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!neolibs must we install a fricking technocracy for our nuclear dreams to be realised, b-word? I fear it may be so
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Yes and why is that a bad thing?
America is r-slurred because the majority of its elected officials are JDs, followed by MBAs.
We used to have a Secretary of Defense with an Oxford PhD in Quantum Chromodynamics and we replaced him with a M*rine with a BA
in History.
!ifrickinglovescience you can't make this shit up.
And then we get "Le Heckin Warrior Monk who owns many leather bound books." !r-slurs
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Who?
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Ash Carter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Carter
Yes he got caught up on the
meme.
But QCD stands for Quantum Chromodynamics, the strong nuclear force.
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Extremely based !physics and !historychads crossover
Generalists for the win!
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Not even a generalist. A double smartist.
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When I say generalists I mean people with multiple interests.
In a world of over-specialization it's impossible for us to be experts or at least really good in more than a field or two, however it is still a net positive to have some general knowledge in unrelated fields.
I think many in the !ifrickinglovescience and !engineering crowd could benefit from some reading into humanities (as long as you're still aware you're not an expert, just an enthusiast). Same is true for the pure !sophistry crowd.
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This is impossible for stemcels, they'd immediately make a yt video titled "I SOLVED free will" like Sabine.
All the most successful scientists I know are absolute giga r-slurs when it comes to fields not their own because if you want to make a career in science you can't afford to waste time with anything that's not ur own work AND you need to be unreasonably confident in your own abilities.
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It's like adding pilates to lifting.
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I could actually
connect 
with this guy as the #1 expert on Darklands in the world. 
(I'm not even 100% joking. If you got some really
esoteric 
shared interest with important people they will connect 
with you.)
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What's the train meme?
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We need Helios from Deus Ex irl. This is why I support AI development.
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My first marsey submission!
Current hyperfixation:
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Based. R-slurred butt G*rmans seethe at nuclearchads.
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I sincerely, unironically believe German deserved like 800 Dresdens.
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I wish the Morgenthau Plan happened.
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That title reads like a joke article but it's real holy shit
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Yes but also no.
Also, as bad as The Simpsons has been for nuclear energy, renaming the facility "Crane Clean Energy Center" is something I'd expect to see on The Simpson's.
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NotChernobyl.com
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I'm not following you. Please
explain.
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The first nuclear meltdown happened there iirc
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The first
one that the media 
decided to make into a big news story. Way way worse stuff happened before, like the Windscale fire where 
the British 
were half-assing the safety 
standards on their nuclear 
weapons 
program 
and came really 
close 
to irradiating Dublin.
Would it blow your mind if I told you that sometimes they exaggerate things? That black
men are not in danger 
of being randomly gunned down in the street 
by cops, kids don't get routinely killed 
in school 
shootings, aliens 
are not abducting people, Haitians aren't going 
to eat your cat, etc?
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Bullshit that Haitian eats the shit out of cat
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I want to make a joke about how I'd turn her straight, but in all honesty I can't. She's defensive and slightly bitchy. Really
bad qualities for a press 
secretary.
Compare that to Jen Psaki when she was doing the daily
State 
Department 
press 
conferences during the Obama 
administration (you guys were watching 
those too right?) She had every day 20 foreign reporters trying to get her to say that US policy had changed about their country 
so they had a story 
to write. She was so incredibly deft at dodging without ever sounding confrontational. She was really 
good at her job and I'm into that.
!moidmoment
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Quality shitpost
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Source?
Source?
Source?
Source?
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it was a close call, there was a partial meltdown during a transient (cause their pilot valve was stuck open and they were just gauging pressure based on the pressuriser water level
). but they did have to vent some gas cause of H2 
buildup cause cladding breakdown
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I got the impression that a lot of it happened just because they didn't have good sensors to know wtf was going
on? Am I right 
about that?
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combination of a lot of bad safety standards, bad modeling, broken equipment and operators were r-slurs that fricked things up worse than doing nothing and letting the automatic safety systems handle it all
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Wasn't it partly because some dude was literally so fat it blocked his view of a warning light?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country#United_States
No, but all of the previous ones had been at military installations and so were not widely reported on until many years later.
Current hyperfixation:
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They need MAD to deal with the ripples of the Genshin Impact devs becoming a nuclear power
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Again, if they did that, why would
that be weird? Lots of people own decommissioned missile 
silos. (Like that guy who was making huge amounts of LSD is one.)
What is unusual about a missile
silo except that it's "nuclear" and that gives it supernatural 
properties to cute twinks and girls 
into astrology? 
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SOYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA NOOOOOOOOOOOW
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Linux
to purchase 40 steam 
engines, 246 complex gear and pulley apparatuses, and 17 gyroscopes to turn on one machine 
in a server 
rack.
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I approve of this
Defend against AI safety jannies
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this is devasting news to those that wanted ai shut down due to using too much power, it is becoming self sustainable
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inb4 progs go full anti-nuclear rather than concede an anti-AI talking point
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neighbor are u not aware of the entire green party
Current hyperfixation:
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Half the engineers replaced by Corona or whatever windowslopai was called
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LET'S FRICKING GOOOOO AHHHHHH
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Bill gates is part of a massive online media campaign to make nuclear politically viable. Inb4 r-slurred people that fell for his shills get mad about this.
Edit: Look at the amount of replies. I only get this when i talk about nuclear or dolly parton. Have you guys considered not falling for every social media campaign?
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i support anyone that wants nuclear to be viable lol.
the biggest issue is cost due to massive public backlash.
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https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-promoting-small-modular-reactors-national-defense-space-exploration/
You heard it here folks, pizza is pro Trump now
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Don't worry,
@R-slurredBackpack, Kamala is fricking still the fricking nuclear queen
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/29/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-steps-to-bolster-domestic-nuclear-industry-and-advance-americas-clean-energy-future/
!khive
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Once again Kamal copied Trump
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Look, I'm trying to go to bed, you don't have to intentionally make me hard...
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Oh no magabros is she ourgirl???
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Please stop giving me reasons to vote for God Emperor Trump !trump2024
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DDR is exactly who I would want as president if the ayy lmaos invade. His first response would be to insult them, sexually harass their women, and stand in front of a large map saying that he directed the Generals to kill all of them and deport them from life
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Shut up no one cares about the pro nuclear talking points you were spoon fed third hand
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Nuclear is good actually and if you don't think so you should keep yourself safe.
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Agreed. Nuclear IS power!
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you know there's 60 people waiting for nonchuds approval, right?
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lol?
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No I'm serious.
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Drink bleach r-slur
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!friendsofpizzashill defend xir honor and xirs sweet tea
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Go off king.
And seriously
@DaddyReagan you're a giant r-slur whose fallen for Saudi Oil propaganda.
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Name 1 reason nuclear bad
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Hello nuclear shill.
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Potential meltdowns that can make large swaths of Earth unsafe for human habitation for tens of thousands of years
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Non issue
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oh ok
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Thx for coming to my ted talk gib money
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Soviet Russia did about everything they could possibly do wrong and it's biggest impact is a decent HBO TV series
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The place
that proved life can thrive even with a low level of radioactive 
contamination? You're not making great 
arguments for your case here.
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You stupid
fricking 
r-slur. I only got the math/physics knowledge 
that a layman should 
have and I know that's off by many many many orders of magnitude. You have no fricking 
idea the amount of energy 
it would 
take to do that.
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I refuse
to be talked down to by someone is marsified PERIODT
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Well you're at 0 upmarseys right
now. You think 
you're hot shit?
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all forms of energy generation need land (besides maybe burning gas and offshore wind).
coal mines are huge and at least in germany we regularly had to move villages to get more coal
Also how likely is such a meltdown? 2600 km² every 50 years isn't really all that bad since it's for the whole planet.
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Gives me the ick
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Omg queen I'm so sorry this happened to you!! Have your reported them to hr??
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Pizzashill defending deregulation?
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You're part of a massive online
campaign to promote destroying our planet 
and you're not even getting paid for it. You're just willfully r-slurred 
and evil.
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Pale Floyd (cuz he died lol)
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Nuclear Power is good and Gates is right
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i love billy G now
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Nuclear is already politically viable. It's used in plenty of states and is a great source for energy.
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imagine being on the side of german greens
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Look at the sheer amount of replies and tell me this is an organic conversation you all had independently without outside influence.
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I'm sure the female community is going to handle this swimmingly
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Noooooooooooo stupid
people in my parents' generation 
(probably your grandparents') had a panic 
about this place! It's unholy ground now! It's like if you got power 
from Voldemortburg [I don't know fantasy 
novels because I'm not gay, but you know what I mean.]
I used the big version because that's how much of kitties you are.
Back then the TV news could just make up whatever
the frick they wanted with no consequences 
because there 
wasn't social 
media. Say what you want about Twitter, but there's stuff like the Three 
Mile Island 
thing that was blown out of the proportion to the point 
of being a lie and nobody who actually 
knew what the frick they were talking 
about could get a word in. And now we got a generation 
of midwits who vaguely know that some scary 
nuclear 
thing happened because it's common knowledge.
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X-Men Origins Wolverine taught me that Three Mile Island happened because Wolverine chopped Deadpool's head off while he was activating his laser vision and it caused significant damage to the structure as it tumbled down
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I watched a youtube
video 
about what actually 
happened and managed to stay awake through the whole thing. All I remember is it wasn't some magical 
supernatural 
nuclear 
thing, it was that some water 
pumps failed 
or something 
so there 
wasn't enough 
cooling water 
and the core melted. There 
was no significant release of radioactive 
material and there 
was never 
any danger 
of... whatever 
the frick r-slurs thought 
they were in danger 
of because they just watched a Hanoi Jane movie.
There were hysterical journos crying
about how we came so close 
to having half of America 
blown up. Like I guess 
they were imagining that a nuclear 
power 
plant 
is like a nuclear 
bomb (which is incredibly r-slurred)... except 1 million 
times more powerful...
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Maybe Billy is finally bringing about the final solution against Applecels
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This is all a cover. They are enriching uranium so they have the firepower to destroy Debian at the (open) source
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!ifrickinglovescience !physics unlike the
Zigger peepeesuckersGreta worshippingsilly krauts, we still believe in heckin' wholesome nuclear energinoJump in the discussion.
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Insanely based
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Inb4 a windows 11 update forces a computer restart and causes a meltdown
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Did you copy that burn from Slashdot?
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I won't deny your lived experience.
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The conspiracy theories alone will make it worthwhile.
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This time they're ACTUALLY going to fema genome alter the whites!! Last time they didn't have the power necessary!!
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Dangerously
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based
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So much AI generated porn.
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this is a joke article right...
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how are we going to transform our energy structure into something sustainable if ai is gunna suck up all the extra?
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Well, I just made an easy million.
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you spandex wearing queer i hope a car runs you over next time you shave your legs and go butt to mouth on your goofy little skinny tire road bike on your homoerotic wheeled human centipede with your boyfriends for writing such a shitty Idap dn api you really expect me to for loop through dn.length() and then build my own key-value pair with o[dn.rdnAt(i).keys().next().value] = dn.rdnAt(i).getValue(dn.rdnAt(i).keys().next().value) what the frick is wrong with you you fricking dipshit hiding the only useful attributes inside of private members just to wrap them in the worst fricking class interface i have seen since i saw a blonde girl's programming 101 homework im embarrassed to check this code into gitlab my coworkers are going to think im gay like you with a dildo seat in my butt
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