TheSpiceIsLife

Have you ever read any treatment of a subject, or any somewhat comprehensive text, or anything that at least tries to be, and not found anything you disagreed with, anything that was at least questionable.

Are you proposing we cancel the entire scientific endeavour because its practitioners are often wrong and not infrequently, and increasingly so, intentionally deceptive.

Should we burn libraries because they contain books you don’t like.

You have a choice.

1. Demonstrate to me that anyone has ever found themselves in one of these hypothetical rape a baby or kill a million people, or it’s variants, scenarios.

And that anyone who has found themselves in such a situation, went on to live their life and every day wake up and proudly proclaim “raping a baby was the right thing to do” or that killing a million was the correct choice. If you did one or the other and didn’t, at least momentarily, suffer any doubt, you’re arguably not human. Or have enough of a brain injury that you need special care.

Or

2. I kill everyone who has ever, and will ever, think they’re clever for proposing absurdly sterile and clear cut toy moral quandaries.

Maybe only true psychopaths.

And how to deal with them, individually and societally, especially when their actions don’t rise to the level of criminality that gets the attention of anyone who has the power to act and wants to, at least isn’t a toy theory.

What multiple times of wrong are there that apply to shooting babies in the head that lead you to believe you think it’s wrong for different a reason?

Quentin Tarantino writes and produces fiction.

No one really believes needlessly shooting people in the head is an inconvenience only because of the mess it makes in the back seat.

Maybe you have a strong conviction that the baby deserved it. Some people genuinely are that intolerable that a headshot could be deemed warranted despite the mess it tends to make.

Awesome. So how does one go about diverting this from nuclear waste storage to the diet of average citizens, as an act of terrorism?

Also, I don’t know how to gauge “useful amounts of radiation for smoke detectors”.

α-particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper.

You can say that about any waste heat.

In really, it’s not convenient to move all waste heat to where it’s more needed.

> around nuclear power plants

Exactly what I said.

> This is not true at all

Yes it is.

I mean, if you’re going to dispute my point without providing any evidence, then all we’ve got is opinions.

If we’ve got data, let’s go with the data. If all we’ve got is opinions, let’s go with mine.

Got any examples of any presently operating civil power reactors that don’t have their reactor cores in some kind of containment structure?

Others I guess the answer to your question is: fuckwit communists were running the place at the time.

That’s going to kill me because the exhaust is dominated by carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

It isn’t going to kill me via the route you suggest: by giving kids cancer.

It’s Christmas very shortly, try not to be this much of a cunt around you’re family.

Also from my link:

In 1990, one passenger-kilometer would emit 357 grams of CO2. By 2019, this had more than halved to 157 grams.

If we've got data, let's go with the data.

Aviation accounts for about 2.5% of global CO² emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-aviation-emissions

Rapidly ramping down fossil fuel based air travel will have approximately no effect on climate.

Wires aren't usually called wires either.

Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.

I hear this often, but I'm struggling to understand how taxing the wealthy will build houses, or lower the price of energy?

Taxing the wealthy does one thing very well: transfer money from the hands of the wealthy, who are notoriously good at managing their wealth, in to the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who are notoriously bad at managing other peoples money.

That's awesome thanks. Would be great if it also show'd what the average residential customer was paying as well as the average industrial users cost per kWh so we could get an idea of the cost of manufacturing as far as electricity input goes.

Every(?) western nation is going through a cost of living crisis.

And some people believe increasing the cost of energy is a solution to anything.

Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry

Stellar Husbandry, wild! Obviously anyone in to sci-fi might have come across the idea of meddling with a star somehow, but I'd never thought to classify it all under the umbrella term stellar husbandry.

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Look for UPS with generator input.

A business that sells solar with battery backup would know the current product range.

I’m only really familiar with industrial kit tupicalled used in data centres.

2021 data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control:

Bulgaria and Croatia had the highest rates of trichinellosis at 0.42 cases per 100,000 population, accounting for 58% of all cases reported in 2021. Taking those two countries gether and extrapolateing to whole US population of 3400 hundred thousand (340 million) would be 1428 cases - definitely much higher that <20, which would be something like 0.0002 per 100,000.

The total number of reported infections in 2021 was 79 cases for the whole European Union / European Economic Area was 79 cases for a total population of 4500 hundred thousand (450 million), an infection rate of 0.02 cases per 100,000.

Discounting the two worst countries would reduce the number to about 40 cases per 4500 hundred thousand population would bring the rate of infection to something like 0.008 - not entirely too far from the US.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/AER...

You've already got a solution, and often the cheapest solution is the one you already have.

There's no technical reason a generator + battery (and solar?) setup couldn't be configured to run off battery till the battery reaches a preconfigured state of charge then call for the generator.

By your numbers the payback period would be about 3.5 years. A bit more for a transfer switch and some wiring and other accessories.

That seems like reasonable investment.

Lucky to be alive hey.

Ah, right.

This publication[1] says neutrinos, but the article it references says antineutrinos[2].

That explains my misunderstanding.

1 https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/detecting-neutrin...

2. https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1959810-evidence-antineutr...

Do those still have a habit of snapping without any prior warning?

Having said that, the chrome moly top tube on my road bike broke without warning. Granted I did get hit by a cop car doing 80kph in a 50kph zone. Strained a thumb too.

Fishing rods.

Yes! Commonly known in Australia by the brand name Corten (COR-TEN)[1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel

I laser cut and help press about half the cladding at MONA near Hobart, a gallery owned by professional gambler David Walsh.

If you haven’t been, go!

It’s an underground art gallery, complete with wind tunnel reminiscent of a vacuum cleaner tube, and a permanent installation of a digesting shit machine, amongst other subservience adult Disneyland weirdness.

https://mona.net.au/visit

https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/things-to-do/museums/mon...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walsh_(art_collector)

Fission reactors spew neutrinos, no need for anti-

Carefully and purposefully Oxidising Bridges with Rust.

This reminds me of something Jimmy Carr said.

Oh! gender neutral elder, oh! gender neutral elder, what’s a joke?

YOU ARE!

Fractal antenna!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna