Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@n8fr8 @vitriolix I would have liked a content warning on that 😜 At least this web client handles GIFs well, only starting when I click it, easy to stop, etc. Element kills me because the GIFs just keep going and going.

@vitriolix I think a lot of Mastodon users want to drive towards conversations and more engagements, and make things less flashy in general. I think that's one reason.

@kravietz @rysiek all energy sources can cause horrific accidents. Fission is the only one that causes problems with a timescale of millenia, both the waste from normal operation and the outcomes from accidents. Human society does not deal with well with that kind of timescale, particularly when the implementers are corporations who focus on yearly profits.

@Aurimas I tried updating to 7.5.1, and it seemed to have fixed it for a while. But it came back... 😭 its an intermittent bug, so hard to predict.

It makes the most Java error message ever:
"Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unexpected state for resolution: Unknown"

@rysiek
3) Because nuclear is better than bad options still does not make it good. Baseload power can come from hydro, tidal, batteries, and other potential sources. That is where research should go, not fission.

@rysiek sure, and nature is thriving in the Chernobyl zone, with black frogs that have evolved to manage the high levels of radiation. So we could expand nuclear, have more meltdowns, and thereby expand nature to prevent climate change! 😉 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35233243/

2) Part of why nuclear development stopped is because there was widespread agreement that fission could not be done safely.

@rysiek @oblomov @cinebox @scotclose perhaps we could have had safer fission power by now, but that is unfortunately speculation. Other facts get in the way, like the waste products have to be managed for thousands of years, and no one has proven they can manage them for decades, let alone centuries or millenia. Fission is a dead end that at best will always just be less bad than fossil fuels. Solutions like expanding nature, eating less meat, making cities work without cars are all proven.

@rysiek If the Japanese cannot run them safely, then no one can, IMHO. Chernobyl and Fukushima will be no go zones for humans for thousands of years. Pretending that nuclear power is now alright will only serve to reduce the pressure that is needed to force through the real solutions.

"Generally speaking, warring parties do not like neutral states. Russia complains about the sanctions, and Ukraine wants Switzerland to allow the re-export of our ammunition from Germany. But criticism is a sign that a neutral state is doing its job well" https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-altruistic-state-/48103724

I'm happy to see our Natural History Museum Vienna start to acknowledge the historical wrongs that it has been a part of, and to start doing something in response: they have finally returned the remains of 64 people that were literally stolen from New Zealand in the name of "#science" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/rage-but-also-joy-and-completeness-bringing-new-zealands-stolen-ancestors-home

@RianQuenlin@mastodon.world @confusedbunny Global warming means we don't really have snow any more in Vienna, but luckily kids still learn cursive in school here 😉

@SylvieLorxu Addictive things are part of life, all human societies use habit-forming substances like alcohol, caffeine, coca, nicotine, etc. Video games now fit into that spectrum. And we enjoy using them, even when we know they can be quite destructive to some people's lives. With video games, most people still believe they are harmless, that's what needs to change. I personally stopped playing pretty much entirely because I could not manage the addictiveness. Caffeine and alcohol I can manage

@SylvieLorxu I've also been sucked into games. The Bard's Tale and Loderunner in the 80s. Then Duke Nukem, Civilization, and Age of Empires in the 90s. I think it is OK to make a game so good it is addictive. The problem now is that companies are putting addictive design first and foremost, putting aside the artistry of game design, to extract as much profit as possible. Indeed, public corporations like EA, Microsoft, Tencent, etc. are legally required to extract as much profit as possible.