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E.g. usually, the proponents ignore the risks. The day before Fukushima they would have said, Tchernobyl cannot happen here. The next castastrophe comes always from a direction nobody anticipated. In the 2010s CDU in Germany delayed modernizing the german power grid by a huge amount which the greens could not catch up entirely during their recent term in the government (as part of a difficult coalition). This power grid is now a bottleneck to install and use intelligently more solar, wind and batteries (new solar already compensated for the phase out of the last 3 nuclear power plants in the early 2020s). CDU is again in power and again doing counterproductive measures to slow down modernization of the energy system. There is no need for nuclear but for faster modernization of the grid and for more renewable energy production and storage capacities.
Never give them something for free, not one minute of my precious lifetime.
They seem to me as 'friendly' as the aliens in the "Mars attacks" movie.
For me, it was so easy to think about loops that way, with an EXIT/condition in the middle of the loop body.
OTH, Elon ... maybe believing that you can game the system helps sometimes ... (significantly)
We already need to change a lot (carbon free and many other problem areas) and like the Apollo program was a challenge for engineering we could start an effort in the domains of architecture and arts (and maybe others) to build something better, spiritual etc. ...
It's not only the benefit of physical exercise which often makes riding a bike more enjoyable.