TheHalc

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

One of my workmates has been in one of their places for a while now. I've heard they're particularly fun for young professionals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sounds like your dad was taking about software daemons and Maxwell's demon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced "root", not "rout".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Motörhead still kind of works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  1. I don't stop thinking, I just do my best to move my thoughts onto something else if I find myself dwelling too long on one thing. Before long, it's an incoherent chain of nonsense, and then sleep.
  2. If sleep is not coming, I just enjoy that I'm lying down with my eyes closed and getting some rest. I can survive a day or two with just a few hours of sleep, so if sleep comes now or later, I'll be fine. Sleep usually comes.
[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.

Somehow people think it's worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we'd be happy to just dump it in the ocean.

Living in Finland, I'm proud of the fact that we've got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, it's safer than wind.

Solar's a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I understand where you're coming from, but some of the strongest communities are in rural places where public transport is unfortunately not a sustainable option.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (6 children)

We desperately need electoral reform.

In a more diverse political landscape like the ones enabled by proportional representation, it's very hard for a single party to be able to reach a majority without coalition partners.

If the Tories had to rely on coalition partners, there's no way they'd have been able to hold a coalition together this long - they can hardly hold their own party together at this point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nuclear submeringue. The new season of Bake Off is getting spicy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it's stacked on top of other things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

In a galaxy with replicators, who would actually still know how to cook eggs (other than Sisko's dad)?

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