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This particular final patch, the eighth major patch, is it. The contracts with Wizards of the Coast are expiring, which frees Larain Studios to work on different games.

While there will certainly be more games in the series, this particular one is effectively done.

Fission. As in uranium and Thorium.

We've had energy positive fission since the 1950s.

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.

We're actually running into shortages of Plutonium 238. Which is seriously compromising deep space missions.

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.

My guess is that at first it will be a first or second generation citizen. Someone who grew up in a Spanish speaking household.

And the right wing will spin it as "deporting the anchor baby".

After the corrupt supreme court erases the 14th amendment, the gloves will come off.

Especially with the firing of the NSA director. The guy who was limiting Peter Theil's spy company from having unlimited access to data collected on US citizens.

Well, security through obscurity never really did work

Wind and solar cannot set grid frequency.

They just can't. You need a turbine to set frequency.

And yes, the grid frequency matters.

So yes, we will always need a base load. And what better way than a small modular reactor, keeping the grid local and modular.

Or we can build out so much wind and solar that we have to have massive transmission lines running across the country, and then we would still need to curtail that power during peak supply, while also not getting enough generation when solar and wind fail.

And then you still need a turbine to set the grid frequency.

2040 huh?

My prediction is a record number of new plants going online in 2040.

Especially as there are literal factories being built to specifically crank out Small Modular Reactors.

We're looking at a future where every small town can have their own reactor, providing enough power for that town but not large enough to ever melt down.

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.

XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

Booker did stand around talking for a day. It wasn't a filibuster, because no bill was up for debate. And he pledged undying loyalty to Israel during his day of remarks.

So while I admire his energy I'm not a fan of the support of genocide.

If you need an egg stand in, there's the cheap plastic eggs. Which are available everywhere. So I too, doubt this story.

Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

Peter Theil will never willingly step into the limelight. You'll just see another poorly disguised cats paw like Musk.

While America has a bunch of black sites. They're all of questionable legality. That doesn't stop the use, but even then it's understood that once someone is in the US, they fall under US law, which includes constitutional protections.

So the way black sites had to work was to grab a non-citizen in a country other than the US, and transporting them to a site outside the US.

Still a monstrous practice, but there were at least some rules.

Trump wants to legally use black sites on everyone.

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.

Except Social Security is not in danger of bankrupting the government. Sort of.

See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades so that they could give rich assholes another tax break and still fund their endless wars.

But that money needs to go back. Whenever some asshole says that Social Security is x amount short, that's money that's owed to the American people,

I'm counting game installations. Then there's the fact that NoScript seems to reset every time I swap operating systems, so now I have to figure out what I've allowed and blocked before...

Then there's the pruning of random shit that was auto installed. Some of that shit can take days to find.

But most of the pain is when I try to do X, and need to find a program that will do it. This happens in Windows and Linux, and either will have programs that work, but then I have to find the program and learn it, and then let enough time pass where I have to do it all over again.

The most recent example was a map making program for my Table Top RPG obsession. One program that's a go-to under Windows (with possible Linux capability?) is called AutoRealm. Which hasn't updated since 2013... But it's still one of the most powerful fractal mapping programs I've ever lightly used.

I've swapped back and forth between Linux and Windows a half dozen times now, and I can honestly say, both are a bitch to set up from a clean install.

Even with guides and autoloading scripts and whatnot, it's still going to be a few days of pain while you try to figure out what else needs to be installed to use the computer the way you want to use it.

Or that's how it works for me.

I mostly just wish more games were linux native.