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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Well it’s a good thing that you can’t set off a nuclear explosion by bombing a nuclear power plant either.

    A nuclear explosion requires either nanosecond timing that detonates a sphere of explosives that compress a highly enriched nuclear core until it goes critical, or you need two parts of a critical core that come together when you want the big boom. It is impossible for a nuclear reactor to cause a nuclear detonation. There simply isn’t enough highly enriched material in a reactor.

    You could cause a nuclear meltdown, but you’d need to damage the fuel rods, which are typically buried rather deep for obvious reasons.

    Nuclear power is the most energy dense and efficient electrical energy source that we have as a species.



  • We really do need to figure out what we’re gonna do when an AI fucks up and gets someone the death penalty for a parking ticket or something.

    If a real lawyer were to fuck you over, you could report them to the bar association and have their license taken away. Could even sue them for losses. Will you be able to come for an AIs license? Can you get restitution from the AI company for things the AI did?

    We’ve already seen AIs toast entire production environments. If a human did that, they’d be fired at the least. If an investigation found it was done intentionally, a human could potentially be sued for losses of revenue. Nothing has happened to the AIs that have done this. There is no recourse. I can think of no worse industry for a lack of accountability than law.




  • Am HVAC tech.

    No one has money. I knew things were truly fucked before Christmas when I was talking to a guy, standing in his living room that is larger than my entire fucking house, and he was hemming and hawing about replacing his furnace blower motor that was actively leaking oil. I felt scummy having to point out that it is an actual fire hazard. He pushed the repair off to the new year so he could get some money together. Another guy had to call his sister to pay me for his dispatch fee, and then said he’d buy an inducer motor at Home Depot because my quote for the warranty repair was too high. I wish him the best of luck.

    It has not gotten better. I fear for my job on a weekly basis. I had to switch to a new company due to moving states for my wife’s job, and I am having a hell of a time proving I can bring value when people are barely able to afford capacitors at discounted rates. I had one guy whose unit won’t even start just say they’ll just not have AC.

    He’s cooked, I’m cooked, we’re all cooked.






  • If they take back anything, they’ll do exactly what they’ve done for the past 50 years of right wing power creep: wring their hands and talk about taking the high road and healing as a nation.

    We need a party that actually has the will to uphold laws. Impeach a president. Impeach congresspeople. Hold fucking trials. Throw fuckers in jail that belong in jail. We have a Supreme Court justice that has flagrantly taken bribes and refuses to recuse himself. Throw him in jail and say he can legislate from a steel toilet now. Just goddamn do anything.