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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

And from Reddit to the New York times and TMZ, it's absolute bullshit, and nobody is fooled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

There's forty shillings on the drum, for those who'll volunteer to come...

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago

Perhaps she shouldn't have proudly orchestrated a desperate attempt to build trump up at the expense of an actual competitive candidate, then?

Go away, Clintons. You're a pestilence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nuclear energy is a terrible idea in both a physically (climate change) and socially destabilizing world.

Even Gen4 proliferation-resistant reactors still represent a lethal threat in the event of a release of fissionable materials into the local environment. Building a nuclear reactor without a cast-iron guarantee that there will be a supply of engineering staff, components, materials and clear strong regulation to keep it running safely is a surefire path to disaster.

Whilst the technology and physics behind it are well understood, we have shown time and again in a few short decades of utilizing this technology that we lack the responsibility in our administrative structures to properly manage the risks.

It would take just one full-on reactor meltdown or disaster to poison an entire continent. We have consistently demonstrated that we cannot responsibly assume that risk, which is why there is opposition to nuclear power.

If you want to avoid bad things from happening, do not deploy a dangerous technology and instead focus on what we can do. Renewables are more than capable of providing for our energy needs, and the big kicker here is that they can do so without putting the literal power "off" switch in the hands of the grid or plant operator.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All in time for the democrats to run another empty (pant)suit in 2028. Rinse. Repeat.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

schumer has been a sack of shit for about as long as I can remember.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU... and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn't need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.

I've been trying to work with SBC's for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just... annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They lost them in about 2014.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is an adjustment period, which is often uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Find me a philosophy or religious perspective that is unambiguous about brute force.

It's effective as long as one doesn't consider the consequences, but the reality of nearly every situation is such that there's always a better way. Did the US need to nuke two Japanese cities and every inhabitant during WW2? Or were they just too tired, scared of a war of attrition and with the technological option available, they took the easier path?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe. How are we going to responsibly fight one?

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