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@reset_by_peer @LinkofSunshine laughably easy to deal with… they could even reprocess it in a breeder reactor and produce more power. The options are “this tiny thing” or “nearly nothing” & meanwhile we’ve got some people going on about it like this is a football stadium size pool of owing green ooze.

FYI, this is what 20 years worth of safely stored nuclear waste looks like. You can fit it in a third of an average convenience store parking lot.

@PluginHyBrad Totally silent electric Rolls Royce silver ghost… would be so fucking obvious… why yes… I do remember the ad about the clock…

I feel like I’m going insane. Electric makes THE MOST sense in a Rolls. They’ve worked for decades to make that V12 as smooth and quiet as possible, but electric is better in every metric. How the hell is ostentatious quiet luxury losing a fake culture war???

@MakoFukasame There’s always some invisible shitty program… begging you for attention but only when you shutdown… windows doing that thing where it fakes you out and just goes the logout screen instead of restarting… damn it

Windows doesn’t even shut down anymore, it just looks at you like this

@cursedconnector Next up on our cursed contact safari… bare end wires, stripped, hand twirled, and then jammed right into one of these “sockets”

every day we stray further from god. and, the the average person who lashes up something like this, they stray just that little bit closer to god.

@bagusindrayana_ Anyone going to post a clip with this edited onto a frame from the show ? Hahah

here bad apple in psychographic display

Kilopower, the little Martian reactor that could: A miracle of simplicity & sodium. NASA was given the brief to design a super-simple micro-reactor for future Martian settlement, and it did so brilliantly by doing it unconventionally. A normal Earthbound nuclear reactor is complex, with banks of pumps, water & steam injection pressurizers, control rod actuation, frequent movement of fuel during refuelling cycles, complex systems of valves, back-up emergency coolant and deluge systems, boron injection… it goes on & on & on. A terrestrial nuclear plant is a triumph of safety-conscious system engineering, but it’s a busy one, and Kilopower dispensed with all of this. The intention for the system is that you could set it up, get it started and just… forget about it, pretty much. It has a small, solid core with no moving pieces except for the control rod which is designed to be moved on startup and then kept in place, unmonitored, for a decade at a time. The small size & low power means that reactivity effects are dominated by thermal expansion and are extremely stable. Low power designs (less than 100 kiloWatts thermal energy) make thermal management and irradiation damage a non-issue that does not complicate system design. Very low power level designs (less than 10kW thermal) feature such low burnup reactivity that movement of the control rod becomes a ten-year interval. A literal ‘tin’ wedding anniversary, marked out by tweaks to the control rod. There’s a quirky Martian anniversary gift for you! Even at much higher power levels, the stability is such, and burnup so low, that control rod movement would be something you’d only have to do occasionally, every few months or annually. In essence this is a nuclear battery. In all cases, the reactor is designed to handle worst-case transients such as coolant loss passively without any need for control inputs, further simplifying the system. Truly, this is a zen ideal: Feng Shui engineering, where less is more and the system simplicity brings reliability and safety, all in one. Perfect for missions to space.

@emeriticus @f4micom I always assumed it would be titled “Conehead”

The name of Marc Andreessen's memoir:

@chiitan7407 @acrtlicaryie I have to make sure I occasionally like repost and reply to Chiitan because I don’t get the ads anymore… but I still want the Chiitan on my feed🫶

@acrtlicaryie Chiitan protects you from bad advertisements.

the only ads i fucking like ontwitter are ads of chiitan because other stuff is fucking AI SLOP I HATE IT I HATE IT!! ALSO NO I DON'T WANT TO BE DRAFTED TO FIGHT FOR FUCKING USA OR SOME OTHER BULLSHIT NO!! DIE!! I HATE YOU!!! WHY CAN'T I TURN OF ADS!!

@JuniperSArt I’m just going to wait here and see how long it takes for someone to post their work modelling the actual molecule in blender. 🧐

I made estrogen in blender

@IndieVtubers Does the show account have to be following if it’s a duo?

Drop your twitch links and when you go live. I might just stop by with some subs next week 👀

This was a borderline scam… didn’t put the target close to the impact point (it was actually reasonably well predicted, they could have tried harder)… they also got a massive insurance policy to cover the small possibility they might actually have something hit the target.

@JenniferMascia @KeruboSk @VlynnQ IF YOU WERE LUCKY… most of us here just using pencil if we think we might fuck up lol

@KeruboSk @VlynnQ Xennials had a Brother electric typewriter with a correction strip

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

@slimepriestess @HazelAppleyard Right… it seems easy… like you have to find time to go to the gym every day… or else… but with no massive side effects… this one feels like a no brainer

@HazelAppleyard kinda sucks that it takes 5 years to get the money, but the magic freefall experience sounds neat.

NO.

Looks like the government might finally be caving to the pressure myself, others on the crossbench & especially Australians in communities across the country have been putting on them to tax gas companies making wartime profits. Australians are already paying more on petrol & we shouldn’t be paying more on beer excise than the government gets for Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT). It’s encouraging to see Treasury modelling changes to the way gas is taxed. We should have a flat 25% tax on all gas exports & enough gas exports diverted into an east coast gas reservation & we need both now. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

Holy shit. Even for Trump this is bad.

@i2cjak Why not just skip the bullshit and build an appropriately tuned free electron laser at the end of a linear accelerator? It seems like the whole tin drop thing is a whole waste of time… no one should bother with it if they’re a half competent particle physicist.

idea: vaporize a small perfectly spherical drop of molten tin (>232C) with a laser, thus creating "extreme" ultraviolet light. this can then be used for various purposes.

@brockpierson Hi

I am blowing all super small accounts Reply if you're under 5k and I will boost you 🚀

@GumiSamaVT No?

If you see this, run.

Costco CEO Ron Vachris did the “CEO eats his own product” challenge by destroying a hot dog (and confirms the Costco hot dog combo is staying at $1.50 forever). Legend.

@AIandDesign It probably says something about me that my first thought was “I dunno how autistic this really is and I don’t care cause this is fucking awesome”

I hereby proudly present the most autistic thing I've ever built yet. Unmatched in it's uselessnes but yet SO cool. You wouldn't understand LOL I'm presenting a full-blown Teletext engine. This puppy can read and write .t42 broadcast binary files and you can use it to look at archived teletext pages or create your own. As a demo I have "teletext-ified" my website. For those who don't know what this is, Teletext was a format that allowed text content to be broadcasted along with a TV channel. Any TV with a teletext decoder could view it. You could use it to look up weather, news and many other things. VERY popular in Europe. It actually still is in the Netherlands (where I'm from). It was also huge in the United Kingdom. Anyway without further ado, the link is below! This entire project is open source and available on Github. Enjoy!