[–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

You are correct on this, but in the last year or so, trump has been less and less successful with getting Rs to "close ranks" like they would usually do. I doubt that would be enough to prevent a SCOTUS nomination though, they'll definitely all vote to confirm, and probably some Ds as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Again, who doesn't have this access?

    There are communities in northern Ontario that are only accessibly by airplane ~6 months of the year, and those 6 months also have very low amounts of sunlight. They're not quite north enough to be completely dark all day, but they only get a few hours of useable light per day in the winter.

    This means that a) solar is less effective in the winter, and b) if there is damage to a wind turbine blade in the winter, they may not be able to get a replacement until spring.

    Remote communities don't have the kind of energy demand that nuclear power fulfills

    Each reactor cell produces about 1MW, which is about enough to power a small town of about 1,000 people. They can also be air-lifted meaning if it needs to be replaced during the winter, that is still possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (10 children)

    For the places that have enough land and environmental conditions suitable for wind/solar, that is true. In remote communities, just getting the materials for a wind farm there is incredibly difficult if there's no warm water port for a ship to deliver the blades for instance. A nuclear reactor in a shipping container can be driven by transport on the logging roads or even air-lifted in. It's not a universal solution, it's something specific to fit a community's unique needs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    The main advantage nuclear has is size. It can produce more power per hectare of land than either solar or wind can, and this will be even more the case if the small scale reactors that Canada has been researching ever become a thing - basically a power plant in a shipping container, meant to service remote communities.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Tic-tacs are advertised as "sugar free" due to a legal loophole. Regardless of serving size, a product can be advertised as "sugar free" if one serving contains less than 0.5g of total sugar. One serving of tic-tacs is exactly 0.5g and contains 0.49g of sugar.

    98% sugar, but is "sugar free"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Same, I distro-hopped a bunch when I built this PC last year and landed on Fedora (funny enough, the one I tried right before was Nobara), and it's been more than good enough so far that I don't feel the need to switch. At this point, most of the time I kinda forget that I'm using Linux because things just work that smoothly. Definitely a huge leap from even ~5 years ago.

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