Disaster? How about getting rid of dams, due to the1975 Banqiao Dam Failure, that led to thousands of deaths?
The truth of the matter is that much of the large scale infrastructure that we rely on, especially in industry and energy production, can fail on extremely rare occasions, and lead to tremendous loss of life. But through strict safety measures, training, and human ingenuity, the threat of disaster is minuscule.
TL;DR: Singling out nuclear energy as a problem when the same concerns can be raised for any industry is hypocritical, and just the result of fear-mongering. It is safe.
- Comment on someone was alive and died the most painful way possible 1 year ago:
I’d have to agree with this one, and the most painful example of this that I can think of is Hisashi Ouchi, otherwise known as the more irradiated man in history.
- Comment on Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root 1 year ago:
I already hated Android 12 for overhauling the aesthetic for the worse: making volume sliders obscenely wide, making the notification shade just an over-enlarged mess, and the half-assed implementation of Material You. On my Pixel 3 that I used at the time, this change alone made me root a phone for the first time just to fix all of it.
Two updates later and once again Google fucks up something that was perfectly fine before and turns me off from their operating system yet again. While I’m nowhere close to using an iPhone, I may just use GrapheneOS if I have to switch to a phone that comes with Android 14+ out of the box.
- Comment on Popular Candy of the Political Compass 1 year ago:
Oh yeah I did make sure to read on the reasoning behind why they chose to do it when I was making the meme, and I will admit, it’s really clever. It’s sounds innocent and random on paper, but is a great way to test the venues they were performing at.
- Submitted 1 year ago to pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com | 3 comments
