Because it’s not a conspiracy theory - there was an impeachment trial about this.

France is surprisingly nuclearized despite Total

Surely they don’t only discipline cops when it affects the royals… right?

This is exactly why any carbon tax needs to be redistributed

Yes, keep reporting them. If their instance admins don’t act, your server can defederate from spammers.

It’s often not the judge’s discretion, is the thing. Any person duly convicted of crimes under xyz statutes (i.e.: public indecency/public urination) shall be listed, so the court/prosecutors can massage it to disorderly conduct for a cooperative defendant or whatever.

Legislatures are encouraged to make sure the line is as broad as possible, because there’s frequently stories of actual rapists and child abusers pleading out of sex offender registration. When the evidence is muddy and the prosecution doesn’t want to chance it at trial, but has enough to nail them for something, frequently sex offender registration is a big bargaining chip.

Thus in many states, public urination is a sex offense.

The US subsidizes fossil fuels to the tune of 600B per year. You pay for pollution with your taxes.

I think consequences accruing to bad people for the wrong reasons are still worth concern, personally.

I don’t really like this- for one, it’s based in the fact that homophobic people who also engage in queer behavior in secret tend to be outrageous in their hypocrisy. Thus, because it’s such juicy news people tend to assume it’s more common than it actually is. This is called the availability heuristic.

For another, it individually pathologizes the condition of being homophobic as being rooted in psychological reaction formation- thereby denying that homophobia is something encultured by the broader homophobic social system that we live in. The condition of being a gay homophobe isn’t a psychological one but a sociological one- it’s not (just) shame but a very real fear of the very real consequences which recruit them to uphold the very system that oppresses them.

Corporations are spying on you and governments are using your tax money to buy the information from them

We are not going back to nuclear energy and we are going towards renewable energy more and more and it has already proofen that not even a war in Europe can change that.

Yeah because America opened our strategic reserve wide open to keep you from freezing to death last winter.

It’s the only form of energy generation that internalizes all of its own costs- including disposing waste and insuring cleanup.

If we forced oil companies to internalize the cost of fracking casualty and wastewater reinjection alone, gas would be $50/gal.

This happens all the time. It happened to New York State after the decommission of Indian Point, it happened to Germany, it literally happens everywhere nuclear reactors are decommissioned, because fossil fuels provide the reliable and tunable capacity of nuclear power with explicit domestic and foreign subsidies driving down its cost. We keep talking about renewables displacing fossil fuels but German fossil gas consumption is going up, not down.

I don’t know if that’s true lol, this is reddit we’re talking about.

But yeah, I missed that you were pisstaking; my b.

And Germany added 36M tons of emissions because they replaced the decommissioned reactors with fossil gas.

Sorry but that’s an absurd way to construe the point I was making. “Energy Independence” when used in a geopolitical context involves essentially fuel-exporting nations exploiting their supply chain position in order to win political concessions from importers- such as Russia holding Northern Europe hostage over oil and fossil gas in response to European resistance to the invasion of Ukraine. Commonwealth nations share close relationships that are unlikely to degenerate to the point where Australia or Canada are invading their neighbors and holding the UK’s electricity hostage.

Raw materials are not the choke point for nuclear energy independence- enrichment facilities are, of which the UK has three that produce an exportable surplus. Even if it was, Canada and Australia are second and third in the world in Uranium reserves, which is convenient for the country that houses their King.

Nuclear energy is green- it’s the only energy worldwide that internalizes its externalities and is made to cost what it costs to the environment.

Okay, but we aren’t willing not to license dumb drivers because we have decided as a society that to lose your car is to lose your right to an independent life. We aren’t willing to hold dumb drivers accountable for killing people for the same reason. We establish parking minimums for dive bars even though we know people are going to drink and drive and kill people.

This is the only correct answer. Cars kill so many people it’s absurd.