You can’t ban a personal story from a competition,” she told NBC News in a Zoom interview earlier this month.

Yes you can. Nobody talks about whether Russia would send a song that is “personal”. The country is in gross violation of international law and that is the reason for the ban. It is completely irrelevant what the song is about. The country is the problem and the song is presented as an entry for the country.

It shouldn’t matter what the lyrics are about to begin with as Israel should not be allowed to participate while committing some of the most heinous crimes against humanity.

Do they use concrete? They compete in the concrete industry. Do they use steel? They compete in the steel industry. Do they need structural planning and approval? They compete over structural designers and inspectors. Do they need project management? They compete over project managers. Do they need logistics? They compete over logistics. Do they need electric wiring? They compete over electric wiring. Do they need controls and automation? They compete over controls and automation. Do they need electrical engineers? They compete over electrical engineers. Do they need construction site managers? They compete over those too. Do all of the companies involved need IT, accountants, attorneys, HR, managers, offices…? yes they do, so they compete there too.

Offshore wind plants need onshore buildings too, where there is control structures, converters, grid access… Denmark is a flat and island rich country. It is likely that a nuclear power plant would be built by the sea, so you also need maritime engineers…

Finally, if loans are a thing why don’t all countries just take on infinite loans and solve all their infrastructure needs at once? Denmark has its own currency still and is a relatively small country. What do you think happens if Denmark goes from a national debt of around 2-3 billion € to a national debt of 50 billion € to finance a mayor new nuclear plant? Just buying all those Euros will deflate the DKK into worthlessness.

Financial resources are resources. Also there are markets for project management, engineers, construction work… The concrete for the foundations is made in the same plants, imported material has to be transported on the same roads/railways/waterways…

All these resources that are not strictly specific to either industry will be competed over, driving the prices and also limiting how fast things can be done.

You can try eating and drinking at the same time and chewing bubble gum on top. Good luck keeping it separated while swallowing.

Because democracy is a temporary embarrassment to the feudal aristocracy and it is rebuilding feudalism through privatizing ownership of public goods.

AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as [email protected] If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.

This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.

You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45596

Utility-scale battery storage costs decreased nearly 70% between 2015 and 2018

So we are looking at much lower numbers in a few years as the trend has continued.

You can save money with solar and batteries, but only after about 30 years.

That is false.

Example for US around 7.5 years with tax credit -> pessimistically 15 years

Example for Germany 7 years w.o., 12.5 years with battery storage. -> pessimistically 20 years.

hat’s a much longer payback time than any other forms like nuclear.

That is false. Take the spanish nuclear industry for example

Nuclear power plants are not amortized. Every year they invest around 300 million Euro. Nuclear generation is currently incurring losses due to a disproportionate, discriminatory and confiscatory taxation.

The amortization of nuclear power plants is not complete. In fact, from this time to the end of its operation it will be necessary to invest around €3 billion to maintain the plants in optimal safety and reliability conditions.

Take Germany for an example

Bei neugebauten Kernkraftwerken in Deutschland werden laut dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Gestehungskosten zwischen 14 und 19 Cent pro Kilowattstunde erwartet. Das Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft gibt in einer Studie für Greenpeace Energy an, dass die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Kosten in Deutschland im Jahr 2021 zwischen 26 und 38 Cent pro Kilowattstunde lagen.

Allerdings geraten auch abgeschriebene Kernkraftwerke in Märkten, in denen die Strompreise infolge aktueller wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungen wie des Schiefergasbooms in den USA sowie des Ausbaus von erneuerbaren Energien in vielen Staaten der Welt gefallen sind, wirtschaftlich unter Druck. In den USA wurden deshalb in den letzten Jahren mehrere Kernkraftwerke lange vor ihrem genehmigten Laufzeitende außer Betrieb genommen.

So nuclear power at best only generates profits if the market is arbitrarily restricted and the power plants are protected against low energy prices, which in turn means to stifle economic growth and competitiveness in everything else.

More realistically new nuclear power plants are a mass grave of capital. See UKs hinkley point now at more than 50 billion € for 3.2 GW. That is a whooping 15,625 €/kW.

Which is why we should work towards a strong European army rather than strong national armies as the earlier comment said. A strong German army will not be at the center of it.

Also Germanies post WW2 military is riddled with wasting money, inefficiencies, ineptitude, subversion by far right extremists…

Germany has no basis to belief it would do military better than its neighbors. So any historical argument will have to deal with the fact that a strong German army historically was always about invading its neighbors. This also does not hold true for strong armies of countries like the Netherland that historically did not invade neighbors so much, but rather took control over trade routes and colonies. That isn’t better, but it is not a historic threat to other European countries. For Germany as a rule of thumb you can say that strong army = invading Poland soon.

With the ever stronger rise of the fascists in Germany and other European countries, often financed by Russia and with the goal to undermine unity inside the EU it is also something to consider. If the EU should fall apart for any reason a strong German army will be a threat to everyone around them, in particular Poland.

It is therefore crucial both as a lesson from history and in looking at the current political developments to build an EU army that is not just some national armies loosely put together.

Economics of scale. Either you commit to a nuclear industry to have it somewhat less expensive, see France for an example where it is still failing catastrophically. Or you just pay even more money for even less energy.

Denmark is surrounded by sea. Offshore wind power is pretty reliable and it is a lie that solar and batteries would be more expensive than building nuclear power plant. Plenty of households theses days buy solar with battery and safe money with it comparing to buying from the grid. And nuclear power is the most expensive in the grid. For Europe nuclear is at around 20 cents/kWh, coal around 8-10, lignite around 5, and solar is down to less then 5 cents/kWh.

Furthermore nuclear power will get more expensive the more demand is there as Uranium is a finite resource. And the most likely trading partner will be Russia or countries under Russias influence.

Denmark is a small country. Transmission losses are much lower in high voltage DC lines. Battery storages get cheaper consistently. Denmark is close to Norway, where pump storage plants exist and can be built easily.

Because resources are limited. Committing to one technology over others means binding resources that cannot be used in other technologies. And nuclear power has pretty much the highest investment per power ratio. So instead of getting 20 GW of offshore wind power in 5 years, they get 1 GW of nuclear in 20 years.

This differentiation is a bit arbitrary. Cocaine is a “natural” compound. So is opium. Natural psychedelics include salvia and other rather nasty stuff. LSD is not natural but synthesized from precursors that are easier to make naturally. Alcohol is made naturally too.

A drug being “synthetic” or “natural” has no principal bearing on its risks and safety. Same goes for all medicinal drugs.

What about France, UK, Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Netherlands…

A strong German army is a fairly recent concept or the past 200 years with the rise of Prussia and subsequent unification by conquest of Germany. Strong German armies are historically made to Invade and conquer the neighbors of Germany and they failed that more than they suceeded.

So are Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and many other non European countries. Australia also participates in Eurovision. The contient really is not the issue here.

Russias broadcaster also is a member of the EBU. The membership was suspended by the EBU as a result of Russias (full scale) invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Belarus was suspended in 2021 over the crackdown on anti-government protests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union

The decision to keep Israels membership active and letting them participate is purely political. It has nothing to do with the structure of the EBU.

Mayo

1. https://jacobin.com/2024/11/harris-trump-election-democrats-workers

Israel already starved Palestinians to death during the presidency of Biden. When his “ultimatum” in autumn last year wasn’t met. He did… nothing. There is no indication that Biden or Harris, who has reiterated that she is following Biden on this, would bring any pressure for Israel to commit less grave crimes.

Anti-privacy by default, pushing AI slop that takes all your data, more than one improperly checked update rolled out that bricked many computers, shoving Ads everywhere…

Of course you could say these to not be strictly new, but it is a new level of enshittification way beyond what we used to know.