Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 11/01/2025 11:42, D wrote:

  On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2025-01-09, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, Carlos E.R. wrote:
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You forget that it is the people who do not want nuclear. It is proven
dangerous.

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This is factually incorrect. If you cound the nr of dead, coal, hydro and
solar have all killed more people than nuclear.
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Remember the death count at Fukushima due to radiation... it is firmly at
0.

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Ditto for Three Mile Island, which to this day I take as an example of
how safe nuclear is.  Total meltdown, but no casualties.
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Meanwhile, how many people have been hit by coal trains or died a
slow lingering death from black lung?

 One of the most fascinating statistics I've found when looking at solar is that it has a significant amount of people who died, when the owner wanted to adjust something on the roof, climbed up and fell down. This figure and related deaths is very interesting.

One incident too small to even be findable on the Internet  that I saw in a local paper years ago was when a wind turbine blade was being unloaded, and it slipped and fell on a dock worker, killing him.
There are more such incidents recorded though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YvQr7nlBzs
https://www.tiktok.com/@decodedbyprince/video/7207492265650965786?lang=en
The more memorable incident of a German parachutist being killed when she drifted into a wind farm, is out there though..
"A 23-year-old woman from Schwerin died while making her first parachute jump when she hit a wind turbine at the Lemkenfeld wind station on the German island of Fehmarn in the early afternoon of Sunday, May 28. Her name has not been released by the Oldenburg police. The wind is believed to have blown her off course towards the wind station, while her instructor and another member of the Lübeck parachuting club got down safely, according to the regional Kieler Nachrichten newspaper. Other press reports state that strong winds were blowing on May 28 and the victim was blown several kilometres off course. The Oldenburg police have passed the case to the public prosecution office at Lübeck. "
And yet Fukushima, where no one died at all, is recorded as a 'disaster'
The fact is that wind turbines kill people, As do solar installations.
What would you rather attend - a wind turbine in the middle of a storm tossed North Sea  hundreds of feet up with only one way down, or a solar farm generating thousands of volts ...
Or a nice cold reactor in a safe machine hall with overhead cranes already installed. Subject to such stringent safety regulations that almost no one has died during routine maintenance, ever.
Remember 'creates green jobs' means it needs an army of expensive people juts to build, install  and keep it working, which means its expensive and unreliable...
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