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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no it's correct for what Balaji is postulating

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nuclear at least doesn't pump out CO2, so a lotta people who aren't like you describe consider it worth considering. 850MW of nuclear is better than 850MW of gas on this scale.

But the economics just completely fuck it. TMI unit 1 shut down cos it couldn't compete economically and only an IRA tax break makes it even plausible.

There's a big thing in Australia at the moment where the LNP, beholden to some donor or other, is pushing economically nonviable nuclear hard. And even a lotta the green side is saying "nice idea, now make the numbers work in this universe."

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

it's a Roko plan, what could go wrong

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

we'll just build an atlantic garbage patch out of ice, and

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i saw it in my email and thought "did he fucking read it" and looking through his history, he absolutely didn't

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

so according to @liveuamap, the backstory here is that this is to get his name out of news about the WildBerries shooting in Moscow - where a battle for corporate control came down to gunshots - because he was backing one of the sides

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk

except the ones still getting upset over it, but if we deny their existence as hard as possible they won't be there

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

This was actually posted in June, but it became hot news yesterday for some reason

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

I try for clickbait that delivers

 

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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