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Edit: Disregard. I have the 13, not the 12.

~~Normal laptop formfactor. You can have a touch screen as an option but it doesn't do the full 360 fold round into a tablet.

I own one and the hinge goes 180.

It's an excellent laptop, I grabbed one when the first AMD board was available and it runs Fedora flawlessly and has windows on an SSD when I need it.~~

To exclude certain Semites from the definition of "antisemitism" based on religion...

The definition of antisemitism is anti Semite.

As long as we come across people playing language games while excusing a genocide.

It' could be reasoned it's not accurate to call Israel's actions "antisemitic" as that has been chosen as meaning only Jewish related hatred.

It can also be reasoned that it's perfect valid to call Israel's actions "anti Semitic" as this is a genocide against an Arabic speaking Semitic population.

Women exist and are equal to men in artistic spheres. There is no reason they can't compete for the same award.

The need for separate recognition of men and women implies separate standards for men and women.

You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education

The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.

Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.

And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.

Proxy wars didn't stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn't stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.

You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.

And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.

Yes it sucks.

But you had it good, and politically you've fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.

We've got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.

It isn't that simple. Solar power wasn't economical until China made a push to manufacture at scale.

Wind power received that push in Europe. Then China and India have joined in.

Not buying the massive nuclear reactors and buying smaller units could be possible. They exist. Alternative technologies also exist.

But nuclear generates heat, which we use to heat water into steam. Which drives a turbine to produce AC electricity.

Massive steam turbines are massive because they are efficient. Multistage turbines range from near 70% efficient for massive ones to 25% efficient for the smallest ones in serious use.

NTAC-TE is a technology that converts the radiation into electric current. Like solar panels converting the sun's radiation into electric current.

NASA uses it in space craft.

If we can get that working at an efficient rate smaller radioactive units will produce power without the efficiency loss of small steam generators. Then we can talk about small modular nuclear energy.

Unfortunately every pro nuclear person parrots the same gumf about nuclear being good, therefore we need to build the massive nuclear reactors.

They only consider talking about any other technology to try and defend nuclear when you point out why they shouldn't be built anymore.

So in 20 years, if we stop building massive nuclear reactors with the money, we might be able to complete some research and start building the correct nuclear technology at scale.

But that 20 years is vital and we need to spend that on carbon reduction now. That's reducing usage through insulation. That's renewables being added to the supply directly now. That's grid level storage to allow us to stop relying on massive steam turbines to hold a steady grid load.

In 20 years we can talk about nuclear again. Add an additional time for every wasted effort on a reactor like Hinckley C or Olkiluoto 3. Starting out as a thin justification and just economically viable.

But then spending 400% of their budget meaning carbon reduction would have been much higher investing elsewhere.

And 2 years of security updates.

They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn't replace their phone every 2 years.

And these days you really shouldn't try and keep a device on the internet without updates.

It's why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics

HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they're now just HMD and they're doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.

Agreed.

Also, don't waste money on experimenting with the others. Just build renewables and grid storage.

And they are all uneconomical.

The nuclear industry only works economically when either we need weapons grade material as a byproduct or we happen to produce electricity as a byproduct when making weapons grade material.

They aren't an efficient use of resources.

Amazon had their walk in walk out stores.

AI was meant to track what you put in the basket and charge you without you going through checkout.

They launched as an AI store.

Humans were looking at cases and were just meant to be "error correction".

They were doing 80% of the work of tracking the images and barcodes into actual products.

Amazon closed the store.

Lots of "AI" systems are currently in this state. A computer can do the easy 10 to 20% of the job. Humans are doing the rest.

Venture capital are just investing in anything that looks like it's working on "AI". Even when it's currently taking more human labour than the work did previously.

Companies are launching now as "AI" gambling on getting that percentage up otherwise they end up late to market. Lots will fail to actually use AI and probably fold.

Then they can tell us where the budget comes from then fail to explain why it's worth five times the price of other renewables with grid storage.

Germany shut down it's reactors as they reached end of life. It isn't economical to build new reactors.

Nuclear has always been a military and strategic concern. Better than importing fossil fuels from potential bad actors during the cold war and you get some MAD weapons along with it.

If you support the weapons proliferation, you support nuclear. You believe in the cold war stand off and think it's valuable. If you don't, want nuclear war, you have to count that as another negative.

Arguing it's an efficient way to produce electricity, even if it's replacing fossil fuels, is disingenuous.

Pick two out of powerful, efficient, safe. That's nuclear power.

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