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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • My understanding is that it potentially isn’t illegal, because you weren’t being paid to vote explicitly, and weren’t being paid to vote for a specific candidate for sure, but you were (supposed to be) paid to sign an agreement that you would vote, and I think it also said you support a certain candidate but I’m not totally sure on that.

    Basically, he was paying for people to say they’d vote (maybe for a certain candidate) but legally that wasn’t actually required, so possibly barely skirts the law if a judge is being very generous to him.














  • Name (like write out the word) a new plant that isn’t safe.

    Every power source has issues. Installing solar panels onto houses is more dangerous than nuclear. Large scale solar is safer, though not significantly, and thar includes all nuclear disasters of the past, and it also doesn’t include waste that we’ll have to deal with in the future like we’re already doing with nuclear.


  • The largest cost of nuclear power is safety. Both reactor & waste.

    But, like you said above, it’s actually one of the safest sources, even if you include disasters, which are very unlikely now that the technology is so much more mature. Unlike other power sources, their waste is easily accounted for and stored too, and in small quantities. Some of it can even be useful.

    Unfortunately, due to how global energy markets work, the profit has become unreliable (ironically in part due to solar/wind) and large nuclear plants are generally considered an economic loss.

    This is largely due to regulations specifically designed to increase their costs above dirty energy sources. Those with money will always create barriers for competition, and that’s what dirty energy companies have done. There’s so many requirements for nuclear plants that other energy sources aren’t held back by. Coal can just spew radioactive waste into the air for free, and nuclear has to pay for the safe storage of their waste. Why? Waste for all energy should be paid for by those generating it so they have an incentive to reduce it and it makes all sources equal.