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  • Dalvoron@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldHIDEOUS
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    21 hours ago

    That’s such a disingenuous presentation of the facts. Of course there is no such thing as truly renewable energy, but there is a difference in kind between a supply of energy that is practically inexhaustible on the timescale of human civilisation (what people mean when they say renewable) and energy produced from a limited fuel supply on earth (non renewable).

    Solar (and its byproduct energies wind, hydro, biomass), tidal, geothermal are not in the same category as fission of rare heavy metals.

    I say all this as someone pro-nuclear who agrees that we should use it while it is still fissionable.


  • Dalvoron@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzNew He-Man Movie
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    14 days ago

    I’ve only seen him in half a dozen things, not including My So Called Life. I think he’s been terrible in all but one role, which was in WeCrashed. In that, he did a great job of playing a creepy weirdo. Based on that experience, he might do a decent job of skeletor



  • Excellent points, but the cookie banners were a response to the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. In fact the banners predate GDPR by about a decade! I know this because I decided to make my own banner that was slightly less annoying about five years before GDPR was a thing.

    Funnily enough most of your points are still correct precisely because, as you say, “most people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners”.



  • Dalvoron@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldA roundabout
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    4 months ago

    There are a lot of ‘mini’ roundabouts in my country that are fully flat to the ground. The point is to set the rules for right of way, entering and exiting, indication etc in a way people find familiar (we have lots of roundabouts). Just one roundabout sign at each entrance with standard road markings and everyone knows what’s up.


  • Dalvoron@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldA conundrum
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    5 months ago

    I seem to completely misunderstand the dynamic.

    As I see it, you have paid $700k for the house with the bank’s money (in this thread there is no deposit), bought back some of the house from the bank with $50k of your own money and then lost the house so you’re out $50k with no house.

    If the bank does pay out some of the value of the house to you based on equity, it’s just going to be a smaller amount than $50k since the value of the house is lower and part of your repayment went to interest so you don’t even get $50k worth of equity. This feels like a worse position to me.

    Like the bank has lost money for sure, but we are not getting that are we?