Its alive, but not many motherboards are supported :(
That would require winning WW3 to get there.
I wish them well, but you'd need to turn or overthrow a number of puppet dictatorships just to reach the border. And those puppet dictatorships are threaded through with foreign bases, foreign contractors, bribes, blackmail and elaborate monitoring to prevent exactly this sort of thing.
Doing what the Houthis do, but in the Mediterranean would be an easier mission, I should think. AUVs ftw
Inspiring!
I would have saved a lot of money if I could have had a specialist terminate my first wife, instead of divorcing her. Better for my health and peace of mind, too.
Assassins are healthcare, and deserve government funding.
What about firmware / hardware level threats like the Intel Management Engine?
Facts.
But I expect consensus on truth will be imposed with implied threat of state violence.
More than it is already (in the non-US West).
They are really low-effort and useless even for bad purposes
Copium. She really doesn't have much power to change course even rhetorically, so easier to believe its all for her best interests.
Nothing speaks of "democratic values" quite like a single-candidate election...
NGL, I wouldn't wear this around my own neighborhood, but I totally would somewhere nobody knows me.
He was our decoy!
No, that numberplate was pretty dumb.
But a t-shirt won't be read from a distance, and tax evasion is not something the police are trained for or interested in.
I have a friend who used to be an EL1 at our tax office.
They suspect all of us of tax evasion, all the time. Some of us are the just right size for audits, t-shirt won't matter either way.
Offline, Normies would love it, and it would start the right kinds of conversations.
Buy one, Diss!
That's just the Hellmouth. Open it while live-streaming!
We've talked about this, and no, heat exchangers are not that simple. Ever.
You're not wrong about house buyer stupidity, though...
Nope. Above 600 ppm I get a headache. Some ppl are fine up to 1000 ppm.
Well-sealed, energy-efficient offices suck...
Jspan is an oligarchy, not a dictatorship, but impunity for favourites is a feature of both systems.
TEPCO was repeatedly denied regulator permission to upgrade to newer plant designs, so they had to keep their ancient, poorly-sited Gen2 plants running.
That's a level of stupid I previously believed only White ppl suffered from...
Solar power doesn't have to involve young immigrant installers falling from rooftops.
Wind turbines don't have to be sited for bird strikes.
Hydropower dams don't have to be kept sitting disastrously over-full.
Nuclear plants don't have to be designed to be capable of core meltdown (GenIV mostly aren't)
Coal power doesn't have to involve strip-mining, breathing fly ash downwind, releasing mercury and various radionuclides into the environment, or generating mountains of toxic waste.... oh wait actually it does.
I was looking for Southern Lights last night, no luck. Of course, I live in a huge, brightly lit city...
This is a gamechanger for low-carbon energy.
There is an estimated four billion tonnes of uranium dissolved in seawater.
Using electrochemical extraction, uranium energy resources are now available to any population with a coastline. The cost of the fuel is higher than for terrestrial uranium, at about four one-thousandths of a US cent per kWh (e) produced, but still cheaper than any other fuel.
This is enough uranium to supply humanity's current energy needs for ten millenia. Longer if we supplement with intermittent renewables (where and when those produce more energy than they consume over their working lives.)
Solving the problem "wrong" for most Western leaders, of course. The Establishment Left demand the imposition of a level of energy poverty Westerners haven't known since the early 1700s. The Establishment Right demand borrowing money to give to BlackRock to "sequester" CO2 at uneconomic prices with no plan for scaling up.
But I'm hopeful that China, India, Russia et. al will do the right thing.
Western economies can remain nuclear-free, and export minerals and sex-tourism once the credit cards max out.
#energy #nuclear #climatechange #carbon
I need somewhere I can go spend my Bitcoin after AU govt goes the full North Korea on the Internet. Will happen (again).
South East Asia is my Plan A, Africa looking like a credible Plan B :)
<= My 20 relays
=> My Amethyst client
Mach 11 is pretty hard for AD to react to, never mind intercept.
But comparing any non-nuclear payload to a nuclear one is absurd hype...
Rights?
- Guns
- Free speech
- Freedom of Assembly
would be the big ones we're short on.
In my state, being caught in possession of design files or blueprints for a firearm without written authority is a three year prison sentence.
But our government oppresses most of us equally, English is an official language, and no foreign powers are building bases here except the US of A.
No need to liberate us just yet π
We actually are neighbours, there's just a bit of water in between, that your navy dominates.
Outside of Sydney and Melbourne, all of Australia is the English-speaking part, which also has the iron and coal. Just like Donbas.
And we're #2 or #3 in the world for rare earth reserves (UA actually has none of value).
I should shut up about now :p
"Hindered its option" should probably have been "hindered its adoption".
Good writeup!
oh oh !
https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/us-wind-solar-outproduced-coal-and-nuclear-in-q1-2025-eia/
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One third intermittent supply seems to be about the limit of what modern grid power engineering can cover for.
You guys aren't Spain yet, but you're getting there!
Would be interesting to see those figures in USD @ wholesale instead of MW/h. When renewables prices start to go negative you know deindustrialisation is close at hand.
Would you invest in an aluminium smelter on a renewables-dominated grid? A foundry? A shipyard? A flour mill?
(Surprisingly, our PM has swung hard into natgas lately. Many of his MPs will be sleeping on their couches. I'd prefer nuclear, but whatever keeps the lights on...8
More like:
"I can't believe you and Starmer snorted the WHOLE BAG of Zelensky Premium without leaving any for ME! And then, you wait until NOW to tell me Vietnam only has ya'ba, not candy? YOU'RE SO SELFISH!"
Hmmm. Permissionless and decentralised ways of self-organisation. Like Bitcoin. And Nostr.
Thomas Hobbes was the propagandist of a king.
A king who deeply resented the feudal and Christian restraints on his power.
Hobbes was a revolutionary, but not the kind I like.
Those tribal councils and chiefdoms populations were a majority of humanity until ~1500 AD.
The Statist status quo has been dominant for roughly 0.25% of Homo Sapien's history as a species.
Looking at the ever-increasing centralisation, fragility and enshitification of the world, I'm not bullish on Statism. Previous episodes of Statism have led to collapse, and reemergence of decentralised self-governance.
Maybe.
Chinese history is a series of expansion and centralisation, inward-looking despotism, violent and pitious collapse, and then stabilisation for a time at lower levels of complexity and centralisation.
They've ridden this train a few times, but there are always leaders sure they can get off before the final stop.
Facts.
Although China has its problems (same as the first three of ours).
It may drop the baton on its foot soon after we pass it.
We've never seen a civilisational "dropped baton" on a global scale before. Historical merely-regional de-complexifications were pretty horrific.
In the English-speaking world, the 50s and early 60s were a boom in many ways - babies, economic growth, workers' share of national income, confidence in the future. The former USSR had something very similar, despite its very different system.
The last time the birth rates were this low was the Great Depression, and I suspect this is no accident.
A civil war seems profoundly implausible, given the firepower advantage the regime has over its populace.
The "White Nationalists" vs Islam narrative strengthens the regime's legitimacy, so clearly and directly you have to wonder if its Special Branch at work again (like during the Troubles).
Regarding etching, any electronics hobby store should be able to sell you printable etch-resist transfer sheets, and ferric chloride etchant. You can get pure copper sheet at metal fabrication suppliers, or ebay.
Then you can use a computer to put your 12 words into a printable and possibly artistic / obscure design; print this on the transfer sheet, iron the transfer sheet onto the copper sheet, and dunk the sheet and etchant into a dish for ten minutes.
Beautiful, high-resolution result, and the copper sheet will last practically forever, even in the ground. Archeologists dig up well-preserved copper artifacts all the time after thousands of years.
Copper FTW!
Commercially available etchants, and resists corrosion for centuries / millenia. And not too expensive.
Pretty much this.
It never hurts to ask if they'll accept Bitcoin. If they won't, next ask if they'll accept cash.
Saving the world, one tax-resisting tradie at a time :p
Truth, but there are systemic risks, and more importantly, fragility, usually not discussed.
Issuing new debt in a fractional reserve paradigm requires continuous underlying growth in production and consumption to pay the return creditors require.
It also requires continuous underlying growth in government coercive capacity and willingness to enforce the rules of the game.
This ends in tears every time. But is very good while it lasts, for those close to power.
Today my mother announced she could see a grey amidst my hair.
Since I'm in my 40s and don't own a supernatural painting a la Dorian Gray, I believed her, and without any particular angst.
But then my sister came running, gleefully (she has many, even though she's younger), and after a minute she announced, sorrowfully, that she couldn't see any grey in my hair.
Both those women have dismal eyesight.
Who should I believe?
I'm afraid I'm 100% with The_Beave on this.
Brigading and targetted harassment is a thing, even on Nostr. Nobody wants to be stuck on a crowded bus full of bullies. Not even the bullies, since tomorrow they could be on a different bus.
I never censor myself for fear of somebody muting me. If they're offended by my opinions, I don't need them as a follower. I'm not some influencer selling rawfood vegan cookbooks to make rent.