I work in a role that’s 12h shift. With an average of 2.8 shifts a week when stat and holidays are accounted for.
I dread the day that I can’t do the nights anymore and have to move into a 4 or 5 day a week role. With the nights sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I lost the whole day on each end of a set.
One would suspect there will be a peak as all the thousands who couldn’t get appropriate medical care for their entire lives finally have access, and then eventually it settles down to the true annual demand.
But all these numbers are rounding errors, this 13k number is 0.0039% of the population.
We do need more nuclear, but the nuclear industry has always been its own worst enemy.
Awful image. We’ve seen what can happen in Japan and Russia and even here in the US when corners are cut. It isn’t really a problem with the technology. It’s a problem that is inherent when corporations try to cut corners to maximize profits and people make stupid mistakes. If some other power plant has major structural issues, the plant is closed down and demoed. If a nuclear power plant has major structural issues, you could turn a 10 or 20 mile radius uninhabitable for literally thousands of years. That’s about 1/8th the land area of the entire state of Rhode Island just gone from being used.
Add to that the ridiculous fact that we have so much land here in the US that is totally empty but we can’t figure out where to put the waste.
I’m not anti nuclear at all, i think we legitimately need a diversified energy generation plan, but I just don’t think we have much of a future with building out more nuclear plants simply because the image is just so incredibly tarnished. The money and effort would probably be better spent elsewhere.
I feel ya and think it’s strange that everyone is OK burning coal an methane while the planet literally burns. Yes, a nuke could make a 200 sq mile area uninhabitable. Isn’t what we’re doing instead demonstrably worse?
You may be interested in knowing that Georgia just brought a new one online a few months ago. Wyoming is building one. TX and SC have put money aside to study nuclear development in each state.
That’s great. Again, if these plants can pass the NIMBY groups then fantastic, but I’m guessing many of these plants are far and away from population centers. Now obviously we don’t want a nuclear plant in Central Park in NYC but we do need power generation closer to where it’s actually being used. TX and WY have lots and lots of room.
There’s plenty of diversity available without flooding yet another native town with uranium tailings from a mine you refuse to clean up in order to support a technology that can provide at most a 5% contribution to the total.
Wind, PV, solar-thermal, tidal, wave, hydro, agricultural waste based biofuel, waste methane, even orange hydrogen are all options that are less harmful and have fewer externalities.
Russia was reusing a government reactor that wasn’t designed for the it. The US has had one major incident out of over a 100 plants in operations for decades. Japan faced an earthquake that was an order of magnitude higher than anyone planned for and still managed it very well given how badly it could have gone.
I have gotten to work on a few small projects in the nuclear sector they make the government and pharm look efficient and risk adverse. Just a tiny taste of it: all tape used on wires had to be a specific brand of tape and not only no splicing no terminal blocks either. Wires had to be run fully point to point. We are talking football fields of distance a single set of cables had to be run.
I see we’re back to pretending santa susanna didn’t exist again.
We’re also pretending rules like the specific brand of tape aren’t there to prevent hundred million to billion dollar cleanups like when someone used the wrong brand of cat litter at WIPP
I have always been of the opinion that Putin has a funny voice but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if there was some sort of Weekend at Bernie’s going on.
That’s not a mugshot, it’s a passport photo. Where is the orange suit? I want that fucking orange suit. It’s going to look so nice on little hands man.
Another commenter mentioned that as he was just being processed and released it wouldn’t make sense to provide clothing for him. That being said, some counties take the mugshot before issuing the jumpsuit.
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.’”
The first time, the Conservatives on the Supreme Court stopped the vote counting when it looked like Bush would lose Florida. The legal justification used was "because we want Bush to win".
The second time was a combination of Swift Boating and the man who oversaw the Ohio part of the election, literally worked for the Bush Campaign. Which turned out like this.
It is pretty amazing that no matter how bad these Republican politicians are, the country seems to forgive and forget about it and is willing to give the next Republican another fair shot.
And this has been going on for decades now. We are now dealing with Trump, but before that was W and before that was Reagan and before that was Nixon. Each one was incredibly unpopular. Each one embroiled in controversy and corruption and incompetence. And yet it seems like the second these clowns step out of the White House, the American people are right back to willing to give the GOP another shot at running the show. It’s like we collectively have the memory of a goldfish, and we can’t process the idea that maybe, just maybe, the party that is always condemning the government, maybe isn’t well suited to actually running that same government.
You’re just stuck with your undemocratic electoral process 🤷
I would gladly see the US split in four or five countries just to grab a bowl of popcorn and watch the republican parts become the third world country they so dearly wish to become.
Yeah but it got memed a decade after he left office. Flubbing up one quote is much better than giving the press a sound clip of you saying “shame on me” while running for reelection after one of the most controversial presidencies.
Let them slowly out themselves one by one. Each and every time they get reamed by PD or the FBI. All the j6 losers have been getting wrecked in court. Keep it coming.
We are stuck having to deal with these rejects, the very least we can hope for is that they continue to fuck up at literally anything they try to do and get nailed to the wall by the justice system.
Does this mean Trump will have a mugshot released too? I bet he’ll pull that shit eating grin. Wouldn’t surprise me if he tries to give the thumbs up too.
This is mildly impressive. I would not have expected Trump’s toadies to be booked and mugshot because, as of yet, Trump himself hasn’t been handcuffed, perp-walked, or mugshot himself.
The sheriff has previously stated that Trump would be treated just like anyone else, and the way the toadies have so far been treated seems to back that up. Fingers crossed!
I know, and it’s definitely possible they’ve found the one sheriff in America who just doesn’t give a fuck.
I really, really hope that’s the case. If there’s one thing Donald Trump needs, it’s to feel the clamp of handcuffs, the sting of a perp walk, and the flash bulb of a mugshot.
Every other person who’s indicted or “booked” Trump in this country seems to have done it solely for performative political points, judging by the total lack of actual police procedures they’ve followed thus far.
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