They'll repeat the same things over and over again: Technology today is nothing like it was in the past; A Chernobyl-like event could never happen today, modern regulations make events like this impossible, etc etc.

And despite stories like this one and others like it, they'll cling desperatly to their conviction that technology today has solved all the problems of uranium/plutonium fission reactors and that this form of energy is totally safe nowadays and is the only solution to climate change.

The thing is, none of the problems that lead to the piss-poor decisions that were made in the past were technological in nature. They were human-nature in nature. And humans today are exactly the same (if not actually worse) than they were all those decades ago.

Dunning-Kruger at work.

And the rate at which people who have no idea what they are talking about express their "opinion" accelerates.

If you're truly interested in astrophysics may I suggest Rebecca (Becky) Smethurst's youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/drbeck...

She's an astrophysicist working at Oxford who specializes in super massive black holes. She's also a great communicator who can explain clearly complex concepts without ever dumbing them down. Her channel is a treasure trove of information about astrophysics and cosmology in general.

Plus she's cute. And funny.

Did I mention she was cute ?

Will he have the balls to tell Trump to fuck off with his Lake America man-child bullshit ?

Point taken.

It's because he's a twelve year old child living in an adult body. And so are the 77 millions shitstains who voted for him twice and are still supporting and defending him to this day.

A twelve year old child with the nuclear codes.

Of all the potential and perfectly valid candidates for the republican presidency, they had to chose this miserable child-raping sack of pus.

Nor the nuclear codes...

So, you're basically refuting my refutation of your point by simply repeating your point ?

Oh, the irony...

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/...
https://www.latimes.com/busine...
How many waymos are out there right now ? How long have they been on the street ? The only reason waymos haven't killed any school kid so far is pure luck. You would know that if you had payed any attention in statistics class. "Nothing bad has happened in the handfull of times I've done this thing, so nothing bad ever will" is not a valid argument.

I hope your perfect understanding of statistics will bring you confort when someone you care about is seriously hurt or, God forbid, killed by one of those "self-driving" cars running what is essentially beta software, and no-one is willing to take responsibility for it, espcecially none of those billionnaire tech bros.

Anyway, you seem way too emotionnally involved in waymos for some reason, so I'll end the discussion here.

Whenever self-driving cars are criticized, the standard argument served by the defenders is almost always "Yeah but self-driving cars today already drive better than the average human driver", which, to a certain point, might very well be true.

But this argument falls flat under scrutiny. See, like most things concerning humans, the quality of human drivers follows a bell curve; There are a few superb drivers, a few shitty drivers, and most drivers are average. But with self-driving cars, all vehicules drive exactly the same way, since they all have the same software. If one of them zooms past a school bus with its stop signals on, they all do. So, for example, if self-driving cars today drive 10% better than the average driver, this also means that they all drive worse than 40% of human drivers out there.

To be clear: I'm all in favor of self-driving cars, even though I'm among those who criticize them regularly. I've been dreaming of self driving cars since I was a child, and as I'm getting older, I would hope that self-driving cars would allow me to keep my autonomy as my eyesight is getting weaker and my reflexes slower. What I'm saying is that the current approch for self-driving cars is the wrong approch, and the solution is not more sensors, 5G network everywhere, etc. Furthermore, I considers these vehicules, in their current state to be too dangerous to be on public roads.

But I'm sure the usual binary-thinking simpletons will simply put me in their little "against" box anyway, just like they do when I criticize the current technology of nuclear reactors, so who am I kidding.

FTFY.

A least part of it.

When your company is already on shaky grounds, you can always count on your legal team to deliver the coup de grâce.

I'm willing to bet that percentage is much higher now in Africa.

The only reason people like you are still alive today to be able to display their ignorance and cluelessness to the entire Internel is because people like me had the good sense to listen to people way smarter and more knowledgeable than you or me and follow their advice.

You're welcome.