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  • No, the mushroom cloud does not get a pass. There is nothing inside nuclear power plants that could create it. They do use ²³⁵U but in a way too low concentration so the rate of fission is greatly limited, and the worst thing that can happen, even in obsolete reactors without inherent regulation, is overpressure and conventional explosion that releases heavy isotopes from the reactor.


  • Fukushima was spectacularly bad oversight of a private company with massive responsibility, and even that needed a tsunami to cause a problem. Regulatory agencies in most countries, especially after 2011, will never be that loose again, not to mention many areas have vanishingly low natural disaster rates. And Chernobyl cannot happen again unless someone rebuilds an obsolete, sketchy reactor design that will never get approval.

    The big issues nowadays are dual use of uranium enrichment centrifuges and spent fuel disposal (it’s often not economical to recycle), which aren’t local to the plant and wouldn’t stop me from supporting a nuclear plant on the edge of my town (Czechia is free from natural disasters except relatively mild winds and flooding, both of which are easily protected against with a self-contained robust structure away from flodplains). Unfortunately people are so averse of catastrophic risk that many will refuse to fly an airplane yet willingly smoke.

    By the way, there are many actual valid NIMBY points against highways, airports, datacenters, aluminium plants etc. There are air pollution and noise laws in reasonable countries for this reason.








  • It does format text in the editor pane by default now but uses a big warning with a button to disable it.

    However, the built-in code highlighter, much
    like in many Lemmy frontends, highlights
    some words/symbols depending on the default
    language. Therefore, it's best to not use 
    4 spaces at the start of each line for a code block.
    
    Instead, this one starts with "```text" and 
    ends with "```". No extra indents and I get
    to specify the highlighting language!
    

    Edit: Damn




  • One of the banking apps I use has two ways to set up:

    • Scan a QR code in Internet banking, set up with SMS + password in the bank. Requires real Google Play Services.
      • Google Lens is a very good QR reader with advanced dewarping. However, only mildly lens-warped QR codes will be encountered in practice, and readers that handle those take up less storage than Google’s EULA.
    • Scan both sides of an ID and your face from multiple angles, to be sent to some “partners” for matching.





  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldEvery time
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    That’s best solved with lane-specific vertical signs, which are uncommon (very few road-wide fixtures except large wayfinding boards) but not unheard of in my country. If the right turners get their own lane, that is. Also, if the road is curving and thete’s an intersection with onefrom the left ኮ, it seems the straighter one should be the main road.