Zagorath

Zagorath , vor 15 Stunden an Memes in But who of you remembers the Geneva Convention

He's a soccer player and he disagrees with the ref's decision. What more context do you need?

Soccer players are infamously fucking divas.

Zagorath , vor 2 Tagen an Memes in We are all gonna die

The parking couldn't be much worse than that.

Zagorath , vor 2 Tagen an Memes in We are all gonna die

To save anyone else the Google: that's the car the main characters of Supernatural drive.

Zagorath , vor 8 Tagen an Memes in Checkmate Valve

I dunno if it's "family sharing" or some other thing, but I can play games from my sister's library through some means that I set up a couple of years ago.

Zagorath , vor 9 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

Nobody wants energy stored for months. Whatever storage is used needs to get through temporary decreases in efficiency. In places that use solar, that means from one afternoon to the next morning. In places that use wind, it means until the wind picks up. We're talking storage on the order of tens of hours at the most.

Zagorath , vor 9 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

The fantastic thing about renewables is how much they lend themselves to a less centralised model. Solar collector? Sure, why not‽ Rooftop solar on people's houses? You bet! Geothermal? If local conditions are favourable to it, absolutely!

Instead of a small number of massive power plants that only governments or really large corporations can operate individuals can generate the power for themselves, or companies can offset their costs by generating a little power, or cities can operate a smaller plant to power what operations in their city aren't handled by other means. It's not a one-size-fits-all approach.

This contrasts with nuclear. SMRs could theoretically do the same thing, but haven't yet proven viable. And traditional plants just put out way too much power. They're one-size-fits-all by definition, and only have the ability to operate alongside other modes with the other modes filling in a small amount around the edges.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

Nuclear doesn’t mean anti-renewable, both can exist.

Not easily, for the reasons explained in my reply to @Frokke.

The people who I talk to who are pro nuclear seem very well informed

I doubt it, because the science itself is against nuclear. Evidence says it would be too expensive and take too long to deliver compared to renewables.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

You can't cut the red tape. The red tape is why we're able to say nuclear is safe.

the weird part is most people do think nuclear fusion plants are a good thing and can solve stuff. But they have almost all of the downsides nuclear fission plants have in terms of red tape, complexity and cost

Huh? Nuclear fusion doesn't have any downsides or upsides. Because it doesn't exist. We've never been able to generate net power with fusion. (No, not even that story from a couple of years ago, which only counted as 'input' a small fraction of the total energy used overall. It was a good development, but just one small step on the long journey to it being practical.)

Being anti-nuclear was a poor stance to have 20, 30 years ago. At that time, renewables weren't cost effective enough to be a big portion of our energy generation mix, and we should have been building alternatives to fossil fuels since back then if not earlier. But today, all the analysis tells us that renewables are far cheaper and more effective than nuclear. Today, being pro-nuclear is the wrong stance to take. It's the anti-science stance, which is why it has seen a recent rise among right-wing political parties and media organisations.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

First, no, that's not what I said. If you're only going to be arguing in bad faith like that this will be the last time I engage with you.

Second, baseload power is in fact a myth. And it becomes even worse when you consider the fact that nuclear doesn't scale up and down in response to demand very well. In places with large amounts of rooftop solar and other distributed renewables, nuclear is especially bad, because you can't just tell everyone who has their own generation to stop doing that, but you also don't want to be generating more than is used.

Third, even if you did consider it necessary to have baseload "until we have adequate storage", the extremely long timelines it takes to get from today to using renewables in places that don't already have it, spending money designing and building nuclear would just delay the building of that storage, and it would still end up coming online too late.

I used to be a fan of nuclear. In 2010 I'd have said yeah, we should do it. But every time I've looked into it over the last 10 years especially, I've had to reckon with the simple fact that all the data tells us we shouldn't be building nuclear; it's just an inferior option to renewables.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

Safe, sure. Efficient? Not even close.

It's far, far more expensive than renewable energy. It also takes far, far longer to build a plant. Too long to meet 2030 targets even if you started building today. And in most western democracies you wouldn't even be able to get anything done by 2040 if you also add in political processes, consultation, and design of the plant.

There's a reason the current biggest proponents of nuclear energy are people and parties who previously were open climate change deniers. Deciding to go to nuclear will give fossil fuel companies maximum time to keep doing their thing. Companies which made their existence on the back of fossil fuels, like mining companies and plant operators also love it, because it doesn't require much of a change from their current business model.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Memes in The British be like

By jove you've got it! I must make haste and alert the Director of this ingenuous new strategum at once!

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Europe in New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist

denying Israel’s right to exist, i.e. antizionism, including the Slogan: ‘From the river to the sea – Palestina shall be free’, counts as antisemitism

Yes, if you accept the definition of antisemitism preferred by the Israeli government, that's true.

It doesn't make it true in the real world.

Zagorath , vor 10 Tagen an Europe in New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist

by any definition

The IHRA's definition does, so you can't say "any".

That said, the IHRA definition was pretty specifically created to be zionist and a shield for Israel, and should be rejected on those grounds.

Zagorath , vor 11 Tagen an Memes in Hey she tried her best ok

In Australia I don't think teachers are underpaid, but schools are absolutely underfunded. Which can often mean teachers end up spending personal money on school resources, which means their actual effective pay isn't as good as it looks from the outside.

They also work way longer hours than is reflected in their contract.

Zagorath , vor 11 Tagen an Memes in Hey she tried her best ok

stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

Next time don't buy squishy dicks for work colleagues.