Dr. Quadragon ❌

@comfy There’s a certain art to using sarcasm and other forms of irony on the Internet.

Irony only works if everybody is in on the joke. Even the butt of the joke, unless it is your explicit intention to offend them. Otherwise, it’s just being an insufferable asshole. Because you end up just confusing and/or offending random people. No bueno.

My recipie: read the room. If you’re unsure your irony will be recognized, don’t use it. Just fucking don’t.

@tamal3 is right.

Fucking hell, people, go touch some grass, go meet real human beings. Not everybody adheres to the moral code you construct in your head, and that is FINE!!

@ada Word.

@infinite_ass

@infinite_ass What about everyone else? Will my friends be happy and secure with it? People I don’t know or care about? Hell, even my enemies?

I highly doubt it.

@infinite_ass

> This chip was put there by very good, smart people who want only the best for the world.

Which version of the “best for the world” are we talking? Your “best for the world” does not necessarily match my “best for the world”.

@DrunkenPirate I’d accept this argument if it were still 1950s.

The year is 2024. Now we know better what to do with nuclear waste.

First, it’s actually crazy recyclable. You can separate plutonium and unreacted uranium from fission products and use it again, making your fuel cycle way more efficient.

Second, you don’t actually need to store the leftover fission products in an on-ground dump, that’s actually mighty dumb. Instead, the borehole disposal can be used. Basically, drill a hole several kilometers deep - that’s easy enough when you take the drilling equipment from all those oil barons - put your fission products in there (they’re quite compact by volume, if you separate it out) and then seal the hole with concrete. Nobody’s going to dig this up ever again. It’s a solved problem.

Cleaning up sites like Sellafield is just dealing with the wartime legacy, when nuclear research was less about energy production, and more about bombs. It doesn’t have to be this way.

@ininewcrow I wanna steal this idea.

@Beastlygr

@UltraGiGaGigantic It’s the only way to fight, though.

@TheImpressiveX

@bstix You don’t have to be rich to be an asshole, but you almost certainly have to be an asshole to get rich.

@UltraGiGaGigantic

@DrunkenPirate

> I prefer the easy way of living.

There is no such thing as “easy way of living”.

Renewables suck at energy density, predictability and control.

Nuclear gives you all three.

Also, look into the solar panel manufacturing costs to the environment.

Of course, renewables are a must. But by dismantling nuclear you kneecapped yourselves, guys, big time.

@dragonfucker

@Artemis_Mystique No.

It changed my view on how true to their ideas some people are.

@jatone Every video and every model will be overly simplistic when applied to any reality. Every abstraction is a leaky abstraction.

@rocci I want this as a poll format option in the Fediverse.

@rocci CGP Grey already did.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLej2SlXPEd37YwwEY7mm0WyZ8cfB1TxXa

@Pacattack57

@AFC1886VCC Technically, the guy is gonna die anyway sometime.

@makingStuffForFun

@tilefan That’s weird, it’s not that I’m purposefully get rid of addictions, I just kinda… lose interest.

I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. I also used to drink a lot. I don’t mind a cigarette or a beer or a shot every now and then, if the mood is right and the company is fine, but doing it every single day? Nah.

@InternetUser2012 I am Russian. Believe me when I say: most of us perfectly know what’s going on.

We’re just scared. That’s it.

@index

@Quintus It can get annoying.

@NahMarcas

@NathanUp @bjoern_tantau Maddy mailserver rocks

@Shelbyeileen I have a pet theory, that religion is basically a hardware vulnerability exploitation. Vulnerability being “we can’t comprehend death, physically”. Because trying to reconstruct non-existence in our world model causes division by zero, and everything breaks because you can’t divide by zero and have meaningful results. So in order to avoid it, your brain bends its model of reality, starts telling itself fairy tales about the supernatural world, redefines death as “transformation”, and basically bullshits itself into avoiding facing the inevitable.

> Even if we found out complete proof for what actually happens when you die and after death

We have. Your consciousness just shuts down forever. You’re a mortician, you would know. We just can’t grapple with it.

@Timely_Jellyfish_2077