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Tar_alcaran

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Tar_alcaran ,

As a reenactor, it'll rust without rain too.

Tar_alcaran ,

They're all in the same colours, and the weapons looks tied off/non-pointy, so I'm assuming training.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

I find the concept of a path not tread before kind of amusing. A path is only formed by repeatedly traveling it, that's how paths are formed.

But the message is great, and the poetry is awesome.

Tar_alcaran ,

Wow perfect split, I didn't think that was actually possible

Tar_alcaran ,

Eh, from a practical standpoint, selfie-lady still has both legs, so if I had switches places with either of this, I'd know who to pick.

Tar_alcaran ,

Damn, that IS a great punk slogan

Tar_alcaran ,

It's not renewable, but known reserves will power the world for a century, based solely on current average efficiency and not modern improvements

Tar_alcaran ,

Hi, I work in waste handling, and I would like to tell you about dangerous materials and what we do with them.

There are whole hosts of chemicals that are extremely dangerous, but let's stick with just cyanide, which comes from coal coking, steel making, gold mining and a dozen chemical synthesis processes.

Just like nuclear waste, there is no solution for this. We can't make it go away, and unlike nuclear waste, it doesn't get less dangerous with time. So, why isn't anyone constantly bringing up cyanide waste when talking about gold or steel or Radiopharmaceuticals? Well, that's because we already have a solution, just not "forever".

Cyanide waste, and massive amounts of other hazardous materials, are simply stored in monitored facilities. Imagine a landfill wrapped in plastic and drainage, or a building or cellar with similar measures and someone just watches it. Forever. You can even do stuff like build a golfcourse on it, or malls, or whatever.

There are tens of thousands of these facilities worldwide, and nobody gives a solitary fuck about them. It's a system that works fine, but the second someone suggests we do the same with nuclear waste, which is actually less dangerous than a great many types of chemical waste, people freak out about it not lasting forever.

Tar_alcaran ,

That's uhh, not what that says. One of the two mentions of half life are your body converting cyanide into thiocyanate, which will kill you and depending on your last bowel movement, make your corpse into hazardous waste itself.

The other mention is hydrogen cyanide in air, which is lighter than air and will decompose back into cyanide eventually, scattering it over a large area. Which will technically make it go away from your site, but spreading toxic waste over the countryside is illegal for a reason.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

Oh yeah, you could totally just leave it in a giant pool and ignore it. It'll react, evaporate and eventually break down into cyanide again, rain down, subtly poison the area, react again, evaporate again, etc.

And that's great for the owner of the big pool of cyanide, and very bad for everyone else. Stuff that evaporates doesn't disappear, the cyanide doesn't magically change into cookiedough. You're just spreading it around more.

Tar_alcaran ,

I mean, spent fuel is actually quite lethal when not packaged, but you get something like 300-400MWh out of a kilo of fuel. And that's significantly more than I'll use in my lifetime.

I'd gladly keep a kilo of dry-casked spent fuel in my house. It'd make an excellent coffee table or something, if a bit hard to move. I would absolutely not put a lifetime supply of benzene anywhere near my house.

Edit: it would make a shitty coffee table. 1 kilo of uranium oxide is just under 100ml

Tar_alcaran ,

In addition to hazardous materials regulations, I also do workplace safety, and this doesn't surprise me at aaaaall. People get really casual around stuff that kills you slowly.

Tar_alcaran ,

An unfortunate reality is that while we CAN store things safely, that doesn't mean they always will be.

Tar_alcaran ,

People really should remember: generative AI makes things things that look like what you want.

Now, usually that overlaps a lot with what you actually want, but not nearly always, and especially not when details matter.

Tar_alcaran ,

And when they say "more than 5ft" they mean it's closer to 10.

Tar_alcaran ,

I dunno, seems really inconvenient to me. What if you decide to get married at some point? I would just build a sex-regardless-marriage room, to get a little potential future-proofing done.

And maybe expand the gay room a bit.

Tar_alcaran ,

Also, obviously you don't want the lounge opening right into the bathroom. Unless that's your thing, but then you should just convert your gay room into a multipurpose area.

Tar_alcaran ,

But Uhm, it's also true

Tar_alcaran ,

getting paid for freelance work that is available in Europe

Banktransfers are free...

Tar_alcaran ,

Price Crypto at the one-year simple moving average, and the volatility stops.

What? No it doesn't, you're just shifting the volatility from your pricing to your consumption.

Tar_alcaran ,

Depends on the country and the context. For private people in the Netherlands, it's free. On my business account I pay something like 12 cents, plus 2 bucks per batch (which is why most companies only do payments every so often)..

Tar_alcaran ,

Yeah, because just pretending the previous movie didn't happen is also a shitty solution.

Tar_alcaran ,

As far as I can remember, the main character is just some random son of a smith.

Tar_alcaran ,

Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?

Tar_alcaran ,

Multiple things can be true. Both of these claims are true.

  • It benefits NATO countries to curb the expansion of a rival power without losing a single soldier.

  • Assisting in a sovereign country in resisting annexation by a genocidal occupier is a good thing.

You don't always have to suffer to help someone else, some situations can be win-win.

Tar_alcaran ,

Welcome to the new Industrial Revolution, where one person can do the work of many. Sure, mass produced goodscontent aren't as good as handmade artisanal products writing, but there's a huge market for it.

Tar_alcaran ,

I've had an economics teacher in the Netherlands who had interest tables and wanted us to them too. For those before calculators, those are tables that list the years on the left, and the interest on top, and then the multiplier in the table.

So, 10 years at 6.5% = 1.877

This was in 2005i sh.

Tar_alcaran ,

Absolutely. But I learned in 2005, and the electric calculator had replaced the sliderule a couple of decades earlier.

But this is something they were great at, but usually not with the same accuracy. It's hard to get more than 3 decimal places out of one, and tables are great for that, you can fill whole books with them.

Tar_alcaran ,

Nobody on the left wants crappy surveys

Tar_alcaran ,

Quick, but them a pony!

Tar_alcaran ,

Musk is straightforwardly alleging that OpenAI breached a contract that does not exist. It is simply not a thing! The complaint makes reference to a “Founding Agreement,” but no such Founding Agreement is attached as an exhibit, and the breach of contract claim admits that the “Founding Agreement” is basically a vibe everyone caught in some emails.

That's hilarious. At least his lawyer talked some sense into him at the last second

Tar_alcaran ,

Get a million or be 17 again? Sounds like win-win!

Tar_alcaran ,

Won't a fire axe work perfectly well?

Tar_alcaran ,

Which game is this?

Tar_alcaran ,

Sectorial and regional labor shortages are real.

And would be short-term only, with proper pay

Tar_alcaran ,

Honestly, I would drive sheet pile, and anchor is with folding anchors or simply injection. Unless you're building in completely virgin ground.

Tar_alcaran ,

This was reckless rather than deliberate,

Leaving the scene was pretty deliberate

Tar_alcaran ,

But, how can you control for side to side motion on a flat ass without a valley?

Tar_alcaran ,

Her poor ears

Tar_alcaran ,

If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

Huh? They launched plenty of Starlink satellites since March, they may not be enough to keep up with the shutdowns, but rockets have been going up.

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-log/

Edit: if you look at https://satellitemap.space/ now, the number of sats has been going up since march, but the number in service is shrinking, probably due to shutdowns exceeding replacement launches.

Launch capacity has kept steady since 2022, and so has life expectancy. We're coming up on the end of life for the first sats, so it's likely the total number has peaked, and will now drop to a steady state.

Tar_alcaran ,

First, they came for the obviously government-funded data harvesting program, and I said nothing, because I think that's a good thing actually.

Tar_alcaran ,

If they make me leave, I would say it's very successful

Tar_alcaran ,

You can actually be a good landlord. In theory. But at the point where you actually become a good landlord, it's more of a public service than something you actually make money on.

Tar_alcaran ,

Because it's a piece of crap that mostly serves to impress people psychologically. And the guard tower isn't great either.

Tar_alcaran ,

Yeah, it even included a "Look, Vanya said she bla bla bla", "you mean Viktor", "yeah Viktor, obviously, but my point was that plot plot plot".

Tar_alcaran ,

Well, it's 2024, so they mostly say things like "out of A4 paper - load A4 paper in tray number 3". But yeah, they used to.

Tar_alcaran ,

I use the "A5 booklet" function all the time.

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