‘We will soon be next’: German leaders sound alarm on Trump’s Ukraine plan
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That would risk direct conflict between nuclear powers. I'm not sure that's a gamble we should take.
I'm not sure we shouldn't take it either. I don't know, really. But it's scary.
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Were there any precautions in Germany after Chernobyl? I'm from eastern Europe and there weren't any.
Nuclear disasters are not happening despite there being hundreds of plants in operation. It's all just FUD spread by the fossil lobby.
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The US fostered this and the EU was happy to accept it. It worked out reasonably well for everyone until about checks watch right now.
The EU got to under fund and under prepare their military, and the US was effectively buying soft power and security around the world. It's why the US able to basically unilaterally drag a coalition into Iraq.
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Yes, lots. After the accident a bunch of places in Germany measured far higher-than-normal radiation levels. There were lots of unclear signals going through the government and media - the different states had different recommendations and there were lots of confusing/opposing signals going through the government and media. Some examples:
- the government recommended taking iodine tablet, which promptly sold out
- people were scared of the rain being sour, so they really tried not going out during/after
- people sprayed down their children after playing outside for fear of residue
- confusing/cautionary signals around fresh dairy and produce meant that many only consumed canned goods for a while
All of this happened during the formative years of a large part of our population. Can you understand how this does give a foundation to the fear?
Nuclear disasters are not happening despite there being hundreds of plants in operation. It’s all just FUD spread by the fossil lobby.
One happened a couple of years ago, and I guarantee you more will happen - as long as humans are involved in the cycle, things can and will go wrong. Modern designs make this far less likely and hopefully reduce the worst outcomes by a lot, but how sure are you that all our reactors are secured against e.g. sabotage? What if an enemy nation invades and gains control of the reactor? What if individual systems get attacked by drones? We're entering a new age - don't underestimate what terrible things can happen this time around.
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I'm not that well versed, but I would expect modern designs be unable to be used as a weapon, at least easily. When someone brings heavy equipment (and I will file Fukushima under a 'very heavy forces'), they can do anything. Putting the blame on nuclear is again just fearmongering.
Thank you for providing me more info about the Germany at that time. Did that happen throughout, or just the west part? Because IIRC the east block was celebrating First May like it was no big deal.
I get that people may be scared, but again that's now how things work. Coal is 100 times more radioactive than nuclear plant, so building them to 100% put radioactive material around them is absolutely stupid, when the same people are scared of one nuclear plant blowing up 39 years ago.
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Dude, the places that measured 50x the normal amount of radiation aren't measuring 50x the amount right now. I'm aware that coal adds radioactive material to the air, but that's just not relevant to the topic. But I'm tired of explaining that, have a good one.
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and not saying how bad things had got until after trump won the election. it made him look like the democrats were just being sore losers to a lot of the right wing base, and then they were further entrenched in 2024 when the manipulation was more naked and more obvious. yet somehow nothing has been said at all. i guess because foreign powers like russia and israel interfering in our elections is just politics as usual now
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Clueless comment of the day. Has no idea whats happening in the world.
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History is doomed to repeat itself.
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Hopefully you have much more robust fraud and manipulation systems of review than the us. Musk very likely compromised the systems and all investigations are stopped in their tracks
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Don't worry on that angle we're using paper ballots, always have, always will, as the constitutional court decided that it must be possible for a voter with basic education and no specialised knowledge to ascertain for themselves that the vote is kosher. The constitutional court recently got reinforced, too. Not to mention that the federal level has preciously little power if the states really decided to tell it to fuck off. Also, as a Nazi you shouldn't trust a military that names bases after Stauffenberg.
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So what you're saying is that no German reactor would ever be online for years while its backup power supply, critical for safety, was offline? Because yes that happened. Or that this is a proper way to store nuclear waste? Because that happened, too. Just as the water incursions into that salt mine.
Long story short humans can't be trusted with this shit. If you think we can, you're naive.
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Can a voter verify their ballot was counted and for who the votes were cast?
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Yes. You can observe the whole vote, keeping an eye on the ballot box all the time until it is emptied on a big table, where it is sorted, and once sorted things get counted. Unless a magician comes along and teleports your ballot out of the box you can then be sure that it has been counted.
What you can't do is prove to anyone that you voted a certain way and that's a good thing.
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But can you prove to yourself that your vote for candidate a was cast for your name and no nefarious acts led it to go to candidate b instead?
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Yes. I just described how.
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I consider it relevant when the topic is germans being scared of radioactive fallout replacing nuclear with coal.
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Then you're still entirely misunderstanding the point.
