I don’t think there’s a previous period to compare it to. The US has gone through isolationist periods before (eg 1930s) but never dictatorship.

1 is always 1. It’s 1 × b⁰ where b is the base. Anything raised to the zeroth power is 1.

10 is the base. 1 × b¹ + 0 × b⁰

You do realise that saying “… it’s not the worst that’s happened” is also a form of erasure.

…but of course, you do.

Let him. He seems to think tariffs would make the EU/China/etc pay him money. They don’t. Tariffs raise the price for the person buying the good. It makes prices artificially high within the US and the US consumer pays. The seller gets the same money they always did.

Unless there’s an American alternative manufacturer who can’t currently compete in the domestic market because of price, tariffs are a total foot-gun.

They’re not dead. Not yet. I think the next 6 months will be interesting for them.

The current batch of stories seems to be coming from disclosures made during a tribunal case over the unfair dismissal of the CEO at the time. I’l think there’s a lot of pearl clutching going on in the reporting here. Their IP just isn’t on the same scale as companies like Nvidia and AMD so I don’t know how they could possibly be much dirty laundry here.

I don’t think we need to play Topp Trumps Genocide Edition. Can we just agree that it’s horrific what Assad (and by extension, Putin) have been doing in Syria?

Yes, as I live in neither.

Thanks for coming back and letting others know what your solution was.

Boot from a USB stick with a Live environment on it. See if you get the same issue.

I think you misunderstood what was written:

The Katsurao village official said about 337 square kilometers of land in seven Fukushima municipalities are deemed “difficult-to-return” zones. Of those, just 27 square kilometers in six of the same municipalities are specified reconstruction zones.

27 km² are the worst areas. The other 310km² are still “difficult-to-return”.

At what point am I supporting coal? Totally irrelevant

I’m saying Fukushima was an ecological disaster. Thankfully very few people died, but to only focus on that minimises the impact of the event. If you’re going to say Fukushima wasn’t that bad, you can’t just cherry pick at the impacts.

Is nuclear better than fossil fuels? Yes. But that was an argument for the 80s. The time for nuclear was 50 years ago. It didn’t happen.

They need cooling water, so “on the coast” is a reasonable location. Or do you mean “not in Japan”? A country without many great options for clean energy generation. Frankly Japan is one of the places nuclear makes sense to me. There’s not many options.

It doesn’t make sense to me in the US where there’s a sunshine belt across the country 5 timezones long, large windswept plains and shallow coastlines. The US is rich in options and nuclear falls down the list.

For most people, using Linux is not a buggy experience. So no, people aren’t gaslighting you. Normally, you grab a modern release like the latest Fedora or Ubuntu and you can get a live desktop up in seconds booting from a USB stick.

Esoteric hardware can be a problem if particular driver haven’t been developed yet. That tends to hit laptops harder than desktops, but it’s much less of an issue than it used to be.

People are asking for specifics because they don’t share your experience and so can’t fill in the blanks.

There was still 164,000 people who needed to evacuate 230 square miles. The land is contaminated and cleanup is proving difficult. Japan will be dealing with the environmental impact for a century I’d wager.

“Deception, despair, and depart.”…surely?

The fact that it’s not protected is all down to America’s fear of democratic socialism and workers rights.

• Samaritans
• Liberty

Neither are perfect organisations but both are trying to help people in desperate situations.

If the UK government won’t provide a functioning healthcare, housing and benefits system to look after the disabled and mentally ill, they should at least allow us the choice of dying comfortably in a safe environment.

Wouldn’t the functioning care system be more desirable?

BBC is basically pandering to the Daily Mail crowd. They recently felt that the Assisted Dying Bill passing the initial stages of parliamentary process in the UK meant that it was now legal to Shipman the conservative voting block.

It’s not law yet. Just a proposal, but apparently nobody understands that.

I dunno. I think Greenlanders are probably ok.