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Could be worse - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

Food should be OK, no? I guess everything helps if you need to pay more for non-food items.

Someone stockpiling in Canada and Mexico, some of what isn't delivered in LA, would make a killing. We should be putting an export tax on Chinese made goods going to the US unless we want to follow the coyote. 😂

I hope it is all that and I turn out to be a jaded cynic that'll be proven wrong. :D

I highly doubt that practical fusion is going to emerge from a small scale private lab. The chances that they're a hype-driven sinkhole for capital is high. Bezos pulling funding out raises my suspicions higher. This should be audited by fusion experts from Canadian public institutions and only if it doesn't look like a scam, fund it.

So we had SMRs all along? I smell a grift. 😂

I don't know if CANDUs have pre-made components, I was just talking about their output power. I don't know exactly why it's lower than other designs but I know there are some fundamental differences like CANDU burning unenriched uranium as opposed to almost all other designs. It also uses heavy water to make that possible compared to the rest. I assume the lower power output is related to these differences. Or it could be arbitrary. We need someone working on nukes at OPG or SNC-Lavalin to chime in. 😂

Our reactors have lower output than the typical 1-1.5GW of foreign designs though. CANDU are in the the 500-800MW range. It's why compared to CANDU, 300MW is significant.

single biggest predictor and cause of far-right politics in the 21st century, foreign-born population

The far-right doesn't require foreign-born population to function. Yes at the moment this is the lowest hanging fruit that fulfils the function of an other however the lack of it doesn't change the mechanisms that give rise and prominence of the far-right. If there is no foreign-born population, an other can be found within society, as it has in the past and present. Also, when an other has been "dealt with," a far-right regime has to pick another in order to sustain its power. So even if you start with immigrants, natural born citizens of some kind are next. Leftists, Jews, LGBTQ people are historically common targets.

The small modular reactor (SMR) would provide 300 megawatts of power, enough electricity to supply about 300,000 homes, according to briefing documents from Ontario's Ministry of Energy and Mines.

300MW isn't small at all. That's half a CANDU block! I thought they would be significantly smaller and therefore not too significant for the grid until we build more units. This is the equivalent of 20-30 of the largest wind turbines available. Not sure if we have that large units installed in Canada.

Do they have the equivalent for Lemmy?

E: Found it using Kagi... It just wasn't turned on for me.

Yeah, it's one of the necessary tools for achieving ever growing profits.