Nuclear is actually a very poor fit for baseline power because of the high costs involved and the problem of it being expensive and slow to turn on or off. Kept turned off, nuclear is a massive money bleeder which is why investment companies rarely touch them.
Because solar and wind are variable, you need a baseline that's also variable to be able to quickly compensate. The only real viable options are battery power (harder to scale), hydro (geographically limited) and unfortunately gas power plants (polluting, but cheap). Nuclear is excellent stable power, good if solar/wind are never able to reach 100% of needs, but multiple countries have now shown that that is very much within the realm of possibilities.
Biggest issue with nuclear remains cost, excessively long time to build and if there's a drought you don't get enough water to cool with so you need to switch it off (see Hungary and France these days to see the very expensive consequences of that).
They do weird things to the modlog. Rarely can you see which mod banned you, and if the comment you posted was upvoted but the mod didn't like it they'll remove it and you won't find a mention of it in the modlog anymore, making it impossible to see the original comment.
Yeah but that's exactly what I mean when I say that defining consciousness as a scale brings us no closer to the (poorly defined) questions we have about these things. We don't even know if we should define it as a one-dimensional number.
"When is something conscious?"
"Well it's a scale so once it has a high enough consciousness number"
"Okay, so at what point in the scale do we consider it conscious?"
"Well that depends on how you want to define 'conscious'"
So you get stuck with essentially the same question. And I think that expressing it as a scale also runs into the problem of "how do you measure it then?" which basically requires answering the original consciousness-question again.
Although I think it's probably not a bad idea to think about it this way, it does create the next unhelpful question of "when is something conscious enough?", so it kinda dodges the hard question. So it simultaneously is useful and useless to think about it in this way.
The video shows someone in the Moroccan gendarmerie unloading migrants from a truck. We don't know any context other than that: where and when was the video taken, was this officer trafficking migrants or did they stop a truck they suspected was trafficking people and forced them to unload? If you're dumping migrants over a sea border, dumping them in the middle of a road doesn't seem very sensible. And IIRC that officer never shows his face, so identification will be next to impossible (could even be a staged video if you want to go the conspiracy route, to spur further division between Spain and Morocco).
Morocco also hasn't seemed very keen on exploiting the situation. Initial inaction can clearly be explained as surprise and requiring some mobilisation. Plus, Morocco cooperated once it kicked off, taking back everyone.
That Israel seeks to exploit this happening seems obvious. But even that video clearly states at the end that none of what was discussed is evidence of Israeli involvement.
To be clear, I'm all fine with speculating, and I think it's valuable to discuss this sort of stuff. And I don't discount the possibility that Israel is involved after all. But I do take issue with it being presented as established fact, in a way that conveniently amplifies far-right talking points, with some added antisemitism on top. We should be singing Sanchez's praises for sending all of these migrants back successfully, defending the border (unless you're of the "workers of the world should know no borders" kind ofc, that's also valid), rather than entertaining conspiracy theories with no evidence.
Israel being critical of Spain doesn't mean they're involved in dumping migrants over the border. It's quite a leap to go from a tweet from Netanyahu's son from 7 years ago to Ceuta today. That's at best evidence of poor relations between Israel and Spain, not of Israeli involvement in human trafficking in Ceuta.
The "paid part" is the implication when the conspiracy is that the Moroccan military is dumping migrants across the border as dictated by Israel. They wouldn't be doing that for free and implies that the Moroccan government is complicit as well.
The fact that the video is a real video of a group of maroccan alone is enough for the far right to weaponize the event regardless of if israel is involved or not
Sure, but the left shouldn't legitimize their false narratives as that hurts other people. Nor should it legitimize actual antisemitists.
What exact evidence are you looking for?
Literally anything that proves A) this was orchestrated by the government, whether that's the Moroccan or the Israeli one and B) an actual concrete link between the wave of migrants and the Israeli government. That seems to be the bare minimum required to even entertain a conspiracy theory like this. But I honestly think the conspiracy is a little ridiculous on its face (Morocco wouldn't go along with this) so I personally am not actively trying to prove anything here.
But what evidence is there of Israel paying off the king of Morocco to have the Moroccan army send migrants to the border of Ceuta? Because that's the alleged conspiracy here. One video without context which could very well be demonstrating the opposite, that's it. In the original now-removed comment I even explained why it'd be strange for Morocco to be involved like this.
I'm not saying that Israel never pulls shady shit; they obviously do (gotta complete a genocide, hard to do without shady shit). The point is that in this case the right uses this to attack innocent third parties who genuinely have nothing to do with this. It's not a reason to reject evidence, it's a reason to be careful with random conspiracy theories that conveniently (and falsely) validate some of the right's main talking points.
If there was actual evidence presented that Israel is involved with this incident, then we should by all means share and publicly accuse. But no such evidence has been presented. I'm not rejecting evidence, I'm stating it doesn't even exist in the first place, or rather isn't being presented here. But I'm not going to go along with a random "jewish conspiracy to ethnically replace christians with muslims" on a whim.
All I said was that we have no context on the video (is Morocco transporting migrants or did they intercept a transport, the exact opposite of the narrative presented? Since this appears to be in the middle of nowhere). Morocco generally has good relations with Spain when it comes to taking migrants back (by the end of the day the vast majority had already returned).
Then I mentioned we had zero evidence presented that Israel is involved. The "strongest" evidence presented is a couple tweets from Netanyahu's son from 7 years ago. Not very compelling imo, especially given the evidence for completely different reasons for this migration wave, that Sanchez also gave.
Then I highlighted how this narrative was playing directly into the right's hand, by having the left agree that "migrants are invading Europe" which in the Ceuta case is ridiculous by itself since it isn't a Shengen area. And I pointed the genuine, unadulterated antisemitism under those tweets, "Jews control the world"-type shit (and worse).
I never disputed that Israel does shady shit, nor that it is a disgusting genocidal state. But apparently that's "zionism" according to ".ml".
Weirdly despite the mod removing my comment, my original comment isn't visible in the modlog; that only shows a ban. I assume I must be ignorant of how the modlog works, but previously I could view the contents of my comment there too. Did they change that or did they mess with the modlog?
The "horrible influences" you mention are very real. Just recently I finally got round to blocking lemmy.ml. I always kept them around because I do value breaking into other echo chambers a bit to see things from their point of view.
They recently had a video posted, hosted on X, with claims that Israel conspired with Morocco to release migrants into Ceuta. The X post itself was filled with antisemitism. And I meant full-blown antisemitism, like Jewish caricatures, Nazi-rhetoric, not the "antizionism = antisemitism" kind.
I commented that I felt a bit uneasy taking a completely context-less video, blaming what's happening on a "Jewish conspiracy" (that's how it was being phrased) and simultaneously fully going along with far-right talking points (that Europe is being "invaded" (despite 95%+ migrants already having returned because Ceuta is not in Shengen) and that "Jewish elites" are conspiring to replace Christians with Muslims (great replacement theory but even stupider I guess)). Not to mention the total lack of class solidarity with the migrants.
Comment was upvotes +16 last I checked, but then got removed and I got banned for "zionism" (despite very clearly expressing my disdain for Israel and its genocide in that same comment). Antizionism must be kept separate from antisemitic influences, or Israel will use it to dismiss critics and justify their genocide. That .ml has apparently failed to do this is not something I wish to tolerate.
The fabs in use for the latest chips are typically 1 to 2 generations behind, because it's expensive and takes a long time to get a new fab in place (these are extremely sensitive machines). Even if China could produce the exact fabs most in use today (which is already a little unlikely), ASML themselves are 2 gens ahead.
This will likely reduce prices on older gen chips though, and those were no slumps either.
Nuclear is actually a very poor fit for baseline power because of the high costs involved and the problem of it being expensive and slow to turn on or off. Kept turned off, nuclear is a massive money bleeder which is why investment companies rarely touch them.
Because solar and wind are variable, you need a baseline that's also variable to be able to quickly compensate. The only real viable options are battery power (harder to scale), hydro (geographically limited) and unfortunately gas power plants (polluting, but cheap). Nuclear is excellent stable power, good if solar/wind are never able to reach 100% of needs, but multiple countries have now shown that that is very much within the realm of possibilities.
Biggest issue with nuclear remains cost, excessively long time to build and if there's a drought you don't get enough water to cool with so you need to switch it off (see Hungary and France these days to see the very expensive consequences of that).
They do weird things to the modlog. Rarely can you see which mod banned you, and if the comment you posted was upvoted but the mod didn't like it they'll remove it and you won't find a mention of it in the modlog anymore, making it impossible to see the original comment.
Yeah but that's exactly what I mean when I say that defining consciousness as a scale brings us no closer to the (poorly defined) questions we have about these things. We don't even know if we should define it as a one-dimensional number.
"When is something conscious?"
"Well it's a scale so once it has a high enough consciousness number"
"Okay, so at what point in the scale do we consider it conscious?"
"Well that depends on how you want to define 'conscious'"
So you get stuck with essentially the same question. And I think that expressing it as a scale also runs into the problem of "how do you measure it then?" which basically requires answering the original consciousness-question again.
Although I think it's probably not a bad idea to think about it this way, it does create the next unhelpful question of "when is something conscious enough?", so it kinda dodges the hard question. So it simultaneously is useful and useless to think about it in this way.
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Eh not bad.
Excessive emissions.
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That's being done by an elected government. The opposition you're referring to here is the wesrern Sahara specifically.
Morocco is not a dictatorship lol.
The video shows someone in the Moroccan gendarmerie unloading migrants from a truck. We don't know any context other than that: where and when was the video taken, was this officer trafficking migrants or did they stop a truck they suspected was trafficking people and forced them to unload? If you're dumping migrants over a sea border, dumping them in the middle of a road doesn't seem very sensible. And IIRC that officer never shows his face, so identification will be next to impossible (could even be a staged video if you want to go the conspiracy route, to spur further division between Spain and Morocco).
Morocco also hasn't seemed very keen on exploiting the situation. Initial inaction can clearly be explained as surprise and requiring some mobilisation. Plus, Morocco cooperated once it kicked off, taking back everyone.
That Israel seeks to exploit this happening seems obvious. But even that video clearly states at the end that none of what was discussed is evidence of Israeli involvement.
To be clear, I'm all fine with speculating, and I think it's valuable to discuss this sort of stuff. And I don't discount the possibility that Israel is involved after all. But I do take issue with it being presented as established fact, in a way that conveniently amplifies far-right talking points, with some added antisemitism on top. We should be singing Sanchez's praises for sending all of these migrants back successfully, defending the border (unless you're of the "workers of the world should know no borders" kind ofc, that's also valid), rather than entertaining conspiracy theories with no evidence.
Israel being critical of Spain doesn't mean they're involved in dumping migrants over the border. It's quite a leap to go from a tweet from Netanyahu's son from 7 years ago to Ceuta today. That's at best evidence of poor relations between Israel and Spain, not of Israeli involvement in human trafficking in Ceuta.
The "paid part" is the implication when the conspiracy is that the Moroccan military is dumping migrants across the border as dictated by Israel. They wouldn't be doing that for free and implies that the Moroccan government is complicit as well.
Sure, but the left shouldn't legitimize their false narratives as that hurts other people. Nor should it legitimize actual antisemitists.
Literally anything that proves A) this was orchestrated by the government, whether that's the Moroccan or the Israeli one and B) an actual concrete link between the wave of migrants and the Israeli government. That seems to be the bare minimum required to even entertain a conspiracy theory like this. But I honestly think the conspiracy is a little ridiculous on its face (Morocco wouldn't go along with this) so I personally am not actively trying to prove anything here.
Well not from those bombed warehouses they don't, those kinda burned down after all.
They also distributed general military gear you could purchase from them. But yes this is logistics being hit, not manufacturing.
But what evidence is there of Israel paying off the king of Morocco to have the Moroccan army send migrants to the border of Ceuta? Because that's the alleged conspiracy here. One video without context which could very well be demonstrating the opposite, that's it. In the original now-removed comment I even explained why it'd be strange for Morocco to be involved like this.
I'm not saying that Israel never pulls shady shit; they obviously do (gotta complete a genocide, hard to do without shady shit). The point is that in this case the right uses this to attack innocent third parties who genuinely have nothing to do with this. It's not a reason to reject evidence, it's a reason to be careful with random conspiracy theories that conveniently (and falsely) validate some of the right's main talking points.
If there was actual evidence presented that Israel is involved with this incident, then we should by all means share and publicly accuse. But no such evidence has been presented. I'm not rejecting evidence, I'm stating it doesn't even exist in the first place, or rather isn't being presented here. But I'm not going to go along with a random "jewish conspiracy to ethnically replace christians with muslims" on a whim.
All I said was that we have no context on the video (is Morocco transporting migrants or did they intercept a transport, the exact opposite of the narrative presented? Since this appears to be in the middle of nowhere). Morocco generally has good relations with Spain when it comes to taking migrants back (by the end of the day the vast majority had already returned).
Then I mentioned we had zero evidence presented that Israel is involved. The "strongest" evidence presented is a couple tweets from Netanyahu's son from 7 years ago. Not very compelling imo, especially given the evidence for completely different reasons for this migration wave, that Sanchez also gave.
Then I highlighted how this narrative was playing directly into the right's hand, by having the left agree that "migrants are invading Europe" which in the Ceuta case is ridiculous by itself since it isn't a Shengen area. And I pointed the genuine, unadulterated antisemitism under those tweets, "Jews control the world"-type shit (and worse).
I never disputed that Israel does shady shit, nor that it is a disgusting genocidal state. But apparently that's "zionism" according to ".ml".
There's barely an argument in favour of your theory.
https://lemmy.ml/post/50777620 Just look at the vile shit being posted on Twatter below that video.
Weirdly despite the mod removing my comment, my original comment isn't visible in the modlog; that only shows a ban. I assume I must be ignorant of how the modlog works, but previously I could view the contents of my comment there too. Did they change that or did they mess with the modlog?
The "horrible influences" you mention are very real. Just recently I finally got round to blocking lemmy.ml. I always kept them around because I do value breaking into other echo chambers a bit to see things from their point of view.
They recently had a video posted, hosted on X, with claims that Israel conspired with Morocco to release migrants into Ceuta. The X post itself was filled with antisemitism. And I meant full-blown antisemitism, like Jewish caricatures, Nazi-rhetoric, not the "antizionism = antisemitism" kind.
I commented that I felt a bit uneasy taking a completely context-less video, blaming what's happening on a "Jewish conspiracy" (that's how it was being phrased) and simultaneously fully going along with far-right talking points (that Europe is being "invaded" (despite 95%+ migrants already having returned because Ceuta is not in Shengen) and that "Jewish elites" are conspiring to replace Christians with Muslims (great replacement theory but even stupider I guess)). Not to mention the total lack of class solidarity with the migrants.
Comment was upvotes +16 last I checked, but then got removed and I got banned for "zionism" (despite very clearly expressing my disdain for Israel and its genocide in that same comment). Antizionism must be kept separate from antisemitic influences, or Israel will use it to dismiss critics and justify their genocide. That .ml has apparently failed to do this is not something I wish to tolerate.
IIRC this was debunked some time ago, it's related to a change in OSX/MacOS that's causing Apple devices to show up as Linux.
Hey man don't kinkshame
The fabs in use for the latest chips are typically 1 to 2 generations behind, because it's expensive and takes a long time to get a new fab in place (these are extremely sensitive machines). Even if China could produce the exact fabs most in use today (which is already a little unlikely), ASML themselves are 2 gens ahead.
This will likely reduce prices on older gen chips though, and those were no slumps either.