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While it is opt-in, it requires almost no user input other than agreeing. Everything is automated and takes just a few seconds.

I'm willing to bet the number of people that opt out is so small that it is statistically irrelevant.

I have a buddy that literally just had coffee spilled on his old gaming laptop. He mostly used it for some older games, like Skyrim was the newest. And he does a lot of urban camping and stuff like that.

The Steam Deck is a perfect replacement for his use case. Just waiting for another sale since he just missed this recent one.

Considering the entire prison population was about 7,500 last year and they only have about 5,000 beds across all facilities... That's a pretty large percentage.

And to add to that, from this specific article:

According to a recent Kriminalvården report, Sweden’s prison population could – in the most extreme scenario – grow from 7,800 this year to 41,000 in 2034 as a result of more punitive policies driven by the far right.

They're looking at a 500% increase in the prison population within a decade because of the new policies. If that's not a shift towards mass incarceration I'd like to know what your definition would be.

How were the switches designed such that they prevented accidental activation? Because it looks like they just get simply flipped down. Could it be pull-out-and-down? Or maybe there's a lot of resistance during the switch action?

The lever-lock fuel switches are designed to prevent accidental activation - they must be pulled up to unlock before flipping, a safety feature dating back to the 1950s. This isn't a new or weird design. It's essentially the standard used in basically every plane because it works.

"It would be almost impossible to pull both switches with a single movement of one hand, and this makes accidental deployment unlikely," a Canada-based air accidents investigator, who wanted to remain unnamed, told the BBC.

Don't forget the eruv circling Manhattan so they can ignore other Sabbath rules wholesale while going about their days.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-encircles-manhattan-protecting-sanctity-of-sabbath

This is one of those situations where adhering to the treaty doesn't actually do anything positive, it just handicaps Ukraine's options.

A primary reason for the treaty is that landmines are indiscriminant and they last well beyond the length of the war they're placed for. So civilians are at risk decades after a war ends. The intent is to prevent ANY mines from being placed, by having everyone agree not to place them ahead of time.

However, Russia is going to place mines anyway no matter what. So there are going to be landmines in the area because of them regardless even if Ukraine doesn't place their own, so the danger will already be there, except Ukraine will have one less tool to fight with.

Losing 1/3 of your bombers in one attack means you're going to be a lot more careful with the remaining ones though. They lost a significant chunk of their reactionary forces in one go.

Russia has already been fighting a lot longer than they planned and have taken much heavier losses. The only reason they're still going at all is Putin's ego and inability to admit any mistakes.

Once I found the Super Agent extension, this essentially went away for me. Let's you preset general options of what you want to allow, and will automatically fill those out for you when you visit new sites. Even works on the Firefox mobile browsers.

I'm not sure. The admin has been threatening the justices lately, albeit indirectly. They might use this to make a point.

Traded my Tesla for a Polestar 3. While it does have some weird software quirks and issues, it's overall been great. Tesla has had a long time to polish their software compared to just about everyone else.

I expected software issues from a company still early into their ecosystem, but it's base is Android Automotive so it's not entirely the terrible in car systems like most legacy automakers.

Donnie is used to having the leverage. He can't even consider the possibility that he doesn't inherently have leverage. Combined with the fact he doesn't know how to handle politics, we end up here.

He treats everything like his only tool is a crowbar, because that's all he's ever known, it's worked, and he's too stupid and dementia-riddled for any alternative at this point.

The only obstacles are a general lack of real world experience.

Both Thorium and Uranium were being researched in the 60s, but only one can readily be made into nuclear weaponry. So that's where the research was focused, and not just in the US. Thorium molten salt reactors aren't a particularly new idea, they date back to the same time period.

Now that nuclear weaponry isn't the focus, we're finally seeing real research like this in alternative nuclear sources. Thorium is much more abundant than Uranium, and is fairly readily available worldwide. The byproducts are much less reactive, and the amount of nuclear "waste" is a fraction of uranium. Even there though, the nuclear waste issue has been blown way out of proportion. Most nuclear waste is not long term, only a small fraction is the stuff that lasts thousands of years, and the US already has more than enough storage built to store all long term nuclear waste for every reactor in operation several times over. But most of the programs to actually implement these processes have been cancelled because of various anti-nuclear and NIMBY groups. So instead in most cases... That waste just gets stored on site, at the nuclear plant. Which isn't particularly an issue, but I think we can all agree is the worst option of all if you're worried about potential contamination.

And yet, it is still true. Renewables that work via environmental factors like wind and solar will always be reliant on something else to help store excess power, and those storage options are still very limited. Battery storage *is* taking off, but it is still nowhere near the level to run an entire city for an extended period of time like overnight.

We still need a base load option that's reliably available at any time and quickly scaleable to handle burst demand. That is currently handled by fossil fuels, and can be directly replaced via nuclear, essentially as a drop in nearly 1 for 1 replacement.

The problem with current battery tech, even the experimental stuff, is just the sheer capacity needed for something that can get close to powering a city through renewable gaps, like overnight for solar. It necessitates looking at alternate "battery" options outside of traditional battery tech. Battery storage can help extremely well for outages and instability, but providing a city amount of power for potentially 8-12 hours of renewable downtime is an entirely different story.

Things like pumped hydro storage, or solar heat batteries are good examples of alternatives. Your "battery" isn't storing electricity directly, but instead an energy form that you can then take back out later to generate electricity from. Unfortunately most of those also have specific requirements that aren't very universal, like most city-scale renewables.

The best is almost always going to be a combination of things, but that is rarely the cost effective option, and sadly that's what really matters with our current systems. Fossil fuel options are almost always the cheapest to build and operate, largely because they don't actually have to deal with their pollution.

I get so tired of these shit takes that obviously haven't put much thought into the topic based on the clear barely surface level perspective, but love to repeat the same talking points confidently.

1. It's a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it's not intended to provide a production power source.

2. It can operate 24 hours a day, independent of weather or most external variables.

3. Its power is variable and can handle varying loads on demand.

Most renewables like solar and wind cannot handle the second and third points well, of at all. And options that can like hydro and geothermal power are very location dependent.

You need to stop thinking of nuclear as an alternative to renewables and instead as the replacement for the fossil fuel plants that provide base power generation 24/7/365 like coal, gas, and the peaker plants.

Renewables alone do not solve modern societal power needs, but we can replace fossil fuels immediately with better options, like nuclear. As it is uranium power plants are extremely misunderstood by the public from decades of disinformation from the fossil fuel AND renewable industries and a fundamental misunderstanding of radioactivity by the public. Thorium specifically goes around that by removing the uranium Boogeyman, and meltdown risk. Most molten salt reactor designs operate on a Fail-Safe design principle that doesn't require power to continuously cool the fuel to prevent meltdown like most current uranium reactors do, instead requiring power to prevent that failsafe, often via an ice plug actively keeping the fuel in the system for operation.

Depends on the religion. But as a whole, what we thing of "religions", are definitely a net negative with our knowledge of the world. We no longer need to rely on superstition to survive.

Some religions are more a way of life rather than a structured creator being system with strict rules and exclusionary politics. Religions like Christianity/Judaism/Islam are quite different from Shinto or Buddhism for instance.

The board is filled with family and close friends. They'll protect him as long as possible.

He didn't. He was the only adult there.

Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.

They're already rounding up native Americans in these groups. It's only a matter of time until they start deporting randomly to other countries because ICE was already an incompetent organization and has done that previously numerous times, speeding things up just means more fuckups. Which is of course, the plan. Because it's not about illegals, or immigrants, it's about non-whites.

This is what happens when you give a genocidal psychopath a blank check for protection from the most powerful military on the planet.