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- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 week ago:
Veritasium’s latest videos. Like the last 4 or 5.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 week ago:
11 years ago… I wonder if he’ll revisit the topic with his current deep dives into relatively…
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
Fission. As in uranium and Thorium.
We’ve had energy positive fission since the 1950s.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
Interestingly, no. It’s not the same as if you ate a chunk of lead.
Lead binds to calcium channels, and then blocks them. This makes it a bit of a neurotoxin. It also accumulates in the bones.
Uranium on the other hand is one of the heavy metals that the body is good a filtering out of the blood. The body is not as good at expelling the uranium. It accumulates in the kidney. This can lead to kidney disease, and other related issues. And that’s just the chemical toxicity of Uranium. Add in the radioactive side of things, and you have a truly distinct form of metal poisoning.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
We’re actually running into shortages of Plutonium 238. Which is seriously compromising deep space missions.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
Except the Ironman style reactor is pure science fiction, whereas hydrogen fusion is real, but still has issues of energy capture, which several groups are working on.
There are two promising avenues, one is a direct physical capture, as in fusion is initiated with huge pistons that are physically moved by the fusion explosion,
And the other cool one is direct magnetic coupling.
I expect both to take off long before the tokamak style does.
But fission power is already here, and much easier to set up. Molten Salt Thorium is also promising. And once some corrosion issues are solved, could power the earth at current levels for the next thousand years.
All while producing an isotope of actinium that produces only alpha radiation. Which is super useful in killing cancer cells.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Well, security through obscurity never really did work
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.
Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.
As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.
Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 weeks ago:
Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They’re dying at accelerated rates.
We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.
And pesticides… and monoculture farming.
- Comment on Idioms 4 weeks ago:
Do people in glass houses shit in the woods?
- Comment on Let's gooooo 1 month ago:
Fun fact, “free base” is the origin of the of the term “based”.
Originally it was not a good thing.
Language changes, so now based is fucking rad. And rad is not a term used by anyone.
- Comment on Everyone needs a hobby 1 month ago:
Collaborative world building often falls apart. It needs a full time coordinator, or it’s like herding cats.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 2 months ago:
By a worm no less.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 2 months ago:
Not everything shot for a film gets used. The director might say, “let’s reshoot the scene with wardrobe B” and then you have a new take with a different outfit.
Simple scenes like that often take a few days of work to dial in just right. Or sometimes it’s done with a single take and everyone feels vaguely off about it until they see the edit.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 2 months ago:
Israel has a complex relationship with Nazis.
During WW2, the Lehi terrorist organization actually tried to join in the war on the side of the Nazis.
One of the men behind this initiative went onto become prime minister of Israel in the early 1980s.
The Lehi terrorist organization folded into the IDF in 1949.
Now, there was a philosopher who was a member of Lehi, he took Nazi ideology and sort of swapped master race and the undesirable race. God’s chosen people had to be the master race, and the Arabs who lived in on the land were declared to be undesirable.
As a note, the Lehi prime minister was Netanyahu’s political mentor.
- Comment on rarted 3 months ago:
I seriously believe that wealth factors into weather or not you’re considered low or high functioning.
Take someone who is low functioning and make them stupidily rich and suddenly they’re treated like they aren’t on the spectrum at all.
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 3 months ago:
Engage the core.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 months ago:
Spouses can move to the village, it’s just that the children never leave.
At least one parent was born in the village.
- Comment on oh man 4 months ago:
Luigi was never the prototypical right-winger.
He was more of a tech bro libertarian.and even that seems to have been blunted by his pain and experience with US health insurance.
- Comment on Depressing awful town 4 months ago:
Kraft singles are still cheese. They’ve just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.
That actually makes them super useful in making a cheese sauce.
Add a few slices to a queso and it will not break.
You fat. Smooth cheesey sauce that comes out perfect every time.
You can make sodium citrate with lemon juice and baking soda. Lime juice also works. Really any citric acid.
Anyway, you don’t need much to make cheese melt smoothly.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 4 months ago:
The thing is, Left vs Right is already a measure of authoritarian vs Democratic.
The original use of the terms comes from the French Revolution. There was a vote on if the King should have an absolute veto over laws passed by the assembly. Those who said no sat to the left of the Speakers podium. Those who said yes sat on the right.
The reason why left and right were applied to economic policy was because Marx described Communism as a form of extreme Democracy. Whereas Capitalism concentrates power into the hands of a select few.
It’s still a measure of where the power rests. In the hands of the people or the hands of the state/leader.
You can break it down to dozens of categories, but it’s all authoritarian vs Democratic in the end.
As a note, Lenin style single party “communism” is about as far from Marx’s ideal as you can get.
Dictators and Kings are all the enemies of the people.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the Noem Chomsky. Famously when he was defending Pol Pot’s regime.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 4 months ago:
Ah, Cato the Elder. He had a good cheesecake recipe, but was otherwise a complete jackass.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 4 months ago:
There’s a news article linked in another comment.
It was real, and 100 people were fired.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 4 months ago:
Nope. This is real and the company straight up fired over 100 people.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 4 months ago:
Yeah. No one cares if you’re rambling in a comment. Just be interesting enough that someone can pause their doom scrolling to read it.
I personally have about 5 subjects where I can chime in with fun (to me) little facts.
Or essays on the subject…
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
I’m not sure where they got those numbers.
All nuclear waste produced to date isn’t 500-1500 cubic meters.
As to storage. Just bury it again. We dug it up, we can bury it. There are a few places that are currently doing just that.
Or, here a wild idea. Just burn the waste. It’s something like 90% unburned fuel, just reprocess it and burn it.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 4 months ago:
It’s quite a bit less functional. There have been dozens of high profile outages and service interruptions.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 5 months ago:
More of a global depression after these yahoos purposefully crash the economy.