> Still, Lam stopped short of saying she would formally withdraw the legislation after a historic wave of mass protest marches that drew hundreds of thousands of people into the Asian financial center’s streets.
and even if it was formally withdrawn, still can't help but thinking they'll try again but under another name after the protests have died down
the bill itself from my understanding it's really a bad thing, just that everyone can see China abusing the hell out of it
and it's not a stretch to assume that, the north western border (i believe) they already take your phone to install an app that downloads everything from it when you enter the country from what i have heard
> "A strong economy is vital to maintaining a healthy environment," [Trump] said. "Punishing Americans is never the right way to produce a better environment or a better economy. We have rejected this failed approach and we are seeing great results."
unfortunately it doesn't work like that. someone is going to get "punished" as we try to clean things up no matter what
@GnomeSlice Water is REALLY good at absorbing and retaining radioactivity. The implication here is that a nuclear sub exploding underwater would spread huge amounts of radioactive particles all over the seas. In addition, the nuclear slag that would settle to the bottom of the seabed could cause environmental damage to the nearby ocean
@GnomeSlice Yeah, it is. Russian nuclear subs use HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium), which has a half-life (time before half of it has decayed) of somewhere between 700 million and 4.5 billion years, depending on how enriched it is
So essentially, a nuclear reactor exploding in the ocean would contaminate the sea with radioactive material that would take longer than the projected remaining lifespan of the Earth to feasibly decay
U235 is useful not because it's ~super radioactive~ but because it's capable of sustaining a chain reaction when you smack it with a neutron
And it sounds like the problems with the sub weren't even reactor-related, so even if it had gone down it's an open question whether the core would have been breached -- those things aren't as hard as RTGs but they're pretty durable.
Dumping a burning sub onto the seafloor isn't great, and dumping a melting nuclear reactor onto the seafloor is worse, but neither is even close to a "planetary catastrophe"
(and the ignorance and scaremongering around nuclear power and anything related to it, and the media's role in abetting that, pisses me off)
@ToxicFrog Based on predictions and simulations, I assume. AFAIK there hasn't yet been a dumping of a melting nuclear reactor onto the sea floor, and experimental verification would be a crazy idea
@GodEmperorDune Although I'm not entirely sure this was a function of the straw so much as it was a freak accident, but plastic straws are still fine and it's dumb we've spent so much energy against them instead of literally anything else
The Tom Steyer of environmentalism
@GodEmperorDune Yeah, though her platform is 100% correct. Hard to imagine any of the current situation without McConnell
Yeah, but she could have been holding a knife or something instead for that matter. But there is something in recognizing that a metal straw is basically just an upsized syringe needle 🤔
@Wipqozn I never understood the rationale here, as blocking doesn't prevent you from reading the tweets. But that is simply one issue I really couldn't care less about
How do retweets and pseudoretweets work with that I wonder? Can't wait to preserve "Thank you! RT: @magachud88 our president is the best" for future generations
@MadScientist I honestly believe he is some sort of medical miracle, my cholesterol is through the damn roof and I don't eat nearly that much fast food
Honestly the history books are gonna be so jacked in 150 years. Like we look back t people and say they're racist or sexist or helped the poor or we can categorize them. El presidento is a whole mother thing tho
And the only way we can really do anything meaningful to stop it is to try to get people to see beyond the whole dem/GOP thing, which if you've been on the internet lately you've seen is basically impossible
@TimStone I mean on one hand okay sure the President does meet random people for reasons and like...this isn't entirely outside of the realm of reasons one could possibly meet the president I guess but mostly it just feels WEIRD AS HECK
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@Nik3141 Try to give some context with your links, please
