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Extinguishing any fire with water is like saving the environment with nuclear energy. It might work, but if the fire turns out to be a metal or grease fire, you have a problem just…

> How did Germany evolve to be so anti-nuclear? Given the alternatives nuclear seems the way to go. Nuclear power is currently by far the most expensive way to generate electricity…

We did that indeed for decades and then it turned out that the site was unsuitable, because of water inflows, and now we have been planning since 2013 how to recover the barrels ag…

We tried to bury the waste deep underground in the 60s and 70s already. Let's say it didn't work out so well and now we are still planning how to retrieve it since the decision was…

You find "interesting" that someone just wants to report a security vulnerability without having to accept any conditions first? Funny, I find it interesting that they want to pay …

"You can't make this stuff up." Well, ...

If they had taken the risks and incurred the costs of development themselves, of course. But they were massively subsidized. In that case, the state should either get a share of th…

The market is not normal because countries have invested massive sums of money into these companies without acquiring shares in return, so I just hope they have negotiated other te…

Mainly sugar causes a secretion of insulin, as you seem to know. But you seem to assume that insulin or frequent high insulin levels cause insulin resistance. As far as I know, tha…

Regarding sugar vs. fat: large amounts of saturated fats are known to be unhealthy. In small amounts, sugar can even be healthy, e.g. after exercise. One problem with taxes on addi…

The costs of the pandemic are one side. The other is the cost of developing and producing the vaccines. In a normal market situation, prices are determined by supply and demand. Bu…

That's not true either. You can definitely develop type 2 diabetes without eating carbohydrates.

I agree with the concept, but not a tax on sugar. With sugar I could at most harm myself, not others. A tax on sugar but not on fat would be discrimination of one diet form or even…

Interestingly, the whole thing now seems to have turned into the opposite. sugar = bad, fat = good. But that is not true. Sugar is actually only problematic because it's a bit addi…

This is a common misconception. Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes is mostly caused by obesity. Sugar has a relatively high caloric density and can be addictive, leading to obe…

Sugar does not cause diabetes.

It is actually my best example, as it shows very clearly how much he is willing to say untrue things in favor of Tesla. Why should only mechanical engineering examples be valid?

Saying only positive things about a mediocre product makes him a shill.

> I've seen him say quite negative things about Tesla, and quite positive things about Tesla's competitors. What I've seen from him, he always shows a clear bias towards Tesla. > C…

Sandy Munro, by now, is a Tesla shill who can't be taken seriously. Andrej works at Tesla and understandably says nothing bad about his boss. If I thought my boss was technically c…

Reusable rockets: https://youtu.be/JzXcTFfV3Ls

Reusable first stages are not an achievement. Reusable rockets were invented 30 years before SpaceX. Using such rockets as first stages is a questionable decision by SpaceX, which …

Reusable rockets were developed by a private company 30 years before SpaceX.[1] Using such rockets as first stages is what SpaceX did first, I give them that. But it's more of a me…

You probably shouldn't have started the sentence with "No" then, but never mind. Let's hope that space travel will be safer in the future. Anyway, I really just wanted to point out…

This does not contradict what I wrote.