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Cocodapuf

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  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • What the fuck!

    I just read the article, and I think it's completely misrepresenting the bill! From what I can see, the article is just inventing this link to the chemtrails conspiracy.

    Does this bill ever mention the word "chemtrails" or "contrails", at all?

    From what I can tell, the bill is completely talking about cloud seeding, which is definitely its own thing. Cloud seeding is fraught enough, it's a relatively complicated issue with very serious environmental impacts, it does not need to be mixed up chemtrails which are a bullshit conspiracy theory (the opposite of a serious issue).

    Hey Alabama Political Reporter go find your journalistic integrity, I think you dropped it somewhere.

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • In his defense, the comment didn't say shit about breakthrough research, it said "watch this".

    Say what you want to say and people won't dismiss it. Link to something random and who knows.

  • Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

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  • I'm with you on dogs.

    But i'd never trust a cat... They know why.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • It's true, at some point it becomes a necessity. I don't know what to do about teens today, I haven't gotten there yet.

  • Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

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  • It appears, Texans.

  • Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

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  • 300mw are indeed a much different scale from 10mw.

    I wonder if your ire is misplaced... As these are sort of different things. The 10mw reactors have different use cases, they're not really designed to be installed as part of a power plant, but more for individual on-site uses, like as a reserve power system for a hospital, or as power for a remote mining location, disconnected from the grid.

    My point is just, it might make sense to not mention the larger reactors here, as they're not really the same.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • My understanding is that it's not policies they implemented, but rather technologies they developed and officially utilized. They have some sort of digital id system. I don't recall the details, but I remember reading about it and saying to myself "oh my God, I've been asking for that for ages, and Estonia has already done it!".

    Essentially the idea is that you get private keys along with your birth certificate. So you can always prove you're you.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • Yeah, don't give them phones.

  • The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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  • Yeah, that sums it up quite nicely!

  • The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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  • Well we know a lot about oxygen, that can do some really cool stuff. Carbon also, notably cool. For its structural properties Iron is super awesome, but it doesn't work for everything. Aluminum can help fill in those gaps though, and when neither of those work, titanium is the go-to element. I can't imagine where we'd be without sodium, its so important in so many chemical processes. Our entire tech industry relies heavily on silicon. Lasers wouldn't work without those noble gasses, neon, xenon, etc. Uranium has unlocked nuclear power for humanity, thorium promises a potentially safety and cleaner future for that power.

    Elements do a lot of different things and we benefit from all of them differently. It's hard to know what a new element would do for us, but there's always the potential for it to be important. What would our society look like without silicon for instance? Without computers the world would be very different, and until we had them, could we have any idea what we were missing?

  • Ukraine makes fastest battlefield gain in 2.5 years

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  • It sounds like they should schedule these outages with the Ukraine generals. Regular internet outages that are predictable for just one side could be a huge strategic advantage.

  • If you were able to magically learn any language that nobody speaks in your region, what would it be?

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  • Heh, I guess I wouldn't say I "speak" it, but between programming games and actual coding, I think I've used 4 or 5 different dialects of assembly.

  • If you were able to magically learn any language that nobody speaks in your region, what would it be?

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  • language that nobody speaks in your region

    I realize this is a bit pedantic, but if you live in a city, there aren't really languages that aren't spoken in your region.

    But for my choice, definitely Aztec. There's nothing more fun to say than Aztec words. Tlachtli. Quetzalcoatl. Axolotl. Tlapalpoyactic.

    (That last one is the word for the color "orange")

  • What are some depressing realizations or positive benefits about life you've learned growing up?

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  • This might be the broadest question ever asked.

  • Man aims to cross the Atlantic using 3-foot boat smaller than an airline seat in adventure of a lifetime

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  • Well we all have to go sometime, this seems like an epic way to die.

  • Trump promises billions in aid to Gaza as Israeli airstrikes reportedly kill 12 Palestinians

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  • Uh huh...

    Yeah I guess we'll see, or more likely, we won't.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • Yeah, to assert that there is no alien life out there is really the more bold position. We don't have real evidence to support either side of the argument so any strong assertion (for or against) is rather dubious.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • And that's all totally true. Though there is a way around that trap... Don't buy the dlc!

    That's my secret, I treat the base price as the only price, and if the game doesn't stand on its own without dlc, it's a bad game. And I will 100% say that out loud, I'll give it a bad review, I'll avoid buying it in the first place. If a game needs pricey dlc to be worth playing, it isn't worth playing at all.

    So there's my hot take.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • This may sound crazy, but hear me out... $70 might just be relatively cheap right now, when considering historic prices and inflation.

    So about 20 years ago, I used to work at a game shop and at that time all new AAA console games were all $50 and I believe the switch to $60 happened just shortly after I left.

    That said, a quick web search says that there's been 65% inflation since 2005. $50 x 1.65 = $82

    So at least when compared to other products, $50 to $70 is not a huge price jump.

    Now all that said, this does not account for the added cost of micro transactions and paid dlc which didn't really exist in 2005. So the actual lifetime cost of a top pricing tier game may actually be higher than $70. Honestly, I have more of a problem with that than with the higher base cost, hidden costs are deceptive.

    Edit: I looked it up, the switch to $60 actually happened in 2005, I was probably still working there when it happened. If we were to do that same calculation starting with $60, that's $60 x 1.65 = $99. So there's food for thought