Nuclear Fission isn't cost effective ... _unless_ you price in the full eco-balance of electricity production. Then the numbers look significantly different and fission could just be a real thing once again. At least until renewables and energy storage have gained significant portions of the energy mix.

The key part is pricing in the eco-balance of electricity and all other forms of energy and processed goods before doing anything else, like rebuilding fission. Until you do that, ecological damage will always be an unpriced externality and the market price will never reflect the real damage done and your math on fission will always come up short. Example: Meat and Smartphones would be roughly 4x in cost of what they cost today if the eco-balance were priced in correctly. And that's all we would need to do to fix our environmental problems in record speed.

... in more detail.

EOM

US college is a joke, especially to young men. Raw deals left, right and center. You're more likely to get your life ruined by a guilty-until-proven-innocent sexual harassment accusation than finding a mate "for life" that isn't saddled with obscene amounts of debt like you are, ready to bail out once you've paid through the nose for both of you.

US colleges now trying to be "places of connection" for young men has to be the biggest joke of todays age of misandry and man-bashing.

If I were a young man in the US, college would be the very last place I'd be looking for connection these days. And for just about everything else - highly specialized degrees in engineering, CompSci, physics, chemistry and such aside - I'd steer just as clear from US colleges. As a regular young guy without huge amounts of money to burn you're way better off learning and working a trade than going to college these days.

Laughably overpriced US colleges are going the way of the Dodo, and they're feeling it. That's what this recent change of mind is all about, nothing more.

we can't plan an economy nor can we control it. control is an illusion, top down dictatorships don't work, no matter how the fascists pretend they do, same for government, when it's small, local and democratic, fine but big and autocratic is bad, just look at Trump, Putin and all the rest of the murderous tyrants. Money is power and power corrupts, people clearly cannot be trusted with power.

people don't want want forced work requirements, yet just look around at the current exploitive 'economy', yes boss, no boss, right away boss, this is indentured servitude and we live in a corporatocracy

we already have what we fear but lies keep people from seeing reality

... and that somebody as omnipresent as an LLM-bot would influence those way more effectively than a regular human should be of no big surprise.

The solution is easy and obvious. Pay people fairly. Tax people fairly. Pay should be in ownership and profit sharing. Taxes should be paid on accumulate capital and net worth. Get rid of corporations. Oh, and nationalize the entire legal and medical 'industries', our health and the law should never be for sale to the highest bidder, nor are they enterprise in any way. Do away with classism and class discrimination by guaranteeing fair and equal access to capital. Stop letting the rich charge the rest of us usurious interest rates and stop letting them exploit us.

We can't have capitalism when 10% of people own 90% of all the capital because that only leaves 10% of all capital for the 90% of the rest of us. It's not enough capital, we are all poor as in undercapitalized. This is why everything is broken.

Just what US for-profit college needs. Great.

... complete retard in that way.

Disclaimer: German here.

German carmakers today are precisely at where US car-makers where in the mid to late 60ies: aloof, disconnected and arrogant, relying to much on brand-recognition to pull off non-sense like planned obsolescence or subscriptions for your heated seats.

Thank you for pointing out these "minor details" of this "nuclear-fission-including-all-of-its-problems on steoroids".

They're still making DVD drives. They're just mostly USB now. Ripping is pushbutton easy these days. No messing around with getting a copy of DeCSS and such.

... of a thing to begin with.

It came to fame when some Java guys finally discovered convention over configuration, built yet another web framework around it and bedazzled the world with a 15 minute presentation of Ruby on Rails. The marketing of the ruby on rails FOSS project was the true genius behind all the hype. However, Ruby itself was still struggling with basics such as utf 8 and other details, so people stuck with php, Python or whatever else they were using at the time.

Rails never really caught on in a larger scale. If it had, Ruby would be a thing today. I think it's safe to say that TypeScript has taken its place.

privilege knows no bounds, greed is insatiable, these upper class people will destroy this civilization just like they have so many others

but classism does, this is exactly what happens when the the upper class has corrupted our society, greed is insatiable and destructive

https://volla.online/

I'd say the similarities in name aren't by accident. I wish Jolla good luck they had a nice product but 400 euros for a crow funded phone from a company know for it's volatility probably doesn't inspire confidence in long term viability. Just saying.