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Cake day: December 5th, 2023

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  • I haven’t watched the video - so I’m going on what is said above, but its like these billionaires are not seeing people as human. They see that after Hiroshima people live in the city but cannot understand that those people weren’t fungible. We didn’t replace them - they are different people.

    Two other small points, but first a caveat - I’m very pro civil nuclear power.

    It simply isn’t possible for any nuclear power plant to explode like a nuclear bomb. That can’t happen - like my car contains an engine but can’t fly like a plane. There have been nuclear leaks and chemical explosions in nuclear plants - these are bad. However, they are very different things from what happened to Japan.

    Modern nuclear weapons would have much higher yields and probably fallout. Here’s a terrifying tool for the morbidly curious:

    https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/







  • fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksYo, Elon
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    An individual giving money to good causes will always be limited by the fact that it is based on the whims/biases of that individual. So, it is possible to see that some billionaires like Bill Gates and (dare I say it…) J K Rowling give substantial amounts to charities - we can also see that they are donating to personal pet causes. Society already has a way for rich people to give to a structured system that (attempts to) give(s) out the money to a wide variety of causes - its called tax and the system is government! If these people who society has allowed to become so wealthy just paid taxes and supported a proper, fair government then they wouldn’t need charities… but then they wouldn’t get to name buildings after themselves.




  • There is an intrinsic micro-mort rate for working on a roof. If you take this number and the number of hours that are spent working at height fitting solar panels (I got this from industry data a few years ago) its then fairly easy to put the annual deaths from fitting solar panels far above that of nuclear. These deaths are a ‘tragic accident’, rather than systemic so…

    [edit: I can’t find a value for professionals anymore. This link mentions 1micromort per person on a ladder at home] [edit: clarity]