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Comment Re:Nuclear power is the best option... (Score 2) 165

You need to enrich the stuff for it to be useful in a reactor (or for that matter, a weapon). You can't just shove the result back into the ground and expect it to be as benign as the naturally occurring stuff. Not to mention Plutonium and other nuclear waste, which you don't want anywhere near a water supply.

Comment Re:Nuclear power is the best option... (Score 2) 165

The bigger issue isn't the possibility of and potential costs of nuclear incidents. Rather, it is nuclear waste management.

As a power source it's competitive if you only factor in power production and rudimentary waste management like we're doing now. But that completely falls apart if you consider the future costs of storing the nuclear waste over hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

Comment Re:Culture of dismissiveness? (Score 1) 184

And so, going by your logic, it's not that bad because it also occurs elsewhere? How is that not dismissiveness?

It shouldn't be occurring elsewhere either. SV currently has the media's focus. Hopefully they'll embrace better ethics and become an example for other industries to follow.

(Or maybe they'll just no longer accept to give female entrepreneurs money. What a sorry world if that's the end game.)

Comment Cat food lobby (Score 4, Interesting) 177

The industrial cat food you find in stores is choke full of nutrients that are pointless for obligate carnivores. It's akin to feeding kids with cookies and candy bars on grounds that there's a bit of flour and nuts in them.

Not to mention the severe lack of water in the case of dry food. Cats get the bulk of their daily water intake through their food, and only partially compensate the lack of intake by drinking more if you give them dry food.

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