If this is the story that I looked up, first of all it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to own that power plant, it is going to continue to be owned by the current owner. Microsoft is going to invest in the Three Mile Island facility to get it back up and running, and then we'll have a 20 year agreement to purchase energy from them. According to the article, that would add 800 megawatts to the grid. By my account, that would add 672 gigawatt-hours to the grid assuming that it runs 24/7.
Unless there is another story somewhere else that has them investing in nuclear power...
I always find it odd realizing how many people used to be able to make entertaining and hilarious content and stopped in their tracks and became political robots instead.
I used to love Yugioh abridged. One of my favorite things period. Today there's a nice big "omg I don't actually believe this plz no cancel" on each episode produced. No wonder, it was actually good.
I consider the peak of human civilization to be late 90s early 2000s.
No era is perfect and it had its problems, but the good far outweighed the bad.
I heard something recently that made me think though -- Someone said the 70s were the hangover for the 60s that laid the groundwork for the 80s. This framework seems like it could work somewhat -- The 1930s were the hangover for the 1940s, which laid the groundwork for the 1950s. The timing doesn't work perfectly but then we're living in a dynamic system so people are reacting to stuff. The 2010s and 2020s being the hangover for the 1990s and 2000s, leading potentially to a banger in the 2030s? Hard to say, we'll have to see. No matter what though, this moment will pass, as will the next. We live in a dynamic system and the only thing that won't change is things will change.
Everyone should really try to set up a searx instance on their machines. There's only a few hundred users right now. If enough decent folks started running it and scraped a little piece of the Internet they care about (you can even set it up as a proxy server to scrape any site you've been to) then we'd have a search platform that, while imperfect, would at least actually have all the sites places like Google refuses to show.
Yes, the conception of a nation as just a geographical area and a democratic government slapped on top is I think a product of the modern period's colonialism, resulting global empires such as the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent powers like France, and existing nations like the United States that don't have those long histories and relatively unified ethnicity. In that sense, premodern states were effective ethnostates.
I'm using the word in the modern sense since that's how we use it today because it helps people (including myself) who were confused by the concept of national socialism in a postmodern world that doesn't see nations that way colloquially anymore.
I'm hypocritical in my distaste for the use of the word neoliberal in such a way that it represents an effective growing of government while pretending to do the opposite by reducing public services. I recognize that that is how it is come to be known now, however.
Something a lot of leftists don't seem to realize is that the social liberalism is just a tool for the destruction of capitalism. In every example on record they'd open up to degenerates until they're in power then they call that behavior anti-revolutionary and crack down. Every time. I could see a winning ideology that proposed socialism but also was against the absolute degeneracy of the Weimar Republic being tempting for communists who want to get closer to socialism and see what the Weimar republic showed them as capitalist decadence and decline suggesting all capitalism was about to collapse.
Follows directly. The PRC may not be "your guys" but in that moment while doing the thing you want them to do and you apologized for and you defended, that guy is "your guy".
Besides, it's looking increasing like it's a far left American. Which it would make sense for it to be.
I deleted the post moments after writing it because I don't really feel like getting into a dumb political argument.
But it's pretty simple: If you're sitting there cheering for an attempted assassination, or apologizing for it, then the assassin is one of "your guys".
I hate a lot of politicians, and joking aside I don't want any of them assassinated. I want Justin Trudeau to lose in disgrace and go live out his days in California, not painting the steps of parliament. If someone tried to kill Trudeau, even with all he's done, I'll condemn that guy because once assassinations hit the table, they stay on the table, and it won't take 80 years for republics to end.
Most people don't realize just how fucked up the world economy is right now. Capitalism is long over. You don't have capitalism when 50% of GDP is the state in most countries, or when blue collar workers pay 50% taxes on the last dollar they earn. By contrast, my great grandparents paid no income taxes and the government was about 10% of the economy.
"But look at all the super-rich people!" Yeah, that happens every time the state becomes massive because the powerful people in government make sure their friends and allies are taken care of. It has gone on for millennia in every region of the world because power corrupts.
We're living in a totalitarian civilization because at some point we decided that "everything is political" and thus under the purview of the government. Of course there's corruption and greed. We used to have culture, and community, and even religion. We gave it all away.
And the worst part is that people can't even recognize something as simple as a guy who got rich on subsidies and fed money printing cranking up his stonks isn't a libertarian.
Takes a lot of money in order to prove a material reserve. For that reason, companies won't prove everything that they think they might have, they will claim they've got a relatively small fraction of what's probably there because in order to go to the market and claim that you have something you need to have things pretty well dialed.
As an example, many mines claim that they have 5 years of reserves, but then a lot of those mines will go out to run for 50 years. I'm reasonably confident that the same is true in oil and gas.
The database cleanup was just running a couple of built in pleroma scripts that clean up old data (cleaning out 25GB of remote posts!), but the real issue seems to have been a number of faulty packets with invalid addresses being aimed at fbxl social in particular (once I stopped accepting packets for fbxl domains the server came back and once I started again)
My hypothesis so far is that either intentionally due to malicious attack or unintentionally due to a misconfigured server a bunch of these malformed packets were sent my way, and filled up connection slots in the kernel, locking up not just http but telnet and icmp. Once I added some configuration changes to increase the number of connection slots and also to filter any packets with bad addresses (sysctl calls them martian packets since they come from "alien" address spaces) the connection issues ceased.
Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.
Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.
It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.
I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.
Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling!
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