rlgan [any]

Fossils are not the alternative to nuclear power, everybody agrees that they have to go. When you include all the costs of nuclear power, instead of ignoring them as externalities as capitalism allows them to do, it is not cost competitive with renewables such as wind and solar.

Chernobyl and Fukushima created exclusion zones in the thousands of square kilometers that displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Building them in the middle of nowhere isn't an option either, these plants require access to large amounts of fresh water, and such zones tend to be highly populated. Tbh I don't understand how anyone can look at the effects of the previous nuclear catastrophes and conclude that it is a good idea to continue building more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/opinion/sunday/my-mothers-garden.html

Thankfully we may not have to wait so long.

In conclusion our model shows that a catastrophic collapse in human population, due to resource consumption, is the most likely scenario of the dynamical evolution based on current parameters. Adopting a combined deter-ministic and stochastic model we conclude from a statistical point of view that the probability that our civilisation survives itself is less than 10% in the most optimistic scenario. Calculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilisation (see Fig. 5). Making the situation even worse, we stress once again that it is unrealistic to think that the decline of the population in a situation of strong environmental degra-dation would be a non-chaotic and well-ordered decline. This consideration leads to an even shorter remaining time. Admittedly, in our analysis, we assume parameters such as population growth and deforestation rate in our model as constant. This is a rough approximation which allows us to predict future scenarios based on current conditions. Nonetheless the resulting mean-times for a catastrophic outcome to occur, which are of the order of 2–4 decades (see Fig. 5), make this approximation acceptable, as it is hard to imagine, in absence of very strong collective efforts, big changes of these parameters to occur in such time scale.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6.pdf

Europe is a shithole but the only way that is relevant to the US is as evidence of how useless electoralism is. Most countries in the EU already have multiple parties, proportional systems instead of FPTP, no gerrymandering, a limit to campaign spending etc, things that libs usually list as the solution to all the US political problems. Nope, you still get a capitalist hellhole even with all of those.

You are delusional. Winners don't change their strategy. Only a massive defeat would force a political party to move either way.

LivestreamFail without the incels and the censorship designed to suppress allegations of sexual assault against streamers would be nice.

Second, your organization is infiltrated by the FBI. Third, all of you are sent to prison or murdered.

I don't have a better solution, but at least what the Chinese government is doing has a chance of working and improving the lives of the people of Xinjiang. What you are suggesting is doing nothing, let extremism keep spreading and with it terrorism and separatism. And for what, an irrational commitment to the protection of individual freedoms that don't really make anyone more free?

It would be preferable if there was a way to educate people without having to force them to do it, which is why I was asking your opinion. But doing nothing is not a solution either.

Well that's probably the most lib take I have seen on this site so far.

I like Visual Studio Code. I know that most emacs users are boomers and unable to learn new things, but really, we have better tools today. Please don't ban me.

What would be your solution to the problems of extremism, terrorism, separatism, poverty etc that are present in Xinjiang? I am not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely curious about what would be the better way to handle this.