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I find this a very reasonable frame of mind. Systemic issues and failures cannot be fixed or addressed by individual action. They have to be addressed in a systemic way. It's good …

You sound like you've swallowed pro-US-propaganda hook, line and sinker. The reason the middle-east is at constant war is because colonialist machinations. Same goes for south-Saha…

> But we are also: an email company built around privacy; an open source AI startup focused on developers; a place for people to create and share data on their own terms; and an in…

Now you are just throwing everything at the wall and hope it sticks. You're essentially shifting to a "sure, reactors are expensive, but the whole-system price is lower" argument. …

No, my concern is that France will have to spend around €150-200 billion in the next ten years just to keep their current capacity. I guess that's the reason that they went for ren…

These €50 billion is just what EDF is in debt, not what building and operating these reactors actually cost. Just in the next 10 years EDF will have in invest about €150-200 billio…

The same way that France did it; by building quite safe nuclear in series with massive government subsidies. A bit like China today. After the accidents showed that these designs w…

I'm not actually that concerned about excessive government spending. I just don't like wasteful spending, and that's what nuclear is. Wind and PV build up much faster, are orders o…

No reactor has yet even reached the operating age of 60 years. That 80 years number is wholly speculative. We stopped building nuclear reactors in the 1970ies[0] because with the a…

Ah, yes - "the evil environmentalists." Congratulations, you really torched that straw man. We stopped building nuclear reactors in the early 1970ies[0], long before there was any …

There's no false information there. Nuclear is complex and so expensive that despite 70 years of tinkering and trying it hasn't managed to make a noticeable dent in fossil fuel. It…

There's no measure by which nuclear energy is the "energy of the future". It's too complex, too expensive and it doesn't scale. SMRs are proving to be a fever dream with ever risin…

It's also incredibly expensive and brittle and cannot be moderated without additional costs[1]. At this point nuclear is just a dead horse. It hasn't managed to displace fossil fue…

No it's not. If scientific investigation shows that there are many causes that have a relevant impact on "A", then saying that "A has multiple relevant and possible causes" is not …

Watson's comments are not based in scientific fact. First of - there is no such thing as a "race". Putting people in classes based on the colour of their skin is ludicrously simpli…

That human industrial activities are the primary direct causation of the currently observed climate change is a scientific fact, proven beyond any reasonable doubt. What you show i…

It's more than just "that one president". It's the whole system that brought him to power, where a large part of the population has been trained to hate and fear for almost half a …

There have been many systemic changes since we started to understand the physical mechanism behind climate change and the dire consequences of unmitigated climate change. Within 20…

The link is in the title.

That's a straw man argument. Voluntarily opting out of a high-CO2 lifestyle will do exactly nothing. Demanding that anyone recognizing the threat of climate change and demanding a …

That's a ludicrous proposal. A whole planets' society's structural problems cannot be solved by an individuals action. Your own attitude explains the 'why'. This is a systemic issu…

Very well put, thank you.

Capitalists make use of authoritarian governments. They go hand in hand. What do you think slavery is?

1. Maybe living as hunter-gatherers would make them happier. 2. You can't live as a hunter-gatherers because the land has been enclosed and privatized. There's no choice involved h…

Of course he is. Nobody gets that rich without throwing overboard any morals or ethics. You won't become a billionaire - let alone a trillionaire - if you are bothered by the wellb…