I am fully aware that rich assholes are going to enter markets and they are at a huge advantage because we refuse to do away with Rich assholes by taxing the fuck out of them.

But just having a little bit of competition and a little less power at the top would be a good place to start.

And yeah I need to proofread my shit. Then again I mean for fucks sakes I'm posting on a dead forum mostly to scream into the void. I don't actually type any of this crap I'm using text to speech on my phone.

Every few years Facebook faces a mass Exodus because no teenager wants to be on the same platform as their parents. The way they got around that was they just bought all their competitors or they ran them out of business or in the case of tick tock they lobbied the government to shut them down.

Removing teenagers from the pool is great for Facebook because it means they don't have to deal with them going to their competitors and then buying those competitors or worse risking a serious antitrust enforcement action that prevents them from doing that and leads to a real competitor.

Meanwhile when the kiddies become adults they're not going to be as uptight about being on the same platform as their parents anymore so they can be easily funneled into Facebook's ecosystem for cheap.

Facebook could collapse almost overnight if people just stopped going to the website. They are painfully aware of that and they take measures to make sure it doesn't happen.

Their economic analysis is BS. For example, they discount the cost of "shared" infrastructure, but clearly there is a cost because it has to be built, and scaled to the number of reactors they want to install. At only 300MW each, they will want quite a few of them to make the economics better.

The increased cost of waste handling and refuelling is not properly accounted for either.

If the boobs on my character aren't sufficiently pointy the cut glass then there's too many polygons.

From things other than cigarette smoking.

We have been consistently making cars cleaner to the point where vast swaths of them are zero emissions. I've mentioned this before but if you are in a city or even a decent sized town you're breathing in little bits of tire particulate and there is no way around that. People really really really really hate it when I point that out because people grew up loving cars so the idea that there is a problem with cars that is basically impossible to solve doesn't go over well....

My point is like it or not you are going to get along full of contaminants unless you can live out in the country or some shit. And fact of the matter is most people can't. You still need jobs and unless you own a shitload of land you're not making it as a farmer. Modern farmers are actually pretty fucking wealthy. The small family farm is long long gone.

So yeah somebody who has all the genes that make me prone to lung cancer I'd like to see you some more research on it for sure.

Sodium is a rather nasty medium to use as coolant. It corrodes, and spontaneously catches fire on contact with air. Attempts have been made in the past, ending in expensive failures.

For what investment in GPUs?

Typically when rent seeking, the rent is a fraction of the cost of the asset. Some assets appreciate like houses, some depreciate like GPUs.

That was the original idea with numbers stations, so it was a natural evolution. Owning a consumer radio was not suspicious, so broadcasting on standard civilian frequencies made sense.

The "random" data in the GPS signal is supposedly there to aid with reception and validate the RNGs on the satellites, but it was a pretty obvious place to hide messages too. I'm sure all the other GNSS systems do it too.

There is exactly one scenario where nuclear power makes sense now and that's if you have extreme space constraints and can't just put a wind or solar form up. For everything else you were taking a huge amount of risk, specifically the risk is that billionaire finance bro wanna be tech bro asshats are going to stop paying for the maintenance on those reactors and you're going to have a meltdown. And because these reactors are being proposed to power AI slop data centers they're going to be close to where people live because that's where the water is and those data centers are thirsty. Don't have to be but they are.

I do not know why old nerds are so obsessed with nuclear power. I know that we are I just don't understand the obsession. I'm assuming it's some weird techno future that never happened that we were all dreaming of and that we are upset we didn't get.

It's frustrating because that future is right there waiting for us if we just force the switch to wind and solar. But we can't have that because the oil companies want to control the transition that is inevitably going to happen so that they can continue to control your access to electricity.

Yep. It really pisses me off and freaks me out that we've let so many grifters take over.

Between the gambling houses that are claiming to be securities trading and this nonsense and the president of the United States constantly selling pardons and soliciting bribes I know the shit's going to hit the fan hard and there's not a hell of a lot I can do about it.

I used to think the baby boomers were all going to die and leave everyone was a mess to clean up but I think they fucked up so bad letting these lunatics and grifters in charge that a lot of them are going to live to see the crash and spend the last years of their lives struggling to get food and medicine.

They are building a BWRX-300, for around $21 billion Canadian. It's a prototype, so high costs are expected I suppose.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation has some issues with their design too: https://www.onr.org.uk/media/b...

It's mostly the usual stuff. The control rods aren't proven to be failure proof, and we have seen accidents due to them not inserting, or getting stuck, before. There isn't enough don't to evaluate loss of coolant faults, another known failure mode. While they don't rely on pumps to circulate the coolant (it's by convection), they still need it to circulate to avoid meltdown. It must circulate through cooling systems like pools or towers.

Good luck to them, but it seems very unlikely that it will be economically viable in the end.

Can you name one of these "can't melt down" designs that is more than just an unproven napkin sketch?

All the ones I've seen that are at least trying to build a prototype rely on having a cooling pool, meaning they absolutely can melt down if that pool is drained.

That means you need to protect the entire pool as well as you would protect a traditional reactor, and have an emergency supply of water on hand. So containment buildings, leak proof pools that can survive earthquakes and other natural disasters, all that stuff. Doubtful there will be any savings over traditional designs.

There are some types which are more likely to be actually meltdown proof, although even then you need to protect the reactor from physical damage. But they all have severe problems with the reactor vessel being damaged over time by the fission reaction inside, and every attempt to build one has been an expensive failure.

If you take the original game as the reference, they are supposed to be a wedge sticking out of her chest. The game was originally developed for the Sega Saturn, which used quads instead of triangles, and all the ports like the more famous (and released first) Playstation version didn't re-make the models. So they are wedge shaped.

Fortunately it was before jiggle physics were invented, so at least she gets to wear a sports bra.

If you go by the art for the game, she would probably have a great deal of difficulty doing all those acrobatics. Some sports professionals get reductions to help with that. The original tan she had is extremely dated now - in the UK it's the classic "Essex girl" look, straight out of a tanning salon and considered a bit uncultured.

For me the problem with AI art is that it is like putting a heavy wash over a miniature. It's something you do when you don't have the skill to really make good art.

That's not just me being pissy it shows up throughout the entire experience. It's fine when I'm playing tabletop with my friends to use shortcuts like that that make the miniatures look kind of so so because we are just casual hobbyists but if I saw white dwarf doing that shit you can bet I would be looking for a different mini company.

The problem is it tends to make everything look bland and the same because it's all drawing from the same data sets.

And no human beings aren't going to get a chance to refine shit. The entire point of using AI is so you can fire people and give the survivor is very little time to make the game. The game industry has fired about 1/3 of their staff. It's gotten to the point where it's causing major issues because they're just aren't enough people to make the games. Meanwhile all those people they fired didn't just eat a bullet they're out there working and making indie games and people are picking them up and spending time on them. The actual Indies seldom make a living especially in countries without universal Health Care but there are so many games out there that are designed and made by skilled people that it's tough for the AAA studios to compete on just hours and time. I've got a backlog of cool indie games to play through and they're 10 or 20 or $30 a piece. Ask me to drop 70 or $80 on AI slop is going to be a no-go

A lax regulatory environment and a technology that is outclassed by wind and solar in virtually every single metric except space usage in a country with nothing but space?

Hey what could possibly go wrong?

Really looking forward to having nuclear powered data centers dropped in the middle of my community by finance Bros pretending to be tech Bros...