Disaster

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[–] Disaster 1 points 13 minutes ago

There's forty shillings on the drum, for those who'll volunteer to come...

[–] Disaster 8 points 28 minutes ago

Perhaps she shouldn't have proudly orchestrated a desperate attempt to build trump up at the expense of an actual competitive candidate, then?

Go away, Clintons. You're a pestilence.

[–] Disaster 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Nuclear energy is a terrible idea in both a physically (climate change) and socially destabilizing world.

Even Gen4 proliferation-resistant reactors still represent a lethal threat in the event of a release of fissionable materials into the local environment. Building a nuclear reactor without a cast-iron guarantee that there will be a supply of engineering staff, components, materials and clear strong regulation to keep it running safely is a surefire path to disaster.

Whilst the technology and physics behind it are well understood, we have shown time and again in a few short decades of utilizing this technology that we lack the responsibility in our administrative structures to properly manage the risks.

It would take just one full-on reactor meltdown or disaster to poison an entire continent. We have consistently demonstrated that we cannot responsibly assume that risk, which is why there is opposition to nuclear power.

If you want to avoid bad things from happening, do not deploy a dangerous technology and instead focus on what we can do. Renewables are more than capable of providing for our energy needs, and the big kicker here is that they can do so without putting the literal power "off" switch in the hands of the grid or plant operator.

[–] Disaster 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

All in time for the democrats to run another empty (pant)suit in 2028. Rinse. Repeat.

[–] Disaster 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

schumer has been a sack of shit for about as long as I can remember.

[–] Disaster 7 points 2 weeks ago

I hear there are places in Berlin that charge a small amount of money give you a towel for such fantasies.

[–] Disaster 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Disaster 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU... and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn't need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.

I've been trying to work with SBC's for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just... annoying.

[–] Disaster 3 points 2 weeks ago

They lost them in about 2014.

[–] Disaster 5 points 4 weeks ago

Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!

[–] Disaster 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Should the janitorial staff have equal says as to the executives in how funds should be allocated?

Given their propensity for allocating the funds to themselves, probably.

[–] Disaster 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US is horrendously backwards on animal welfare.

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