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Z is depth, full stop, and I have my fists raised, Queensbury-style, to anyone who contends otherwise.

yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol

yep it’s a great topic, someone in my family actually got their degree in that exact topic

yeah if we could not stick shit in the ground that remains deadly for thousands of years, with containment solutions designed to last 20-60 years, that would be great. But we just keep pretending this stuff is cleaner than it is because we’ve learned how contain the waste safely for about a single human lifespan. But just read about the slow-motion disaster that are the US nuclear superfund sites and you’ll see that you can put off the consequences of this waste for so many decades before it comes back around. And there is no waste-free nuclear tech at this point, just less wasteful.

Yeah one really nice thing about nuclear is it’s very easy to safely hide all the waste away for 20-60 years and pretend it’ll never leak or cause issues for anyone in the future, but then you get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

Love me some Thorium! It doesn’t address every natural-disaster type of concern as far as radiation leaks and environmental contamination, but is absolutely the better choice over Plutonium/Uranium in terms of meltdowns and nuclear waste.

Oh yeah, people that call themselves empaths tend to mostly just be narcissists in my experience. Other people having agency and feelings and their own internal life makes them so uncomfortable and they decide to call that “empathy” rather than what it is.

true enough, I was just going off the text of the meme rather than the popular notions around “empaths”

well the buffet at the orgy is always on point so just skip the restaurant next time is my advice.

You can achieve privacy by not doing things online. People used to understand that if you wanted something to remain private, you literally kept it to yourself, idk what happened. Hence my radical proposal: If you have things you wish to remain private, don’t transmit those things into the largest public and most surveilled space that has ever existed, the Internet. We used to say to each other: “Don’t put anything online or type anything into a browser that you wouldn’t want to see on the frontpage of your hometown paper with your name on it.” You can’t walk into the public town square of the whole world, let your private details out, and then get miffed about muh privacy because you spoke into a place that was being listened to by corporations, it just doesn’t work that way.

Yes, people can sometimes tell how you are feeling by observing you. I get that it’s an uncomfortable idea, but it isn’t always just “a guess that makes them feel good”. It is possible to have an actual skill or talent for reading other people’s current mental state or emotions, just not if you’re a Lemmy user.

Basically the one nation I would have most trusted to handle nuclear safely, Japan, couldn’t even do it. The issue these days is not that the plants themselves are unsafe, it’s that we live on a active and changing planet, and accidents can and will always happen because of so-called acts of God. The problem is that nuclear, when it goes bad, tends to go mega ultra bad in ways that are very environmentally destructive and heinously expensive to clean up. So even if there is only 1/10000 the accident rate at nuclear plants that there are at other power plants, the consequences can be a million times worse.

Thankfully that is going to happen anyway through simple economics. Fossil fuel extraction is functionally already a peak technology, out of which every bit of efficiency has been squeezed by over 100 years of frantic and lavishly funded scientific development, whereas solar, battery, and wind technologies have been absolutely plunging in $-per-Kw to deploy and have much much further to go. So governments can try to slow this down as much as they wish, but it’s as much a fool’s errand as trying to rescue the horse industry in about 1920.

Now as for the question of “why isn’t this more efficient technology resulting in savings for, me, the consumer?” I can only encourage you to look at the entire history of extractive, investor-driven capitalism for the answer.

This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets “invented” once a decade or so. There’s just no way this is humanity’s very first crack at “washing machine but it does people” lol

What’s spiking is everything needed to run a AI datacenter, in order. First they spiked the price of GPUs, then the very instant that started to cool DRAM spiked. Electricity itself looks very much like it might be next, and we’ll be on to water before too long.

An actual picture, no, he preceeded Nicéphore Niépce by some years.

I sure hope not, the only devices more than a few years old that still function are those with replaceable batteries. Removable batteries make devices simpler, more robust, and longer-lasting. Rechargeable, replaceable, removable, standardized batteries are the sweet spot for sure.

Yeah, it was telling that all her examples are of work “integrating” itself into your home life, and 0 examples of things working the other way around. If you want me answering emails during my kid’s sporting event (jfk) then how about we make this a two-way street and I go home to do my laundry and watch some netflix if it’s a slow day at the office lol. These fucking people.

I read that as “War Snails” and was soooo excited for 0.25 seconds.