mosiacmango @ mosiacmango @lemm.ee

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He broke basically every single pro middle class policy in the US. Unions, pensions, social security, taxes on the rich, exploded the deficit, congressional partisanship, brutal " better dead than red" foreign policy, on and on. He constantly broke every political "taboo" that protected these middle class bulwarks, and it worked. Our country has been brutalized for 40 years and counting, and most of the ugliness can be traced back to his administration.

He single handedly did more destruction to our nation than any other president so far, and yes that includes Trump.

California became a state in 1850, not 1950.

Hawaii was 1959, and was the last state.

They sent out a lot of review samples to different serious tech youtubers like wendal at level1 and jeff geerling. They were all big fans.

Australia is working in it.

Melbourn just removed all of their level crossing in a megaproject, including in busy cities.

"No one drives in new york city. There is too much traffic."

Still one of the funniest things ever. For anyone that doesnt get the reference.

Ahh, thank you. The issue seems to be that firefox didnt load any comments at all. Im seeing them in chrome now.

Can you link the thread? I can't find their response to the issue.

That's because the best preparation is a strong knit small commune worth of people (20-100) with diverse skills, good planning and community coordination, that's set up somewhere away from disaster prone areas with plently of arable land and abundant natural water.

The above is way more difficult than the average American plan : one nuclear family of various ages, a shelf of canned goods, way too little water, a propane stove, and a gun.

The median wage for a programmer in the US is right at 100k. 1-2k/month is 12-24k/yr.

I cant think of a single person who thinks 12-24% of their yearly salary is "pennies."

Either way, those "pennies" came with a commitment. He could have done a low one time cost like sync for reddit and faffed about, but instead he committed to subscription payments, and those carry an expectation of support and features. As a programmer, he know this.

The simple fact is that people are paying for something they aren't getting.

The talos principle 1 & 2. Playing through 1 now, and it's excellent. Some of the puzzles are complex, but most can be solved in 5-10 minutes and give a nice "ah-ha!" moment. It reminds me of portal 2, but with a heavier and more ambiguous story about the nature of life and consciousness. Highly recommended.

Also been playing some Dome keeper and Peglin. Both also excellent in their own ways.

I'm betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of "meh to abandoned" effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

It probably wasent "living indoors" money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.

Thanks for this. Summit is great. Smooth, clean, has gesture support that's similar to sync.

I didnt even realize the "empty comments" was a sync issue and not a lemmy issue. Looks like its time to move on.

OpenRGB is apparently pretty good. Ckb-next works well if you have corsair gear.

Have a problem? Use xargs.

Now you have two problems.

This is "geothermal anywhere", not bog standard geothermal. They use drilling tech developed by the oil and gas industry to dig far past normal thresholds, making geothermal way more viable.

It's a pure baseload tech with no nuclear downsides. Current projections are that it could supply roughly 20% of all US power. A perfect compliment to solar/battery, and still faster and cheaper than nuclear, SMR or otherwise.

Still nothing to say about Hanford, huh?

Ha, uses a modified stonetoss comic to reply to me and doesn't address any issues I just brought up in the previous comment. Neato. Glad to know you dont have any answers to nuclear waste either. Youre in good company.

Im pro nuclear, but I am also pro basic math. Solar/battery are cheaper and way faster to build, and designed correctly, offer equivalent baseline loading as nuclear. It's a no brainer to back burner any nuclear project for solar/battery, and that's exactly what's happening.

Im glad this reactor finally got finished. Im also glad China is building nuclear. With its directed economy, total disregard for local and global ecology and totalitarian government, they can streamline nuclear deployments in a way that makes them viable. When they are done and they offline all the coal and oil plants they have also built, it will be a good thing. For the rest of the world, and especially the US with its wide open and near endless federal land, solar/battery makes the most sense.

The only real competition is "Enhanced geothermal." There is a 400MW plant that is being built in Utah right now that should come online in 4 years. If they can stay on target, then nuclear is really fully dead.

Perovskite are iterating through many different materials as the science settles on them, but one of the positives is that the materials aren't nearly as rare.

you can fit all the nuclear waste in the world in one football field

This is not true because of radioactive waste water, containment vessels and spent fuel rods, all of which are highly radioactive along with your football field of actual spent fuel, but okay.

If we could do this or something like it, why haven't we? Is it because no one on earth wants that football field? Is it because we tried this at sites like Hanford, Washington and its been a half century of ecological disaster?

People undersell just how destructive the entire radioactive waste cycle is. Nuclear is way, way better than coal and oil, but solar/batteries kick its teeth in here.

Solar panels can be made of many different types and volumes of material. First solar, the largest manufacturer in the US, uses a differenr process than chinese panels for example. Perovskite solar cells, which are not just yet ready for prime time but are advancing rapidly, don't use any.

Nuclear power has its own mining and rare material problems, in the form of uranium. You have to dig into the earth for it, and then after you use it, poison part of the planet forever. We still dont know what to do with all the nuclear waste we alrwady made.

Not exactly an ecological win.

Nuclear plants are mostly concrete and steel.

???

You realize the above is true for basically any building, right? That that's a crazy metric to judge any maintenance effort by? Total weight of the building and then everything in it?

Do datacenters not have replaceable parts because they are mainly concrete and steel? Sure, they may have 10,000 servers that all need to be fixed and replaced constantly but since a datacenter is mostly concrete and steel, it doesn't matter because it's not much by total mass of the datacenter? Same goes for airports, factories, on and on.

I guess if you plonk thousands of maintenance heavy devices into a large enough building then weigh the whole structure, the percentage of the structure that has to be serviced goes down, making overall (by weight) maintenance go down. Airplanes need to be fixed? They weigh basically nothing compared to airports, so "tada!" no they dont!

Skipping over your bizarre metric, solar cell recycling is hitting 95%. That is again, something that isn't relevant with modern panels for 30-50+ years, as they will still be producing 70-80% of their rated power at that time. That's easily enough power to just leave them in use.