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So what’s the conclusion as to what’s happening?
As I wrote about in a thread a couple weeks back (here, here, and here), this should have been fine, and was fine on paper.
According to official statements it was going to be diluted, before release, to a level that was even lower than what Fukushima NPP put out while operational. Then it was going to be released at a rate that maintained this concentration.
Did Japan lie? Did it not dilute how it said it would? Was it a technical failure and dilution did not occur at the level they said it would, or was it released too fast at the dilution level they set? Was there not testing at release time/site?
Every day:
- The Pentagon unveils $1.3 billion for Ukraine, bringing total new U.S. aid this week to $2.3 billion.
- US to provide $345 million in military aid for Taiwan
- US Senate approves $12bn for Ukraine in government funding bill
Every other day:
- student loan relief shot down
- budget accountability shot down
- tax enforcement on top income earners shot down
- funding to medicare slashed
- funding for food assistance programs slashed
- funding for school lunch programs slashed
- funding for public schooling slashed
- union strikes shut down
- tax relief and subsidies increased for most profitable companies
- tax relief for most wealthy individuals
- funding for clean water programs slashed
I try not to view government spending as zero-sum because there’s no saying that not spending money on X means that money automatically gets spent on Y. But the government’s priorities could not be more clear: its citizens (and common citizens of the world) are not of any concern.
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Thank you for taking the time to make a nuanced argument. I’m particularly happy with how much effort you went to source your statements and then synthesize them into a useful conclusion that I hadn’t considered before. It is always nice to see a comment like yours that proves that people do read articles (and not just headlines)! I wish we could all contribute as much as you do.
Honestly it looks like it got bought and has been used by someone else? The domain has been registered with the current owner since 2022-05-07, and if you look at the Wayback Machine for 2022-05-12 it says it’s up for sale. It looks like the domain used to be used for the Center, for example this snapshot from 2016. Even back in March 2023 the site wasn’t showing porn but was not being used by the Center.
So far, the USA alone has spent more on this war than Russia has. And the USA is not the only one sending money and resources to Ukraine.
Ah I see you mentioned the cuts are only a few seconds long. This wouldn’t catch that very well.
If you have a server outside of your network you could simply hold open a TCP connection and report when it breaks, but I’ll admit at that point it’s outside of what I’ve had to deal with.
Depends on how much you want to set up. For my purposes, I just check for connectivity every minute, and record true or false as a new row in a sqlite database if there is connectivity.
This is what I use on my raspberry pi,
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from datetime import datetime
import sqlite3
import socket
from pathlib import Path
try:
host = socket.gethostbyname("one.one.one.one")
s = socket.create_connection((host, 80), 2)
s.close()
connected = True
except:
connected = False
timestamp = datetime.now().isoformat()
db_file = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / 'Database.sqlite3'
conn = sqlite3.connect(db_file)
curs = conn.cursor()
curs.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS checks (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, timestamp TEXT, connected INTEGER)>
curs.execute('''INSERT INTO checks (timestamp, connected) VALUES (?, ?);''', (timestamp, 1 if connected else 0))
conn.commit()
conn.close()
and I just have a crontab entry * * * * * ~/connectivity_check/check.py >/dev/null 2>&1 to run it every minute.
Then I just check for recent disconnects via:
$ sqlite3 ./connectivity_check/Database.sqlite3 'select count(*) from checks where connected = 0 order by timestamp desc;'
Obviously, it’s not as full-featured as something with configurable options or a web UI etc, but for my purposes, it does exactly what I need with absolutely zero overhead.