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@sheogorath Then, nuclear *fusion* does not create any radioactive waste and ITER is now scheduled to go first plasma in 2025.

@sheogorath This is simply not true. Amount of waste from nuclear fission is so microscopic that it can be bottled in hermetic containers, as in this storage in Switzerland. Then it can be reused in breeder reactor, or vitrified in glass blocks and stored in bunkers. And in 100 years it loses 90% of its activity.

"Nuclear power is a potential safety threat, *if* something goes wrong. Coal-fired power is *guaranteed* destruction, filling the atmosphere with planet-heating carbon when it operates the way it's supposed to". (Bill McKibben)

Same for fossil gas, by the way.

"A 4-year-old in Colorado died from flu this week. Days before, his mom reached out to Facebook's biggest anti-vaxx group. Members told her not to take the Tamiflu a doctor had prescribed, but give him oils and elderberries and put potatoes in his socks." nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/

How pseudoscience and alt-med driving illegal trade of protected animals caused the nCoV-2019 coronavirus epidemics

nature.com/articles/d41586-020

Video is Russian-only, sorry

Russian TV presented describes social benefits for disabled people recently ratified by the government. Watch her reaction...

Russian-only but here are the facts: out of 1500 RUB (~23 USD):

* 900 RUB (14 USD) can be spent on medicines
* 137 RUB (2.14 USD) on international health resorts
* the rest (463 RUB or 7 USD) on international transport to the resort

@davidpgil@qoto.org

If you are talking about mercury, you are ingesting a comparable dose of mercury in a chunk of tuna meat, and a much larger dose is implanted in your tooth with an amalgam filling.

@freemo

@Gina Oh we have a real hurricane here in the UK. I was caving yesterday and planned today too, but my friends were somehow scared by the hurricane forecast. Like wind does matter in a cave :)

@davidpgil@qoto.org

> some are toxic

There are no toxic vaccines.

> the effect varies from person to person

This is true for literally anything from alcohol, sun exposure and aspirine.

> since he got a pneumonia vaccine

I read pneumonia vaccine is gives 90% immunity after 4 doses. If he got only one, it's most likely like he was never vaccinated. And single dose of vaccine cannot cause "violent pneumonia".

@freemo

Hey #fosdem hackers! We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software be made available under a #FreeSoftware licence!

More and more people join this deamand every day. Do so as well and sign our open letter:
publiccode.eu#action

#publiccode

The moment we start seeing β€œbecause their fundamental business model is unethical” in one of these is when we’ll know that things are starting to change.

alphabetworkers.org/resignatio

#SurveillanceCapitalism

"Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ministry’s 6th Monitoring Report." cleanenergywire.org/news/clima

When someone digs into how a recruiter get their contact information, and discovered how shady companies siphon off and trade personal data



blog.ant0i.net/2020/02/down-ra

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