Funnily enough with this explanation I finally get what Pocket is, because I thought modern Pocket was something different and not the same thing from back then.

I'm not trying to get sympathy 🙂 I'm calling out your obvious bullshit with actual examples that shows you're full of shit.

You're so full of shit you can't even argue against the example given, such as how the "quality healthcare" doesn't even offer diafiltration. Hell y'all still do the step ladder sticking technique and use fax machines.

For the average person, healthcare there is partying like it's 1998. I guess though if you're a near millionaire it's pretty good though.

But I guess I can't fault you much for being so full of shit - I know it's hard to schedule and get a basic colonoscopy there too.

I will say though, I hope you get kidney failure. It'd be for the greater good - not because of your suffering, but it's clear you're one of those that will only ever understand once they suffer, and only then would you actually try to help those less fortunate and make the world a better place.

Less sick than if I had been in the USA 🙃

Less dead, too.

Hopefully you don't end up in my situation. Or maybe it's better you do 🤷🏻‍♂️

Careful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjY897CCu4g

Hi there. Had kidney failure for about 8 years.

There was this one medication I badly needed to control secondary hyperparathyroidism. Literally used all avenues, and couldn't get it approved or covered, other than by paying around 800$ for a single dose. I even had private insurance still at the time btw. The alternative was a surgery to remove a parathyroid gland which would then lead me to having other severe health complications if I got a kidney transplant. You know, due to now missing an organ.

Second treatment in Finland when I was just VISITING, not even a resident yet - "oh, you're PTH levels are extremely high. We're going to give you "medicine I've been trying to get for months".

Just like that. No struggle even. Cost? 25$, and that includes the superior diafiltration treatment (USA only has dialysis, despite it giving poorer quality of life and lowering life expectancy, thanks to lobbying from DaVita.

Anyway, fuck you 🙂

That's basically what Finland is doing, with a few extra steps.

The whole waste thing isn't an unsolved issue, it's purely a political one.

Honestly, not that hard.

Easier than building a new modern airplane, as Boing Boing has shown.

Edit: I'm keeping that typo lol

I know there's the joke that Finland doesn't exist, but didn't know people like you who took it seriously.

https://yle.fi/a/3-10847558

From 2019. Yes, we've figured out how to store it permanently. The country of 5 million somehow figured out what the hundreds of millions in Germany, USA, and others couldn't.

Or more accurately, actually did it. The solution has been known for awhile.

Also, never said a private company had to do anything - that's just a strawman you brought up.

Compared to Fossil fuels that'll stay in the air for thousands of years while they essentially terraform the planet into something way less habitable for humans? How the hell is that more logical???

Finland is a bit too north and cold for rapid deployment and storage of renewables. Although summer is excellent for solar, winter makes solar barely useful and can decrease some wind (newer designs help a lot with the snow issue).

Germany is more stable, but electrical storage is still an issue, along with the larger population. Having planned at least 1 new power plant while decommissioning the older ones would have made a lot more sense while transitioning to 100% renewables. Spent nuclear fuel doesn't use much space - the spent fuel can be stored underground in containers in deep bed rock in drilled shafts and then cemented over. It's less effort and resources that what Germany's many mining companies use extracting minerals or fossil fuels.

Can't do the same for all that pollution your damn lignite plants make though.

Yeah, and like most of Europe, that German population lives in cities, not random forests and mountains in the middle of nowhere where you could also do underground storage like Finland has done.

Not to mention Germany has more land.

I'd like to note it's not profitable because it generates so much energy so consistently that it's hard to keep prices up.

That's why nuclear energy should never have been a private sector investment but a government one, or maybe hybrid. That's how it's worked in Finland, and the new reactor we had built plus the growing solar really saved us from the electricity spike after Russian gas was turned off.

Weird how y'all haven't figured it out yet considering Finland has and Germany has had nuclear power plants for longer.

But I suspect it's more of a lack of wanting to do what's needed for storage because 'politics' and boomers than it is because it's not possible.