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Comment Nuclear is no longer feasible. (Score 1) 41

Droughts due to climate crisis we're in makes nuclear, being just another steam engine, unreliable, inefficient and too expensive.
And that's when it is already heavily subsidized by the government - as it needs to be in order to be profitable.
Which the companies running the existing reactors know very well - cause they're the same ones running coal and gas plants... and the renewables.

Only one of their energy sources allows them to get something for free and sell it to their customer at a cost - and it's not nuclear.
Nuclear is a dead end for commercial energy production.

Comment That's centrist nonsense resulting in far-right... (Score 1) 36

A great example of uselessness of game theory in real life situations though.

For one, it equates the choices - long-term and short-term, conservative and progressive, moral and ethical, economic and social...
E.g. There wasn't a WW3 with China OR Soviet Union spurred on by a myth of genetic superiority and bloodlines built-into the leftist ideology. Right-wing ideology will always boil down to such a myth.

For two, it assumes a whole bunch of other things, not just the choices being essentially identical.
From a 100% voter turn-out of perfectly informed and rational spherical voters to complete absence of propaganda and the influence of money on campaigning.
FFS Haven't we learned that people would rather poison themselves with horse deworming paste than listen to reason?

But most importantly - it presumes that the most favorable outcome is some centrist position between the extremes, which will magically be free of influence from either extreme, while ignoring the reality of the "wild card" of fascism.
I.e. That it is a bullshit ideology completely fine with lying and cheating in order to seize the power.

Thus while in theory such a system would result in "the moderate that everyone liked" - in reality everyone HATES such a moderate (Hint: Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have been that choice - both were hated for made up reasons such as "being a robot" and "not baking cookies".) - and you end up with a far right candidate who is willing to lie and cheat to win.

Comment I am yet to see a human die from "microplastics". (Score 1) 74

Hint: Most of it is literally polyester dust. You know, that stuff produced by the bees.
You know, for kids. Only there we call it "minky fabric".
To stop mothers and other Karens (male, female and otherwise) from complaining about things they clearly know neither jack nor shit about.

Also, we've been making plastics for over a hundred years now. And contrary to popular bullshit - its been falling apart ever since.
Meanwhile, since the introduction of plastics, world population quintupled to over 8 billion and decades were added to life expectancy.
Have you noticed how lately politicians and celebrities (i.e. court and the jesters) keep clocking it in around 90+ to 100 years when they check out?
These are people who grew up in a world where running water, indoor plumbing and IOL were new and incredible technological marvels.
Were the plastics deadly or even harmful to humans, no one would have survived beyond the seventies. The 1970s.

Something tells me we'll continue NOT seeing people dying of microplastics.

Comment Hydrogen is a boondoggle. (Score 1) 119

Nothing is competing with it as it has ZERO chance of implementation or scaling.

Its only role is as feedstock for making fuel out of atmospheric CO2. It will never be used as fuel directly.
Storage alone would basically be like an attempt to start producing airplanes out of lead as fuel tanks would have to be pressurized, thicker and heavier.
While entire fleets would need replacing every few years due to hydrogen-induced cracking.
Hydrogen is a boondoggle.

Comment You monster! (Score 1) 37

You murdered that poor metaphor. That's why your argument makes no sense.

That, and your understanding of the issue at hand.
No purchase is necessary when the secret police, your employer, your colleague, your spouse, family member or SomeRandomGuyTM simply puts a microphone or camera somewhere near you and records you 24/7 - with AI used to filter, analyze and summarize all that data into six lines or less.
I propose we call such AI Richelieu.

Here's a flip side. What's stopping anyone doing that same thing - but to a bank or a major business?

Comment Maaaybeee... not. (Score 2) 52

From what I've seen I'm getting the whybe's (is that what the kids these days call it - the whybe's) of a show which confuses elements of gameplay mechanic with story and plot.
Slap that on top of a linear medium like a TV show - and we've already seen that.

I swear I haven't read this before writing the lines above.

The Vault Boy imagery, which originated in the video games, will have an origin story.

Ah yes... my deepest desire. Origin story of a user interface mascot. How I've longed for that. I guess it IS true what they say.
Sit by the river long enough, you will see a turd float by. Again. And again. And again.
Turd never changes.

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