Em Adespoton

Agreed; and it will become more of a problem as water becomes less predictable. Problem is, for most atomic generators, that also holds true.

Investment in research is definitely needed, but building existing systems isn’t going to solve the issues either.

When does Jones realize that no matter what happens, it doesn’t end well for him?

Why not? It gives Russia 20 years to subsume Ukraine, so they’ll be fine with it, and Ukraine will be given the choice of “take it or be cut off from all further funding.”

Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.

I don’t get it. Current nuclear power solutions take longer to set up, have an effectively permanently harmful byproduct, have the (relatively small) potential to catastrophically fail, almost always depend on an abundant supply of fresh water, and are really expensive to build, maintain and decommission.

If someone ever comes up with a functional fusion reactor, I could see the allure; in all other cases, a mix of wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and solar, alongside energy storage solutions, will continually outperform fission.

I suspect that the reason some countries like nuclear energy is that it also puts them in a position of nuclear power on the political stage.

Are those nine year olds also allowed to vote?

They just can’t get a break, can they?

So… it actually happened?

It’s definitely natural; it may be in humanity’s best interest to direct and curb it though. Unfortunately, that always seems to lead to corruption and inequality.

While true to a point, don’t paint Russia as being any better. They chose the war of aggression against Ukraine and are choosing not to stop it.

They were also in Afghanistan before the US, and destroyed it even more than the US has, between the two of them leaving the Taliban as the best local option remaining.

I sure don’t know what the solution is, as everything the world has tried so far has eventually failed, concentrating power in the hands of a few to abuse it.

BRICS could have a potential to control Russia while redistributing power, except that it includes Russia and China and India, all of which have a strong track record of concentrating power into the hands of the few, rejecting the voice of the people while putting on a western facade of being for the people.

Throw into this mix the upcoming results of global warming and neither bloc is going to make things better for the majority of humanity.

“I’m the target of an organized witch hunt!” says leader of the witches union.

While I doubt that the opposition nor the powers that want them in charge are above reproach here, the arguments as to why what they’re saying is false and based on a western agenda don’t stand up to the most basic logic seive either.

It is fully possible for the incumbent to have run a fully corrupt campaign complete with ballot stuffing and intimidation/misinformation AND for the observers to not be objective either. One doesn’t cancel out the other.

The big question is: were the elections provably legitimate and above reproach, and will the majority of Georgians respect the results?

I doubt it’ll happen… but just imagine if once Biden hits Lame Duck in a couple of weeks, he actually does something about all this, once it won’t affect elections.

Georgia is populated by western liberals?

TL;DR: the incumbent pro-Russia billionaire is asserting he won the election.

You know what? The atrocities in Ethiopia don’t get coverage either, nor the ones in Myanmar, and nobody’s talking about the Uyghurs anymore, and even discussion on Ukraine is muted. Same goes for Burkina Faso, the Mexican cartel crisis, continuing fighting in Syria, Mali, DR Congo, Yemen, Haiti, Pakistan, and Colombia.

Each one of those has claimed more casualties than Palestine, although only a few of them are as focused on genocide.

Well… it requires not being in a border dispute for x amount of time to join. That’s going to be an issue for Ukraine for a good while to come.

So… is that enough votes by their constitution to move ahead with the constitutional rewrite?

Oh… NOW he urges….