very clearly not the same ho

It’s real, but there are gotchas

https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/home-alone-house-christmas-decor-owners-restoration/

It’s a 5 million dollar home in near Chicago that sat on the market for ages so it got a pretty significant makeover.

However, most of the rooms were recreated and shot on a soundstage. Other than the main entrance and a couple of scenes it was too small to film in.

100% carbon neutral and will never be aff

• edit: needed a space

deep enough, below the water table. (if it even exists where you pick a location) no big deal. There’s worse things down there already than moderately low level radioactive metals. It’s not like we aren’t fracking underneath peoples homes now. releasing dangerous gasses, causing earthquakes, yada yada. That’s the other good part about the deep desert: it’s already inhospitable enough that people don’t gather there uniformly in great numbers. If you buy up some land and cordon it off, it’s not really screwing with people. What if you put it deep in the Sahara?

When drilling is suddenly OK, then forego the nuclear reactor and go straight to geothermal.

Geo is a great idea, sadly they have trouble getting it to scale, and locating hot enough pockets proves elusive. If you’re in volcanic areas, medium-sized geothermal is amazing. IIRC Iceland uses it to great effect but it doesn’t work just anywhere. We can’t drill so deep that it gets hot enough to make a difference; you need to find a spot where the crust is already thin.

Now that’s not to be confused with geothermal at the house level for heatpumps, that is straight up awesome but works on a very different concept and can’t really scale at all… well it would be nice if all these fucking datacenters would use that instead of evaporative loops. but that’s a different story.

• edit 2 looking at the carbon footprint of concrete, you’d spend more carbon drilling the hole and getting the waste to the hole than the plug you used to fill it. and you’d be able to store decades of terawatts of energy refuse in that hole

controlling nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years is impossible

Purchase 10 sq miles iround a mine Fill below any water table, fill with concrete

Deep drill past aquifers drop waste in hole.

Not cheap, but you can really do that.

any rationalization when cheaper and regenerative options exist is idiotic.

Ignoring options with the benefits of 24x7 steady state generation is far more idiotic.

Relatively, yes, and not to mean somewhat. For the amount of power generated, the spent fuel/water is really not that significant.

Nothing is purely clean. Making solar panels and batteries isn’t clean; it’s just that coal and natural gas are extremely dirty on a mass scale, environmentally speaking.

If we could get the ‘big scare’ concept of Nuclear under control, we could make some systems that are even cleaner. There’s no apetite for that though.

It’s cooler than that; they use the heat to make molten salt, then use a heat exchanger to boil water with that, the salt gets stupid hot and holds energy into the night.

Oligarchs. People own Shell, they make demands. Those shareholders demand profits over all else. Those companies are just constructs we’ve made to organize making money. Not to say you can’t go after them… well, you can’t because they own the governments… but you get my point

good to know

They have Israeli tools now. Not all govt is inept.

Randal Monroe, there is an XKCD article in here…

wait, is that int or bin?

I tried EvE just pre-launch. There was a beta. I had a baller P3 laptop with an early mobile, accelerated GPU. About 15 minutes in… it froze up solid, couldn’t get into windows, graphical issues all over the place, the bios had vertical stripes in it. my GPU was cooked.

It was a Dell with their early aww shit we got you dog warranties. I ended up with a brand new P4 replacement, did NOT want to chance that game again :)

That’s the story. I think he was always a sleeper and the stroke made him unable to walk the line.

I mean, it doesn’t really represent the American public. It’s in his job description, but he only represents the Oligarchs, the corporations, and the fascists.

If he abolished ICE, Stopped AI datacenter sprawl, installed universal health care, universal basic income, replaced the SCOTUS with true moderates, pushed environmental issues and cracked down on monopolies, I’d hear him out…

walnuts… sheesh, that lettuce will tear the ass out of ya

i’m mostly worried aout that lettuce, I can see you’re a walmart shopper and taylor farms prob processed that head

There will be an interesting time, a few years out. When all venture capital for AI has dried up and AI tokens are 10x as expensive.

All of the passion projects by non-developers who can’t maintain them will dry up.

AI, in the state it exists is a really interesting experiment on what would people make if coding were easily accessible to all. But projects like that, that are against Youtube TOS, which will require massive upkeep will go fallow the first time they make it more difficult to access the data.

A more useful project would be to make a framework to play local files, do lookups though discogs, stuff that won’t change much long term, then modularize the youtube connector so when it fails, the project not useless out of the gate.

This is also screaming bloody murder for a Google cease-and-desist.

Carry a second phone.

Do all your non-sus stuff on one phone, do all your sus stuff on the other phone.

You’re going to sell your old phone and start using this one. You just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.

As much as I don’t trust Samsung, they have an encrypted profile and you can put all of your social media over there and just wipe knox if you need it, having empty knox on Samsung was probably the default.

Honestly, I’d be half-tempted to buy one for a tiny fraction of the cost, just to build a powerwall out of the battery.

I saw some fully funcitonal going to less than 10k at one point

Yeah, I remember them wanting to open-source a lot of the design to help push electrics forward.

And weren’t dangerous/death traps for no good reason. And had good service practices, and weren’t anti-resale.

Mr. Tesla is certainly rolling over in his grave.