NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Basically, breathing in any kind of particulates is bad for you, and very fine particles (like smoke/vapor) can pass through cell walls and interact with your proteins resulting in transcription errors during cellular reproduction. For instance, asbestos fibers can tangle with and damage chromosomes [2]. The more often you do it, and the more volume you expose your lung tissue to, the higher the odds that something will go catastrophically wrong.

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 5 hours ago

AWS will live for a very long time, no matter what happens to the retail business.

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

If I remember correctly, one of the biggest problems was the transportation issue, which no one had a solution for. How exactly do you safely transfer several tons of nuclear waste from, say, Shearon Harris to Yucca Mountain? that's a very long train route. And you want to do this on a recurring basis? from several different locations around the country?

How exactly are you going to convince the states in between that they should permit you to transport nuclear waste across their borders, repeatedly? Who is going to provide security for all of this nuclear waste while it's in transit? Who is going to accept liability for any accidents that occur, and who is going to handle the PR when a truckload of irradiated water gets dumped in some neighborhood?

Good luck getting anyone who even wants to explore establishing those arrangements as their full-time job. "Yes, I brokered the agreement for transporting radioactive material that resulted in a half-ton of waste being spread across ten backyards and an elementary school playground just outside of Birmingham." Sounds like career suicide, and maybe not career suicide.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 9 hours ago

Freudian slap.

[–] NaibofTabr 7 points 1 day ago

Be careful whose advice you buy,
but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia;
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth

Baz Luhrmann

[–] NaibofTabr 23 points 2 days ago

Preferred solution for an unholy operating system:

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 2 days ago

...blue, dark blue

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can use StreetComplete to contribute information to OpenStreetMap!

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 2 days ago

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you smell toast?

[–] NaibofTabr 17 points 2 days ago

So... still just alone in a room?

[–] NaibofTabr 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How exactly does one prepare for a tree flattening their car?

 

I'm dropping this in here for anyone who's interested in the background of where RWBY came from and what happened that turned it into the darling orphan it is today.

RWBY was Rooster Teeth's second major series. I think if you're a fan it's worth knowing about Monty Oum (RWBY was basically his personal project) and his influence on the company.

This video is the best summary I've seen of Rooster Teeth's existence, how they got started, their peak, and how it fell apart. They were internet trendsetters in a lot of ways. It's worth the time to watch.

 

My introduction to this was through the video, so it felt appropriate to share here. I'm sure this is a reupload and I saw it somewhere else earlier than 2012.

You can actually play with it on the creator's website:

https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg

 

Using only pieces from the original set.

 

This popular successor to the original Turbo Encabulator has now been itself succeeded by the impressive Hyper Encabulator. There seems to be no end to clever innovation in the important field of encabulation.

 

Don Hertzfeldt

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