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"We will get women to strip for the price of a McDonalds burger, and they will call it female empowerment!"
Simonbob
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"And pay for the privilege."
What's the sitch?
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To be fair with nuclear energy, hate me for this or whatever, but I am hesitant to make nuclear materials capable of explosions even more accessible than they currently are while a certain peaceful religion and the activities of some of their members continue to occur.
I definitely agree that it could be a game changer and when safety precautions are taken the risk is minimal and when it breaks down it self contained, but that doesn't account for intentional bad actors.
I know I'm not the only one thinking this, it's why we will never build lots of other advanced and fantastical structures seen in scifi.
I definitely agree that it could be a game changer and when safety precautions are taken the risk is minimal and when it breaks down it self contained, but that doesn't account for intentional bad actors.
I know I'm not the only one thinking this, it's why we will never build lots of other advanced and fantastical structures seen in scifi.
Typhonis
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Thorium reactors exist and it is damn hard to make useable weapons from them. It's why the US really didn't develop them in the Cold War.
Bear Ribs
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This is one situation where we can say it's all government regulation's fault. There are plenty of reactor types that don't produce any explosion-capable nuclear materials. They tend to be made illegal because governments want them some nuclear weapons.
PsihoKekec
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So... do the people who lied about the state of the plant so they could pocket the money face any consequences?
Well this tweet ignores that the EPA expedited delivery and installation of vital equipment to get things running. They didn't just come flip a switch.
I'm not saying the billion dollar estimate is accurate..but it is more complicated than just turning the water back on.
Those pipes are 100 years old. Low or no pressure causes pipe breaks, which causes contamination.
They may have some water flowing, but it's not clean water. I wouldn't cook with or drink it. Maybe boil it if you're in an absolute emergency.
Those 100 year old pipes will need replaced. Before this incident, they had already been facing all kinds of freezing and broken pipe issues. Then the pressure issues started. Low pressure is terrible for these systems. The system does need to be replaced. Whether that's really $1b or not, I am not knowledgeable enough to say.
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Let me tell you a South African joke.
The city council wanted to have a new bridge built, so they opened for tenders. 3 people put in their bids: Smith, Jones, and Van der Merwe.
Smith's bid was for 10 million.
Jone's bid was for 11 million.
Van's bid was for 30 million.
"So, Smith - 10 million you say?"
"Yes - my company can build the bridge for 9 million, and 1 million's my profit."
"And Jones?"
"Well my people think it will cost 10 million - and one million's my profit."
"And Van der Merwe... 30 million, Van?"
"Ag man, ja." said Van. "10 million for me, 10 million for you, and 10 million for Smith."
Guess who got the contract.
Skallagrim
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And the bridge hasn't actually been built to this day!
(But why would they call Van der Merwe -- that's his last name, obviously -- "Van"? Its like calling someone "Of".)
Bear Ribs
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Eh, in Danish yes but it's used as a shortened version of Evan in other parts of the world. Quite a few famous men with Van as their first name, like Georgian politician Van Johnson or the actor Van Heflin.And the bridge hasn't actually been built to this day!
(But why would they call Van der Merwe -- that's his last name, obviously -- "Van"? Its like calling someone "Of".)
Skallagrim
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Yes, but this is South Africa we're talking about -- so it's a Dutch name (which I should know, being Dutch). "Van de(r/n)" just means "Of the".
It gets slightly confusing because (due to Anglo naming conventions), they spell the "Van" with a capital letter there. So you get "Pieter Van der Merwe", whereas in the Netherlands, it's always "Pieter van der Merwe". (The Flemish, not to be outdone, would render it "Pieter Vandermerwe".)
Yes if you include the first name, the "van" is lowercase. As for why we shorten it to "Van" - well I think it's because we don't want to say his name in full all the time when telling the jokes.
PsihoKekec
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PsihoKekec
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Doomsought
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There are two interpretations of this. In the correct interpretation, the American is doing nothing wrong.