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  • No, it’s not the best we have. Solar and wind are way safer, cost less and don’t produce waste.

    Sure, nuclear power is safe until it isn’t. Fukushima and Chernobyl are examples of that. Nuclear plants in Ukraine were at risk during Russian attacks. Even if you have a modern plant, you don’t really think that under capitalism there is an incentive to care properly for them in the long run. Corners will be cut.

    Besides that they produce so much waste that has to be: a) being transported b) stored somewhere

    Looking at the US railroad system and how it is pushed beyond it’s capacity right now and seeing how nuclear waste sites are literally rotting and contaminating everything around them I’d say it’s one of the least safe energies. Especially if you have clean alternatives that don’t produce waste.






  • Nochmal als Kontext. 2011 veranstaltet Pril einen Wettbewerb: Malt auf der Website ein neues Label für eine Prilflasche und wenn euer Design am meisten gevotet wird, kommt es in den Verkauf. Wie das Internet so ist, kamen die absurdesten Vorschläge zusammen. Lange Zeit war das Rageface an erster Stelle. Pril änderte die Regeln, dass eine Jury aus den ersten 10 auswählt.

    Das Internet lief Sturm und beschwerte sich ob der Ungerechtigkeit. Pril erklärte, verständlicherweise, dass sie diese Designs lieben, aber diese nicht in den Handel bringen können. Als Kompromiss haben sie dann eine limitierte Sonderedition herausgebracht mit dem beliebtesten Motiv, dem Rageface. 1000 Stück wurden produziert und zum regulären Preis bei Pril und Ebay verkauft.












  • Yeah, they work. To a certain point. Over the last decade or so I got dozens of dates. If you are engaging in conversation, asking interesting questions and are generally nice to talk to (and your profile and picture show this upfront) you can get dates.

    But it gets increasingly harder to get matches as a platform gains popularity. Apps usually put newcomers to the top of the stack to make them visible and get them matches. The older your profile, the more profiles are newer then yours and you slowly fall down the stack. When the app grows in size, you are quicker to go down the stack.

    In addition to that it seems every app has a certain demographic progression: At first more women use a new app. They don’t get that much matches and are more likely to match. As time goes on this changes, as men are joining and making up 70% of the user base. Now woman are flooded with people wanting to match and you are unlikely to stick out or, what happens more often: people are overwhelmed and just stop interacting.

    My extensive use of apps showed me that you can be most successful in fairly new apps. Bumble used to be really awesome until it got popular.