That's it. Launch the fucking nukes, ALL OF THEM, EVERYWHERE, at the whole goddamn region. If neither side is going to spare each other's kids, I want that whole area fucking gone.
I know that won't happen so I'm going to fucking kill myself. I hate every last one of you, humanity is nothing more than spiteful monsters and I refuse to live in a world where my choices are comfortable misery and uncomfortable misery. Moving to the middle of nowhere is not my idea of "freedom".
Oh so you admit you're a shill for bp or aramco. When it comes to shills, the first person to mention a brand name is the one getting paid.
I guess you've never heard of the beach with sand that is more radioactive than Fukushima and has been since long before nuclear energy or even nuclear weapons. People go there because the black sand is pretty and because it doesn't have enough ionizing (cancerous) radiation to hurt anyone, it's actually really popular.
Not all nuclear power plants are equal. Fukushima barely reached "level 8" on the danger level of nuclear accidents, which is the catch-all "really bad and off the charts" level. Even though Chernobyl was also "off the charts", the soviet nuclear program was also focused on using power plants to make weapon's grade plutonium and their design was flawed severely, so Chernobyl was and still is much, much worse.
Three Mile Island was a maintenance issue, and Fukushima was due to catastrophic damage, so what if we could build a nuclear plant that relied on something other than technology to prevent a meltdown?
Simple, gravity. Trains used to crash into disconnected carriages from other trains whose engineers never realized a coupler broke. Now, when a train starts, there's pressurized air in a hose running the length of a train and when it fails the air is released; that was the only thing keeping the brakes on every car _de_activated. So the train immediately comes to a halt. That's what an actual failsafe is, but nuclear plants currently in operation don't have that because they were built in the 1950s and 60s on the cheap.
Instead of air, an electromagnet in a NEW design keeps a seal at the bottom of the plant closed. If the electricity fails, the seal is opened by gravity. When the seal is open, the nuclear fuel is sent dropping into a cooling tank with enough water to keep them cooled off for 100 or more years, during a mere few months of which we can repair the minimal damage easily. Unfortunately, the design was held back for decades for numerous nontechnical reasons, and now the average person is too fucking terrified of past failures based on the lies of businessmen and the shortsightedness of Cold War paranoia to use something that actually works.
The US military has, in all likelihood, been already capable of this for the past 15-30 years. Google has no market other than the public, and there's no way to stop it from tagging rich people as "that asshole who owns what used to be twitter" but also the general public (us) would just end up flagging people we hate or envy or who we want revenge on to ruin people's reputations.
There is no upside for a tech like that in the hands of big money, not even for big money; done the way Google would do it, it would fracture society like nothing before it and that includes utterly destroying the economy before leading to some sort of nuclear exchange.
I would sign up for this if it's opt-in and either decentralized or local storage-based. Otherwise I hope the fuckers who would ruin this idea for greed crash and burn.
But I remember we did it. "Okay, Brian, the record's five. The record's five… Okay ready? Go!"
Huh? Just for clarity's sake, is this a good or bad thing?
Because nobody made a Steam Deck until 2020. Everyone plays video games now and have for years, and unless you have a console, the only way to play 99% of video games is using Steam's windows version or a specially adapted Linux .
Don't get me wrong, the moment that Windows 11/12/etc. outright requires logging into a Microsoft account (Protip: As of this writing, using the email "no@thankyou.com" and submitting a blank password forces Windows 11 to let you make/log into a local user account) to use it, I'll be installing Steam OS on my OneXFly, and it's why I don't use my "free" upgrade to 11 on my Windows 10 gaming desktop. I just don't think you realize how big a deal compatibility really is for gaming.
Honestly this is yet another reason to distinguish between photographic images/live video of a minor, and the disgusting but necessary evil of fictional material. With scams like this and new AI generation capability, I'm scared that even kids younger than 13 who haven't even been forced to be involved in that photographic/video crap will be blackmailed using only their face and black market image AIs that draw on dark net CSAM.
By making fictional content legal while conversely increasing penalties for adults who exploit or attack REAL children in ANY way, not just sexually (because let's be honest, this scam, kiddy porn and a lot of physical non-sexual violence towards children by strangers is about exploiting kids for the money and nothing else) you deprive the black market of material for an AI-based extortion plan.
The only other option is to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to post content on the internet at all, which would kill Lemmy and the fediverse, big tech, VR, online gaming and modern education.
Yes, but that's because it motivated them to strike. That's basically the less violent version of a riot.
Notepad++, because I mostly program OpenTTD mods.
Or breaks the glass on the Brownian flux capacitor.
…actually, what is the flux capacitor for, really? My theory is that it IS a real capacitor and thus related to energy storage/discharge.
I swear they should have run a virus scan or CCleaner or something on that thing. Even the Glitch Techs don't have a holodeck THAT buggy!
I tailored my answers to that assumption. It's a reality, even if a heavily-manipulated one, and the person(s) inside the simulation are as real as we are, given the description of "perfect simulation".
So you'd created a clone slave of yourself. Ehrm… I'm not sure how to tell you this but…
Well, at least you actually want to have a beneficial legacy. That's better than we can say about Zuckerberg, Trump or Musk.
Calculating… 404, problem "Entropy" not found. Please check the new information from the James Web Space telescope for possible reasons.
(look up "Trillion Year Old Universe" and realize that if true, that's just how old the currently observable universe is, and reality as it is could be eternally going through cycles of stellar death and birth and would have always existed with no beginning)
Was going to mention this, I see you beat me to it.
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