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[23:59:57] <systemd> ^ 03Compact Fusion
[23:59:57] <exec> └─ 13Compact Fusion | Lockheed Martin
[23:59:55] <Sulla> https://www.lockheedmartin.com
[23:59:52] <chromas> In 35 more years, it'll only be 40 years away
[23:59:25] <RandomFactor> there's been a good bit of progress recently, i'm thinking 45 now.
[23:59:03] <AndyTheAbsurd> it's...not a front where we're making progress.
[23:58:54] <AndyTheAbsurd> LOL...commercial fusion reactors have been 30 to 50 years away for 50 years.
[23:58:27] <RandomFactor> actually make it 35
[23:57:49] <RandomFactor> 30 years ago a nuclear engineering professor explained it was a minimum of 50 years before we would see a commercial fusion reactor. He was a bleeding optimist.
[23:57:41] <Sulla> I do wonder if the guy has any investments in nuclear. Won't change my opinion because nuclear is needed, but is bad optics for his points
[23:57:19] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - https://sylnt.us - free-as-in-beer
[23:56:16] <Sulla> Old Trojan site near Portland, OR has some 1k years of old reactor waste we could burn for power in a breeder reactor
[23:55:49] <Sulla> Modern reactors and getting rid of the nuclear non-proliferation act to allow us to build breeder reactors to eliminate waste would solve pretty much all our issues
[23:55:30] <RandomFactor> yep
[23:55:14] <Sulla> do love me some fusion though
[23:54:48] <Sulla> Shellenberger in podcasts has said that kicking the can down for fusion is a terrible idea when Gen2 reactors would work fine for the extent of any gap
[23:54:03] <RandomFactor> Yeah. Fusion might fill that gap eventually, but not in my working lifetime.
[23:53:22] <Sulla> Wish more people backed nuclear
[23:53:00] <RandomFactor> is what the sub said
[23:52:54] <RandomFactor> 400 pages, 100 of it endnotes
[23:52:43] <Sulla> I need to pick up book as it is supposed to have some 100 pages of backup
[23:52:19] <Sulla> Jerry Browns father major investment in SE Asian oil, Jerry Brown works to kill nuclear projects, as other renewables fail to work effectively his family makes millions on oil sales
[23:51:41] <Sulla> The whole california SE asian oil deal was outstanding
[23:51:15] <RandomFactor> He might convince me otherwise, but it would take some doing :-)
[23:50:57] <Sulla> I'm going to listen to it a second time
[23:50:51] <Sulla> I really suggest reading or listening to the book
[23:50:35] <RandomFactor> Never ascribe to ill intent what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
[23:50:02] <Sulla> TLDR version of the book is that renewables wont ever meet requirements for power and it would be bad if they did, and that the pushing of wind and solar is funded by big oil/coal that knows that it wont work and keeps failing forcing us back into their hands
[23:49:37] <RandomFactor> EVERYONE should always have been the strongest proponents of nuclear power.
[23:49:22] <RandomFactor> scratch that
[23:49:02] <RandomFactor> Environmentalists should always have been the strongest proponents of nuclear power.
[23:47:59] <Sulla> Yeah. Just finished the book. Devistating evidence in support of nuclear power
[23:45:59] <exec> └─ 13On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare: SoylentNews Submission
[23:45:58] <systemd> ^ 03On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare: SoylentNews Submission
[23:45:57] <RandomFactor> You mean https://soylentnews.org
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[22:32:28] <Sulla> Is there a reason that the Shellenberger story isn't being accepted?
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[21:47:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - https://sylnt.us - poke-e-mon
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[20:22:07] <boru> I wonder if the IETF will accept that RFC for sterilising people over IP.
[20:21:33] <boru> It's like Eternal September all over again.
[20:21:22] <boru> I remain unconvinced. I think that giving the general public a voice on the web was one of the worst things imaginable.
[20:19:17] <FatPhil> Come on, that's worth the effort isn't it?
[20:19:00] <FatPhil> 'what the f**k, haters? If you want to watch a sci-fi alien monster movie that's 'realistic', go watch some NASA documentaries, don't come to the cinemas.'
[20:18:31] <boru> "I ordered the wrong thing. 1 star."
[20:18:29] <RandomFactor> @phatphil hey, I have a DeCSS T-shirt floating around somewhere still
[20:18:21] <boru> On imdb, they're about as useful as amazon reviews.
[20:18:00] <boru> Pft, reviews. Now there is a waste of time.
[20:17:42] <FatPhil> check the user reviews, or the <=40 Metacritic ones
[20:17:17] <boru> I looked it up because I thought it was David Attenborough or Monty Python. I stopped reading at "American sci-fi horror".
[20:15:57] <FatPhil> oh, jeebus, just watched Life (2017), and think I need my brain to be electrocuted back to life.
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[19:38:50] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - https://sylnt.us - Hmm,-Braaains!
[17:35:04] <chromas> Perhaps I need to get into the stock photography of inane things business
[17:33:43] <chromas> I like how they just have stock photos of numbers on things
[17:29:37] * TheMightyBuzzard buggers off for a nap
[17:27:33] <TheMightyBuzzard> been following your exploits for a while but didn't ever put two n two together
[17:27:05] * TheMightyBuzzard tips hat to FatPhil
[17:26:35] <Bender> karma - chromas: 294
[17:26:35] <TheMightyBuzzard> chromas++
[17:26:34] <FatPhil> It was a very long time ago, no idea why the BBC resurrected it.
[17:26:32] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Bat-Virus Détente - https://sylnt.us - holy-interferons-Batman!
[17:26:05] <chromas> But on the other hand, the BBC hardly counts as news
[17:25:50] <chromas> I remember the number thing. Didn't know that was you
[17:20:07] <systemd> ^ 03A few controversial numbers may be illegal to share
[17:19:57] <exec> └─ 13A few controversial numbers may be illegal to share - BBC Future
[17:19:53] <FatPhil> chromas: this a high-profile enough place for an article about me to be written? https://www.bbc.com
[17:18:44] <FatPhil> its etymology would put it as either, as with most 'like' endings, but that 'archaic' supports my claim, hypocrisy be damned!
[16:32:47] <exec> └─ 13Niggardly | Definition of Niggardly by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Niggardly
[16:32:45] <RandomFactor> @phatphil niggardly is an adjective, however it has an archaic usage as an adverb (frankly any usage is archaic at this point imo) - https://www.lexico.com
[16:26:53] <RandomFactor> basically it is a non starter IMO. However it's a great way to feel things out and prep for 2024 if he's seriously interested.
[16:26:31] <RandomFactor> Kanye's running, but he can't even get on the ballot in some important states at this point. And in others would have to get hundreds of thousands of signatures within days.
[16:25:32] <chromas> Yeah but did you get an article written about you?
[16:07:24] <FatPhil> I could do it while I was in single digits, I'm sure.
[16:06:43] <FatPhil> but the completing the square method is wildly simple?!??
[15:17:24] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - https://sylnt.us - math-simplified
[14:46:31] <FatPhil> 000000
[14:46:22] <TheMightyBuzzard> he's there to make me laugh my ass off
[14:38:54] <FatPhil> he's there to split the idiot vote
[14:27:16] <Teckla> Can't imagine what he thinks he's going to accomplish.
[14:27:01] <Teckla> LOL @ Kanye's presidential run
[13:52:48] <Bender> karma - kanye: 2
[13:52:48] <TheMightyBuzzard> kanye++
[13:52:43] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5299
[13:52:43] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[13:18:28] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5298
[13:18:28] <Teckla> coffee++
[13:07:39] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NASA’s Most Iconic Building is 55 Years Old and Just Getting Started - https://sylnt.us - lots-of-room
[12:33:49] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show" (33 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[12:33:28] <exec> └─ 13Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - Scientific American
[12:33:27] <systemd> Submitting "Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show"...
[12:33:25] <RandomFactor> =submit poke e mon https://www.scientificamerican.com
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[12:25:44] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5297
[12:25:44] <Bytram> coffee++
[10:56:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - https://sylnt.us
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[09:13:17] <FatPhil> -lily would follow the usual pattern.
[09:05:44] <chromas> How about niggardlyly?
[08:56:34] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - https://sylnt.us - a-snitch-in-time-saves-nine
[08:49:16] <FatPhil> niggardly's not an adverb, it's an adjective.
[07:08:19] * systemd absolutely imagines a carload of alcohol-free beer with FatPhil
[07:08:19] <chromas> =gazongas FatPhil
[07:07:30] * systemd niggardly heaps a cylinder of mud on chromas
[07:07:29] <FatPhil> =gorgonzola chromas
[07:07:18] <FatPhil> Probably EF extending his stockings collection
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[06:46:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - https://sylnt.us - Use-it-up.-Wear-it-out.-Make-do.-Do-without.
[06:36:54] <chromas> Probably EF stocking up on extensions
[06:36:21] <exec> └─ 13Sex toy sales are up and publishers are seeing an opportunity to grasp - Digiday
[06:36:20] <systemd> ^ 03Sex toy sales are up and publishers are seeing an opportunity to grasp - Digiday
[06:36:19] <chromas> https://digiday.com
[06:23:09] <MrPlow> Pärnu mnt 67a, 10131 Tallinn, Estonia - Today: "Clear throughout the day." 66/55F, Humidity: 73%, Precip: 52%, Wind ~17mph. Tue: "Possible light rain in the afternoon." 62/51F, Humidity: 77%, Precip: 50%, Wind ~14mph. Wed: "Possible light rain in the afternoon and evening." 64/49F, Humidity: 76%, Precip: 73%, Wind ~9mph.
[06:23:08] <FatPhil> #weather
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[04:37:33] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - https://sylnt.us - better-than-bees'-knees
[04:22:46] <chromas> Maybe you can exploit the feature to trigger a rampage somewhere
[03:48:43] <TheMightyBuzzard> i get that there are some guys who have no knack for getting women to want to be around them but that's just fiscally wasteful when you can get a hooker to pms at you for way cheaper. and then go away when you get tired of it.
[03:44:39] <exec> └─ 13'Intelligent' Sex Robots Can Have Mood Swings Just Like Real Women
[03:44:38] <systemd> ^ 03New 'Intelligent' Sex Robots Can Have Mood Swings Just Like Real Women
[03:44:37] <TheMightyBuzzard> https://www.bolde.com
[02:49:44] <AzumaHazuki> chilli is a-cookin'. i seared some onions and beef scrap bones first; this will create bone broth to cook the chilli in. also got some habaneros. they're nowhere near as hot as people say and they're soooo yummy
[02:37:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - https://sylnt.us - you-want-us-make-our-own-instead-of-buying-yours?
[02:25:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.5 Billion or More in Funding - https://sylnt.us - you-want-us-make-our-own-instead-of-buying-yours?
[02:16:58] <tedious> Gentoo dumped a bunch of python updates on me tonight.
[02:16:36] <tedious> I should have kept my mouth shut. :)
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[00:45:03] <Bytram> biab
[00:25:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - https://sylnt.us - "Macs-don't-get-viruses"