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[–] solo@kbin.earth 11 points 6 months ago

Well what happens in a war or apocalypse

I don't think you need to go that far. Accidents happen regularly in all industries. Here is a list of some that have been public:

List of nuclear power accidents by country wiki

[–] solo@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

Building large reactors isn’t economically attractive, so maybe SMRs could help with that.

It looks like this is not the case, at least by reading the following:

Some advocates misleadingly claim that SMRs are more efficient than large ones because they use less fuel. In terms of the amount of heat generated, the amount of uranium fuel that must undergo nuclear fission is the same whether a reactor is large or small. And although reactors that use coolants other than water typically operate at higher temperatures, which can increase the efficiency of conversion of heat to electricity, this is not a big enough effect to outweigh other factors that decrease efficiency of fuel use.

From Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

If you have a source that claims otherwise, please share.

[–] solo@kbin.earth 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Now that you mentioned maps, I thought of sharing the United Nations one of this region, from September 2023.
It includes details of Isreal's perimeter fence and shows the few entry points to Gaza, as well as some other chilling details on how Israel controls the state of Palestine.

Btw Gaza and the West Bank are Palestine. The State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 143 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, just not by the traditional colonialists (US, Israel, most EU, Australia) and a few more. "Devide-and-conquer" is the name of the game.

[Here are included some more maps, with recent & scary details from UN of the region]

[–] solo@kbin.earth 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just a clarification. The term “Zionism” was first coined by the Viennese writer, Nathan Birnbaum in 1885.

[Source: United Nations - Historical timeline on the question of Palestine]

[–] solo@kbin.earth 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

According to some other* Jewish people:

Jewish Voice for Peace - Our approach to Zionism

While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations, systematically separating Palestinians from their homes, land, and each other. Zionism, in practice, has resulted in massacres of Palestinian people, ancient villages and olive groves destroyed, families who live just a mile away from each other separated by checkpoints and walls, and children holding onto the keys of the homes from which their grandparents were forcibly exiled.

(* I use the word "other" because jewish zionists are super active in the relevant wiki pages. See relevant video: Former Israel PM Naftali Bennett at a wikipedia editing instruction event)

[–] solo@kbin.earth 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"You take some flour. We made a floating pier for you."

"And you take 1 billion dollars in arms to kill those you starve to death."

[–] solo@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

There is this conversation about nuclear power that bugs me. The downvoting part in this section motivated me enough to talk about the following.

The way I see things humanity does not have an energy issue, industries do. We don't need more energy to heat our homes, for example. More energy is needed for the industries to be able to expand. So I don't understand why this SMR "adventure" is so well perceived by the public or even environmentalists.

We know that businesses, corporations etc care only about their monetary profit, and not about the environment or humans. Governments take tones of money to enforce these kind of policies worldwide. Some bribes have even evolved to taxable salaries.

Why are people so eager to defend SMR like it's a solution? It's like pretending that the problem is not related to the eternal growth model of capitalism. No?

As you can tell, I cannot see an ecological solutions withing capitalism. Is there anyone who can? If yes, how would those solutions bypass or change the eternal growth model, to a sustainable one?

I might need to change my point of view, this is why I shared this rant.

[–] solo@kbin.earth 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I'm kinda surprised the number is as low as 500, considering 35k have been killed in total, by all reports.

If you take into consideration that the West Bank is not the in this "war", how does this number sound like?

[–] solo@kbin.earth 3 points 6 months ago

Israeli independence itself is not identical with the Nakba

Please tell me more about this. But -god forbid- do not take a look at the Jewish Voice for Peace link provided above.

[–] solo@kbin.earth -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your answer is a conversation stopper and I will respect that.

[–] solo@kbin.earth 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Socialist countries? Of course definitions vary, so which ones are you referring to?

Also neo-libs don't want any state interference on business, unless it involves bailing them out with tones of money. So which capitalist country will do otherwise with so much lobbying going on?

 

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