CalamityBalls

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, apologies, I assumed you could read. Never mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If they take ten years to build, start now. Nuclear plants offset 400 million tons of CO2 a year in the US alone. All the waste produced since the 1950's would fit just over 9 meters deep on a single football field. Yes there's mining, it's not great, guess what? Solar panels and wind turbines also require mining. The open pit sort, the sort with wastewater containing the ever-perfidious radioactive elements. All in all, for each ton of rare earth elements extracted, about 2,000 tons of toxic waste is produced, 1-1.4 tons of which are radioactive, usually thorium and uranium funnily enough. A point of interest on the waste, the tailing dam of the Bayan OBO mine in China, responsible for only half the world's rare earth elements, is around 70 million m3, the nuclear waste I previously mentioned comes in at 49,000 m3, or 0.07% of the volume of a single mine.

All this to say, let's build solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear reactors, because we're in the harm reduction phase, and nuclear reactors are a fantastic tool even if they have downsides, just like everything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Unfortionantly, prangent formed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Armored Core 6, they added ranked matches today.

Dark Souls 1, want to finally 100% it.

Minecraft, because it's always nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

One to tell you fascinating things about lightbulbs, one to tell you about Big Lightbulb and why they're unravelling society, one to make asinine comments, one to actually change the bulb, and four to lurk in the shadows simply observing matters.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Many internet-goers like to give pedantry a hard time, but I just want to let you know that I love it and all the niche facts it brings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Been on other stuff since I completed the game, ready to come back and get into some weird builds for pvp, see they've added new tet legs too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fermat, explain yourself now please.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I do, but rarely. Maybe every other month or so. The situations I do use it, I've been thankful that I avoided phones without a jack. I like having appropriate tools at my disposal, and bluetooth will never be universally applicable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Thank you, it's frustrating seeing (almost) everyone call them AI. If/when actual AI comes into existence I think a lot of people are going to miss the implications as they've become used to every LLM and its grandmother being called AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've yet to find a burger that's better than just caramelised onions, blue cheese, and quality beef. I might add a leafy something out of arterial guilt, but I can't say it improves anything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Was raised going to church each sunday, but approaching confirmation age I realised I couldn't mesh faith with my understanding of the world. That was it for me really, I'm quite open to the idea of god(s), ghosts, magic or other forms of the supernatural, but until there's actual proof, I can't believe in it.

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