Please don’t be too harsh on yourself, you don’t actually know that it would have been a good idea, it is impossible to aay if it would have been better or not.

You took the logical route, finnishing your education, which opened other doors for you.

I tend to see life as a game where you are given a set of playing cards at birth, you gradually take over control of your deck as you grow up.

You play your individual cards with the knowledge you have, and every play can give you even better cards to use later.

You have no idea if you are about to get your next break, you can only play your cards with the knowledge you have.

I have thought about this for a while now, before any natural resource can be exploited the following needs to be done:

1. An environmental restoration fund needs to be set up qith an initial payment and an aditional 2% of the value of the resource exploited anually throughout the life time of the facility, this money of controlled by the government and used to fund environmental restoration once the the facility is closed.
2. 10% of the annual value of the resource extracted will go to the local government, and be spent on upkeep and quallity of life for the local citizes, 10% of the annual value of the resource extraxted will go to the country government.

In total that is 22% so the company gets to keep 78%, seems resonable to me.

I am very confused now, you link to articles talking about storage pool issues, but I never mentioned storage pools.

I am talking about what they are doing in Finland.

They have drilled a very deep hole in the bedrock, built vaults where they will put cey casks of nuclear waste, then they will backfill the hole and tunnels with clay.

This is how you do it.

No one considers a storage pool as permanent storage.

Which crisis is the most important to manage in the short term.

Climate change, nuclear power gives us a huge tool to deal with it by shutting down fossil furl plants.

If we fail the climate change, the nuclear waste will be a tiny problem to deal with.

With nuclear power we at least give people a problem they can deal with, climate change is far, far worse.

The ammount of radioactive waste is tiny relative to normal dumps, and as described before, it is easy to deal with, dig a deep hole, put the waste in it, refill it.

Boom problem solved.

CO2 from fossil plats will keep up climate change for centuries.

European here, this is just wrong, I don’t use WhatsApp, nor does my friends or family

…again

I feel the exact way about you in this thread.

Because we need the baseload, even a huge wind or solar farm can provide the stable baseload.

In my fiest comment, I suggested that we would build a facility large enough to handle global nuclear waste.

Scandinavia is geographically stable and has been politically stable for a long time, I can think of no better place for a global nuclear waste storage facility.

Meteors is just s dumb risk to consider in this case, any meteor capable of breaching an underground nuclear waste will cause far worse problems than the nuclear material will.

The baltic isn’t that tidal either, so tidal waves can be disregarded.

Earthquakes have happened here, but they are few and far between.

I recommend that you watch the BBC Horizon Documentary “Nuclear Nightmares” that talks about our fear of radiation.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pqwo8

Nuclear waste is a solved problem, it is contained to a tiny physical object, all we gotta do is dig a hole, put the object into the hole, and cover it up.

We pretend that it is way harder than it is.

I live in a suburb north of Stockholm in Sweden, and I’d support the government building a large underground permanent storage of nuclear waste from all over the world (for a fee) in my suburb, we have the best ground for permanent storage in Scandinavia, we would earn money, create jobs and make the world safer.

He has his name, that is his brand and he will probably use it to make bank as a public speaker

Printing physical media and distributing it is a huge cost, since physical media use has declined in recet times the supplychains they used to rely has gone.

This has increased the cost.

Compare that to digital infrastructure and you have a cheaper alternative that has scalable solutions.

There is no need to print or really distribute physical media any more, you get the finnished movie/episode as a digital file, you upload it to the cloud shortly before release, wait for it to automagically get cached in the regions, and set the timer for release. The streaming service will automatically change the $video.enabled variable from $false to $true, and millions of people will be able to watch it at the same time.

2019 was a shit year for me, I got mycoplasma just before going abroad on a work trip, I thought it was just a cold, and remember thinking in the taxi that it was going to be a shit week having a cold the entire trip.

Well, it was worse than that, much worse, I could hardly work at all, and nothing I did made me better.

The only relief I got was taking a shower and cough up phlegm sonthst I could sleep, only the hotel reception called me sbout flooding the floor I was on (this was a fancy hotel), and when a technician came up to look at it he half accused me of “splashing and deliberately using the shower outside the bathtub”, something I never did, so I got terrified that I would loose my job because of that since I had used my company credit card (as I should).

But i got a few hours if sleep, and decided I needed to get into a shower again, so I did, and was very careful, but the reception rang again, and sent out a new technician, this guy was way better and actually took a look under the bathtub and found out that the sealing agaibst the wall was fucked, I have never felt such instant relief, it wasn’t my fault!

I got a new fancier room for the last night, and the flew home.

A week later I was diagnosed with pneumonia in one lung, and got penicillin, the pills were too big so I could not swallow them, I tried to dissolve them in water to drink them, but the taste allmost made me throw up, so it took about an hour to slowly drink the penicillin every time.

I didn’t get better and got to hospital, I was admitted and stayed for two nights, I got penicillin striaght in to the blood ans well as drip and finally started getting better.

When I was discharged I got stronger penicillin pills that dissolved easier and didn’t taste revolting.

All in all I was out sick for 1,5 months.

Then in 2022, that year sucked as well, got double heel spurs, flat feet and a bad knee.

It took me a year of painkillers and walking home crying from the bus every day to get it sorted, new inlays and excellent Brooks shoes to get it sorted

The B-25 bomber and Boeing 767 airliner are two very differet aircraft.

The WTC towers and the Empire State Building were also very different buildings.

So there events are not really comparable.

I have had to say this many times lately, just because something is propaganda, doesn’t automatically make it false.

The best propaganda is the truth.

Since you clearly have no idea of how propaganda works.

Both of these look terrible and very stressfull to drive.

My 2021 Seat Leon hatchback fits my entire family, with luggage for a weekend, while being fun and relaxing to drive.

These monstrosities are idiotic.

He is a dick, who used to be important for wikileaks but has kept tergeting specific angles for his leaks, which seems to indicate pushing a political agenda, which reduces trust in him and his platform.

The work he started is too important to leave in his care.

Example: During the DNC email leak, Wikileaks was clearly in a rush to publish the documents without removing credit card information and social security numbers, this is just sloppy.

Assange also worked to draw out the release of documents to increase Wikileaks publicity, this went on far enough that he publicly made announcements of releases that never came.

Wikileaks also published evidence that the DNC was behind the killing of Seth Rich, a DC staffer that Assange alluded to have given him the emails, this evidence came from a PI who has freely admitted not having seen any emails between Wikileaks and Seth not having seen the laptop containing the emails, or even having spoken with someone who had. The PI in question is a known FOX contributer.

Assange also seems to have weirdly close ties to Russia, he only had his morning talkshow broadcast on RT, supposedly they were the only ones to take up his show for syndication.

When he was first exiled, he requested that the Russian security service FSB should handle his security detail.

Today, the largest sponsor of Wikileaks is the Russian Government.

All of this speaks to Wikileaks not being the supreme beacon of free speach, but rather part of the Russian propaganda machine.

I don’t think it started this way, Assange and Wikileaks probably started with the best of intentions, but the reality of our society came into play and Assange/Wikileaks sold thier credibillity for money from the Russian government.