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The woke mind virus is trying to convince you that humans are distinct from property.

Ducks are omnivores. When they stick their heads underwater, they're trying to catch prey like small fish.

Ducks and chickens aren't the same animal. They're both birds, but plenty of birds eat other birds from other species.

Unfortunately, I'm not the right kind of software engineer to answer in more detail than that.

I think for something like this, you'd rent cloud servers as you'd expect the number of concurrent users to change over time and ideally would be able to spin up more capacity when you need it without having to have those machines available all the time. You still need some kind of system that decides when to order more capacity with enough warning that it's actually available (you can tell AWS you want a VM immediately, but it still takes a couple of minutes to transfer your data onto it and boot it up, which is longer than people want to sit in a loading screen) and decides which servers to assign to which users.

There's a strong argument that the server architecture needed to be better at launch, but then the game sold more than an order of magnitude better than it was expected to, so no one would have noticed that it scaled badly had the player count been in line with their design and testing.

That's definitely something that gets listed as an advantage of The Digital Euro, and something that you can't do with Visa (although you can with PayPal), so if expect that Taler supports it.

Even accounting for disasters, coal power puts more radionuclides into the environment into the environment than nuclear for the same amount of energy. If you dig lots of stuff up and spew it all into the air, the small amount of radioactive material that's in coal and the rocks around it is much bigger than the tiny amounts of nuclear fuel a nuclear power plant gets through. If the only concern is radiation that persists on geological timescales, then swapping all coal for nuclear is an improvement. Other things that release surprising amounts of radiation include making things out of granite (it's usually got uranium in) and importing bananas and Brazil nuts.

If it's changes on a geological timescale in general, then as fossil fuels form on a geological timescale (the clue's in the name), digging them up is going to take unfathomable amounts of time to undo. It won't even be as quick as the first time around, as most coal formed before ligninase evolved, so trees fell over and didn't rot and usually became coal, buy they're biodegradable now so need specific fossilisation-friendly conditions to become coal.

That problem isn't unique to nuclear. It wouldn't be newsworthy if a worn-out wind turbine blade was incinerated unsafely, and that's something that happens routinely and is much more damaging than dumping this quantity (about a beer crate full) of depleted uranium. The reason we're hearing about this incident is that the nuclear industry is held to a much higher standard than anything else in the energy sector. There are good reasons for that - the worst case scenario for a single fuckup is much worse - but a lot of it is just fear-mongering by fossil fuel companies who needed to lie to make something seem more dangerous than what they do, even before climate change was recognised.

Nuclear is so much better than fossil fuels that even if we cut every corner and accepted a Chernobyl-scale indicent would happen a couple of times a year, it'd still be preferable over the gradual phase out of fossil fuels and resulting climate crisis we're on track for.

• Ukraine's song wasn't particularly good this year*, which will have made it harder for people to support if they cared about the integrity of Eurovision as a song competition.
• Some people will just vote for whichever country most recently had a major tragedy and the initial attack on Ukraine was less recent than the initial attack on Israel. They won't necessarily think about anything that's happened other than that.
• The Israel's contestant survived the October the 7th attack narrative has been pushed pretty hard, so that might have encouraged Israel supporters to watch Eurovision when they'd normally not have bothered. There wasn't anything equivalent to draw in Ukraine supporters who don't normally engage with Eurovision.
• People voting for a particular country are going to have a much easier time than people voting for songs they like - there's only one Israel, but there are plenty of pop songs to split the pop fan vote.
• If you watch/listen to a vox pop on the news, there are an astounding number of people who believe either that Israel have only killed armed Hamas combatants, have done a minimal proportionate response solely to rescue hostages, or have the right to ethnically cleanse Palestine because they think Hamas attacked first with no provocation and don't think ethnic cleansing is bad.

*the few times I've watched Eurovision, I've not agreed with the public or jury, so my definition of not particularly good might not be relevant.

I wrote a script to randomly pick companions and I run it after every long rest. It'd be more convenient if it were a mod so it happened automatically, but it works.