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World News@lemmy.world•Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stanceEnglish
1·10 months agoNuclear energy is a terrible idea in both a physically (climate change) and socially destabilizing world.
Even Gen4 proliferation-resistant reactors still represent a lethal threat in the event of a release of fissionable materials into the local environment. Building a nuclear reactor without a cast-iron guarantee that there will be a supply of engineering staff, components, materials and clear strong regulation to keep it running safely is a surefire path to disaster.
Whilst the technology and physics behind it are well understood, we have shown time and again in a few short decades of utilizing this technology that we lack the responsibility in our administrative structures to properly manage the risks.
It would take just one full-on reactor meltdown or disaster to poison an entire continent. We have consistently demonstrated that we cannot responsibly assume that risk, which is why there is opposition to nuclear power.
If you want to avoid bad things from happening, do not deploy a dangerous technology and instead focus on what we can do. Renewables are more than capable of providing for our energy needs, and the big kicker here is that they can do so without putting the literal power “off” switch in the hands of the grid or plant operator.
There is an adjustment period, which is often uncomfortable.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loomEnglish
2·1 year agoYeah, then they lose all their best and brightest who are disappearing off to work on their own things.
All these idiot C-suite trash will wind up holding is a bag of yesterday’s technology, a mass of obsolete infrastructure and a bunch of brands they’ve helped destroy.
I tried to get this up and running back on my K6-2, unfortunately I couldn’t work out how to get the X server running with my 3Dlabs FireGL Pro card at the time.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine
11·1 year agoWhen you’re voting in a one-party system with two right wings, nothing changing is the expected outsome.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
132·1 year agoMy general opinion on China over the past few years have evolved to “OK they aren’t perfect, but at least they seem to be trying, instead of actively making everything worse.”
Save Him.
Apparently it IS possible to make IC’s at home, obviously nothing approaching 5nm transistor gates and therefore the equivalent of lego blocks to precision machined parts… but anyways:
(apologies for the YT link… I’d much rather link a service that isn’t totally enshittified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0
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AI Generated Images@sh.itjust.works•Would you watch this movie?English
1·1 year agoReminiscent of Ulysses 31
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World News@lemmy.ml•Israel parliament votes to label UN relief agency a terror organisation
1·2 years agoA Reichtangle, obviously.
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Technology@lemmy.world•An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experienceEnglish
1·2 years agoThat dude should not have put up with that.
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Technology@lemmy.world•An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experienceEnglish
1·2 years ago80% of our machines were hit. We were working through 9pm on Friday night running around putting in bitlocker keys and running the fix. Our organization made it worse by hiding the bitlocker keys from local administrators.
Also gotta say… way the boot sequence works, combined with the nonsense with raid/nvme drivers on some machines really made it painful.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court winEnglish
1·2 years agoYeah, kinda funny how it’s OK when there’s a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff saysEnglish
15·2 years agoYes, Eugene Debs, please.
- who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still…
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century
1·2 years agoRespect and discipline AND infrastructure is the answer.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century
2118·2 years agoNYC’s cyclists (of whom I know many) need to follow traffic laws.
Those laws are there because people need to act predictably on the street. When a red light becomes a mere suggestion for cyclists, motorists eventually start treating them as such as well. Monkey see, monkey do.
…and getting t-boned by some douchecanoe driving a car when you have the light is commonly fatal for a cyclist.
There was an uptick in utterly shitty driving from 2019 onwards in NYC, and the police stopped all enforcement actions even in egregious cases… then the roads became, and largely remain, a free-for-all. I’ve seen some attempts recently to start clearing the mess up, but too often NYPD are ignoring these dangerous road users… or hiding their license plates and being offenders themselves.
…and this is before you’re fighting for space in a the bikelane with some drunk+stoned asshole on a moped.
I’m fully in favor of delivery professionals being required to have a license and display it at all times when on the clock. They should also be required to have specific insurance, and a highly visible personal identifier when working. They should also get automatic Union representation and a living wage.
Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike should have a license plate, and if not it gets taken and destroyed, or auctioned to a more responsible owner. Sales of these vehicles without a registration needs to be illegal. Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike found in a bike lane should be impounded on the spot. Running a stop sign or a red light should get you a ticket, regardless of what wheels you’re on. Going the wrong way down a one way street should get you a ticket.
It doesn’t help that NYC doesn’t have the space and largely practices “maximum-conflict” street design… but that’s just the slow, shitty entropic action of self-serving interests pushing communities around, and they react very slowly. It takes (usually multiple) fatalities for anyone to wake up and actually do anything about it.
Also wear a damned helmet.




At this point, why would anyone do business with broadcom at all?