Tar_Alcaran

It’s pretty decent at unimportant optimisation tasks with limited options. Like “I’m driving from X to Y, my friend travels by train from Z, what are good places to pick them up?”

Because they have a LOT of money riding on convincing people not to vote blue. Gee, I wonder who benefits from that most.

Correct

What a weird focus on the US democratic party. Every single US government has been doing this exact same thing.

Less than zero

The German thing is a bit different. It’s kind of like if English didn’t have “they” as a neutral alternative, so people use “**e” as way to mean neither “he” nor “she”.

That’s fine in writing, but it looks pretty weird, doesn’t work well in other forms, and you get things like “e gives the ball to h”. It also really doesn’t work outside the written word, because how do you pronounce that?

And I do understand that you don’t want the female form to be the neutral form. If youre genderneutral, it probably feels weird to be constantly adressed as a woman.

With a wooden stick in it half the height of the burger, if you could.

just a few days after Firefox implements the features that have been blocking me from switching for the last few years.

Which are those?

Vibes count as stats, right?

In Dutch “they/them” is “zij”. Which is very annoying, because “she” is also “zij”.

Which means the Dutch genderless pronoun has mostly become “hen”, which is “them” in the dative (3rd) case, which is only rarely used otherwise, and thus available.

So, Putin said “stop defending yourself against us and stop letting countries join you to defend against our aggression, and if you don’t, we’re going to attack someone!”

I hate how right you are…

Do any of those strike you as not a parody?

Trump has frequently called for the violent death of his enemies. Everyone at that rally supported this position.

I don’t feel bad at all for the thing they want to happen to others happening to them.

Imho, there were FAR too few of them too

An unfortunate reality is that while we CAN store things safely, that doesn’t mean they always will be.

In addition to hazardous materials regulations, I also do workplace safety, and this doesn’t surprise me at aaaaall. People get really casual around stuff that kills you slowly.

I mean, spent fuel is actually quite lethal when not packaged, but you get something like 300-400MWh out of a kilo of fuel. And that’s significantly more than I’ll use in my lifetime.

I’d gladly keep a kilo of dry-casked spent fuel in my house. It’d make an excellent coffee table or something, if a bit hard to move. I would absolutely not put a lifetime supply of benzene anywhere near my house.

Edit: it would make a shitty coffee table. 1 kilo of uranium oxide is just under 100ml

Oh yeah, you could totally just leave it in a giant pool and ignore it. It’ll react, evaporate and eventually break down into cyanide again, rain down, subtly poison the area, react again, evaporate again, etc.

And that’s great for the owner of the big pool of cyanide, and very bad for everyone else. Stuff that evaporates doesn’t disappear, the cyanide doesn’t magically change into cookiedough. You’re just spreading it around more.

That’s uhh, not what that says. One of the two mentions of half life are your body converting cyanide into thiocyanate, which will kill you and depending on your last bowel movement, make your corpse into hazardous waste itself.

The other mention is hydrogen cyanide in air, which is lighter than air and will decompose back into cyanide eventually, scattering it over a large area. Which will technically make it go away from your site, but spreading toxic waste over the countryside is illegal for a reason.