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by pstuart 1y ago
Bespoke behemoth power plants may have the advantage size in the ability to generate power but they seem to be impossible to bring in on schedule and under budget. Small Modular Reactors should upend that hegemony through mass production bu
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by pstuart 1y ago
These cuts are ideologically driven and use the "saving taxpayers money" line as coverage. As you noted, ICE just got billions more, as well as the military. Not a single cost cutting measure has been announced in those areas. Bei
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by pstuart 1y ago
Ewww. Religion is a hell of a drug.
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by pstuart 1y ago
Hopefully Go as well.
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by pstuart 1y ago
They are stupid, but also ruthless and willing to ignore the laws they don't like. They are also surrounded by billionaires that want them to keep it going. Look at how Larry Ellison is buying up Paramount/CBS and soon, Tiktok. Th
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by pstuart 1y ago
The CPC is not attacking the US from within. The Party of Trump has carried out a fascist coup and they are now working to ensure they stay in power permanently. I loath partisanship and am more than willing to point out failures by the Dem
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by pstuart 1y ago
It's an understandable lament but the US is in a moment of crisis -- this is the hacking of democracy in action.
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by pstuart 1y ago
That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.
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by pstuart 1y ago
Which in turn reminds me of the excellent series Connections, by James Burke. It's science and inventions all the way down ;-)
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by pstuart 1y ago
A solar carport is on my wish list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0lCJ0cK6hg
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by pstuart 1y ago
It's now a cult and they're voting for him not for his policies. "A republic, if you can keep it" -- Ben Franklin
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by pstuart 1y ago
The right is a master class in political messaging. They learned this One Weird Trick™ to manipulate the masses: people are stupid and vote their emotions. By defining the language they win almost by default: family values, school choice, p
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by pstuart 1y ago
Because the subject has been artfully politicized to an audience that will reject anything they are told to reject. Fossil fuel barons are funding this so they can lord it over us up to the end and then they retreat to their bunkers. It wou
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by pstuart 1y ago
Does the group have anything online for the morbidly curious?
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by pstuart 1y ago
I think there's an element of curiosity that is innate, and that make a huge difference. For those so blessed, learning is fun and a welcome activity (there's an entirely separate issue of actually applying any of knowledge but
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by pstuart 1y ago
And leveraging fusion research to rethink how drilling is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sjdOjNxIE
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by pstuart 1y ago
There's a new kind of "drill baby drill" which we should be embracing: geothermal energy. There's a lot of advancements in that space and it is a perfect base load generation source.
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by pstuart 1y ago
I recognize that harvest windows are restricted, but a coop of local farmers having shared ownership in the bigger toys seems like it might make some economic sense. And a quick web search shows that some are doing it: https://
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by pstuart 1y ago
24/7 solar furnaces harvesting asteroids seems like a huge industry once it's figured out. The big problem is that it would take a billionaire to make it happen.
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by pstuart 1y ago
The last decade has brought us Trump, which has broken countless political (and other) norms -- that has made passive observation a lot more challenging. I've listened to NPR for decades and the only thing I've noticed as far as &
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by pstuart 1y ago
Multiple writers on network storage is the issue. Reading should be totally fine.
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by pstuart 1y ago
Seeing clips of primitive tribes being given modern military equipment triggers a response of "that is too powerful for you, you haven't earned the right to use it as you couldn't even make it yourself". Geocentric and e
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by pstuart 1y ago
This will be a classic case of FAFO (Fuck Around and Find Out). It's a pity that innocent children will likely bear the brunt of the finding out.
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by pstuart 1y ago
Yeah, that was my point about the supply chain.
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by pstuart 1y ago
Apple has a history of embracing robotics, so this is in line with their DNA (circa 1984): https://thenextweb.com/news/steve-jobs-designed-apple-factor... This also implies that the work could be onshored if the supply
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by pstuart 1y ago
They very well may. But they are notorious for strip mining and killing viable companies, because they do.
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by pstuart 1y ago
The mask debacle has interesting angles on why it happened: https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-... My take is that they fucked up but in an understandable way (rather than some evil c
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by pstuart 1y ago
And a parasitic brain worm to boot.
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by pstuart 1y ago
I absolutely agree that the current system is bad (and we were warned by George Washington himself). Rank based voting is touted as being a better approach but there's some reasonable criticism of it (too lazy to find and share a link)
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by pstuart 1y ago
This should be embraced in the US as well. And we need it now, more than ever because of how the price of housing has jumped so much and will only get worse as private equity continues to hoover up housing stock.

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