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Tar_alcaran

@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works

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Tar_alcaran , to 196 in mod accountability rule [action taken]

Concerts and sporting events have rules and regulations to prevent this nowadays. Guess who cries "persecution" when you try the same for them.

Also, a lot of these events are in the poorer countries, where these regulations don't exist.

And also because, apparently, god doesn't want to rescue these people.

Tar_alcaran , to 196 in Squire rule

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

Tar_alcaran , to 196 in Squire rule

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

Tar_alcaran , (edited ) to 196 in Sometimes I write poetrule

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 , to 196 in Ruleney Toons

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

Tar_alcaran , to Lefty Memes in Imagine Selling Your Body For A Buck…

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 , to solarpunk memes in A Radical Slogan for Our Times

Damn, that IS a great punk slogan

Tar_alcaran , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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

Tar_alcaran , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , (edited ) to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , to Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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 , to Comic Strips in "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

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.

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