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> storing and protecting waste that lasts 20,000 years

Earth core contains gazilions of spent nuclear fuel. Just burying spent nuclear fuel would not make anything worse.

But it is suboptimal, because spent nuclear fuel can be used in the future reactors.

I don't understand why people repeat this statement about spent fuel again and again why there's no problem.

> which is the greater evil?

In the short term the greater evil is people not getting vaccinated.

In the long term the greater evil is erasure of free speech.

> Parker and 8chan were pretty adamant about supporting literal hate speech

Parler (?) did not support (!) it. They moderated hate speech. Maybe not 100% efficiently, but in response to some examples in media Parler AFAIR posted similar hate speech examples on Twitter, which Twitter failed to moderate out.

Not fighting literal hate speech was not their policy. And no moderation is 100% efficient.

What you are saying about Parler is false (and defamation).

Except in this case it is not emergency. Same as flu each year is not an emergency.

> Production will shift towards serving those with wealth

That's right. Serving those who created wealth.

It is already happening everywhere. Grocery store cashiers are serving while collar workers.

> That is there best argument to fight now for good conditions, the more robots in the future the less leverage to negotiate.

Humans in warehouse don’t have leverage and will have even less leverage in the future regardless of what they would be able to negotiate now.

> Who is going to buy products?

People making robots (designing, configuring, installing, fixing etc).

Or people doing service work like nannies, teachers, massage therapists, waiters, diving instructors, receptionists etc. All the work which can be automated, but humans are still preferable than robots.

> unless something changes

People will be replaced by robots, this is what will change.

It is already happening. McDonalds is canonical example of that.

Moderation of discussions in issue tracker for example. Some are quite non-constructive (e.g. 100s of "+1" comments).

Ashley Williams twitter was public, and it is private now. Seems like it is about her again.

Sounds like a successful political power grab by someone in the core team.

> nearly led to physical violence, racial slurs, and more

Nearly led == did not lead. So nothing happened?

OK, lots of downvotes and no replies. HN becomes very toxic these days.

> Renewables need to be combined with power sources that can be turned on and off quickly and on demand.

No they don’t. Wind and solar energy output can be very well predicted for hours and days ahead.

> and yours seems to be an attitude of blaming only the individual.

Yes. Because I like to think I'm living among grown ups, not among children where nanny state is needed.

> Obese? just a lazy fatso.

Not everyone of course (sometimes it is disease), but most obese people are.

It is not necessarily bad. Maybe someone decided they are happy being obese, lazy and enjoy sugar in food, that's their choice and their responsibility.

> The impact of large corporations optimising consumer behavior is not zero, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money on it.

And grownup adults are responsible to recognize these tricks and don't use it when it harms them.

Same as with Coca-cola, which also does millions of these tricks affecting consumer behavior. I drink Coke occasionally, and partly because of their ads everywhere, otherwise maybe I'd drink more water. But I know when to stop.

Maybe it should be restricted. I personally think the ability to censor free speech and free expression for such companies should be restricted.

But destroy it? That'd be too much.

> There is nothing to be gained

There is. I pointed to a flaw in the argument.

> from being disrespectful or cruel to each other.

I'd say it is disrespectful to bring your own grief as an argument in a rational discussion. Keep your personal life out of discussing technical or political discussions.

> And we bring those emotions to everything we do.

No we don't. At least those of us who have grown up.

Thank you making an assessment of my character knowing virtually nothing about me.

This is not an emotional support forum. If you don’t want to have your relationship discussed, don’t bring it here, that’s it.

> idk i'd destroy facebook

Sorry to hear that. I'd prefer to live in society where there's rule of law and basic freedoms, including freedom to conduct business even if I or someone else disagrees with how that business operates.

I wouldn't want to destroy any legal business.

This is an attitude of blaming everyone else but yourself.

Obese? Hate Coca-Cola. Lung cancer? Hate Philip Morris. Broke a leg in car crash? Hate BMW. Depressed? Hate Facebook.

Facebook is just a tool. How you use it, it is your responsibility.

You are talking like your father is not a free thinking adult not capable of forming his own world view.

I hate to say it, but if your relationship is ruined, it's not Facebook to blame.

I didn't see any pedantry, and nobody here needs saving (except from themselves).

That's quite emotional response to something quite unrelated to your life.

You don't like a company X, you don't use its products, that's it.

Hate is destructive.

The company where you purchase stuff probably also has deaths at workplace, but it doesn’t get into news.

Under SH, there was a total information blockade, internet was not available, people simply could not know what is happening outside of Iraq except for what is provider by government sources.

Now internet is more or less available in Iraq.

No you go and check.

This is a silly argument.

Compared to life under SH, yes.

> Well, citizens of Iraq tend to disagree with you.

A story of single person is too little evidence to claim it for all citizens of Iraq or even for majority of them.

People need to live free, not to be held slaves under the least evil dictator. I’m sorry for all commenters here who value pity lives more than freedom.

Some do https://www.defundbbc.uk/

I don’t pay for TV license (out of principles) and I’m annoyed I cannot legally watch SpaceX launches live on YouTube.

No it is taking steps against independent media.