kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@hhardy01

Now, if you're so scared about 2000 m3 of nuclear waste that is vitrified and stored in billion-years old geologic formations and quickly losing its activity, I probably shouldn't tell you about *actually* toxic waste that we store underground?

Byproducts of manufacturing of your laptop, router and smartphone is arsenic, cyanide and mercury waste, which is also stored in deep geological repository, except it remains just as toxic in 10, 100, 1000 years.

@hhardy01

And no, it's not "100000 years". The fun thing about radioactivity is that the more intense it is, the faster it decays. Typical high-level waste goes down to just 30% radioactivity in just 10 years, then to 7% in 100 years and so on.

@hhardy01

If you wrote "trillions" or "gazillions" and add 20 more zeros it would definitely look much scarier! If you talk about engineer, try to put things into scale.

In reality, the whole UK nuclear power program for 60 years produced ~2100 m3 of high-level waste. This is less than volume of an Olympic swimming pool.

And this is about how much ash a coal-powered power plant produces in a DAY. Yet, we somehow manage with this enormous volumes, even if it's radioactive too.

@thor

I'm originally from Poland, so if you look at electricitymap.org it's the large black, coal-powered patch in the center of Europe 🤦‍♂️

Extinction Rebellion #xr UK ex-spokes person:

"For many years I was skeptical of #nuclear power. Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists, I had allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious. A friend sent me a scientific paper on the actual impacts, including the (very small number of) total deaths from radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima, I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time."

https://www.cityam.com/a-message-from-a-former-extinction-rebellion-activist-fellow-environmentalists-join-me-in-embracing-nuclear-power/

14-day COVID-19 case notification rate per 100'000 🤔

"European Parliament calls to ban micro-targeted ads. Now what?"

Well, now it's time for another Google-sponsored "grassroots" anti #acta2 campaign explaining users that lack of behavioral profiling actually violates their freedom to be profiled 😂

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/european-parliament-calls-to-ban-micro-targeted-ads-now-what/

@dump_stack

For example Wales was largely anti-EU as there's many conservative people living there, but then everyone realized half of Wales was actually rebuilt and renovated for EU funds because UK government never cared after coal mines were closed there.

@dump_stack

The problem with EU projects - which I saw in Poland too - is that EU is not allowed to do any kind of "direct marketing" apart from small "funded by EU" signs. As result, national govs take all glory for themselves, but happily blame all screw ups on EU, especially those they're responsible for.

@dump_stack

I guess the same as now so perhaps 30-40%. The original referendum was complete bullshit and only after it happened there was some real debate on how UK actually benefits from EU, and it came out the be much larger than anyone imagined.

New poll finds 57% of British people now want to rejoin the EU, with just 35% still backing Brexit. Support for EU membership has risen right across Europe, according to the survey.

https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-poll-most-british-people-want-to-rejoin-eu-2020-6?r=US&IR=T

@TheFuzzStone

Check https://reopen.europa.eu/en but from personal experience it's much more likely to be able to leave by car than by plane (I'm just driving from UK to Poland tomorrow).