Meme - Rosemary Potter @1rpotter: "@GlennYoungkin hundreds are stranded on I 95 in Virginia for hours. Does Gov Youngkin care? Of course not. Proof Virginia voted for the wrong person for GOV."
David Cann @davidweann: "Youngkin ain't governor yet. Still the other guy.:
Rosemary Potter @1rpotter: "Thank goodness. Gov Northam has put together teams to clear the highway and take stranded driver food and drinks. He cares."
Meme - "Art work that was appreciated before WW2-"
"Art work that was appreciated after WW2-"
"They just made sure that everybody can go to art school now."
Opinion | This Poll Shows Just How Much Trouble Democrats Are In - The New York Times - "According to the Gallup organization, 47 percent of Americans now identify with the Republican Party and 42 percent with the Democrats. That sounds ho-hum: one party doing a tad better than the other. But the Gallup numbers may portend a political earthquake. Republicans seldom lead on measures of party identification, even when they are doing spectacularly well in other respects. Since Gallup began tallying party identification in 1991, Democrats have averaged a four-point lead. Republicans did lead in the first year the poll was taken — the year of the first Iraq war. But since then, even when Republicans rack up midterm wins at the voting booth — the year after 9/11, for instance, or in the aftermath of the unpopular Obamacare bill eight years later — they tend to run roughly even with or behind Democrats. Between 2016 and 2020 the Democratic advantage swelled to between five and six points. When Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump a year ago, Democrats held a 49-to-40 advantage. From nine points up to five points down in less than a year — it is one of the most drastic reversals of party fortune that Gallup has ever recorded. The data analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows a parallel collapse in Mr. Biden’s own popularity. He entered office with higher approval (55 percent) than Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did, but has since tumbled to 42 percent, lower than any president at this stage in his tenure except his immediate predecessor, according to data that go back to World War II... Democrats are telling a story about America — about the depth and pervasiveness of racism, and about the existential dangers of Mr. Trump — that a great many Americans, even a great many would-be Democrats, do not buy... Mr. Biden insisted that the country “go big” on a new $1.9 trillion “rescue” package in the spring, even after Larry Summers, Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, warned that such a stimulus could produce inflation. Now inflation is at 7 percent, the highest since early in the Reagan administration. Mr. Biden’s approval on the economy is at 38 percent. But even more harmful to Democrats has been the fallout from pandemic lockdowns. Mr. Biden didn’t invent them, but he is suffering from them more than Mr. Trump did. That is because Covid-19 has opened a window on schools — and exposed Democrats as being on the wrong side of issues that many voters are passionate and even emotional about. Democrats are the party of teachers’ unions, whose interest in school closures has clashed with that of working parents throughout the Covid-19 crisis. They are the party that backs the teaching of contentious race dogmas (sometimes called critical race theory, whether rightly or wrongly) to impressionable children. And they are the party that has overhauled or abolished competitive public school examinations in New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Northern Virginia because of the racial composition (usually disproportionately Asian) of the resulting student bodies. These issues are especially salient because they concern the heart of Democrats’ public philosophy... Minorities do not seem to like the Democrats’ racialized approach any more than whites do. The political scientist Ruy Teixeira, who has written extensively about Hispanic abandonment of Democrats, notes that 84 percent of nonwhites support the photo-ID requirements for voting that the Democrats’ voting-rights reforms would ban. In a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election, a recent Wall Street Journal poll found that Mr. Biden would beat Mr. Trump among Hispanics — but only by a point (44-to-43), not by the nearly 30-point margin he enjoyed back then. This is not the triumph for false consciousness that it might appear to disappointed activists. Democrats have been led astray by their Trump obsession. They have misunderstood what the former president represented to voting Americans. Mr. Trump tapped into smoldering grievances against various information-economy elites and managers. There is no reason that ethnic-minority voters wouldn’t share some of those grievances. Voters of any background might, for instance, be appalled by Mr. Trump’s whipping up of his followers on Jan. 6, 2021. But they might consider the intervention of info-tech billionaires in the 2020 election to be a larger potential threat to our democracy"
Diversity: Sharia Comes to a Texas Court - "she had signed an Islamic prenuptial agreement that stated the marriage, and any possible divorce, would proceed according to Sharia provisions. Mariam Ayad contends now that she was tricked into signing this agreement"
Lucille Ball: “I cured myself of shyness" - "I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free"
Chips and curry sauce, anyone? British-Chinese restaurant opens in Hong Kong, drawing diners from afar – and criticism | South China Morning Post - "As soon as word got out that a British-Chinese restaurant would be opening in Hong Kong, many British-born Chinese (BBC) were sceptical. Would the food be as good as their parents’ takeaway shop? What would be on the menu? How much would the dishes cost? The criticism came when they saw the prices posted on the 1908bc website. HK$90 (US$11.50) for bean sprouts? HK$90 for curry and chips? And chicken and sweetcorn soup for HK$80? Susanna Ho, British-born owner of 1908bc, says she was prepared for the criticism, and hopes the feedback will help her make the food better for those who have a hankering for dishes like crispy aromatic shredded duck and butterfly prawn toast... “There was a Chinese menu for the Chinese customers, and a menu for Westerners,” Ho says. “There were 200 items such as lemon chicken, crispy shredded beef and crispy duck, but we also had dishes you would find in Hong Kong like the beef brisket in claypot: different cultures, different taste buds.”... Ho defends the pricing by explaining that rent in Hong Kong is expensive, as is the cost of the ingredients. “Back in the UK potatoes are super cheap. That’s why we say, ‘it’s cheap as chips’. Chips are like four to five times more expensive here.”... her 70-year-old mother comes into the restaurant to make a big batch of curry sauce from scratch, using Madras curry powder, numerous spices, and fruits such as oranges, lemons, apples and bananas, and it needs hours to prepare. “Not many people do curry paste from scratch any more,” Ho says. “It’s very labour intensive; not many people do this in Chinese takeaways any more. People buy curry paste in packs off the shelf and they call it chip shop curry and it’s never the same. I’m not saying my mum’s is the best in the world, but if it evokes memories of what you would have back at home that’s what I want.”"
The Most Popular Countries for Moving Abroad - "1. Canada
2. Japan
3. Spain
4. Germany
5. Qatar
6. Australia
7. Switzerland
8. Portugal
9. USA
10. United Kingdom"
RozDaan beauty - Posts | Facebook - "This husband sends his wife photoshopped photos every time she texts him to check on their kids.. đ" (automatically translated)
Education Myths - "In his newly published book, "Education Myths", Jay Greene takes on the often heard argument that "charter" or private schools just take the best students, so that leaves public schools with the more difficult students -'" behaviorally and academically. However the evidence suggests that academic achievement of students in public schools actually improves when those schools are faced with greater choice and competition from private or charter schools. Clive Belfield and Henry Levin at Columbia University's Teachers College conducted a systematic examination of the evidence and after reviewing more than 200 analyses they conclude that "a sizable majority of these studies report beneficial effects of competition across all outcomes, with many reporting statistically significant correlations. -' The above evidence shows reasonably consistent evidence of a link between competition (choice) and education quality. Increased competition and higher educational quality are positively correlated."
Private School vs. Public School - "While private schools appear on paper to promise better educational outcomes for their students, some scholars have attempted to dig deeper than just test scores to find out if private schools actually increase student success. Pianta, who led a study published in 2018 that examined academic, social, psychological and attainment outcomes, says he found student success is more directly related to family attributes, such as having college-educated parents and higher incomes, than which school they attend. “When you compare children who went to private school (for an average of six years) with those who only went to public school, any apparent benefits of private schooling – higher test scores, for example – are entirely attributable to parents’ education and income,” he says. “The fact that they went to private school does not account for any differences we might see.”... Class size may be another indicator for parents. While the conventional wisdom of the past few decades has been that smaller class sizes are always better for students, Pianta says research on the impact smaller class sizes have on student success has actually been mixed. “It’s only when classrooms are in the 12-18 (student) range of size compared with classrooms of 25-35 (students) that we really see a difference,” he says. “In fact, although those smaller classes are observed to be richer in interactions and conversations, there is also some evidence to suggest that some larger classrooms (25-30) actually are better managed, and children learn somewhat more in terms of facts.” But Pianta also stresses that, when it comes to class size, “there’s not a clear rule of thumb.”... For children with learning disabilities, education experts say that private schools may not always be a good fit. Public schools are required by law to provide access to “a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensure special education and related services to those children,” according to the U.S. Department of Education’s webpage on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA"
Liberals hate private schools - or indeed any alternative to the public school system - because they don't want people to realise there're better ways to do things, teachers and teachers unions can continue to profit and indoctrination can continue.
Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications - "Public schools spend, in dollars adjusted for both region and inflation, more than Christian Association Schools (CAS) and Catholic schools, but less than Hebrew or independent day schools: nearly $15,000 per pupil for independent schools, over $12,000 for Hebrew schools, $7,743 for Catholic schools, and approximately $5,727 for CAS. For public schools, the comparable average spending figure was $8,402... 'Private school tuition figures exclude costs that are offset by corporate and noncorporate subsidies (U.S. General Accounting Office, 2001), as well as the cost of services that would be required by many students (and, by law, are currently provided by public schools, but not private schools), including transportation, free and reduced-price meals, special education, vocational education, and services for students with disabilities and limited English proficiency'... 'nationally, before or after applying regional competitive wage adjustment, most types of private schools substantially outspend public schools. Several types, including Catholic, Montessori and Waldorf schools, spend roughly the same as public schools. Only CAS spend significantly less... [CAS] are generally the same schools that Lubienski and Lubienski (2006) found to perform less well on NAEP and that Baker and Dickerson (2006) found to have the academically weakest pool of teachers"
Rochester Schools collect dossier, call employers on critical parents - "Rochester Community School (RCS) officials were sued for compiling a dossier on parents who commented negatively on the school's virtual learning policy. One official even called a parent’s employer, which possibly resulted in the parent's termination. Parent Elena Dinverno sued the district in 2021, claiming school officials called her place of work in the fall of 2020, and told her employer Dinverno was part of a group threatening the school district. She was fired in December 2020... the school spent taxpayer money to surveil parent’s social media posts and gather personal information, including place of employment, names of children, and the schools they attend. "I have found at taxpayer expense they had high-level people spending hours monitoring parents' social posts," Gordon told The News. "I was stunned. I have a stack that is like a phone book. This was an active group that wanted their kids back in school.""
For most Americans, real wages have barely budged for decades - "during the high-inflation years of the 1970s and early 1980s, average wages commonly jumped 7%, 8% or even 9% year-over-year."
This suggests that the claim that inflation is always bad for the poor because wages will never keep up is wrong
The Productivity–Pay Gap | Economic Policy Institute - "Since the late 1970s, our policy choices have led directly to a pronounced divergence between productivity and typical workers’ pay. It doesn’t have to be this way... Starting in the late 1970s, policymakers began dismantling all the policy bulwarks helping to ensure that typical workers’ wages grew with productivity. Excess unemployment was tolerated to keep any chance of inflation in check. Raises in the federal minimum wage became smaller and rarer. Labor law failed to keep pace with growing employer hostility toward unions. Tax rates on top incomes were lowered. And anti-worker deregulatory pushes—from the deregulation of the trucking and airline industries to the retreat of anti-trust policy to the dismantling of financial regulations and more—succeeded again and again. In essence, policy choices made to suppress wage growth prevented potential pay growth fueled by rising productivity from translating into actual pay growth for most workers. The result of this policy shift was the sharp divergence between productivity and typical workers’ pay shown in the graph... The growing wedge between productivity and typical workers’ pay is income going everywhere but the paychecks of the bottom 80% of workers. If it didn’t end up in paychecks of typical workers, where did all the income growth implied by the rising productivity line go? Two places, basically. It went into the salaries of highly paid corporate and professional employees. And it went into higher profits (i.e., toward returns to shareholders and other wealth owners). This concentration of wage income at the top (growing wage inequality) and the shift of income from labor overall and toward capital owners (the loss in labor’s share of income) are two of the key drivers of economic inequality overall since the late 1970s."
Debunking the Productivity vs. Pay Graph - YouTube
Ironic that he says sharing this video will help others learn a bit of economics
The EPI says that they are demonstrating "typical workers’ pay" ("typical worker's compensation). He is just "explaining" national income accounting. But that is not the point of the original graph. The point of the original graph is that the increase in productivity is not going to most workers. He then shows that 2014 vs 1960 pay is higher. But that is not what the original chart he is "debunking" is about (in fact you can see that during the earlier years, productivity and income tracked each other well). He claims it is "naughty" to use 2 different deflators to normalise pay and productivity. But pay and productivity are 2 different things. It doesn't make sense to normalise productivity using the CPI - it's a category error. Ironically, the article he claims is very good agrees with the main message of the EPI article: "This decline of labor’s share of income is partly why the EPI finds a ‘productivity-pay gap’. Remember that ‘productivity’ (as measured by the EPI) is equivalent to the average hourly income in the US. Since 1970, US workers have received a declining share of this income. Consequently, their wages have declined relative to the average US income."
Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year: Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies - "in the 10 most populous U.S. states... 2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually (an average of $3,300 per year for year-round workers) to minimum wage violations—nearly a quarter of their earned wages. This form of wage theft affects 17 percent of low-wage workers, with workers in all demographic categories being cheated out of pay... Wage theft, the practice of employers failing to pay workers the full wages to which they are legally entitled, is a widespread and deep-rooted problem that directly harms millions of U.S. workers each year. Employers refusing to pay promised wages, paying less than legally mandated minimums, failing to pay for all hours worked, or not paying overtime premiums deprives working people of billions of dollars annually"
I find that the Americans who hate poor people always become apoplectic when they find out about wage theft (e.g. one claimed that it wasn't a problem that wages didn't rise even while productivity did - that was the point of being a business owner, and people should just find better paying jobs or start a business. He then unfriended me when after he claimed that everyone getting paid under the federal minimum wage was an illegal immigrant [so that wasn't a problem], and I pointed out wage theft was a thing). They don't even try to claim that the victims are too stupid/unmotivated to get the wages they are owed - maybe because that is a cope that is too ridiculous even for them
Social media users share snaps of VERY funny signs they've spotted - "This very awkward sign at a hotel in Naniamo, Canada shows the rooms offered 'great rats' instead of rates...
'Chris Bangs Family & Friends'...
'Don't touch yourself. Ask the staff. Thank you..'"
The Titanic’s incredible menu revealed – for every class - "Titanic’s third class was said to resemble second class in comparison to other steamships, but was also more expensive. There were two modest dining rooms, communal rooms, deck space and even running water and electricity (a novelty for many)... Food was surprisingly good quality for third-class passengers. The White Star Line (who owned the Titanic) offered freshly baked bread and fruit daily and meals were better than those most passengers could afford at home... on the morning of the 14 April (the day before the sinking) passengers tucked into a number of foods typical of the period. There was oatmeal with milk, smoked herrings (pictured), jacket potatoes, ham and eggs, fresh bread and butter, marmalade, Swedish bread, tea and coffee... the steerage lunch menu consisted of rice soup, fresh bread, cabin biscuits (often eaten to alleviate seasickness), roast beef and brown gravy, sweetcorn, boiled potatoes, plum pudding, sweet sauce and fruit... there was no dinner, which was considered a middle- and upper-class idea. Instead, tea and supper were served. Tea consisted of cold meat, cheese, pickles, fresh bread and butter, and tea. Pudding was stewed figs and rice. Supper was gruel (a type of thin porridge), cabin biscuits and cheese...
Although there was less choice for second-class passengers than those in first class, the largely British food was still of a high standard and a step up from third-class victuals. This impressive breakfast menu from the 11 April shows hearty options and plenty of protein, including Yarmouth bloaters (smoked herring), ox kidneys and bacon, sausages, grilled ham and fried eggs... There was plenty of filling fare in a second-class breakfast too, including oats, hominy (a type of grits), three types of potatoes, Vienna rolls, Graham rolls, soda scones (pictured) and buckwheat cake. For something sweet, there were various conserves, but the only nod to vegetables was watercress... [for lunch,] pea soup, spaghetti au gratin, corned beef, vegetable dumplings, roast mutton, roast beef, jacket potatoes, sausages, ox tongue, pickles and salad. For dessert there was tapioca pudding, apple tart, fresh fruit, cheese and biscuits, and coffee... The last meal many second-class passengers ate comprised of a starter of consommĂ© with tapioca then a choice of mains including baked haddock with sharp sauce (a tangy sauce with a vinegar base), curried chicken and rice, spring lamb with mint sauce or roast turkey with cranberry sauce. Sides were peas, pureed turnips, boiled and roast potatoes, and rice... plum pudding (pictured), wine jelly, ‘cocoanut sandwich’, American ice cream, assorted nuts, fruits, cheese and biscuits, and coffee for dessert. One second-class passenger commented “no effort had been spared to give even the second-class cabin passengers… the best dinner that money can buy”...
The main difference between breakfasts in first and second class was that diners in the top tier could have food such as omelettes, chops and steaks cooked to order. There were also four types of cooked egg to choose from, three types of potato, and more fish options including smoked salmon... [for lunch,] fillets of brill and egg Ă l'argenteuil, then choose items from the grill and the extensive buffet that included veal and ham pie, potted shrimps, galantine of chicken, Norwegian anchovies, beetroot and tomatoes... Dessert was a generous selection of English and French cheese that included Camembert, Roquefort, Cheddar and Stilton, washed down with a tankard of Munich lager (for an extra cost). The last meal for first-class diners was a grand affair that included starters of canapĂ©s and oysters, a second course of consommĂ© Olga (a clear veal soup garnished with scallops), a third course of poached salmon with mousseline sauce, and a fourth course of filet mignons Lili or chicken Lyonnaise with marrow farci (stuffed vegetables)... There was lamb, duckling and beef, with buttery roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, minted peas, carrots and rice. After a rum-infused palate cleanser of punch romaine (the sixth course), guests moved on to roasted squab (pigeon) with wilted cress, asparagus salad with Champagne saffron vinaigrette and pĂątĂ© de foie gras with celery. In fact, with a grand total of 11 courses, it’s hard to imagine how they fitted it all in. To round off that fateful meal, there was Waldorf pudding, peaches in Chartreuse jelly, chocolate and vanilla Ă©clairs, French ice cream, assorted fresh fruit and cheeses"
Meme - "The biggest dilemma for an environmentalist in Washroom: 'Should I save water or save paper?'"
Meme - "Mental health is important but we are in danger of over diagnosing mental health issues. Not everything is a mental health condition. It's okay to be sad. It's okay to be nervous. It's okay to think "what am I doing with my life" without diagnosing yourself with a mental illness"
How hot food can cool you down in summer - "Spikes in temperature, whether internally or in the external environment, make us sweat rapidly. Receptors, or nerve endings, sensitive to temperature changes are called thermoreceptors. They notify the hypothalamus - the thermostat in our brains - if the mercury is rising (or falling) and our body swiftly responds... Critically, whether sweating is an effective cooling mechanism or just an unpleasant inconvenience depends on airflow and how much water is already in the air. The sweat beading on our skin will evaporate faster if it is a “dry” day with low ambient humidity and if evaporation is not obstructed by clothing. If the air is humid, the sweat has nowhere to go. Dr Ollie Jay, who heads up of the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory at the University of Sydney, has for many years been studying with how humans regulate their body temperature under different conditions. His research has shown that if you consume a hot drink the overall amount of heat stored in the body is less than if you have a cold one. The cooling effect of sweating outweighs the added heat... avoiding ice-cold drinks on a hot day or when exercising intensely and instead, drinking fluid at a palatable temperature will likely cool you down."
How orange peel is supporting farmers in rural NSW - "Research suggests that during orange juice production, half of the fresh orange weight is transformed into juice. This means that half the orange – including the orange peel – can be wasted... These days, Rayner explains, the orange peel is helping him to battle against a mice infestation on his property."
Amazingly, the article doesn't talk about how/why orange peel supposedly repels mice (though that features in one of the headlines)
The Improbable Story of Deland McCullough, Sherman Smith - "Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough often wondered about his biological parents, but was unable to gain access to adoption records. When a state law changed, he found his birth mother, who revealed McCullough’s biological father — a mentor and coach he’d known much of his life."
In Iceland, people work shorter hours for the same pay and everyone is much happier - "Results from two trials of reduced hours showed no productivity loss or decline in service levels, while employees reported less stress and an improved work-life balance... Achieving shorter hours with sustained productivity and service levels involved rethinking how tasks were completed, according to the report. That included shortening meetings or replacing them with emails, cutting out unnecessary tasks, and rearranging shifts."
Many Americans are going to be very upset
A taste of home: The expat Singaporeans cooking up a storm to feed foreigners with authentic dishes - " “What was a bit difficult was to get people to order something else other than curry.” “For Germans, chicken curry is something they can process and understand what it is. But having them to order something else like laksa or nasi lemak is actually not as easy as we thought but the people who tried it liked it”... laksa is a challenging dish to replicate in Germany because of the lack of availability of dried shrimps and the correct noodles. “Dried shrimps are very, very difficult to come by. If you make laksa paste, you need dried shrimps for it. A hundred grams over here costs €8. So that makes cooking with it very expensive. What we struggled with too at the beginning was laksa noodles because the laksa noodles that we know is a Singaporean brand and there is only one place that we know that we can buy from in the Netherlands”... To make Singaporean food more accessible to Americans, she has even created her own version of a burrito - a rendang wrap - that is made with shredded beef rendang and roti prata as a wrap... Zee returns to Singapore two times every year and on those trips, she packs over up to 70kg of ingredients to bring back to Florida. It includes kerisik, ikan bilis, and a frozen chilli paste that she makes in Singapore so that she can bring it through customs."
Batam resort apartments owned by foreigners, including S'poreans, forcefully repossessed - "Those who invested in a property in the resort forked out hundreds of thousands of dollars as they were promised a holiday home equipped with a golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool and a gymnasium, as well as a marina. As Batam is in close proximity to Singapore, those who invested in a property supposedly included numerous Singaporeans, as well as many Batam locals and expats working on the island. "Apartments were bought with a promise that the 25-year lease would be extended when it expired in 2018, without issue," the tip-off said. However, over the years, conditions of the apartments got worse over time due to lack of maintenance and under delivery on promises. The marina, for example, never appeared. Gym equipment that failed were never replaced, the pool area became increasingly dated with dirty poorly maintained seating and sunbeds, and the changing area resembled a poorly maintained public toilet. Roofs leaked, staircase hand rails in the apartment blocks fell off, wooden balconies withered away due to the termite infestations, and paintwork wore out. The resort management even billed residents for the treatment of termite infestations. But the infestations were reportedly so bad that one of the roofs of the apartment blocks collapsed in June 2018."
US rapper throws $100 notes into the ocean and toilet, netizens clog Twitter with memes - "It seems American rapper Kodak Black has taken the axiom ‘throwing your own money down the drain’ to heart."
What would happen if a white person did this?
Hudson mayor vs. school board: A timeline of book controversy - "A group of parents attended the Sept. 13 board meeting to raise concerns about some writing prompts in the book "642 Things to Write About." Among the prompts in question: "Write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom.""
Durham University offers students money to defer entry - "A university is offering a financial sweetener to persuade students to defer their studies, as it emerged that 15,000 applicants who lost out on their first-choice places due to downgraded A-levels now have the results to meet their original offer. Amid growing fears about the impact of deferrals on the 2021 university intake, Durham University is offering bursaries to make the prospect of waiting a year more palatable... It came as the Institute for Fiscal Studies branded the government’s handling of the crisis “a clear fail”. In a briefing note, the IFS said the government’s U-turn on Monday – scrapping A-level and GCSE results in England, which were moderated by an algorithm, and replacing them with teachers’ recommended grades, known as centre-assessed grades – was “entirely avoidable” and had left universities across the sector “in the lurch”. As a result, this year’s A-level cohort has better grades than its predecessors. Thousands of students who are now qualified to study at some of the country’s top universities are being told they will have to defer as there are not enough places to go around and insufficient space on campuses."
The power of grade inflation due to political pressure
J-value assessment of relocation measures following the nuclear power plant accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi - "Relocation was unjustified for 75% of the 335,000 people relocated after Chernobyl. Relocation was unjustified for the 160,000 people relocated after Fukushima... The overall conclusion is that relocation should be used sparingly if at all after any major nuclear accident... relocation becomes more dangerous than radiation exposure for the settlement's inhabitants when the first year's radiation dose lies below 13 mSv. This is the case for all locations except for Tomioka, Okuma, Futaba and Namie Towns. Residents in Naraha Town, Tamura City, Minamisoma City, Hirono Town, Kawauchi Village, Katsurao Village, Iitate Village and Kawamata Town, whose averted doses were less than 13 mSv in the first year, would, by this criterion, have been better off if they had not been relocated... The present study suggests that mass relocation after Fukushima Daiichi was also a poor policy response. The J-value analysis shows that relocation option was not justified even for the most contaminated areas of Tomioka and Okuma. Relocation has been shown to have caused a fall in the notional life quality of the residents of these towns, as measured by the life quality index. It is possible that the very extensive population relocations effected in the months and years following the Chernobyl accident set a precedent, now shown to have been largely unjustified... The tendency to overestimate nuclear radiation risks is highlighted in a recent paper on Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors by Jordan (2016): “In essence, survivors having received 1 Gy irradiation (∼1000 mSv) have a significantly elevated rate of cancer (42% increase) but a limited decrease of longevity (∼1 year), while their offspring show no increased frequency of abnormalities and, so far, no detectable elevation of the mutation rate. … Yet the general public, and indeed most scientists, are unaware of these data: it is widely believed that irradiated survivors suffered a very high cancer burden and dramatically shortened life span, and that their progeny were affected by elevated mutation rates and frequent abnormalities. In this article, I summarize the results and discuss possible reasons for this very striking discrepancy between the facts and general beliefs about this situation.”"
Most nuclear accident evacuation does more harm than good, and the evacuation from Fukushima killed more people than would have died if they had stayed in place
China is Home to World's First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor - BNN Bloomberg - "China Huaneng Group Co.’s 200-megawatt unit 1 reactor at Shidao Bay is now feeding power to the grid in Shandong province, the China Nuclear Energy Association said in a WeChat post"
Meme - "Small modular reactor. Photovoltaic solar panel
Can generate 1500 MW in less than a hectare
Can breed its own fuel from thorium, unused uranium, or plutonium
Generates electricity at night
Capable of using all its capacity independently of the sun position
Desalinates water
Creates radioisotopes for cancer treatments
Direct connection to power erid, no power converter needed
Creates large quantities of inexpensive power in direct competition to fossils fuels
60 year design life"
Meme - *Tug of war*
*Pro Nuclear with Climate Change Deniers*
*Climate Change Activists with Oil & Coal Companies*
Pro Nuclear: "Huh?"
