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“Don’t forget to stop by the give shop and pick up your ‘hitchhiking stone’ keychain!”

“Why do they call a cheap piece of plastic shaped like the rock with a small split ring attached to it a ‘keychain’? What does any of this have to do with digital encryption keys?”

“I don’t know either, but make sure to buy one as a souvenir.”

Future Martian geologists. “This rock has no business being here. There must have been a glacier at some point that moved it here.”

Its not just about quantity but effort too.

• Lawful good has of a full roll on the spindle with no backup is technically the minimum good. No points deducted for that, but no points earned.
• Neutral good still has a partial roll on the spindle, but they also went to the extra effort to provide an additional backup roll. Extra points for extra effort of supplying an additional roll when they didn’t have to.

I dunno. I think the animals should worry. The Anthropocene is going to mean millions of species of things cease to exist because we’re changing the global climate.

GenX here. Kids enjoying doing kid things even if we don’t understand why they do that hurts no one? Keep it up, kids. You’re doing fine. No cap.

Patron: Excuse me, what aisle could I find content on ‘god’s fury’?

Worker: That would be aisle 6.

Patron: oh, excuse me. I misspoke. What aisle could I find content on ‘furry gods’?

Worker: Oh, no worries! That would be aisle 8.

You can even see the stylized product icon with the simple facial features with the little square mustache. People in that timeline unironically refer to that CI tool as “The Final Solution” in CI.

Lost technology of the ancients allowed them to make churros the size of city buses. Even with today’s most advanced science, we lack this ability.

There were two (firmware?) releases of the Dreamcast keyboard. The first release would allow TWO KEYBOARDS to be used with the game. The later release keyboard would only allow a single keyboard to be active at a time. It was a lot of fun yelling at your teammate to type faster, which of course made both players more flustered and do poorly.

I surprisingly good game! I also learned that my touch typing was decent, but not when zombie mobs are attacking me.

I spent more than 5 seconds on it because I examined each word closely looking for a reason that it would take someone 5 seconds to read it.

This feels like the bell curve meme…

“You painted the chair too?! I hate that chair! There’s no way in hell I’m going to be immortalized in a painting forever with it. Paint over it so its gone from the painting. What do you mean ‘it will look weird’? I’m paying you. Just do it.”

Striker,

I know you were always concerned about it and feared rejection so I honored your wishes to never speak of the events while you were alive, allowing you to live your way. However, with you passing I believe I can share with the world the beauty (and horror) that you brought upon the world free of judgement and felony charges.

It was 5 years ago beginning with 23 drinking straws, a roll of duct tape, a fresh hair cut, 4 kilos of thermite, a very fetching scarf, and a copy of the Dialogues of Plato. You didn’t begin that evening planning to change local laws of Ann Arbor Michigan, but before the night was over, you certainly did…

Just because they like haggling doesn’t imbue them with a sense of skill to it.

I’m not into it, but for some, the haggling is what they enjoy.

Most of the signs meaning that I see say “Clean fill for sale” meaning fill dirt. They know big AG isn’t one to fuck with.

Dirt can be clean if its not polluted with fuel oil or other industrial contaminants. The last thing you want to put on your yard for ground leveling is a truckload of whatever earth is coming out of the closest EPA superfund site.

Source for profitability of nuclear over time

Thank you for sharing your source. I’d prefer a document instead of a 23 minute video, but it is valid for how you arrived at your conclusion.

However, the source video makes some wildly incorrect assumptions to arrive at nuclear profitability.

We have the benefit of new reactors coming online in the USA in just the last year, so our numbers are current for real world nuclear plant costs. This would be the Vogtle nuclear power station in Georgia source.

This example is even more favorable to the argument for nuclear profitability. The plant already existed prior and the recent construction was simply adding additional reactors. So there should be some economies of scale. Here’s how that shook out compared to your video:

So your source wildly underestimated the cost and time to build (and likely the interest rate). Keep in mind, they also build reactor Unit 4 at about the same time (coming online about a year later). The cost of Unit 3 and Unit 4 was $35 billion to build and started in 2009. I was generous and only used a single reactor cost as the video’s example did for apples-to-apples comparison.

These factors destroy the argument that new modern nuclear building in the USA is profitable.

Wouldn’t be the first time. If someone makes a claim, they can back it up. I do.

I would. ROI takes longer, but they’re super fucking profitable as soon as they turn a profit at all.

Citation needed.

My state has a pair of nuclear plants built in the 70s, 40+ years ago. Not only are they not profitable, they lose lots of money every year. In 2021, these two plants lost $93 million. source - warning PDF

The only way these two nuclear plants became profitable was when Republicans were bribed by the energy company (First Energy) to force increased rates and fees on the citizens through legislated bail out so the energy companies could make a profit while also gutting the green energy initiatives in the state. I’m not even exaggerating any of this. The former Republican speaker of the house is now in prison serving 20 years accepting something close to (from memory) $150 million in bribes. source

If you can tell me when nuclear power gets cheaper, I’d really like to see it. We certainly haven’t here.