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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • That’s wrong, nuclear doesn’t equal zero CO2, not even close. There are no emissions from producing electric power, but tons of emissions building the plants and reactors, mining the fissile materials (which in large come from Russia, btw), transporting the materials, etc.
    Granted, if you’re calculating that into renewables, there are emissions, too, but far less per kWh.
    Also, nuclear’s fucking expensive.
    And the “hurt themselves in confusion”-move wasn’t to shut down the NPPs (it was originally planned to phase out of coal and nuclear while building up renewables and using gas during the transition), it was to stall the phaseout of coal, expand on gas relying on Russia while halting the expansion of renewables and utterly destroying the PV industry. That’s what a conservative government does to you. Thanks, Merkel.

    Edit: fck autocorrect




  • IMHO you’re kinda right. There’s a trade war going on between the US and China, and data is damn valuable so it’s just logical to prevent the enemy access to your own citizens’ data, specially since we know how it’s used to manipulate elections (Russia’s been proven guilty of it for the 2016 US elections), but also Facebook was at least paid to do so.
    Now I do agree with you in that the ban is probably due to the wrong reasons though. But it kinda doesn’t matter to me.

    Yet I am not US citizen either, I’m an EU citizen, so my opinion on US politics ain’t quite relevant. I just wished we would do the same here in Europe and more consequently. Both the US and China do have laws that require companies to hand over there user data to their respective country’s agencies, which is technically illegal under GDPR for EU citizens’ data (they shouldn’t be able to leave the EU). So we should ban all social media that stores data on servers belonging to US or Chinese companies (leaving basically only fediverse instances on european servers).