As someone who wants to ditch YouTube this is helpful to me. Thanks.

I really struggle to find a good alternative use of my time. It hasn’t always been like this. A humbling experience.

Please know that you made me chuckle.

At idle, when the 5 HDDs are spun down, it’s around 25W. When everything’s up and running and under load it’s around 50W.

Great, now I’m a dad, apparently. Thank you!

Monkey sees, monkey wants. I’m in desperate need of a personality. Is this hat real?

It’s not all that different in Germany.

That’s a cool idea! As others, I’m not too keen on using Telegram. Would it run with other messaging apps like Signal or Threema?

That’s kind of funny. Nuclear energy is actually getting more expensive:

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A few reasons come to mind:

• The newer the technology, the higher the cost.
• Each reactor and its power plant is a huge project. This makes scaling up production difficult. And please don’t start with tiny reactors. We’re not in Fallout.
• Safety standards have risen.

There are probably more reasons. I would of course not compare it to coal but to renewables. They’re the future. Storage will be needed but those options are also getting cheaper by the day.

Ah, whataboutism. How cunning. I’m done with you.

Exactly. Privatize the profits and socialize the costs. What a brilliant system. Unfortunately it benefits only a small handful while everyone else picks up the tab.

Thanks professor. Do you know private debt and state debt are hardly the same? Have you considered the opportunity cost of not having public energy, therefore losing potential “earnings” to private investors? Or are you telling me next that rich people are a necessity as well? Is trickle-down part of this course or do I have to wait for 201?

This has little to do with where you’re from. It’s just neoliberal rhetoric. Having a public energy sector would be beneficial in the long run and would reduce what we have to pay for it. Right now the earnings are privatized in most places.

That’s incorrect. Nuclear power is one of the more expensive options when you factor in the costs after operation ends, which you should obviously do.