roguetrick @ roguetrick @kbin.social

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Your question gets to the heart of why it's not important to add another category. Once you get a truly monster storm, a lot more factors come into play as to how dangerous it is than just wind speed. There's not a single band aid solution.

I edited my comment about strip clubs right when you posted this. There's a legal gray area in my opinion by using it for tipping. If you've already received the service, you really can't be committing fraud. Essentially, the producers can easily say the thing is not meant to commit fraud because it's obviously not real money. But if you personally passed it off as money anyway and received something for it, you'd get nailed.

There is absolutely an intent to defraud aspect, and it's clear the intent here is to pass of the money as real even if it's monopoly money. This is particularly true in strip clubs where you're getting a "service" based on your donations.

It is immoral because its a lie (if we're going off of some definitions of morality), its unethical, because its a lie that is quite cruel and provides zero benefit, and it's illegal because it's fraud. So yes.

Eh, stuff like truth social doesn't federate with anything anyway, so unfortunately this isn't a vulnerability for them.

Here comes the slam from south of Siam!

Ray-gun was a Trump precursor. It was Bush Sr. that took a step back from the brink and went back to just being an awful jackass.

Eh, I'm sure they're straight up handing out how many "points" each cookie is anyway.

So your problem with critic reviews is they don't hold your opinion about Transformers? I don't find any of the takes particularly vapid. They actually find the movie vapid.

I honestly can't figure out what you think is wrong with critic reviews based on this.

I’ve literally heard people say groundwater can’t rub out because it still rains…

Depends on what you're drawing from. If you're talking about somewhere like Denmark with tons of groundwater because of porous valleys, that's pretty much true (though you can certainly use so much of it that the rain won't replenish it, similar to surface water). Fossil aquifers like ogallala, not so much.

Farming, not drinking for those that don't read the article.

Thorium fuel cycle is nearly the same as the uranium fuel cycle in regards to downsides. It just requires breeders, which you could use with uranium too. The only real benefit of thorium is that it's more plentiful, but the cost in nuclear power isn't in Uranium.

Yeah, but what they're marketing specifically is aneutronic fusion. That's helium fusion, which has never been demonstrated outside of a star. Hydrogen fusion, which we haven't actually achieved much with beyond bombs is more managable. The difference is hydrogen fusion creates a big neutron flux, which needs to be isolated (the small part) and creates waste by neutron activating whatever it's around (the cheap part, volume wise hydrogen fusion creates more radioactive waste than fission but it's much easier to manage low level waste).

It doesn't help that the helium is a primordial resource that has literally escaped the crust of our planet and floated out into space. Supposedly the moon has more.

make a small and cheap nuclear fusion reactor

Aneutronic fusion isn't happening on this planet. We don't even have the fuel for it. It's a dumb thing to market when we can't even break even on D-T fusion and turning the neutrons into heat.

Hey, we need a robust serial connection to our cartridges for checking ink levels. Nothing more basic would do. /s

No kidding. "We've allowed our cartridges to arbitrarily execute code. It's the user's fault."

The mixed messaging on COVID and fomite spread was pretty funny. It was conclusive that it wasn't really spread by fomites pretty quickly. That's why they had us COVID nurses reusing our N-95s until the straps broke, and I never did get COVID while doing it.