People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About

It shouldn't though. When my house burnt, the firefighters were standing around laughing at how cool all my melted stuff was. I interrupted them to ask if they had found my cats. They stopped, looked irritated I interrupted their good time and said, "Nah, they didn't make it." Then went back to their dark humor and laughing. I'm sorry, but f*ck that. They made the worst night of my life so much worse. I'll never forgive or forget they did that. My tragedy shouldn't be your entertainment.

Same goes for most of the population of the UK.

Police officers

Also care workers

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This is one reason why not everyone can work in the medical / first responder / law enforcement field. I don't know how to really explain it, but it is just easier for some to be able to do everything you need to do to take care of the patient and/or family, and then when you are done, you let it go from your mind and move on. There are some cases that are really sad, and you feel that, and then there are some cases that definitely hit you hard, and that's when you have a good cry (hopefully after your shift, or on break) and then move on. But part of being a good candidate for this type of work is the ability to separate yourself, or protect yourself from the hard stuff so you can do your job, and that is where dark humor comes in.

I think for a lot of us, once that dam is broken the emotions that come spilling, dumping out the oils be debilitating.

They didn't mention Chernobyl because of the absolute stupidity that was involved with it. When you talk about how safe cars are you mention the accidents caused by engine failure or faulty breaks, but you don't mention the guy who was driving drunk with a blindfold on because it's just not relevant.

The waste is the problem. It will stay radiactive longer than the earth has existed...

He didn't mention Chernobyl because it was a black swan that took the intersection of errors in engineering, construction, administration, operation, and the literal death throes of an authoritarian regime to occur. Even the harms caused by the nuclear accident that is by miles and miles and miles the worst in history don't come close to the harms caused by coal or fossil fuels. The latter are literally on track to make earth uninhabitable to humans. Do you know how many Chernobyls would have to occur for that to be the case?

Chernobyl was built without many of the safety features that were the norm for the time, and their procedures were also substandard. The Chernobyl disaster wasn't because of some inherent pack of safety in nuclear power but because of systemic issues in the Soviet government.

Is it maybe a simillar problem if you want to repalce 200 people, you can choose to travel them by train/plane or by 50 cars. The train/plane (long distance) is cleaner, but an accident would be a disaster. Nuclear energy is the only thing that could give us enough time to keep the mankind alive to find out what to do with the climate change and the nuclear waste, everything else will kill us sooner.

Well, the ones living on an atoll most likely should know better. How may atolls were used for atomatic bombing/testing?..

Chernobyl is a "worst case" scenario of everything going wrong... well look at BP's Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, or dozens of other examples of "everything going wrong" with fossil fuels.... and the environmental damage from those oil spills is EQUAL to what happened in in Chernobyl. (they had a huge radius of damage, and will be decades before the ecosystems fully recover). So saying "don't use nuclear because of what can go wrong"... doesn't make sense if the alternative can go wrong as well. Unless you want to go 100% wind and solar.

That's because they had untrained monkeys running that powerplant.

I'm curious, and I don't mean this rudely, but this is his LINE OF WORK. What are your credentials, other than being on the internet and having an opinion?

You understand that the energy you would need for your entire lifetime produces waste that would fit in a soda can? And the "waste" comes from the ground, and is put back there, just concentrated.

I would like to be more intelligent and understand things in the shortest time possible. But, I have a clear idea of what happened in Chernobyl, the epidemic of thyroid cancer in Fukushima/Fukushima outskirts, and what happened to one man that was only working but due to lack of training was victim of radiation. So, I get to the conclusion that NO, thanks. Because, there are people that believes that if they dump very “well processed” radiation waste to the nearest sea (do not know the proper term) won't be bad to the sea life and that we can collect it and bury it very deep in the soil it won't harm. I would think it a trillion of times or until I would learn that what I think is nonsense.

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There are waste products from everything though. Flourine isn't radioactive but is probably the most dangerous element on the periodic table.

Nah, no worries, muricans are not the first in nuclear technology anymore so the odds something really bad happening is very low.

People also forget that many of those incidents were 1st gen plants. With current tech and the ability to wrink out the fuel for even more use, that waste is, in total less that most any other source. Yes even solar, wind, etc when you factor in the material collection, transport, manufacture, and disposal of the used up panels windmill parts, etc.... Total lifecycle. Especially when making a solar panel, windmill, etc can meet or even exceed the amount of energy it will generate in it's lifetime in some cases.

People are trying to develop ways to recycle nuclear waste.

If you were living on Bikini Atoll, you'd know...

I believe that it's 95% of nuclear waste is non toxic and can safely go into the environment. Number may not be accurate but I know it's the vast majority. The biggest nuclear disasters occur in countries with poor infrastructure. Like idk why north Korea wants it so bad they are definitely going to blow up a plant. Also, nuclear is waaaaaaay more efficient than say, air could ever be. Air power is the dumbest idea as Germany is discovering

the waste isn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things. Chernobyl was a one time thing with multiple bad things overlapping, poorly designed reactors, faulty wires, probably illegal tests, and not following regulations.

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They you mean. We don't know op's gender.

You mean clean like a lithium mine?

It's simple really put of two bad options nuclear is safer and cleaner. Mainly because oil/fossils are from get go dirty and release more toxicity, but it also will eventually destroy life on earth. Nuclear even though clearly it has its own disadvantages your main issue is the plutonium waste. Other than that there is no clean or zero emissions energy available, as everything we do causes downfall somewhere. For example eating causes emissions, living, cancer treatments, neurological treatments. But out of two bad options, the lesser evil could be something that is bad but necessary in the long bigger picture. Nobody wants to get radiation therapy, chemotherapy yet it's either death or life. You will lose your health, hair, but also kills cancer. Two sides for everything. Unfortunately as humans we are still learning to choose selective good for community, instead of our own view.

Honestly, I spent entire summers in the library because it had AC and my house didn't!

And they are so cozy! Who doesn't love a quiet spot in a pile of books, away from the idiots and the world?

Libraries play so many important roles in the community! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE books & access to reading materials greatly increases quality of life in both the short- and long-term, but a library is ALSO a place that offers: safety in all its forms; physical comfort & respite from extreme weather; internet access; community resources & events; homework help & research materials not readily available online; and access to all kinds of educational & entertainment materials in addition to books, such as newspapers, videos, CDs, magazines, & even toys.

Like when my school were deciding whether we needed an extra school bus for one route because the bus drivers and students said how overcrowded it was- they sent teachers to count the number of students that were on it everyday for a week, not even thinking about the fact it was the end of the year, so only year 7 & 8 were on it because the higher grades had already finished for the year. It happened multiple years too!

It's probably replacing a scary word like dying or dead

Or fix it so that when you need that thing really fixed it will take an hour instead of a few minutes

I agree completely. YouTube DIY videos make you think that a child could do these things. Bring in the expert and have it done once, done quickly, done right.

I do a lot of my own home repairs, but I also have a solid understanding of my limitations. And pretty much for all the reasons you said. I'll do an oil change myself, but I won't do an alignment. I'll snake a drain myself but if it comes up with clay(this just happened to me last summer) I'm calling a pro

Maybe a stress rate bonus would be appropriate. We call it "rush rate"

This mindset is a holdover of the 19th Century time-and-motion studies by Frederick Winslow Taylor that led to the scientific management movement (Taylorism) of the early 20th Century. Estimate however you want, but charge by the deliverables.

Media production is this: the most nonsense clients asking for the more weird stuff to yesterday, by one third of the price