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  • What if I were in control of a switch at a trolley track with a trolley barrelling down and if I were to eat a cheeseburger that is sitting next to me, the trolley would stop and if not it would start multi-track drifting over one cow and five chicken that are currently tied on the tracks and then run into an ammunition depot located in the Urgent Care section of an actively used children’s hospital, killing all patients?

    That happens regularly to me for some reason.






  • upping or lowering its production is really fast

    No??? Nuclear is by far the slowest to moderate. So slow, energy prices used to be significantly lower at night in Germany due to the nuclear power plants not being able to adjust to the lowered demand.

    It is fairly obvious in the future energy consumption will adjust to the production, instead of vice versa like it is right now. I’m talking decades, the time to build maybe 1.5 - 2 sets of new nuclear reactors. That way you need at most hours of grid storage instead of days.

    And about the scary “sun and wind is subject to variations” part - of course it is. Which is why it’s best to also invest into significantly expand the European power grid to adjust. When there’s a power drought somewhere it is very likely somewhere else produces more than enough energy to export. As an added benefit, this makes the grid much more resilient.

    Centralized power generation is not a sensible thing to invest into in today’s age anyway. Putin would merely have to send a double digit number of drones/rockets to cause blackouts. Compare that to a fully decentralized energy grid where for instance every house has solar panels and battery storage.

    Also, not a single nuclear accident is preventable. Why was the Fukushima reactor not designed to handle its event? Because it’s cheaper. Why did Chornobyl explode? Because it was a cheap reactor type. Three Mile Island (to be fair, that’s pretty long)? Because again design failures due to cost cutting. And cost cutting refers to being able to humanly construct a nuclear reactor - if every scenario were considered no plant could be built. It’s like trying to design a plane that will never ever crash - impossible.



  • Take a look at pretty much any study calculating the probability of major nuclear accidents (aka “beyond-design-basis event”).

    The German TÜV performed such a calculation - funded by the government - in 1980 which was then used to argue FOR nuclear safety and expand Germany’s nuclear reactors (as the oil crisis a couple years prior was reason to diversify away from oil). The study did not include human error/negligence or sabotage but all possible weather events (flooding, earthquake, lightning strikes into electric equipment), parts failing and an airplane strike.

    The result: A reactor core meltdown occurs - in Germany - once every 10,000 years. Extrapolating this to 400 reactors worldwide - not sure how their safety compares to 1980’s Germany - would result in one meltdown every 25 years.

    Coincidentally Chornobyl and Fukushima just so happened to be 25 years apart. Substiture Chornobyl with Long Island if you want to exclude incompetent Soviet safety engineers.

    The study:

    https://www.grs.de/de/aktuelles/publikationen/deutsche-risikostudie-kernkraftwerke-eine-untersuchung-zu-dem-durch

    Besides: Any money invested into nuclear today is money not invested into solar, wind turbines or battery storage. Why waste money on nuclear reactors that will start operating by 2040 when you can generate hundreds of TWh of electricity with the same money spent on renewables beforehand?


  • Aus ihrer Sicht setzten die Plakatslogans ohne sachlichen Hintergrund die Bundeswehr mit der Waffen-SS der Nazis gleich.

    Hä? Wo ist da der Bezug zur Waffen-SS? Ich fürchte ja beinahe schon - obwohl das natürlich nur ein schwaches Indiz ist - dass der Staatsanwalt einer dieser Saubere Wehrmacht Spinner ist. Und da die Wehrmacht nazifrei war muss ja die Waffen-SS mit “Braunes Heer” gemeint sein.

    Oder der Staatsanwalt hat eben wie so viele keine Probleme irgendeinen Scheißdreck zu argumentieren um eine Verurteilung, unabhängig der Faktenlage, zu erzielen. Oder auch beides zum Teil.




  • I don’t think that’s a genocide though.

    Mostly because in the Star Wars universe you can’t really wipe out either the Jedi or the Sith. Both try to wipe the other out but haven’t succeedes whatsoever because they are extremely basic religious/philosophical positions: “The force exists to do ‘good’ (whatever ‘good’ is)” vs. “The force exists to make me strong”. Jedi are Jedi and Sith are Sith only because of those values plus some beaurocracy.

    Compare that to human religions where they first construct an extremely elaborate setting with a shitton of incorporated fanfiction to argue why they and only they are right and all others are wrong. That’s so much more complex, you’d have to stop believing in a billion different things if you were to switch religions.

    Tl;dr: It’s not genocide if I were to kill all philosophy students at my university because in my point of view their views are evil.