baix777

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Comment · 2 years ago

The gun nuts have convinced so many people there is only one way to read the 2nd amendment.

"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment

Comment · 2 years ago

Then the music focused tidal.com maybe be for you. They claim to send a higher percentage of revenue to the artists.

Comment · 3 years ago

Also, the learning curve on wind and solar is so much faster than nuclear.

Comment · 3 years ago

Tidal pays more for the artist and has a higher quality streaming option if that matters to you. Qobuz is another good artist friendly stream that historically paid the most to artists but it has a bit smaller catalog than Tidal.

Comment · 4 years ago

I would be more accurate to say parts of the planet will become hostile to human life that currently are not. India, for example, will have human shattering heat waves. And it is hard to live in a city when it is underwater.

Comment · 4 years ago

However, by the middle of the 16th century supplies of wood were beginning to fail in Britain and the use of coal as a domestic fuel rapidly expanded.[10]: 22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining#:~:text...

Similar comments here about the lack of wood driving the use of coal.

https://industrialrevolution.org.uk/coal-mines-industrial-re...

And:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24953925

Comment · 4 years ago

Nuclear needs subsidies due to a long history of large cost overruns and other issues.

https://energypost.eu/how-profitable-is-an-investment-in-nuc...

And France, with many Nuclear plants, has recently had issues keeping the plants up. Many of the most problematic plants are newer ones.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-3939/frances-energy-woes-wo...

The reality is economies of scale have kicked in for solar and wind energy in a way they never can for nuclear. We are at the point where it makes sense, at times, to overprovision renewals to ensure enough supply.

The issue with renewables is storage, of course. But that problem looks to be more solvable than cost effective nuclear, a problem which we have not solved in over 50 years. One can say if we were only smarter we could make nuclear more cost effective, which is probably true. But we built a nuclear power plant where a tsunami occurred in the past, only to find it occurred again, so we aren't that smart. The issue with nuclear is everything has to be right for it to be cost effective and safe, and nuclear is too complex for humans to consistently do this.