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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Everyone: Shut up, hippy.

    Don’t listen to them, when they tell you that. As far as you know, might even be an astroturfer, trying to kill this in the crib.

    Call your House of Representative member and let them know that you want this bill to become law.

    If we citizens don’t apply the pressure, nothing will happen.

    And if your cynical about doing that, try it anyway, just as an experiment, to see what happens. Hell, even make a YouTube video about your experience doing so, for content.

    Just say "Please let my representative know that I am in favor of the Bernie Sanders bill (Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act) for a 32 hour work week."

    It’s just a phone call. A 32 hour work week is worth a single phone call, right?



  • Fair enough, thanks for sharing.

    So like I said, the catastrophic failure effects are my primary concern, though I am concerned about dealing with the waste product.

    Having said that, that’s still a lot of waste that your documentation is talking about, and it’ll be around for centuries. I don’t think it makes your point as well as you think it does.

    Better to have other forms of energy that doesn’t generate that sort of waste, or make sure we have one hell of a foolproof (not verified by biased corporations) of preventing that waste from getting into the environment either accidentally or on purpose/terrorism.


  • Those problems literally HAVE been solved.

    And are those designs in production today, or still on the drawing board?

    What percentage of reactors today have this new design that you speak of?

    the entire United States hasn’t even made enough fuel to fill a football field since we started using nuclear power.

    Citation required, because I remember them having to dig out a huge underground storage mine somewhere in the Southwest (nearby Vegas if my recollection is accurate) to handle all the waste that would be generated between all the power station reactors and all the hospitals that use radioactive devices and everything else.



  • Because nuclear is scary.

    Nuclear isn’t scary. It’s waste, on the other hand, is.

    But you know, it’s not like we’ve not had multiple examples of nuclear power plants failing catastrophically and destroying things around them for miles, and for decades/centuries.

    Having said that, if they did come out with new technology version of a nuclear power plant that is safe and that with a catastrophic failure does not harm the environment around itself then I would be all for it. I just don’t think the technology is there for that. I hear they’re working on it though.