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That may actually do the opposite. Insurance functions by spreading the risk across all clients. If there are fewer people paying premiums, they raise rates to compensate.

Hence why we’re talking about bringing existing reactors that have been shutdown back online And that doesn’t even get into the newer reactor designs being worked on now. Light water modular reactors, thorium reactors, molten salt reactors, etc. that all can be built faster than the old designs currently in use.

The designs from the 60s and 70s are monolithic behemoths, but a lot of work has been done in recent decades on technologies that were essentially abandoned outside academia back then simply because they couldn’t be used to produce nuclear weapons.

Modern battery storage still cannot guarantee a base load capability 24/7 without massive battery farms multiple times the size of standard usage. What storage is great at is evening out supply to stabilize the grid. Renewables and battery storage will never be base load capable for any sizeable grid region, you simply need too much to handle the modern power requirements of a city, including necessary expansion in the future.

Some people just don’t want to accept that fact, so we sit here with thousands of gas and coal plants still burning every day instead of taking any steps in the right direction, wasting valuable time that we don’t have.

As it is, a coal plant produces more radioactive material than the waste from a nuclear power plant, but it’s allowed to be exhausted into the atmosphere and ignored. And that doesn’t even get into the greenhouse gasses. If these plants were required to actually clean their emissions, they wouldn’t be nearly as “cheap” to operate.

Hydroelectric is great… Apart from the existing entire ecosystem behind the dam that is destroyed to create the lake used to store the energy it then uses.

And that assumes a large enough body of water to pull energy from without depleting that source, especially with climate change shifting weather patterns. Many existing dams are operating at or near minimum levels because of ongoing drought conditions and similar issues.

That’s not an issue at all honestly. We need more nuclear power, it is clean power. Restarting existing reactors that weren’t decommissioned due to issues, is the fastest way to replace base load generation currently provided by things like coal and gas. Solar, wind, etc. are great but they don’t work 24/7/365, so there needs to be a base load to cover that. At the moment, that’s handled by coal and gas in most places.

The issue is it being used for AI slop.

Most of the money ‘lost’ to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.

This was the very first thing that came to my mind. How much of this “lost” revenue from piracy is actually revenue they lost because the content isn’t available legally where it is being consumed?

Where the fuck do you get that idea? Because there are more cameras? Because that’s about the only thing more police state than giving every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a badge, a gun, and minimal oversight.

The problem is the AI dipshits. Just pay some VAs to dub them and grasp the public goodwill from the change. Sadly the industry pay isn’t particularly great. Actually it’s pretty shit. Won’t cost Amazon more than maybe 3 seconds profits for dubbing the entirety of their library.

The most obvious would be to prevent the exact situation we’re in now. But that would also require more than a handful of them to not be psycho/sociopaths.

It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.

At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we’re over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.

Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn’t require an amendment or anything complicated.

You can even self host it… And easily export your data from their hosted solution to your own.

Possibly this one about the pregnant 13 year old where they thre the newborn into Lake Michigan and Trump was present?

A woman reported to the FBI that she had been sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein from a yacht based near Muskegon in the summer of 1984 when she was 13 years old and pregnant.

According to the report, she told the FBI she gave birth to a baby girl, and her uncle killed and “disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.” The woman said Epstein “was orchestrating a deal” along with her uncle, where “different men, and a few women and girls, would come to a variety of boats and yachts and pay money to force me to do (redacted) with them when I was 13 and pregnant.”

In the report, the woman names President Donald Trump as a witness, saying she knows him because “he participated regularly in paying money to force me to (redacted) with him and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.”

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/12/27/allegations-epstein-trump-fbi-tip-victim-2020-lake-michgan-sex-trafficking/87919968007/

The fact there’s even a question of which murder we’re referring to is outrageous for a US President.

It’s a surprise to CEOs clearly.

Nah, it’s pretty simple actually. If the archive doesn’t exist at all, they can’t even steal from it.

I tried to find something on marketplace a month ago. Dozens of posts because it’s a super common item, all posts were a week or less old. None were legitimate. Every one was a scam, responses all leading to bullshit websites to buy, or users that never responded.

Has to get the item on Ebay instead because apparently they actually have basic scam prevention systems in place while Facebook apparently doesn’t have shit.

Sometimes those are the chains directly… More often they’re just ghost kitchens. Someone else owns the brand, and has an already established kitchen make the food for delivery apps, and they take a cut from the sale.

Many ghost kitchens aren’t even normal restaurants you would drive to, they’re just commercial kitchens in generic business space that make food for a dozen or so ghost kitchen brands.

Yeah, in fact there’s a lot of evidence that biphasic/segmented sleep was quite common through history.

It isn’t really until the industrial revolution and long artificially strict working days that things shifted towards a single longer sleep period being more common.

That’s only because a lot of the newer stuff has been destroyed. And there is a lot of the old stuff still laying around.

So yes.

Microsoft releases their patches on the same day every month. They do this specifically for planning that sort of thing. Including giving you options in the settings to pause updates for up to 5 weeks.

And that doesn’t even get into the business-oriented options available through things like WSU to give more granular and customized update options for businesses.

If you’re doing something that will take that long… Why aren’t you using the solutions available? Is it because you never bothered to look? You just wanted to complain instead? Because that’s what it looks like when there’s a literal setting dropdown, that’s not hidden at all, that would avoid your example entirely.

Yeah, and the character (Tilly) will be appearing in SFA as well.

Mecha Hitler with direct connections to the US Military network… There are worse ideas. Not many. And I can’t think of them currently. But I’m sure there are.