[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

It's just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

Now, it's not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

Molten salt?

We can then use compressed CO2 in the place of steam to drive the turbine.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Is blue sky federated? I thought it was another closed garden. If slightly more open than Twitter.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Ethanol is incredibly inefficient as a fuel source.

If not for the massive subsidies it would not exist.

Still, ethanol is a better fuel additive than lead. (Both reduce knocking)

Still, the far better use is to grow food.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Mindustry is much closer to the tower defense side of it.

Or maybe the RTS side.

There are even attack modes, where you build up an army to take on a fixed emplacement of enemy units.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Harris was the path of things slowly getting better. Wages finally overtaking inflation.

Given a couple years, we would all be in a better place.

Trump's tariffs will drive up the price of everything. The last few years of inflation and greed will pale in comparison.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

And egg prices will still go up.

Catastrophicly so.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago

He was first in line to be Fire Lord until his son died.

I don't think Iroh would have been as ruthless as his brother. But he did see conquest as a sort of duty.

But then his son died, and he realized that it was all pointless.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 88 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, -40C and -40F are the same temperature.

Then 575K and 575F are the same.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

The NYT was shitty long before that. They famously did not cover the Holocaust. Not the run up, and not even during the war.

When the camps were liberated, Americans at home had no idea who was in the camps.

The owner of the NYT was later asked about their failures in covering the Holocaust and the buildup, and said with a shrug "the NYT didn't really cover the Holocaust".

As a note the owner of the NYT was Jewish. But didn't want to be associated with poor Jews.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Eight years in and I'm still pissed about those fucking hats. I have this nice red cap that a friend gave me almost 15 years ago. It was custom-made, and has a starburst image that a third friend created... and the cap base is the exact same shade of red as those fucking Trump hats, so I've not been able to wear it in public for 8 years.

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