Unfortunately we now know very well that simply doing a lot psychedelics is not going to turn you from a shit person into a normal person.

yeah 100 is plenty for most people in most situations. 600 to a newbie would be like if your first drink was a whole bottle of Jack lol.

haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!

FI. ERR. FLY.

Z is depth, full stop, and I have my fists raised, Queensbury-style, to anyone who contends otherwise.

yep it’s a great topic, someone in my family actually got their degree in that exact topic

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

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.

true enough, I was just going off the text of the meme rather than the popular notions around “empaths”

well the buffet at the orgy is always on point so just skip the restaurant next time is my advice.

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.

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.

Not if she was a teenager in 1993 (her first on-screen appearance in Beavis and Butthead). There’s a surprising amount of discussion about it online I won’t recap here but there’s passion on both sides lol

Absolutely recommend you try this out with some slurs on people of various races and see if saying “the word doesn’t matter” stops them from beating the shit out you lol

1-800 OYSTER is one digit short of a working number, dashing my dreams. 1-800 OYSTERS offered me a free medical alert device, but it is unknown at this time how many liters of water per day it can filter.

Here’s a crazy thought, the massive firms who have been trading programmatically using ML since it’s very earliest adoption, are simply going to program their shit to eat chatGPTs lunch. I have no doubt whatsoever that these desks are thrilled by the number of people predictably using public LLMs to choose trades, such a fresh new dataset of the newest, smoothest brains for them to exploit.