Not all old people are conservatives, and even the ones who are don't deserve to die.

The reaction was necessary and proportionate. The situation was fluid. Monitoring had been lost, so it was not known exactly how bad it was. Then containment buildings started exploding.

To this day, much of that area is not decontaminated. It's not safe to live there, unless you are very careful. Which in practice means children can't live there, the elderly can't live there, and anyone would be living on edge the whole time. Repeated attempts to decontaminate the area have failed, and there is no known solution, at any cost.

That's one of the reasons why nuclear power can't get insurance, and the government has to cover it.

with a quarter trillion than putting a shitload of people out of work.

Only if you simply ignore the people who died in the evacuation that resulted from it. Their lives matter too, at least to me.

We're all going to be plumbers. It's plumbers all the way down.

Actually the funny thing is we could all be pretty well off doing basically silly things like cutting each other's hair. Modern automation means we don't have to work nearly as hard as we do. But we would have to reorganize a lot of things and give up big cars and the suburbs most likely to get there. Definitely the suburbs. They don't have the population density to sustain the services they need. And if you do away with the suburbs I don't see where a big cars fit in.

It's a weird thing where we trade 50 hour work weeks and 10-hour a week commutes so we can have a pool party once a week and drive a $80,000 SUV. It doesn't seem worth it to me but I'm in the minority I guess.

The YouTube algorithm is extremely punishing. If you miss one of your regular uploads schedules then the algorithm ruthlessly punishes you and your views collapse. That's because a typical YouTuber even a popular one is going to have only about 30% of their viewers subscribed and even then YouTube doesn't always send notifications. A lot of them used to use Twitter to get the word out about new videos but Twitter is basically dead since Musk bought it...

On top of that you have a wide variety of trolls and scammers constantly trying to either steal your channel or take it down. If you get three copyright strikes meaning three people report that you infringed on their copyright that's it game over. Most professional YouTubers have a backup channel for just that purpose but that means maintaining two channels. You can't just copy your content to the other channel because you won't get views. You need the backup channel there soaking up some views and case your main channel gets taken down by a scammer.

And YouTube just does not give a fuck if you're a little channel gets taken down. Just about every single YouTube channel I know of has had their channel taken down at least once. The bigger ones create a little social media buzz and YouTube will eventually have a person respond. Their automated system will always side with whoever reported the copyright infringement no matter how ridiculous it is. If you're not big enough to create social media buzz when your channel goes down then you just lose your channel and that's it.

I understand why kids want to be YouTubers or tiktokers because when you're young celebrity looks fun and actual celebrity probably is like if you're a movie star or a rockstar or whatever but being a YouTuber is a miserable job. Especially in America without a proper healthcare system

I see your point, but it sounds like an expensive way to compensate for crap hazardous material handling.

The nuclear disaster killed people too. I don't really see the value in comparing the two anyway, both need to be addressed.

If you pay attention you're going to notice most of these aren't American. The ones that are are usually the skeezier ones that do a good job scamming their audiences. Think the kind of people that sell colonial silver.

With the American healthcare system being what it is it's very hard to work for yourself. You need to make a tremendous amount of money to afford access to healthcare. It's a drain on everybody that we don't really notice because we've been living with it for so long. Like if somebody put a 50 lb ball and chain on your legs when you were born and everybody had that same ball and chain at a certain point you wouldn't question it

The difference is that the copyright owners can't do much about a magnet link or The Pirate Bay, and even if they could there is no money to recover. Twitter, on the other hand, has a lot of money.

Twitter is already being sued for copyright infringement by music companies.

More relevant is the fact that they were only able to remove 90% of the long term dangerous material. If they can't separate the remaining 10% then either they have to store the whole lot anyway, or they have to very carefully examine every bit of waste, all different shapes and sizes, to determine what is safe and what isn't.

Also note that even if they remove 100% of the long lived stuff, the shorter term dangerous material is going to need to sit in a pool for decades before they can throw it in landfill.

Don't underestimate the damage done though. Whole towns displaced and ultimately lost, because attempts to decontaminate them failed. Lives ruined and not adequately compensated. Lots of farmers were badly hit too, losing land and having trouble selling their produce. Ditto the fishermen.

Total cost is looking like it will be around half a trillion Euros, but they have fallen behind their schedule for decommissioning the plant. NHK did a documentary about it on YouTube if you are interested in the problems they are facing.

Calling France's nuclear a success is ignoring the very large costs. Your link is flawed, it doesn't properly account for what the French have paid to keep their nuclear programme going. It's hard to say for sure because the civilian side is tangled up with the military side, but it's so wildly expensive and unprofitable that they had to nationalize the operator, EDF, some years back. EDF has been saying that any new plants take a minimum of 20 years to build, after all the legal and planning issues are resolved.

France is now seeing power shortages due to the hot weather forcing nuclear plants offline, and they are regularly seeing low demand for the power due to cheaper renewables in neighbouring countries (their grids are all interconnected).

To be fair it has got their CO2 emissions down, but that was then and this is now. The fleet is reaching end of life and getting more expensive to keep running. They are going to have to decide how much more money to throw at it, when there are better alternatives. My guess is quite a lot, because it's critical to their weapons programme.

8k followers isn't even that much. My shitty YouTube channel where I walk around places has over 1,500.

It's more to do with the type of content and how monetizable it is. It sounds like she has brands paying her for some coverage.

Yes, it's worth remembering that the German constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and the ECHR also guarantees freedom of expression.