Nuclear fission is not renewable. It relies on mined uranium, which is rather limited.

Also, cooling towers are not seen exclusively with nuclear power plants. Many chemical refineries need lots of process heat and need to get rid of that as well. Evaporating water to steam is a great way to disperse excess heat.

Any kind of heat power plant also needs some way to expel excess steam, so oil and gas plants have them as well, just usually different designs.

My 100% Homeoffice employee contract says different. The moment I step outside my apartment to go to a rare meeting in the office or to a client’s site, I am clocking hours. Any reasonable (so no limo or heli shuttle) travel expense (gas+deterioration as well as parking if I were to use my own vehicle, tickets for public transport otherwise), I note down and hand in to the company at the end of the month so I get reimbursed fully.

If you have to travel to do your work, it makes sense for the company to have to pay for it. On the flip side, companies might prefer hiring people living in more convenient, closer locations to their business than rural farmsteads. Which on the other hand makes sense as well, reducing time and energy waste, imo.

Does step data just mean the number of steps (and timestamp, I assume), or do you actually track the routes walked, which would mean gps coords/ tracks.

Cause the first is much less invasive and problematic than the latter option.

Where did I downplay Israeli behavior in Gaza?

Asking for using correct terms for things is hardly defending Israel or downplaying their actions, I think.

I also nowhere claim that Germans only killed Jews. Don’t put words into other’s mouths, and maybe try being less hostile and always expecting the worst from people?

I’m aware, and I don’t think I claimed that? The by gar largest number of victims were Jews, though.

When anyone talks about Holocaust these days, it’s reasonable to assume they talk about the one vs the Jews by Nazi Germany. It has gained a special meaning unlike the more generic word genocide, which is perfectly fine for other use cases. The Holocaust was a genocide, not every genocide is a Holocaust.

If you want to go semantic/etymological, calling the current Palestine genocide a Holocaust still makes no sense, as the old Greek holocaust literally means “full incineration”, burning sth so nothing is left. Which makes sense in association with Nazi crematoriums, and its historic use for large fire catastrophes such as whole cities burning down.

It also made - semantically - sense for Neonazis in Germany who called the fire-bombings of German cities by the Allied in WW2 holocausts as well. This also tries to form a link and somehow equate two entirely different things. Both atrocities by modern standards, sure, but at vastly different levels.

(Mis-)appropriating terms to undermine and diffuse their meaning is a simple and effective populist tactic, which is why it’s popular with extremists.

Call a genocide a genocide, call the Holocaust the Holocaust.

The world is full of nuance, not just radicals and extremes.

Nice of you to provide such a prime example of lack of education. Equating current events in Palestine and Israel with the actual Holocaust is absurd. I’m pretty certain Israel has not industrialized genocide at the level Nazi Germany did, and I’d be very surprised if Israel was exclusively killing Jews. Because those are two fundamental elements of the term Holocaust.

Stop diffusing the meaning of words with very specific meaning like Holocaust.

Also, great job of providing nothing to the actual topic at hand and derailing it with whataboutisms.

But they might still have some charge left that you might need for that particular remote that can run on low charges longer than others in case you run out of actual fresh batteries because you forgot to stock up on actual ew ones. Maybe. Which probably won’t actually happen in the next decades, but it might, and boy, will you be sad then, having thrown those valuables away!

As harmless as high humidity and stalled air in winter times can be. Mostly fog, sometimes very intense snowfall. 🤷‍♂️

Cold air from the north moves over a large body of water which is (relatively) warmer and thus takes up warmth and humidity.

It then hits the cold shore, causing air temperatures to drop again as well. Colder air can carry less humidity, so it nearly instantly forms into heavy fog and clouds.

As air can move more swiftly over water than over land, it also gets “compressed” slightly upon hitting the shore, which can lead to the just-formed clouds to thicken up enough to cause heavy snowfall.