chaogomu @ chaogomu @lemmy.world

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Vaporization would certainly slow the material. It's transitioning kinetic energy into thermal.

Also, the vaporized iron would disperse outward rather than stay coherent.

The simple truth is, the entire case against Hunter Biden was politically motivated from the start.

He paid the back taxes and the gun charges are normally laughed out of court.

This was always a Republican prosecutor wanting to make a name for themselves, and with Trump taking power, well, we all know how vindictive Trump is.

I don't expect this pardon to matter much, Trump and the Republicans don't care about law or tradition or reality. They care about power, and are less than 2 months away from it.

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...

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.

He's tried tariffs before, and had the entire Republican party tell him how shit an idea they are.

But he might not believe them. He is pretty stupid and stubborn.

But I'm thinking he wants to crash the economy to buy everything at pennies on the dollar.

He understands just fine. He wants to replace the taxes that he doesn't pay with tariffs. A tax on poor people.

The tariffs will also crash the economy, letting Trump and Musk buy up large parts of the country for pennies on the dollar.

I've seen some of the same estimates. I settled on 2K because that's what is estimated to have survived the To a supervolcano. Or rather the non-African population that survived.

Homosapiens in Africa actually did quite well comparatively.

It's quite a bit less functional. There have been dozens of high profile outages and service interruptions.

His unit was actually involved in some war crimes. Then he went on fox to defend war crimes.

Humans are pretty resilient. Adaptable to any climate, even the mess of a climate we created.

Now, I'm not saying that all 8 billion of us will survive.

What I'm saying is, the minimum viable genetic population for humans is about 2000 individuals.

There have been CANDU reactors online for decades...

It was the reactor of choice for something like 20 years, before falling out of fashion.

MSRs are good, but are Thorium only, which wasn't fashionable until recently.

See, prior to about 10-15 years ago, the automatic answer to "how do you get a lot of power in a water poor area" was fossil fuels. Now we have options. Nuclear is one of them, but we need to dust off some older tech and bring it up to modern standards.

That takes time, but less then inventing new types of battery that can handle grid loads.

The only difference between a test reactor and a live reactor is attaching a turbine.

But that article was talking about one specific type of reactor. The Molten Salt Reactor. Those are good. Completely walk away safe. They also are key for having nuclear power in areas with little water. But they're not the only type of reactor that uses Thorium.

CANDU reactors can burn thorium. It was part of the design specifications. They can also burn natural uranium. i.e. unenriched.

We have centuries worth of Thorium in mine tailings alone.

It's considered a waste product, but can easily be used for power, China already has a Thorium power plant up and running. The US had a Thorium test reactor in the 60s.

Centralized power is perfectly fine if your power is state run.

After all, natural monopolies should be socialized and run at cost.

And with the advent of small modular reactors, you can even decentralize your power.

A small reactor can have a building the size of gas station can power a small city, and the reactor will be small enough that it's literally impossible for it to melt down.

Sadly, regulations in the US (and many US allied nations) incentivise large and large plants that take forever to build and require custom parts which drive up the cost even more.

Greenpeace funded by the Rockefeller family trust. Literally.

And Friends of the Earth funded by Atlantic Oil.

The 1970s were full of oil companies throwing money at environmental groups who were anti-nuclear.

Except the money kept rolling in for decades.

These folks have a good breakdown of RCV's flaws. https://www.equal.vote/rcv_v_star

A lot of it boils down to how RCV is just a series of First Past the Post elections on the same ballot. This means that it can never really rise above FPtP.

Fun fact that the site I provided gets wrong, RCV isn't actually 150 years old, it's actually a bit older. The Marquis de Condorcet actually came up with the idea in the 1790s, but abandoned it because of its flaws.

If you want some unrelated reading, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet The guy was based as fuck.

Here's a direct quote from one of his more influential works, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship"

The rights of men stem exclusively from the fact that they are sentient beings, capable of acquiring moral ideas and of reasoning upon them. Since women have the same qualities, they necessarily also have the same rights. Either no member of the human race has any true rights, or else they all have the same ones; and anyone who votes against the rights of another, whatever his religion, colour or sex, automatically forfeits his own.

That was 1790.

Sadly, the political party that was backing him fell out of power and the replacements had him arrested, and possibly killed.

This was his final work http://files.libertyfund.org/files/1669/Condorcet_0878_EBk_v6.0.pdf

That is the fastest way to turn a blue state red.

Split the vote so that the minority Republican vote can win. Because there are more registered Republicans in California than in Texas.

No, the actual answer is to change the voting system to a Cardinal system, so that there are no such things as Spoiler party's or split votes.

Approval or STAR are the answer. Either would enable third parties to exist and thrive.

As a note RCV is not a Cardinal system, and still has the Spoiler Effect. People lie about it saying it's the fix for all problems, but it's actually worse than what we have (there are parts that are better, but more parts that are far worse)

More of a global depression after these yahoos purposefully crash the economy.

The plan is to repeal it first, and then figure out what to do from there.

Probably whatever makes the most money for insurance companies.

Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

It's just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

Now, it's not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.