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- Comment on Wikipedia hacked..? 4 days ago:
:(
- Comment on Wikipedia hacked..? 4 days ago:
*fewer
- Comment on Prince William says UK faces terrifying risk of more wildfires due to climate change 5 days ago:
Damn, I almost thought climate change wasn’t a problem after all, good thing Prince William is here to make national headlines by stating the blindingly obvious
- Comment on Traders' tools stolen every 20 minutes in UK 1 week ago:
Sounds pretty demoralising
- Comment on If just before a cremation, I lined the coffin with 30 phone batteries, would the resulting lithium ion fireworks display have any meaningful effect on the proceedings? 2 weeks ago:
Usually this isnt part of the actual service, at least not in cremations I’ve been to. It happens afterward, so all the batteries would do is damage a bunch of equipment and potentially set off the fire alarm during the wake.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
Its a very simple concept and so there’s no reason to give it a scientific name which doesnt mean anything to most people
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
I know. Its still pointlessly obscure
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pointlessly obscure way of saying there are more numbers
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Ah. I meant to respond to someone ekse in this thread who was talking about ideology in schools
- Comment on Only one female scientist named in GCSEs, research finds 2 weeks ago:
It must have taken genuine effort to design a radiation physics module without mentioning Marie Curie
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
This shit annoys me. Schools are quite literally the perfect place to explore ideology. Politics is completely opaque and confusing for kids because they aren’t being taught that different people have different ideas about how society should look based on their personal circumstances. This is why people are so easily influenced by fascists who market their programme as “straight-talking common sense”. Ideology is practically built-in to the human psyche and people should be conscious of when others are trying to imfluence them. Rant over.
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. How does one deal with grief or loss in a safe way without turning to alcohol or drugs? 2 weeks ago:
There is no cure. Talking about it can help. Alcohol and drugs will make it worse. All you can do is keep going, and remember them however you want to. Don’t give up. People are rooting for you. ❤️
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
‘Entropy’ doesnt apply here
- Comment on Government approves drilling in Jackdaw gas field in North Sea 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that it’s largely already constructed - they just didn’t have the go-ahead to start drilling until now.
- Comment on Because of Trump, is it now open for someone with a criminal background to hold the office? 2 weeks ago:
Trump is the way he is because of America.
Nailed it
- Comment on The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter 2 weeks ago:
Still don’t think we’re losing much if a person who is hell-bent on paying no tax anyway leaves the country
- Comment on Labour improves Aktion T4 3 weeks ago:
… is she suggesting they should fight?
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 3 weeks ago:
Its such a fundamentally stupid funding model. They really just need to get serious about how they plan to fund a national broadcaster in the 21st century - in the meantime I don’t see how they have any credibity to pressure people into paying it
- Comment on Wildlife park confirms tiger will not be euthanised after man mauled to death 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing based on people’s reports of his behaviour before it happened. See my response to im_fine_sandy
- Comment on Wildlife park confirms tiger will not be euthanised after man mauled to death 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing based on the fact that he attended the park alone, was wearing headphones, and was visibly excited to see the tiger and asked strangers to take pictures of him with it. This suggests that he may have had sensory issues and a special interest in tigers which would be typical of autism/aspergers.
I agree it’s not really enough to be certain and I don’t want to go too far down the path of speculation. But it seems very possible to me, and I’ve personally known people with severe autism who I could imagine putting themselves in harms way like this without realising the danger. And it’s just so sickening hearing people all over the internet talk about this persons’ death in such a callous way without knowing anything of his personal circumstances.
- Comment on Wildlife park confirms tiger will not be euthanised after man mauled to death 4 weeks ago:
Yeah sorry this is pretty horrible. From descriptions of the event it seems to me that that he was neurodivergent and didn’t really understand the danger.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The rationale behind it is they need to keep some reserves of cash in case of emergency or upfront funding for big projects, and the most financially sensible thing to do with the cash while it’s not in use is to invest it.
But yeah, I agree it’s a bit concerning. Hopefully there are some sort of guardrails in place
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 4 weeks ago:
Breeder reactors are conceptually cool but nowhere near economical enough to be a practical solution at present. Only two still exist in the world, and both are operated in russia.
Regardless, to run a breeder reactor you still need to separate out fission products from the waste, which we havent been doing since the 60’s or 70’s. The sensible thing to to with fuel is to reprocess it by PUREX/SANEX like we used to. But unfortunately we now have this giant building of screaming-hot unprocessed waste
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 4 weeks ago:
There’s truth in this, but there is also a certain subset of internet users which obnoxiously gloss over all of the challenges and limitations of nuclear fission, pretending that it’s a flawless energy source to the detriment of everyone’s sanity
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 4 weeks ago:
True, however the fact that its been around 70 years and we’ve still never been able to actually do this is a valid criticism. Even if the limited number of deep geological disposal projects all come online today, we’ll still be generating was much more quickly than we can bury it
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 4 weeks ago:
It is far more radioactive afterward.
After fuel has been in-pile for a full lifetime, it has fissioned, decayed and transmuted to the point where half the periodic table worth of radioactive isotopes have been produced and are all present in the same waste
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 4 weeks ago:
Yes. They suck too. But they suck as a rule, whereas boomers only suck in general.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but I dont think they as a generation did nearly enough regarding climate change specifically.
And as far as voting goes, they pretty regularly made up the core voter base of administrations which denied or ignored climate change
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 5 weeks ago:
Your options are much greater than voting for politician A or politician B
- Comment on Palestine Action activists used whips and hammers to threaten guards at arms factory, court hears 5 weeks ago:
Me on my way to my morally neutral job at the child-crushing factory