# Nuclear Power News and Debates

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-power-news-and-debates/979176 "2023-02-01T20:05:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-power-news-and-debates/979176/130 "2023-12-30T18:26:17Z")

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> [@Mijin](#):
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> (God I hate this “You can’t embed media items” thing 😡)

You totally can post vids. There is a bug which you’ve found. But it has a trivial and 100% successful workaround. Once you know what it is:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/161):
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> I’m about 95% certain that the problem arises due to the detection/conversion/thumbnail step (and the fact that we disallow embedded media here). Speed is only important in that it’s an asynchronous process and if you paste a link quickly and then submit, it’s likely that the process has not finished yet. I’m also about 95% certain that if you post, and the asynchronous process completes (which you can see happening dynamically), and then edit your post, it will then not succeed, because the …

There are a few more expositions and details farther down in that thread. But all credit to @Dr.Strangelove for finding the root cause and the fully successful workaround for all situations.

Here you go, and with no errors since I know the workaround:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5EsBiC9HjyQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Is nuclear power really that slow and expensive as they say?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EsBiC9HjyQ)

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