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Let me preface this that I’m not a huge fan of nuclear, but I do like factual information.

Could NOT get the nuclear power plant in Georgia off the ground for how long?

If you’re talking about Vogtle, it took about 13 years and 14 years. (two reactors)

Did it ever get finished?

Yes. If you want to be specific the original two reactors were finished in 2008. The new work was for the other two reactors. That’s what took 14 years. Of the two new reactors, one started providing commercial power for the first time in June of 2023. The second new reactor only started providing commercial power in Feb of 2024.

But when corporate wants it just fucking happens 🤡

Different type of power plants between what is being discussed for Google and what was put in at Vogtle in Georgia.

Vogtle was completing construction of an existing older design. Think of this like a bespoke tailored suit. It is crazy expensive, and only fits you.

What most of these tech companies are going for is called Small Modular Reactors (SMR). Think of this as like buying a ready-to-wear suit off the rack. Its not nearly as fancy or as impressive (usually much smaller power generation), but its not custom made so its much cheaper.

“Donald Trump says to vote on January 5th. The liberal media is telling you you should vote in Nov instead. Who do you believe?” /s

Why does it take so much to ignite protests in America when other countries are more prone to protest?

Individualist vs collectivist cultural differences? Lack of a good social safety net is likely another reason. When are you going to protest? People are crazy busy just working enough hours to feed and house themselves and their families. Maybe you can plan your protesting between in the 30 minutes before you need to pick up your kid from school/daycare before you take them home and start cooking dinner for them. Are you going to skip work to protest? You could lose your job and then you can’t feed and house your family.

I’d also say that here in the USA protest need massive involvement by the populace to even get noticed. Very rarely does a single issue resonate with a large enough group of people to get critical mass for outside attention.

What does it take for Americans to come together and to want more from their community leaders.

I can’t name a single person in my area I’d consider a “community leader”.

Also, Hell has frozen over, Geraldo Rivera endorses Kamala Harris.

I was sure you were being sarcastic. You were not. source

“Ex-Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera endorses Kamala Harris over ‘sore loser’ Donald Trump”

“In a lengthy social media post, Rivera called Trump “a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. This is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.””

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I’m agreeing with @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social that it sounds like this is just a framing thing.

Example:

Problem framing = “The rent is too damn high!”

Improvement framing = “Cost of rent needs to be made more affordable for renters”

Those are saying the same thing, but one is framed as a problem while the other is framed as an improvement is needed.

Its possible that Pakistan didn’t know how big it was. Not that I think they’d be altruistic about it now, but if its large enough it is a source of energy. Columbus Ohio taps the city landfill for methane extraction and uses it to fuel city busses and dump trucks. There’s even a surplus after that and that is sold at a profit to the city to local natural gas customers for heating etc. source

“Last year alone, landfill gas sold to Archaea Energy generated more than $3.5 million in revenue for SWACO [Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio], where it becomes a renewable energy source for Central Ohioans.”

It looks like Pakistan is a large methane importer: “Imports In 2022, Pakistan imported $4.58B in Petroleum Gas, becoming the 27th largest importer of Petroleum Gas in the world.”

source

If this landfill produces enough methane it would be worth it to tap it as an income/consumption stream by the local population. This satellite data may provide the number to show it would be worth doing this.

About 4 min. There’s a countdown on the screen after you pay and your order is being prepared.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d killed a few of the signers himself.

Judging from his COVID policies allowing it to run rampant, he did kill many of his own voters.

If the money is never spent for hurricane relief, then this is straight up fraud and possibly money laundering (depending on how the money is finally spent). However, there are likely legal time limits set, so they could distribute some funds at some distant time in the future to avoid prosecution.

We’ve already seen this play out nearly to the end with the “We build the Wall” graft. One participant is in prison for 4 years already. Steve Bannon’s trial for this crime is upcoming later this year. source

During his inaugural policy speech in both chambers of the Diet on Oct. 4, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba referred to wage hikes and labor shortages, pledging to realize pay increases exceeding inflation by raising each worker’s productivity, added value and income toward a positive cycle of pay raises and mitigation of understaffing.

This is a good start to improve the lives of what workers exist right now in the workforce. However, with an ever declining and aging population I don’t know if this will be a long term fix for the country. Japanese corporate work culture is famously toxic to the growth of families with obligatory overtime. Even fixing overnight this will leave a generational gap of 20 to 30 years. In that time without replacement workers from somewhere will further damage national economy making a recovery more difficult if/when the population recovers.

He also vowed to promote an improved environment for small to midsize businesses to increase wages.

Some substance around this would be helpful. Does that mean tax breaks? Government subsidies?

Probably easy for them to maintain

Agreed. I made the maintenance comment as to why pizza vending machines aren’t more widespread.

I think you’re joking, but in case you aren’t, the answer is: no. Digestion takes a surprising amount of energy from your body. You can either use that energy for running OR digestion, not both at the same time. If you are trying to full speed sprint after eating a meal, your parasympathetic nervous system would assume you’ve decided that running at top speed is more important and shut down digestion freeing up energy to use your muscles for running. It might also decide that having the undigested food in you may be a risk, and cause you to throw up.

I would imagine the requirement would be high foot traffic. Food has an incredibly short shelf life compared to other vending machine contents. That pizza vending machine likely has to be serviced/refilled/cycled every 2 or 3 days. The cupcake ATM would be slightly longer. Most of the cupcake ATMs are attached to the cupcake bakeries, but allow customers to buy from the ATM outside of business hours or when the line of customer is really long inside.

Bro, do you even vend?

Pizza vending machine in Seattle:

Cupcake ATM in Beverly Hills (and 3 other cities I’ve been in including Orlando FL and Las Vegas):

If they’re indeed peacekeepers, then they failed their job miserably. As it stands, their only usefulness is being human shields for Hezbollah.

How many Hezbollah are you saying were in the UN base when Israeli tanks broke through the gates?

He represents radical change, a concentration of government power in the executive branch. Sweeping changes under the guise of helping “real Americans” and harming the usual scapegoats (immigrants, gangs, socialists).

While we know Trump is a conman, I would understand this as a rationale for those that didn’t believe he was a conman, except we’ve already HAD 4 years of a Trump Presidency. If he was promising these great reforms for the little guy, why didn’t he do any of them in the 4 years he was in office? Why do people think this time will be different?

Why are are even calling them UN peacekeepers if they prevent violence from one side, but allow it on the other?

Yeah that laundry list of excuses reads like “throw everything against the wall and see what sticks” instead of legitimate concerns for the electoral process.

Contract law.

You know that “Terms and Conditions” you agree to all the time that binds you to things. It binds them too to those terms. The terms I posted above were what both car buyers and Tesla agreed to at the time of purchase.