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Damn, I almost thought climate change wasn’t a problem after all, good thing Prince William is here to save the day making national headlines by stating the blindingly obvious

Sounds pretty demoralising

Ah. I meant to respond to someone else in this thread who was talking about ideology in schools

It must have taken genuine effort to design a radiation physics module without mentioning Marie Curie

This shit annoys me. Schools are quite literally the perfect place to explore ideology. Politics is completely opaque and confusing for kids because they aren’t being taught that different people have different ideas about how society should look based on their personal circumstances. This is why people are so easily influenced by fascists who market their programme as “straight-talking common sense”. Ideology is practically built-in to the human psyche and people should be conscious of when others are trying to influence them. Rant over.

My understanding is that it’s largely already constructed - they just didn’t have the go-ahead to start drilling until now.

So yeah. 27 jobs.

Still don’t think we’re losing much if a person who is hell-bent on paying no tax anyway leaves the country

… is she suggesting they should fight?

Its such a fundamentally stupid funding model. They really just need to get serious about how they plan to fund a national broadcaster in the 21st century - in the meantime I don’t see how they have any credibity to pressure people into paying it

I’m guessing based on people’s reports of his behaviour before it happened. See my response to im_fine_sandy

I’m guessing based on the fact that he attended the park alone, was wearing headphones, and was visibly excited to see the tiger and asked strangers to take pictures of him with it. This suggests that he may have had sensory issues and a special interest in tigers which would be typical of autism/aspergers.

I agree it’s not really enough to be certain and I don’t want to go too far down the path of speculation. But it seems very possible to me, and I’ve personally known people with severe autism who I could imagine putting themselves in harms way like this without realising the danger. And it’s just so sickening hearing people all over the internet talk about this persons’ death in such a callous way without knowing anything of his personal circumstances.

Yeah sorry this is pretty horrible. From descriptions of the event it seems to me that that he was neurodivergent and didn’t really understand the danger.

Update: His family have now had to issue a public statement about his death, describing that he had been struggling with mental illness for several years. The fact that they’ve had to do this at all is completely gutting.

The rationale behind it is they need to keep some reserves of cash in case of emergency or upfront funding for big projects, and the most financially sensible thing to do with the cash while it’s not in use is to invest it.

But yeah, I agree it’s a bit concerning. Hopefully there are some sort of guardrails in place

Breeder reactors are conceptually cool but nowhere near economical enough to be a practical solution at present. Only two still exist in the world, and both are operated in russia - they were phased out for a reason.

Regardless, to run a breeder reactor you still need to separate out fission products from the waste, which we havent been doing since the 60’s or 70’s. The sensible thing to to with fuel is to reprocess it by PUREX/SANEX like we used to. But unfortunately we now have this giant build-up of screaming-hot unprocessed waste

There’s truth in this, but there is also a certain subset of internet users which obnoxiously gloss over all of the challenges and limitations of nuclear fission, pretending that it’s a flawless energy source to the detriment of everyone’s sanity

True, however the fact that nuclear power has been around 70 years and we’ve still never been able to actually do this is a valid criticism. Even if the limited number of deep geological disposal projects all come online today, we’ll still be generating high-level waste much more quickly than we can bury it

It is far, far more radioactive afterward.

After fuel has been in-pile for a full lifetime, it has fissioned, decayed and transmuted to the point where half the periodic table worth of radioactive isotopes have been produced and are all present in the same waste

Me on my way to my morally neutral job at the child-crushing factory

Ah. Didn’t realise you were messing with me. Fair play lmao