Eximius
@Eximius@lemmy.world
- Comment on Weight loss jabs for unemployed not dystopian, says Wes Streeting 4 weeks ago:
ITT: Lots of Americans getting insulted by the fact that obesity brings health problems, and the fact that being obese is a self-destructive choice.
- Comment on Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. 1 month ago:
It’s not whataboutism: epa.gov/…/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-power-pla…
You said yourself that concrete is not recycled, and it is upcycled only for aggregate, can use any rocks for that. Nobody is converting cement to cement clinker.
Keep idiots from breaking in to the mine that has “radioactive” signs is quite far fetched. You dont just accidentally stumble on an opened mineshaft and accidentally have keys to the lift to go down 100m.
- Comment on Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. 1 month ago:
Wait, so you think nuclear reactors spew out uranium?
While coal powerplants don’t spew out radioactive coal ash??
Lets just say only one of these is true… and it is not the former.
They are not explodey, because they are by design not. The non RBMK (i.e. not cheap Russian, lied-about-safety-by-government) reactors are designed to literally cool off without any power or control, if all went to shit. You can try with all your expertise to make it explode, and short of rebuilding it you will fail. Even if you were to add explosives. At that point, just making your own nuclear bomb is cheaper and faster.
I think it is quite optimistic to think they will even recycle 5% of a solar powerplant. The silicon is not useful, hard to dismantle from metal. Additives make it unusable without special centrifuge processes. Take the easy metals, scrap the rest, use easy, cheap raw materials for controlled process. Most of the NPP can be recycled if you cared, apart from the irradiated reactor, which is a very tiny part of it. It’s all wires, steel and other useful electric constructions. Nobody cares to recycle concrete.
I wont talk about storing waste, because I dont know why it is marketed as prohibitively expensive. Apart from it just being lead lined barrels in say an empty mineshaft (which there are an exceptional volume of everywhere). Literally enough space for forever, no need to put anything in the air.
- Comment on Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. 1 month ago:
- Not poisonous.
- Not explodey. Chernobyl destroyed all common sense and support for nuclear power, even though it was mostly terrible terrible management and horrible corrupt (Soviet) government that caused it. Nuclear reactors can’t explode like Chernobyl unless someone purposely flips all the switches to red, does manual overrides aand it was specifically built to ignore all logical safety concerns.
The number of kille people by coal is orders of magnitude higher over the same period (lets say 60 years) per GW generated.
Any other arguments?
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
Lol. I just love it how so many people complain that Nuclear doesnt make financial sense, and then the most financially motivated companies just actually figure out that using a nuclear reactor completely privately is best.
Fuck sake, world.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
The goal posts were not moved at any point. It was a discussion of the situation, as it is.
Please look at the paper you refer to: www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/…/abstract It was only retracted because of “In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were “consecutively referred” and that investigations were “approved” by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.” It was retracted due to fraud. I don’t think it’s in any way wise to blame the possibility of fraud on the peer review process. Just as fraud can happen in any field because some people decide to pathologically lie.
However, besides the fraudulent ethics, the paper is fine, and as always previously reiterated multiple times. All it says are a bunch of maybes. It makes no extraordinary claims, it holds no conclusive proof, just a lot of “this maybe hints to something”. The paper is publishable.
The actual scandal was caused by the Wakefield lying profusely in media.
These are two different things: what Wakefield said in media, and what Wakefield said in the paper. You should separate them.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
You’ll have to actually reference a published paper for that claim.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
- You completely disregarded the paper.
- Completely disregarded peer review as a thing without any grounding.
- Went ad hominem as a hail marry.
Bye.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
That is complete unfounded fluff words. No paper would be published if it was biased and as selective as you say. Look at the paper at least briefly and we can discuss.
I think you can download it here: researchgate.net/…/240678278_Why_Civil_Resistance…
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
They werent selectively chosen. " An original, aggregate data set of all known major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006 is used to test these claims." As well as any researcher who isn’t a complete buffoon would only look at statistics that has only a 2-3 sigma chance of only being stochastic noise.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
I guess that’s a fair example. But logically sounds impossible for such control to be made. If a group went out to the streets to oust the government, you would say at least 45% would join.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
There is the semi-usually-known research that suggests 3.5% is enough for non-violent protests to reach changes. www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/chen15682
1 in 200 people is essentially everyone knowing personally one person who is against the government. Maybe it isn’t enough.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
If by ignore, you mean stop paying taxes and working in any capacity for government in one go, yes would work. The only fear is being singled out, if more than 0.5% of the people do it, army wont even have the guts to get tanks out, they will join.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
I think it is worth reading the actual discussion on github. Having votes public and having them visibly public on the web interface has compelling reasons. Namely enshittification hardening.
- Comment on California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says 2 months ago:
Uh, can you explain to a European how does that even work?
They cause lots of financial damages to you and just… not pay? File for bankcruptcy? Or?
- Comment on Philosopher tries to convince ChatGPT that it's conscious 3 months ago:
If you have any understanding of its internals, and some examples of its answers, it is very clear it has no notion of what is “correct” or “right” or even what an “opinion” is. It is just a turbo charged autocorrect that maybe maybe maybe has some nice details extracted from language about human concepts into a coherent-ish connected mesh of “concepts”.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
Spectacular
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
I like this comment, because Samsung in other areas does indeed get confused about batteries being consumable.
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 5 months ago:
whooosh
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Ahaha, yes, exactly, because it is essentially just a turbo charged text predictor with 40GB (or more) of data.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
EV battery recycling is too valuable not to happen.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
Libraries don’t cost.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
You’re literally saying you are happy paying half the price and not owning anything.
You could have at least bought the tools new and sold them after for a net maybe 5% loss…
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
Proton works wonderfully these days.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 6 months ago:
I thought they already offered 3d print models, you can just print out and presto?
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 8 months ago:
Just because it is a competitor, it doesnt mean it does DRM. Foremost, it is a service to deliver games to you at a price.
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 8 months ago:
While I definitely don’t know everything about Epic Games, but my (quick) googling suggests that they do almost no DRM (or just piggy-back on steam, which is minimal DRM). The individual developers are responsible for DRM. Is this not true?
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 8 months ago:
Get out of here with this whataboutism.
As far as companies go, Apple is the one being slowly brought back under the law of a free market, after doing gray / illegal stuff for decades.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
I like you
- Comment on Legendary exit for a legendary creator 10 months ago:
I wonder if it’s his accent that people perceive as snobby? And if the people who do perceive it so are American.