We’re all some degree of Irish here, even if just honorary.

Nice to see the Scouse dialect get a mention! But sadly I have to inform you that we nicked that particular one from the Irish.

It seeds nanoparticles at the quantum level to generate a molecular positronic array. Think of it like putting too much air into a balloon. There will be no more technical questions.

Don’t be ridiculous, it’s a hypothetical. Chicken pox parties were the only path to immunity before vaccines were introduced and it’s simply a good example of parents exposing their children to a little evil for their own protection. Clearly the example was chosen because of its applicability to a cogent point, and not because of its specifics. However, instead of focusing on the salient argument, you’ve decided to engage in pedantry for what, the sake of argument? Would you have preferred it if I added the qualifier “in the 60’s”?
Or is this just a ridiculous attempt to frame this as an anti-vaccine argument? You’ll get no mileage there, because, again, it was just a fitting example.

Yes it is, and parents have a duty to prepare their children for the world, evil as it is. It’s very difficult to navigate. For example, there’s some credibility to the argument that raising a machiavellian child is in their own best interests and therefore moral. A more trivial example is purposefully infecting your child with chickenpox for future immune protection. Somewhere between those two (probably) lies the moral ideal, if such a thing exists.

I’ve found my people! Maybe this isn’t so controversial on lemmy but in the whole of global society, I think it is. No way I’m saying something like this over a family dinner or an office coffee.

I did make up my mind on this before Reddit was invented, so a swing and a miss there.

It’s reductive because nobody wants to read a 600-page treatise in a comments section, which is why I forgive your equally reductive hand-waving about unspecified other faiths. The word “indoctrination” is key here. Teaching your child philosophy is not indoctrination. The abuse is choosing for them before they are sufficiently complex consciousnesses to choose for themselves. This occurs most commonly, and is most socially acceptable when it comes to gender and religion.

Religious indoctrination is child abuse.
Sending your kids to places of worship or a religious school, or telling them “this is our religion”, is child abuse.
This includes christofascists and oppressed minorities.

I’m on the fence as to whether telling your child they are a girl or a boy is similarly harmful.

I think people attacking you as “pro-genocide” is exactly as reasonable as the German standard disallowing comparison of Nazism, which is funny.

The existence of a field of study which purports to compare genocide doesn’t validate your assertion that Israel is less evil than the third Reich. I still don’t think you can make this point.

The German law around speech comparing anything to Nazism sounds complex and subtle. I would argue that it’s a matter for the courts to decide, rather than for unqualified moderators to overcomply in advance.

what [Netenyahu’s Israel is] doing is still not on the same level of evil as Nazi Germany.

Very difficult to say this for sure. Some of the acts we’ve seen are on the same level, frankly. And how could you possibly measure this, objectively?

I don’t think this can be argued meaningfully, and so should be removed from your argument.

As to the German law:

• Is that applicable here on Lemmy?

• Is it up to the mods to interpret German law and apply it?

100% agree. I hope to be alive to see it. Popsci would have me believe it’s coming any day now.
I kind of get the no waste framing, since the nuance is too technical for most people to bother with. If we say anything more complex than three words about waste, then we will lose public support for fusion. It’s still not right, but I see a greater cause in that lie than the increase in clicks which is the driver for the lie that it’ll be ready tomorrow.

Recycling is definitely an important aspect of developing the technology to a maturity where it forms part of a power grid. But it’s not beyond the wit of man. If we can crack Q>5 for nuclear fusion, surely we can crack economically viable recycling for LLW. I don’t think it’s worth abandoning research on fusion over this issue.

I understand there’s no waste with a half life >100 years, and the activated steel can be recycled a few decades after commissioning?
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/P_1356_CD_web/Presentations/Thursday/Morning/El-Guebaly SESE-KN-2.pdf