What is toxic in solar panels?

Mainly lead and cadmium, and they can be recycled, that’s not the problem, the problem is the cost of doing it vs sticking them in a landfill. Nobody wants to spend 5x to recycle something that’s dead to them and can’t generate income anymore, vs dumping it.

How exactly do solar and wind waste more money than they generate? There is hardly anything that requires less maintenance. I put panels on my roof and just forget about them for 20 years. No space wasted, no maintenance.

LOL, you didn’t just compare an ignorable amount of low grade consumer panels to a solar site did you? How many millions did you spend to clear land? How much did you spend on hundreds of employees, trucks, fuel, constant oh shit moments over the course of 1-2yrs to build the thing? How many millions in environmental consulting and never ending harassment from the municipality that you’re building it in? How about all the legal fees from the lawsuits from the environmentalists that are conveniently the same ones that claim they want green power?

Also, you don’t get to claim you get to forget about anything until that 20yrs has passed and your system hasn’t shit it’s pants, I got a handful of buddies that work for solar contractors and they fuck up all the time. You know how many bad batches of panel there are out there that don’t even come close to living their lifespan? Depending on the “Deal” you got, that’s not always covered either, espeically when the companies that put them in make the majority of the money from taking the tax credits from it.

Did you know that France had to power down about half their NPPs in the summer because the rivers didn’t carry enough water?

Yes, I did. You realize there’s a difference between powering down, and downpowering right? Plants downpower all the time for a host of reasons, part of the deal with nuclear.

What exactly is the plan with waste? Bury it somewhere really really deep and keep fingers crossed for thousands of years that it doesn’t contaminate ground water?

No, and that’s never been the plan. The industry is always working on better ways to deal with the waste, in Nuclear’s case, even building pools although a pain in the ass, is safe, including literally falling into the thing.

And what’s with all the irradiated parts of the plant itself? How can you recycle them?

They’re decontaminated and removed. Happens all the time during outage season and during repair. What can’t be totally decontaminated is transported to where it can be.

but the grid will just keep getting greener as greener is cheapest.

Really? As somebody that works in the power space, how exactly do you figure that? Nuke aside, which people constantly complain about, the NRC doesn’t like to renew licenses, doesn’t want to grant new ones, that leaves wind and solar, both are money pits, waste more than they generate, and have a horrible environmental impact both from lost land, spent panels that can’t be recycled or thrown out as they’re toxic as hell, wind farms need never ending maintenance and again, cost more to run than they give back.

Until modular nuke become the norm and coal plants are retro’d, standard nuke plants are the absolute best bet. There’s no consiracy to keep older coal plants alive, sorry, that’s political stupidity. Every power company on the planet would dump them if they could. They’re a nightmare to operate and keep going.

Did they call a contact that was in you ICE list by chance? Most people understand how that works these days.

Because they’re more mainstream, people have them, and using your phone number (which is easy to get around) doesn’t mean your texts can be read. Privacy and security aren’t the same thing.

That’s always been the case, and why privacy advocates have always said to use PIN/Patterns and not fingerprints and face unlock as police have the legal rights to your prints and face when under arrest. Sad this guy had to bring it to that level, shame on his lawyer that it went that far, it’s always been a 5th amendment argument that’s always stood in the past.

Over reacting, if you’re going to use computers and the internet, it’s literally the exact same thing. How much data you leak is 100% up to your practices, and of course phone choice. If you get a Pixel and run Graphene on it, you’re base is great. Beyond that, app choices become the next threat. Don’t use privacy invading apps you can’t trust, don’t give up data on the phone that you wouldn’t on a computer, then you can protect privacy as much as you can, while still being realistic and living normally.

The biggest hurdle is simply being aware of the threats you’re up against and how to mitigate them. 100% privacy isn’t a realistic goal. Minimizing the leaks and making it very difficult to connect the dots is a far more realistic plan.

It is, as it is in every major country on the planet. If something is truly deemed a threat to national security, rule book goes out the window. Problem is, when what constitutes a “national security threat” starts becoming vague.

No, one, you’ve firewalled the camera, second, the play services on Graphene are userland apps, theirs no special privilege there, and theres the hardened sandboxing on top of that.

While there are legitimate ways for apps to share even in the sandboxed environment (there needs to be for phones to work correctly) you can see those permissions in the apps and also must grant them. Remember, the biggest threat is in a normal situation where the play services have root access, which isn’t the case with Graphene. Surprisingly enough, most of the Google apps have minimal permissions and usually near no trackers other than analytics that most are blocking by default with DNS anyways.

The Pi’s aren’t very powerful, mini PCs are very cheap these days, I do just that with Jellyfin for years and it’s been great.

Problem is, it’s not! Every loophole they needed was built into HIPAA from the start. Most would be very surprised how much is allowed to show to people that aren’t your doctor.

they’re not even trying to do it effectively

Of course they’re not, because they’re smart enough to know they can’t as laws only apply to the people that willingly chose to follow them.

They know damn well that screwing with people, like the 99.99% of people buying Primatine and Bronkaid arent using it to make meth, those people buy kilos of it online and have it shipped to their doorstep, but if they fuck with people that suffer from allergies they get to say they’re doing “something”, and that shuts up the uninformed majority.

If they actually wanted a war on drugs, they could be very effective at it, but they know better. If they actually went through with it, theyd have no rationale to blow billions on useless govt agencies like the DEA. It’s in their best interest to talk the talk, but not walk the walk.

Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, you’ve clearly never worked for a company that’s dealt with a customer info data breach. It costs them massive amounts of money to clean them up, pay for identity protection (never take that) and the PR alone costs them more in the end.

TMO is breached yearly, Mint customers and TMO customers aren’t the same thing, Mint is TMO’s customer, not the individuals. Not the same databases. In the end, Mint doesn’t have half the data on it’s customers that actual TMO does on theirs.

Honestly, these days there probably wasn’t much benefit. At one point, sure, but looking at it from the standpoint of a non privacy aware person, they’re handing so much data over, ignoring the line of their travel probably does near nothing for them, while having and holding that data is a huge negative since they’ll always be harassed for it from law enforcement. Without it, they can probably dissolve whole departments of people that had to be dedicated to LE ass kissing so the police didn’t have to do their jobs or so they could cast their dragnets and put tons of innocent people through hell while they figured out everything later.

No shortage of people cancel services because of a single thing one person or says, or because they place an ad on a platform that’s popular to bash because of a political view with no direct reason otherwise, so yes, it’s pretty common.

And there’s nothing wrong with that, that’s not cancel culture, that’s not giving a scumbag company money, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

More like realizing how much they were losing, on top of how bad their numbers have been for years…

Not everybody lives their lives based on political cancel culture.

Then you don’t grasp what’s happening, You think the Goog wants to be in the middle of that shit? That’s time and resources that don’t benefit them. Providing that data puts them in a bad spot Everytime, simply not having the data to provide obsoloves them of that and is in both their and the end users best interest. The push getting worse is because current Stingrays don’t work on 5G, so the internal police spying is very limited now, and getting location records from telcos requires more of a papertrail than going to Google and Apple in the past, and when cops are asking for shit they don’t really need, they don’t want to be in the books for it.