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by ck2 4mo ago
With all the fracking in the USA, literally exponential growth, one of the things they do is gas burn off for months, sometimes years at all the sites Why not use all that wasted heat energy to power all these datacenters? (and why not buil
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by ck2 4mo ago
USA has that new "Presidential Alert" right? wonder how that will be abused by 2029, at least once https://www.aau.edu/research-scholarship/featured-research-t...
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by ck2 4mo ago
is it because some cellphone carriers are now completely ipv6 externally like t-mobile?
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by ck2 4mo ago
isn't the simple answer an age-limit for VPN? /s all this because they refuse to make the law just "legal parent/guardian is responsible for the child" if a parent faced fine or jail for a child having access to th
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by ck2 4mo ago
I'm thinking of "space roombas" that glide around and bump all the sats in LEO into the atmosphere like a game of pool Only problem is they are toxic as they burn up and create a lot of pollution * https://www.bloo
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by ck2 4mo ago
sadly won't be possible for anything serious next decade as each space trillionaire and country launches their own 10,000+ constellations sky will be constantly twinkling, will be weird we'll have to switch to space telescopes abo
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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics(startupfortune.com)
975 points by ck2 4mo ago|402 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
> "The direct cycle is very likely to result in a large quantity of radioactive material in the exhaust," Hecla said. Air itself is irradiated as it passes through the engine, and fission decay products from the nuclear fuel a
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Researchers have uncovered how Russia's nuclear-powered missile works(npr.org)
5 points by ck2 4mo ago|2 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
Thorium reactors are the future, safest possible PBS Space Time explainer * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElulEJruhRQ
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by ck2 4mo ago
the thing is while something is better than nothing, new drug development is critical there is absolutely no cure for certain types of long-covid and me-cfs right now no repurposing any drug is going to cure it, they've tried everythin
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by ck2 4mo ago
Meanwhile guess who just gave ANOTHER BILLION to MORE wind farms not to finish building * https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climat... The insanity of it all. Do we survive this decade? Are you SURE?
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by ck2 4mo ago
and it's 100% Russell Vought most people know who Stephen Miller is but the real monster is Russell Vought Heritage Foundation's #1 enforcer, the destruction of science and academia is their top 10 If Vance somehow gets the reigns
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by ck2 4mo ago
The article is valid alarm but I would expect more education from "The Hill" to know that it wasn't the chatbot version of Grok, saying that makes the author sound stupid
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by ck2 4mo ago
if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth/wealth Musk has told tens of billions of dollars in stocks over the years in just 2021 he sold $40 BILLION in stock even single-digit billionaires are wealthy beyond
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by ck2 4mo ago
a better perspective is he is worth more than HALF THE WORLD POPULATION COMBINED he is worth FOUR BILLION PEOPLE should not be physically possible, it's a failure of humanity
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by ck2 4mo ago
it would be hilarious if not for all the suffering, death and destruction not to mention trillion dollars sucked out of the economy, for nothing and since Israel is not included, they will just end this in a week
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14-point 2-page agreement between the US and Iran leaks(cnn.com)
8 points by ck2 4mo ago|4 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
Is anyone old enough to remember the switch from customer call centers having a human quickly answer to long long annoying phone menus because that friction, getting the customer to do some work or busy distraction, somehow saved costs for
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by ck2 4mo ago
btw definitely related and seems significant: they found people who use glucosamine (joint pain, knees etc) have a 25% higher chance of Alzheimer's progression https://thesciverse.org/scientists-found-that-a-supplement-
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Ocean monitoring network of 900 sensors meant for 20 years is being dismantled(apnews.com)
4 points by ck2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
it's illegal for kids to vape too right? how's that working out? (answer: https://ash.org.uk/resources/view/use-of-e-cigarettes-among-... )
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by ck2 4mo ago
I think it's easy to predict some things that will happen in 950 days in 950 days there will be several hundred warehouses concentrating over a million people in this country including many thousands of children costing a quarter trill
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by ck2 4mo ago
if you want to keep your sanity, I suggest silently adding the phrase "...for the next 950 days" every time you read some politically spiteful news like this because the next two years are going to become insanely miser
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First person in the world treated with gene therapy to regenerate optic neurons(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by ck2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
Maybe some of Earth's oceans came from its rings collapsing (not kidding) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhwhq-f1Uo
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by ck2 4mo ago
vaguely reminds me of the library massacre at New College * https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/d4018abd-6789-46ea-83bc-092fddc313... * https://abcnews.com/US/books-dumped-en-masse-floridas-new-co...
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by ck2 4mo ago
is it just double-dipping the spending (this might be your point) or it is actually doing an end-run around laws against governments doing the surveillance themselves, instead they get private companies to do it and then it's perfectly
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by ck2 4mo ago
don't worry this administration is giving nearly a billion dollar bailout to coal using war powers so congress can't block * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/trump-coal-d...
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by ck2 4mo ago
I'm sure this administration will totally obey that without any enforcement or penalties and pardons awaiting oh wait, it could still be renewed/recreated > Democrats have refused to back an extension of Section 702 unless Tru

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