It is harsh. I’m hoping for the AI bubble to crash. For a lot of reasons, but partially so that I can buy parts at reasonable prices.

It is, but my current setup is struggling.

Microsoft has driven me away from Windows at least a half dozen times over the last 20 years.

Each time the siren call of some game or another will pull me back.

I’d played with Linux native games as well, but most of the greats were Windows only.

And yeah, then Proton.

Now I’m trying to save up the small fortune needed for a computer upgrade, and I’m not even planning to pirate Windows.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo

Israel took full credit for the attack.

Generational wealth and power, does not produce healthy minds.

The inbreeding was a side effect of an already broken system.

What an odd choice… I know you’re referring to the USS Maine and invasion of Cuba, but that was not the start.

When things go the way they’re headed, remember the words of T.E. Lawrence, war with an empire is all flank and no front.

Maybe reading the book written by the guy who started this mess can help us end it.

Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.

War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.

Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.

If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.

1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.

And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.

(d) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56454609

There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.

There are a few small scale chocolate companies that actively avoid child labor.

And then there’s Nestle on the opposite side of that spectrum. Not just child labor, but child slavery.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Some good news, ulcers can usually be treated with a simple round of antibiotics.

I will refrain from finishing this thought in order to keep it good news

The “refuses to elaborate” is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.

It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.

Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it’s off to hell.

Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it’s actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.

Wind and solar cannot set grid frequency.

They just can’t. You need a turbine to set frequency.

And yes, the grid frequency matters.

So yes, we will always need a base load. And what better way than a small modular reactor, keeping the grid local and modular.

Or we can build out so much wind and solar that we have to have massive transmission lines running across the country, and then we would still need to curtail that power during peak supply, while also not getting enough generation when solar and wind fail.

And then you still need a turbine to set the grid frequency.

2040 huh?

My prediction is a record number of new plants going online in 2040.

Especially as there are literal factories being built to specifically crank out Small Modular Reactors.

We’re looking at a future where every small town can have their own reactor, providing enough power for that town but not large enough to ever melt down.

If you need an egg stand in, there’s the cheap plastic eggs. Which are available everywhere. So I too, doubt this story.

Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

The Marquis de Condorcet wrote about the evils of Christianity back in the 1790s.

He wrote about how it was a tool of oppression, not just of the person, but of the mind and spirit.

And nothing has changed in the last 200 years.

It’s doubtful that they killed him, he was just a kid when they took him. They have him squirrelled away somewhere, having gone through heavy indoctrination. Just waiting for the Dali Lama to die.