But what would happen on the international floor if Germany suddenly started saying we should arrest Israel’s top politician,

I think telling Netenyahu that he’s safe to travel to Germany because they won’t enforce the ICJ arrest warrant is a horrendous, terrible piece of international PR. Of course Germany should arrest him if he comes to Germany. He has an arrest warrant outstanding on him to stand trial for war crimes. Since when is Germany a place for people to evade justice.

Germany should be seen to respect the rule of law. Not tell the ICJ it has no jurisdiction and harbour someone wanted on war crime charges. Let the international court take that problem away from them. It’s not on Germany to decide. That’s the courts job through due process. If he’s not guilty, let the court make that decision.

Anything else is German arrogance.

stop supporting their “defense”,

They can limit their support to only non-aggressive aspects. Don’t supply funds or weapons. Supply medical aid, infrastructure support, etc and do the same for Gaza. Be on the side of the innocents caught up in the violence.

and openly accuse them of genocide?

Friends tell friends when they’re in the wrong. Friends tell friends when they’re acting irrationally through anger, fear and hatred. This is especially true if that friend has been there themselves as they can offer a perspective others can not.

To own your history is to show you’ve learnt from it. Germany is acting more like they have a debt to repay, but there is no amount that can be repaid. You can only internalise the facts, learn the lessons and act in a way that shows that.

45 years would be 1980. That sounds like you’re refering to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but construction started in 1980, and although the first five reactors went live 5 years later the 6th reactor didn’t go live until 1996. 16 years later.

Even so, you’re only counting construction. That plant would have been being designed for at least 5 years previous.

And safety standards have gone up since then, in part because of it’s slightly older cousin at Chernobyl (different design, but also built in 5 years).

Nuclear keeps us on the teet of fossils fuels for longer than switching to renewables. Nuclear takes too long to build. Renewables can come online incrementally displacing fossil fuels far sooner. It drops the rate of damage faster.

If we wait for nuclear plants that haven’t even been green lot yet the accumulated damage will be massive.

Yes, following the rules everyone agreed on is lived in a rather inflexible way. If you think about it though, that’s democracy.

I would say that’s a veneer of paternalism on top of a foundation of democracy.

The people’s vote is never precise. It gives broad direction to those who govern. Politicians are trusted representatives of the people to act in their best interest, but they’re not told precisely what to legislate on (unless you’re Swiss and live in a direct democracy). They can inact things which are inline with the people’s wishes, and they can get it wrong.

If the people behave as is the legislators are always right because they were placed there through a democratic process and there is never any push back, then they’ve surrendered a large part of their agency. If the people just obey rules without question, their government is now their fixed term authority figures. The government knows what is right, and the people should just follow along.

Talk to a Frenchman and he will be very clear that government serves the people. Not the other way around, and that sometimes you have to break the rules to remind those in government who is in charge. Bastille day is celebrated to make sure no one forgets.

I think Germany has the wrong mindset on this point.

Edit: I also think that “Never again” has become “Never again shall we see the Jewish persecuted” rather than “Never again shall we allow a holocaust to befall anyone”. If Germany has truly learnt the lesson they should recognise that any country can perform evil. Even those that have been wronged in the past.

Speed! The best time to give a nuclear plant a green light was about 20 years ago, as it will just be coming online now. The second best time is never, because we don’t have time to wait anymore.

Nuclear takes a long time to build, and in all that time you’re not switching away from fossil fuels. I swear nuclear proponents are fossil fuel shills just wanting to delay the day we switch away from them.

Japan doesn’t have a huge amount of choice in energy generation. Off shore wind doesn’t work as the water is too deep. On shore wind doesn’t have the space or geography either. Solar works, but their weather isn’t ideal. Geothermal…possibly being near fault lines but their not like Iceland with a small population to supply. I believe locations for hydro are limited too.

Nuclear gives them energy independence and fits.

Nobody is arguing for fossil fuels here.

It’s not a binary nuclear or coal choice.

Take 50 billion Euros, you want to invest in clean energy and have the biggest impact you can. You don’t buy one nuclear power plant, that’s for sure. You probably build multiple wind farms (around 10bn each) which, while intermittent, will each provide similar total energy over a year.

You can’t get them running again. They’re gone.

The idea that NPPs are some unsafe technology just waiting to explode is dramatic and untrue.

You’re the first person to mention exploding here. GP was saying that they make for a good target in war time to turn into a dirty bomb, either intentionally or not.

…but the idea that there’s no safe amount of radiation is ridiculous (we don’t know, but presumably it’s okay in some amounts since you’re getting radiation doses every day even not living near anything nuclear).

“We don’t know”??? Sorry, but we do know.

There’s no 100% safe level because any level carries some risk. Higher levels means higher risk.

Background radiation has some risk, but it’s a risk we accept. X-rays, plane flights, etc all have increased risk (hence people exposed to lots of x-rays wearing leads) but we accept them. Material from decommissioned nuclear plants is way higher on this scale.

Nuclear power has downsides as well as positives. Depending on your perspective (e.g. do you work cleaning up the aftermath, or just benefitting from the energy) one will outweigh the other.

Fine, they’ve made a processor, but until I have an idea of how well tested and secure it is, I’m not running anything on it. I don’t mean in a “Oh China, scary!” way but just because it’s an unknown brand with no track record.

Making something that works most of the time is one thing. Making something bulletproof is another.

…and they’re positioning this for servers.

To those Americans: you know that means you get a king, right?

Understandable. Everyone is sleepy this week.

He’s taken the alternative approach. Cutting their GDP by 20%.

The stockpile was built in the 50s, 60s and 70a though. The vast bulk of it is 50-70 years old. Post soviet Russia didn’t have the money, and prior to that the stockpile was good.

Nah. In those photos, where there’s one or two tanks left but all the others have gone… those are immovable tanks. Couldn’t even get them to the service bay. Why else would that one tank have been left behind?

If you like more light in the evening, go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning, go to bed early and wake up early.

Other way around. If you want a lighter evening, your day has to slide earlier so when you sleep is closer to sunset.

Well no, because if you remove DST you’d go for the time zone where noon means the sun is straight up. That’s the winter schedule, so you summer evenings get an hour shorter.

If we get rid of DST everybody needs to start work an hour earlier IMHO.

First… I’m not reading all that, but are you aware that there are 2 congressional districts up for re-election this week to replace members who accepted cabinet positions (e.g. Mike Waltz). They were +20 red districts, both of them. Now they are competitive. Trump has also withdrawn his appointee for UN ambassador because of fears they would lose her seat (also a very secure Red win previously).

It’s not November anymore, and there’s been a torrent of things to change people’s minds in the meantime.

“Makes” by selling what exactly?

Also, thats an insane valuation based on earnings. 120x