Your statement is partisan pseudo-conservative propaganda. By the way, your reasoning is as wrong as your spelling. You clearly need to think about what you're saying and how you say it. The idea that “the left deliberately conflated nuclear power and nuclear weapons” and that groups like CND were “anti-science” is revisionist nonsense. The connection between civil and military nuclear programs wasn’t invented by activists, it was real and it's well documented.

In the 1950s and ’60s, so-called “civilian” reactors like Britain’s Calder Hall were built to produce both electricity and weapons-grade plutonium. France’s early reactors did the same, and even standard light-water reactors generate plutonium isotopes as a by-product of fission. The overlap between nuclear power and weapons production was technical fact, not political spin. That’s why the IAEA was created—to stop materials from “peaceful” programs being diverted into bombs.

By the 1980s, the case against nuclear power had only grown stronger. Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986) proved that reactor failures could devastate entire regions. Radioactive leaks at Windscale, Sellafield, and Hanford showed that “peaceful atoms” left long-term contamination. And decades later, no country had a working permanent waste repository, a problem that still isn’t fully solved today.

Calling the movement “anti-science” is absurd when many of its leaders were scientists: Amory Lovins, Barry Commoner, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, to name just a few. Their arguments were based on physics, risk assessment, and environmental data, not partisan ideology.

Critics of nuclear power weren’t ignorant. They were right to demand accountability from secretive state-run programs built on military technology, catastrophic potential, and unsolved waste problems. Opposing nuclear power wasn’t anti-science. It was science with ethics.

Nuclear power isn't the answer since it obviously just adds to the net heat produced on the planet. Think about it, more energy, more heat, more global warming. Not to mention the problem with nuclear accidents, the problems with nuclear waste and the problem with how corrupt Big Energy is. All this talk about nuclear power is people falling for classist corporate propaganda without often even realizing it. Nuclear power is a problem not a solution.

We need renewable energy sources that rely on the existing energy influx from the sun so we don't add to the net gain of energy the biosphere receives. It's a balance, we can't upset the balance without consequences for doing so. We also need to decentralise and reclaim our electrical grids and become more energy self-reliant and self-sufficient. Energy conservation and better buildings with passive solar designs and active solar panels, heat pumps and heat exchangers and battery walls, etc.

Greedy people make irresponsible decisions. Honestly, we're screwed because people are not ethical nor responsible enough. So many people are either ignorant of the facts or in denial about them; even after all these years. We are obviously done as a civilization and the sure signs of decline are all around us.

I recently stood up a VM with openSUSE Tumbleweed and GNOME, to check out if I liked the rolling release, and (again) didn't like GNOME compared to Cinnamon or even Mate. I used Ubuntu Mate until v18 then Canonical went completely Snap happy, so I switched to Mint Mate, then Cinnamon. Will be sticking with this for a while on the bare metal. I also tried a VM with Mint LMDE and it was okay, but I liked regular Mint better.

Not even on RedHat, Sweeny thinks Linux would open his game up to cheaters. As if Fortnite's not already overrun by cheaters. This from a guy who went to war with Apple cause they wouldn't let him gouge his customers without sharing it with other gougers. Not to even mention how epicly unfair the matchmaking is.

Try Mate or Cinnamon, based on GNOME 2 and 3 respectively, preferably on Mint. I'm using Mint 22.2 (Cinnamon).

I noticed that the Edge (not that I use it) and Virus Definition updates are still happening on my Windows 10 system, as well as updated for third-party software, so since the major Windows updates happen/ed on "Patch Tuesday" there's still a month until the next one on Nov 11 and Windows gets completely left behind, from a practical point anyway.

I've had my (more capable) Linux Mint 22.2 (Cinnamon) system up for a *while*, but am (still) being lazy about moving all my files over to it. I've sync'ed my Firefox and Thunderbird configs and files, and converted all my MS Office and (older) Lotus 123/WordPro files to LibreOffice, and renamed a bunch of files to remove embedded white-space and make them more Linux / command-line friendly. Just need to bite the bullet and start copying things over ...

Am still not completely happy about the Linux alternatives to AxCrypt (ignoring the 34MB Linux command-line version); I'm considering "ccrypt" and/or "7z" for various things as they seem relatively simple and portable (even to Windows, ccyprt via Cygwin). Looked into and enabled native VIM encryption, but don't really want to be tied to it. For ccrypt there's a Emacs module that supports it and I've found/created Nemo actions/scripts for en/decrypting from the GUI.

I'd hand over footage for heinous crimes only, not for any stupid shit. Also, we need extremely strict laws on abuse of surveillance.

i give the reward to either google or M$, although Oracle and Facebook are running closely behind but then there's Big Oil, corporatocracy is ruining everything
   

I agree both are correlated and compounding.

responsible moderation is ok, but i prefer the slashdot system where comments rise or sink and I distrust mods who let personal bias influence their moderation decisions

The same people who are now handwringing about how datacenters are going to overwhelm the electric grid were pushing electric vehicles pretty damned hard; they should be happy that both aren't happening.

On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.

actually, we can't trust reddit since it's censored by excessive and often partisan moderation

Don't trust AI is a generalization, however, we can clearly see that we can't trust stupidity; stupid people using or not using AI is a serious problem, especially when they're running everything

classism breeds corruption which produces incompetence