Coal decreased, but it's still a pretty large share. Yet coal could be zero right now if they had kept nuclear.

https://slashdot.org/comments....
"Electricity production in Germany in 2010 from lignite 146 TWh, coal 117 TWh, nuclear 141 TWh, gas 89 TWh and renewables 105 TWh.
Electricity production in Germany in 2022 from lignite 116 TWh, coal 64 TWh, nuclear 35 TWh, gas 80 TWh and renewables 254 TWh."

That 106 TWh of capacity would be more than enough for current coal, or almost all of lignite (which is much worse).

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Trump printed TONS of money while he was in office to prop up the economy.

Guess what one of the easiest ways to cause rampant inflation is?

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Nokia originally called Passive Optical Relay Network but apparently someone already trademarked it.

I understand the end-of-life issues. These are caused by chronic underfunding, and France is a perfect example right next door that it isn't a necessary evil with nuclear power. Any infrastructure that is not invested in will age, that is just nature.

However, it's very disingenuous to claim that that's all that happened. Germany shut down those plants before their end-of-life. This was practically like a gift wrapped in a ribbon for Vladimir Putin.

Germany has sent more money to Russia for natural gas payments than it ever sent in weapons aid to Ukraine. But if they had kept those plants online, they could have shut off imports the very day of the invasion.

I suppose it was a good investment on the Soviet Union's part to fund green movements in the 70s. A tactic that Russia still does, given its resounding past success.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/...

By the way, here is an article from 2019, well before the current escalation of the invasion, predicting the dangers of shutting down coal and nuclear in Germany because of strengthening Putin's hand. I'm sure there are many others:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/...

In other words, if only they'd kept their goddamned nuclear power plants running, right now they could be:

- Burning no lignite
- Burning no coal and only half the lignite
- Sending zero cents to the Russian war machine still be burning less coal and lignite

Even if they hadn't built a single new plant, like Finland just did and France and the UK are currently doing.

What is wrong with people?

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Does that include heat bulbs? Lots of small animals are kept warm through incandescent heat bulbs. When my dad was alive, we used them all the time on the farm.

Herzberg stepped into the street 378 feet (115 m) out from the car. The stopping distance at the posted speed limit was 89 feet (27 m). As a human driver in that situation, you are required to stop. The safety driver, who should have been attentive, was in fact charged with negligent homicide and is set for trial this year. Uber settled with Herzberg's daughter, which they wouldn't have done had there not been sufficient grounds for legal action.

The car's emergency braking and driver alerting software were disabled, but the self-driving software cycled through multiple interpretations of the scene until 1.3 seconds before the collision before recognizing the need to brake. This would not have been enough to avoid hitting Herzberg, although braking at this point may have made the collision non-fatal. In the end, we don't really know whether she would have survived had the software been engaged.

Was Herzberg careless? Of course. But given the disparity in weight and strength between a human and a vehicle, the law and sheer common decency require drivers to be attentive and brake when a pedestrian enters the street.

She didn't just blindly step out in front of the car. There was enough distance that a human driver would have caught it. Part of the issue is that the self-driving was disengaged and the driver paid to pay attention wasn't paying attention. It's doubtful based on the car's software whether it would have correctly braked, but it's also academic: it was never given the chance.

In other words, it was not the pedestrian's fault, it was the driver's fault, and the self-driving mechanism was completely disengaged.

> If they said "I successfully pirated all the movies that Universal Pictures released in 2018," for example, it might be different from saying "I think pirates are cool." Flag as Inappropriate Saying you did something on Slashdot is not proof that you actually did that thing. You are not under oath or compelled to speak the truth here. I am a lawyer in real life (and in the odd commercial), so I know what I'm talking about.

BTW, I am not a lawyer, and the only commercial I made was a promo for a play, and if you want some beachfront property in the Florida Everglades, I'm open to getting sent some gift cards for it.

Carbon fiber sounds kewl and high tech and expensive.

This is a complete misconception. Although rare, some antibiotics can be effective antiparasitics, given that protozoa and bacteria share some cellular pathways. Metronidazole (Flagyl) and TMP-SMX (Bactrim) are great examples, the former by causing double-stranded DNA breaks, the latter by inhibiting folate synthesis which is needed for DNA replication.

Doxycycline is first-line for malaria prophylaxis but not as a monotherapy because it is only effective in the first cycle of Plasmodia infection. However, in this prophylactic role it is very effective, and used by hundreds of thousands of travellers every year. Calling it akin to paracetamol is gravely misinformed.

Source: I'm a third-year US allopathic medical student.

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