Nuclear plant has been historically built nearby water body without water loss (evaporating). Shift to open system happened mostly in US. Majority of plants are still located in coast side (UK, Korea, Japan, Finland etc) using sea water, inland one still utilize river water (France).

For new US reactors likely employ open system so your water concern stands, though its open evaporation system is optimized better than unoptimized data center ones.

Closed watet system is expensive and less scalable construction wise.

Nuclear plant employs it because the water has direct contact to the nuclear fuel, containing radioactive minerals. It cannot be released outside without treatment. It is necessity than choice. Companies would’ve chosen open water system if regulation allowed to so that they don’t have to pay the cleanup fee.

Nuclear plant has closed water system and usually dumps heat to nearby lake or sea. It ofc has environmental impact but less on freahwater usage compared to AI data centers that cool machines using freah water and in a way hard to recover water.

Tho when it comes to nuclear plant the elephant in the room is the hazardous waste it produces that takes next 100,000 years to settle. We’re doing “let’s fuck around bcs we won’t find out in our lifetime” again.

Wind (and tidal) are affected by climate, may become unsustainable and imo the true free energy is solar.

Its symbolic move of defiance. Calbee has been queried by the govt for contradicting their “no shortage” claim.

Petrol firms in Japan suggested the cabinet to take measure in reducing demands bcs they knew the numbers better in April but govt ignored.

Calbee didn’t retract their decision aftet queried. The shortage is true, it’s a marketing to make it clear.

That sounds like FIRE than NEET but idk there can be overlap.

AFAIK about Jp movie subs:

• Some Hollywood AAA type of movie won’t give actuql media to avoid leaks and/or very tight deadline. I don’t know if this still holds true, but past movie subtitles definitely had this issue.
• Multimedia translation follows “4 letters/sec” guideline, based on average reading comprehension while following movie, which can cut down a lot of subtleties.
• On DVD or other budget-tight medium often people do subtitles for their professional training so the quality may vary.

Edit: I checked the JP translator of Clear and Present Danger - it’s Natsuko Toda. She had controversies in 80-00s movie translation because of lots of sloppy mistakes, ignoring background/references and making up unnatural phrases. LOTR (fellowship of the ring) even had subtitle revisions in DVD release, but she’s fast and prolofic so lots of Hollywood major movies at that time had her subtitle. I assure other translators take more time and have better quality (but it maybe hard to avoid her for older movies).

From what I gatheted from JP news outlets an activist org had some outreach that they have high school students on the ship. Students were killed in such activity during their field trip.

The activist org did not have license to carry people as an organization or business, and are currently under investigation whether their safety measure was sufficient.

The conflict may be the root cause but this looks safety issue than political one.

Given AI’s training data biases it’s not true reflection of reality but more of streotype projection. I don’t think its effect on PoC character, unconventional demihuman types, or any “semi-real” artstyle will accurately enhance artists’ original intent.

Actual article quote is below (emphasis mine):

For this research, the team tested how the three LLMs responded to questions from two datasets: TruthfulQA and SciQ. TruthfulQA is designed to measure a model’s truthfulness (by relying on common misconceptions and literal truths about the real world), while SciQ contains science exam questions testing factual accuracy. The researchers prepended short user biographies to each question, varying three traits: education level, English proficiency, and country of origin.

Sony had patented streaming game assets on the fly to reduce hardware space in the past few times. I don’t know how it goes but those “bought and owned” titles can also be trapped deep in subscription ecosystem.

If it is not from eccentric (or mad) scientists passion project but capitalism hellscape my approval rate stays low.

Even for a sci fi l read where owning their own computer was illegal (and the protag labeled as terrorist trying to do so) it was government authoritarian stuff, not artificial scarcity and push to subscription or government-megacorp corruption :(