I imagine Mitch McConnell isn’t too far behind.

I get it, aging sucks, but it’s part of the deal. You can’t live forever and there is a time to move on.

Grow teeth…where?

So what?! I responded a lot. Where’s my article?

I agree that we need to get away from coal and natural gas. I don’t think Nuclear is the answer though. You’re trading one set of major health and financial problems for another.

Apple and oranges. It’s unhealthy and unsafe to live near Chernobyl. It took nearly a decade for people to start moving back to Fukushima Prefecture after decontamination and subsides to lure people back.

The actual cost of a Nuclear disaster is incredibly costly.

It still requires mining, processing and it still produces waste, waste which has to sit at the site of the nuclear reactor or be transported across country to some other temporary site. To my knowledge there is still no permanent disposal site for nuclear waste in the United States.

No they aren’t, for one and I wasn’t just talking about uranium but the refining of it - these definitely favor Russian in a war of resources.

Where are you getting that from?

I care. I care that we don’t make a rash decision for a potential short term solution. Why not ramp up solar / wind and other alternatives?

Define “clean”

Oh, and Nuclear Power plants are just plopped down? Your comment wreaks of pie in the sky, uneducated bullshit.

Solar and Wind don’t take nearly as much fuel, maintenance, zoning, upfront costs or be subject to international power plays like nuclear power.

But this is my argument against those who complain about Solar and Wind – those won’t kill you or destroy a location for hundreds of years if they break down and once they’re installed they don’t have to be fed by more mining, or anything else. Just wind and sun.

…and how long does it take for a nuclear power plant to be zoned, and constructed? …and where’s the fuel coming from? It isn’t thin air.

Why do I feel like the call for more nuclear power has just been another sneaky ass ploy by Russia to use resources as a source for power?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/08/03/niger-coup-the-long-arm-of-russia-and-the-politics-of-uranium/23879d0e-31b5-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html

Edit: yup. Thanks for convincing me.

I think it was in a Jon Stewart interview about Trump that mentioned how surprisingly large he is when first meeting him. It kind of goes to explain how he can dominate a room - I worked the first season of the Apprentice as a driver, so I wasn’t on set with him, but I’ve seen him on the street (with his bodyguards) and I believe he’s 6’3" … I don’t believe he weighs anything under 270lbs though.

– I couldn’t help but see it right away.

As a time traveler, I just came back from the future, and he didn’t present Shit!

I just think it ultimately sounds like a lousy c-grade 3rd party app. Then again, Mastodon isn’t much better. At least Reddit is basically witty.

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it … as much as I hated the name Google+