GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Here’s a list of industrial disasters. Take your pick of the ones that count as engineering or negligence (and Chernobyl was at least as much negligence as engineering) and tell me how many you get to.
Of course, we haven’t discussed what kind of risk we’re talking about. And is it better to have thousands of low-impact high-risk activities or one or two high-impact low-risk activities? Because, make no mistake, nuclear has cost less in human lives per unit of energy than any other power generation method we have. And hydroelectric has as profound an impact on the environment as nuclear fallout, it just tends to make some nice beaches and fishing so it isn’t negative, right?
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Chernobyl was a ridiculous level of negligence on the part of the technicians working at a plant with a very unsafe design.
Fukushima was a reasonably safe reactor design with terrible (and noted as such decades before the meltdown) site designs which could be described as “designed to fail”.
You could argue that lessons have been learned from both of those, and Three Mile Island, and safer designs are the result. Or you could argue that Fukushima clearly shows that people shouldn’t be involved in such high-risk projects because they will cut corners that will inevitably lead to disasters. If the second is your stance, take a look around. There are plenty of projects with similar risks in other fields all the time.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Fair enough. As you said, none of these are net producers of electricity if your thermodynamic system is big enough to count as closed.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Look up fly ash storage ponds. That’s just normal coal usage. Then look up fly ash spills. Then look up how much radioactive material is released into the atmosphere each year from burning coal. Compare that to the estimated amounts of radioactive material released into the environment from all the nuclear plant accidents, and tell me we still wouldn’t be better off switching all coal off and using nuclear.
Now, we don’t really have to do that, because we have other options now. But we definitely should have used more nuclear 50 years ago, just for the reduced cost of human lives.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Producing acid batteries, or any batteries isn’t power generation. It’s turning chemical potential (which was generally produced in an energy-consuming process) into a storage device for electrical potential.
Induction is just changing the properties of your electricity, not generation.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 week ago:
or face
unforseen consequences.FTFY
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny. Cilantro tastes weird and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it tastes soapy. That said, whenever I have it, I always notice this weird taste, but never actually recognize it. Then I check the ingredients and there it is.
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
Well, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
“Now it sucks for me and you! Just kidding, I like the taste of soap.”
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
- Comment on Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers 4 weeks ago:
I used to think there was nothing more stupid in zombie movies than uninfected humans just leaving each other alone and killing off the zombies. Why would you bother taking guns from other people when you have so many just lying around after 90% of the people died? If everyone just killed 10 zombies, the whole thing would be cleared up. I don’t think that anymore.
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 4 weeks ago:
Again, wouldn’t know. I haven’t used an Apple computer for more than 20 years.
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 4 weeks ago:
There was a recent Lemmy post saying Apple had just raised their minimum RAM specs to 16 GB. I think I came across this in the last couple weeks. I didn’t do more than skim the comments since I don’t have any products from them.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 5 weeks ago:
Hey, that’s fair, and I obviously didn’t get the play on meaning.
And as for the rest, I was flabbergasted when Amazon only had losses of $400 million one year and their stocks went up. Amazon went on to produce some value, and profits, and then screw over a number of businesses and employees with their market dominance in the online store business before completely abandoning any standards for the sake of profits. So the only thing I’m certain of in the stock market or industry values in general is that I’m woefully unqualified to determine what’s valuable or not.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
Now you’re raising two different issues. The first is a truly abysmal minimum wage. The second is a lack of effort on the part of both the staff and the employer to negotiate an acceptable minimum wage, whether it includes tips or not, enabled by the reliance on tipping to provide an acceptable wage.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
You undervalue good service. Good service, like good cooks, keep people with allergies from dying. Who exactly do you think passes on the allergy information? In a more general manner, good service makes sure that your order is presented the the kitchen staff correctly and matches expectations when they say it’s ready. It’s not just about whether or not they have a pleasant demeanor.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
It boggles the mind how someone can dismiss the legislation that enables the exact scenario the person they replied to described. Yes, the best solution is to have a reasonable minimum wage that isn’t modified by tips. Then you don’t have to leave your job, because they have to follow the law.
…or did you not bother reading past the first sentence?
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
Since a lot of places require the employees be paid at least minimum wage including tips, it would impact the owner directly and immediately…if everyone stopped tipping.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
It must be hard not knowing even the most basic math. How is this CEO getting more money than I pay for the meal?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 months ago:
It worked for chickens…
- Comment on ouch 2 months ago:
For the archives!
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 2 months ago:
Breezy on F-Droid, maybe Google Play, is pretty nice.
- Comment on Megaflopolis 2 months ago:
Keep on farming. Content has to come from somewhere!
- Comment on Anon finds the culprit 2 months ago:
“We.” Are you referring to people, or is that the bacteria self-identifying as plural?
- Comment on What a prompt 2 months ago:
Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest.
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
I don’t get it either. I also don’t get why people would want to watch a bunch of guys scramble around a field after an oblong ball and give each other TBIs, but, hey, people can enjoy whatever they want. I don’t need to criticize them for it. So, why do you feel that need?
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
The algorithm is working as intended!
- Comment on Anon entertains himself at work 3 months ago:
- Comment on Ballaholic I'm guessing 3 months ago:
This is probably the most charitable interpretation of this scenario. Good for you.
I figured his wife put him on a diet and he was having none (or three times) of it.
- Comment on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway 3 months ago:
O7