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  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBut yes.
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    2 days ago

    Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

    It’s just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

    Now, it’s not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

    But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.


  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBut yes.
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    Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

    But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

    If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.






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    Harris was the path of things slowly getting better. Wages finally overtaking inflation.

    Given a couple years, we would all be in a better place.

    Trump’s tariffs will drive up the price of everything. The last few years of inflation and greed will pale in comparison.







  • Technically it’s the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

    Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

    Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn’t spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

    Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We’ve added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it’s 435.

    Repealing that one law would fix several problems.




  • No, it won’t change the minds of his base.

    But there are people he wouldn’t consider his base, that also tend to vote conservative, who were actually offended by some of those jokes. And then realized that hey, Trump and company are white nationalists, and that means that no minority will be safe.

    It’s a tiny minority of Trump supporters, but as close as this election could be, that’s more than enough.

    Now, Trump is planning on stealing the election anyway. Via disrupting or delaying certification of votes past December 11th, Which then means that there will be incomplete slates of electors, which means the election goes to the House, and each State gets one vote instead of the house itself voting.

    They’re going to try to use Section three of the 20th amendment.

    If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

    Fun times to live in…