MAGA will be the ones who "go woke go broke" if they can't access the rotisserie chicken. I don't know for what % of Americans that $5 chicken is like the cornerstone of their diet, but it ain't just a few of us lol.
yeah if we could not stick shit in the ground that remains deadly for thousands of years, with containment solutions designed to last 20-60 years, that would be great. But we just keep pretending this stuff is cleaner than it is because we've learned how contain the waste safely for about a single human lifespan. But just read about the slow-motion disaster that are the US nuclear superfund sites and you'll see that you can put off the consequences of this waste for so many decades before it comes back around. And there is no waste-free nuclear tech at this point, just less wasteful.
Yeah one really nice thing about nuclear is it's very easy to safely hide all the waste away for 20-60 years and pretend it'll never leak or cause issues for anyone in the future, but then you get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Fair, but these aren't even war crimes, as we aren't in combat operations against some group that these guys belonged to. It's just a boat with some dudes on it, belonging to a gang (maybe) carrying we don't really know what headed to we don't really know where. But they seemed enough like drug runners that we we blew them up then came back around to murder the survivors. So this would be bad enough if it were a war crime, and we had known for sure who these guys were and what they were carrying. But it was wasn't a war crime, it was just a crime crime, carried out with almost zero information against anonymous non-combatants who were disabled and likely drowning anyway. Our drone strikes in general are terrible crimes, most of them, but this one does have reasons it stands out.
Oh for sure I'm not saying we haven't been doing the same thing in the Middle East for literal decades at this point. Mosques, weddings, kids, civilians. I guess a double tap on some anonymous drowning civilians, from a nation were aren't engaged in combat with, who might have had drugs in their boat, and who were disabled and in the water and posed no possible threat, just hits even harder than a lot of the other ridiculous terrible shit we've done.
Love me some Thorium! It doesn't address every natural-disaster type of concern as far as radiation leaks and environmental contamination, but is absolutely the better choice over Plutonium/Uranium in terms of meltdowns and nuclear waste.
Oh yeah, people that call themselves empaths tend to mostly just be narcissists in my experience. Other people having agency and feelings and their own internal life makes them so uncomfortable and they decide to call that "empathy" rather than what it is.
Yep, and I'm certain some of them knew exactly what an obvious illegal order this was. You don't do follow-up strikes on enemies who are disabled and out of the fight. That is basic, basic shit. It's cruel, unnecessary, and dishonorable. That's gang and terrorist shit and we're supposed to be better than our enemies about this stuff or what's the point.
Not that Hegseth, Trump, or those who love them give one little shit about things like this, but I'll point out the part of the War Manual where DOUBLE TAPPING SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS IS THE LITERAL EXAMPLE OF AN ILLEGAL ORDER
You can achieve privacy by not doing things online. People used to understand that if you wanted something to remain private, you literally kept it to yourself, idk what happened. Hence my radical proposal: If you have things you wish to remain private, don't transmit those things into the largest public and most surveilled space that has ever existed, the Internet. We used to say to each other: "Don't put anything online or type anything into a browser that you wouldn't want to see on the frontpage of your hometown paper with your name on it." You can't walk into the public town square of the whole world, let your private details out, and then get miffed about muh privacy because you spoke into a place that was being listened to by corporations, it just doesn't work that way.
Yes, people can sometimes tell how you are feeling by observing you. I get that it's an uncomfortable idea, but it isn't always just "a guess that makes them feel good". It is possible to have an actual skill or talent for reading other people's current mental state or emotions, just not if you're a Lemmy user.
Voters in most states believe their guys are "some of the best" which is why we all keep sending the same folks back decade over decade (it'll be Wyden's 45th year in Congress coming up!) The folks who keep voting them in love their Reps and Senators, because each promises they aren't like the others, and are there to represent the common people amongst all the other Washington insiders.
To be clear, I think in Oregon we basically hit the jackpot each year with our elected officials, we do have some of the very best. But I'm also clear-eyed about the fact that people who vote for politicians I find to be repugnant idiots doing all they can to destroy the potential of America feel the exact same way about their guys that I feel about mine. No one needs 6 terms in the Senate, no matter how much I like them.
Basically the one nation I would have most trusted to handle nuclear safely, Japan, couldn't even do it. The issue these days is not that the plants themselves are unsafe, it's that we live on a active and changing planet, and accidents can and will always happen because of so-called acts of God. The problem is that nuclear, when it goes bad, tends to go mega ultra bad in ways that are very environmentally destructive and heinously expensive to clean up. So even if there is only 1/10000 the accident rate at nuclear plants that there are at other power plants, the consequences can be a million times worse.
Thankfully that is going to happen anyway through simple economics. Fossil fuel extraction is functionally already a peak technology, out of which every bit of efficiency has been squeezed by over 100 years of frantic and lavishly funded scientific development, whereas solar, battery, and wind technologies have been absolutely plunging in $-per-Kw to deploy and have much much further to go. So governments can try to slow this down as much as they wish, but it's as much a fool's errand as trying to rescue the horse industry in about 1920.
Now as for the question of "why isn't this more efficient technology resulting in savings for, me, the consumer?" I can only encourage you to look at the entire history of extractive, investor-driven capitalism for the answer.
This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets "invented" once a decade or so. There's just no way this is humanity's very first crack at "washing machine but it does people" lol
What's spiking is everything needed to run a AI datacenter, in order. First they spiked the price of GPUs, then the very instant that started to cool DRAM spiked. Electricity itself looks very much like it might be next, and we'll be on to water before too long.
MAGA will be the ones who "go woke go broke" if they can't access the rotisserie chicken. I don't know for what % of Americans that $5 chicken is like the cornerstone of their diet, but it ain't just a few of us lol.