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[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

It's just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

Now, it's not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Molten salt?

We can then use compressed CO2 in the place of steam to drive the turbine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is blue sky federated? I thought it was another closed garden. If slightly more open than Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Ethanol is incredibly inefficient as a fuel source.

If not for the massive subsidies it would not exist.

Still, ethanol is a better fuel additive than lead. (Both reduce knocking)

Still, the far better use is to grow food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Mindustry is much closer to the tower defense side of it.

Or maybe the RTS side.

There are even attack modes, where you build up an army to take on a fixed emplacement of enemy units.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Harris was the path of things slowly getting better. Wages finally overtaking inflation.

Given a couple years, we would all be in a better place.

Trump's tariffs will drive up the price of everything. The last few years of inflation and greed will pale in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And egg prices will still go up.

Catastrophicly so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The true captains of industry do want this. chaos is how they transfer wealth from the poor to themselves.

In a depression, the money doesn't vanish, it goes into the pockets of the super rich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's actually the plan.

Bankrupt the government and sell it off for parts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Technically it's the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn't spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We've added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it's 435.

Repealing that one law would fix several problems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's used for very minor repairs, in this case, a more permanent repair is under the tape, but is likely curing, so they slap some speed tape on it.

Speed tape never holds anything down, it's just used to smooth over a surface, to allow better air flow.

Whatever is being covered by the speed tape will likely see more attention from maintenance later.

https://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/ryanair_duct_tape_controversy/

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