sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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Everything old is new again! 🥲

It depends on community. Some of the shitposting communities can be great (shout out to ncd).

But politics and current events can be a minefield if your views are outside of Lemmy's tinsy tiny Overton window.

My theory is that we're mostly here because we have very strong beliefs. We dropped out of Reddit because of their policies or we were banned. Or we're open source people. We defend those beliefs vociferously. Long beyond what most other people would do.

Whatever. I still mostly enjoy it here. I hope you find a place here too.

Remember: if you're wet, they're wet.

Early observations hint that the Wasp was not caused by a failed supernova. In that theorised scenario, a star would collapse in on itself while in the process of exploding. Inside the star's shell, a black hole or a dense neutron star would then form, and blast out jets of radiation through the shell, creating what's called a central engine. This would explain the brief cow flare that was visible on Earth.

As someone who doesn't know enough about physics or astronomy, I have to say this is pretty well written and really cool.

It's still kinda comparable:

According to that analysis, providing a similar level of base power as the SMRs by building wind and solar power with battery energy storage would cost in the range of 13.5 to 18.4 cents per kWh

At the lower end of the estimate, at least.

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault has asked for a complete review of the controls in place to ensure that a similar situation does not happen again, Elections Canada said.

"My commitment to candidates, political parties and Canadians is that when issues related to the delivery of an election arise, we take all necessary steps to resolve them," Perrault said in a news release.

I generally get angy at this kind of fuckup, but Elections Canada staff have repeatedly shown themselves to operate in good faith and try to do their best to support the electoral system.

As such, I'm fairly confident that was human error, and the result of not following procedures. I look forward to their report and implementation of effective fixes.

I'm not pro-nuclear, but the baseload argument is compelling. We clearly need both more renewables, but sprinkling a few SMRs throughout the system seems to be a pretty good idea - especially if we don't want to integrate with the US grids.

The article mentions that IF it comes in on budget

That's one of the big ifs. It's new technology (kind of), so I'll be surprised if there aren't some overruns.

Maybe they're dropping them like breadcrumbs so they can find their way back.

They've been frantically rolling back repeatedly, and the simulation just keeps going off the rails. Didn't you see the posts in ten forward?

a concise and lyrical summary of the last 20 years

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Her: is that Harry Potter you're reading?

She approached me on the bus when I was commuting. It was a couple of decades ago when HP was new and fun. She was fun too, but we only went on a couple of dates.

I'm not surprised at all. At the time, I was trying to be as social as possible. If she'd stomped on my toe and then asked me out, I'd probably have said yes.

I thought I was smart/knowledgeable until I started working with people who really are smart/knowledgeable.

I tried to keep up and be one of them, but I do better when I just try to follow along with them and consider alternatives and implications of what they propose.

I wouldn't say I'm the token idiot, but I have perspectives they don't, and those are useful. Then again, that's exactly what the token idiot would say.

I'm looking forward to pictures of the wildflowers. Good luck!

Yeah, I don't get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they'd still be fucking us over.

why do they hate my love?

Lemmites are old brah