I was against shutting down already written off power plants early while coal power plants were still running. I was in favor of shutting down coal first, yes.

Geothermal energy is possible anywhere but not economical everywhere. Building wind and PV and building infrastructure to save the energy is more economical in many cases.

it’s okay in some amounts since you’re getting radiation doses every day even not living near anything nuclear).

And people get cancer every day. I don’t share their argument that NPPs in normal operation are a risk, but OP is somewhat right, there’s no safe radiation dose, just one we deem safe enough mainly because it doesn’t significantly raise our risk of cancer compared to the natural exposure. And NPPs in normal operation emit less radiation than for example coal fire plants.

FFS, people are stupid.

There was a huge hysteria about nuclear when Fukushima happened. A clear majority was for immediate action. Merkel’s coalition government would have ended if she hadn’t done a 180 on nuclear and decided to shut down nuclear as soon as possible, which was 2023. I was against shutting it down back then but I thought you can’t go against the whole population, so I get why they did it. People didn’t change their mind until 2022. Nobody talked about reversing that decision in all these years when there was actually time to reverse the decision.

Now, that the last reactor is shut down, the same people that were up in arms in 2011 are now up in arms that we don’t have nuclear. Building new plants will cost billions and take decades and nuclear doesn’t work well with renewables because of its inflexibility. It makes no sense at all. It was a long-term decision we can’t just back away from. What’s done is done.

Well, it’s not broccoli

VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.

These idiots actually believe their own propaganda. We’re truly fucked

Kudos to you for doing your part. It’s just so disappointing to see how you guys are the minority fighting an uphill battle and how so little support comes from the Democrats or any other powerful organization

So, millions of people are protesting?

In terms of range, Tesla was the benchmark for a long time

At the moment, you definitely do. Most of you, and not just Trump voters. Why are you guys so fucking passive? Where are the millions of people protesting on the streets? Where’s the civil disobedience? The strikes? With the attitude the Americans show currently, there will be no elections in 4 years, hell, there might not even be mid-term elections in 2

“In the last 100 years”… European borders were not peaceful for that long

Also not including refugee costs.

To put that into perspective: Germany alone pays 5.5 - 6 billion € annually to support the 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees currently residing in the country, that’s additionally at least 65€ per capita in Germany annually.

E: I just noticed that your source lists refugee costs as well. The top four countries alone (Germany, Poland, Croatia, and Spain) spend over 80 bio. while the US contributed nothing. It’s pretty clear, that European support for Ukraine is bigger than American support, even per capita.

Who did that in this thread?

I was curious whether there have been mid-air collisions in history without fatalities as I thought that chances for that are basically zero. But apparently, it happened at least six times in the history of aviation.

I’d prefer a punch in the face

What an odd thing to say

Look into survivorship bias. The only 90 year old smokers you see are of course the ones that survived.

The statistic is an average. The 30 year old non-smoker being killed in an accident is an outlier exactly the same as the 90 year old that still smokes on the way to their grave. You might not lose anything because you die before you get lung cancer or you lose much more because you develop it at 40 years old, but on average a smoker loses 20 min per cigarette.

That’s how these statistics usually work:

(life expectancy of non-smokers - life expectancy of smokers) / # cigarettes an average smoker smokes in their lifetime

Obviously, it’s not literally like “that one cigarette ends your life 20 minutes earlier”.

That’s roughly a billion / a, nothing other countries couldn’t compensate if necessary. I’d rather have my country foot the bill than RFK Jr. having any influence on the WHO.

AfD will not govern on national level in the next four years. I expect that CDU in some eastern state will eventually form a coalition with the AfD, but that has to happen first before they try on a national level. Then it will depend on the fall-out of that state coalition what will happen next.