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bypixelpusher220
uary 21, 2026 @10:36PM
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Attached to: FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You
Not quite the same thing, but If you print your threat/demand/ransom in color, a document is traceable to the specific printer.
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bypixelpusher220
y 19, 2026 @06:23PM
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Attached to: IMF Warns Global Economic Resilience at Risk if AI Falters
But thanks to Trump we have ample precedent to have the gov't take actual ownership in companies should they want a bailout
"Seizing the means of production" quite literally given to us by the a business 'genius'
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bypixelpusher220
y 19, 2026 @04:06PM
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Attached to: Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites?
Aluminum concentrations are already rising in the atmosphere. https://cires.colorado.edu/new...
Launching more satellites *every year* than have ever been launched is going to cause the Kessler cascade/syndrome.
Which will stop us from accessing space, at all, for at least a few decades. No more hurricane warnings.
Humanity needs to stop letting billionaires play with our only lifeboat.
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bypixelpusher220
ary 10, 2026 @10:02AM
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Attached to: How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
great exceptions that prove the rule.
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bypixelpusher220
ary 08, 2026 @05:00PM
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Attached to: How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
Because they can in my limited experience be easy to repair, my opinion is that there really ought to be at least a 100% purchase tax on them to make repair cheaper than replacement.
not likely repairable. Same reason we no longer have replaceable batteries in phones or most anything.
What we need are gov't regulations to ensure devices are designed to be repairable - and have replaceable batteries for anything that can reasonably be expected to last multiple years.
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bypixelpusher220
ary 08, 2026 @04:01PM
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Attached to: How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
exactly. we've taken to at least putting them on power strips and forcing them OFF when not in use.
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bypixelpusher220
y 05, 2026 @12:16PM
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Attached to: Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero
You mean ExpertSexChange ?
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bypixelpusher220
er 29, 2025 @05:55PM
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Attached to: Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
Do name them - and not tiny small economy countries where the hurdle is basically on the floor.
Name established power grids that have covered base load with renewables...and for how long.
Base load is, at a minimum, 24 continuous hours of coverage. CA has hit around 40% but mostly that's hydro.
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bypixelpusher220
er 29, 2025 @03:48PM
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Attached to: Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
on the rugged/tough side, Ford really missed marketing the F150 to red necks. 'It can power your house for DAYS after a hurricane'
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bypixelpusher220
er 29, 2025 @03:46PM
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Attached to: Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
Cuban healthcare cured lung cancer. Or rather figured out how to make it chronic rather than terminal.
Necessity being the mother of invention - they don't have the money for or access to modern drugs so they found a different way the rest of the world didn't. Now they may have a world leading vaccine against ALL CANCER.
https://pbsinternational.org/t...
more detailed fact checking https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... not quite the lofty goals Cuba is claiming but significant improvement in many patients.
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bypixelpusher220
er 29, 2025 @03:32PM
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Attached to: Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
a caveat is the major US makers are legacy dinosaurs. Even before the EV push they were walking away from anything 'cheap'.
They've forgotten how to compete, AGAIN, without vehicles with 5 digit profit margins built in.
So when they make EVs they re-make the ENTIRE VEHICLE rather than just convert an existing proven platform to EV.
Honda and Toyota will eat their lunch yet again.
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bypixelpusher220
er 28, 2025 @03:37PM
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Attached to: Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
There's still a whole lot of base load to cover. Renewables plus storage won't be able to cover that for a while. The only base load capable option we have that isn't CO2 producing is nuclear.
Coal/gas won't disappear overnight.
Renewable + Storage is growing at significant rates.
Some new nuclear will come online.
And overall energy consumption is growing
Matching those changing values is the question...I think we'll have enough nuclear to cover it but it's definitely not a known fact.
I hate nuclear, it's terrible for many reasons...but in terms of climate change, it's cost aren't as bad.
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bypixelpusher220
er 28, 2025 @03:30PM
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Attached to: Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
Technically 2020-2021 but not for reasons related to fixing climate change.
All growth has increased, but fossil fuels have increased at lower rates than renewables.
Not perfect but it's the start of the end; but it will be a long long tail.
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bypixelpusher220
er 28, 2025 @01:11AM
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Attached to: Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
That's fair but as you say, you can't really plan for the failure modes, you absolutely can plan to not put generators where they are most likely to be non-functional in a very expected scenario.
That's also one of my biggest problem with nuclear. A major failure renders most contingency plans non-viable because it's nuclear. As such it must be so over engineered to never fail, it's just not practical economically even before you add the cost of failures to the kwh price.
All that aside, nuclear is absolutely necessary for climate change reasons, at least for the next couple decades.
To me the big question is do we have enough online or in pipeline to bridge the gap to when renewable can do base load plus long winters. Given how fast renewable + storage is scaling...I'm thinking we do.
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bypixelpusher220
mber 27, 2025 @06:02PM
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Attached to: Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
What you seem to fail to understand is oil and gas companies are big enough and have existed long enough and are ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE enough that they buy, and in some cases explicitly write, the legislation that makes their business....ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE.
Not just really profitable but upwards of 150-200 BILLION per year in pure profit.
Exxon ALONE made 100 BILLION in gross profit (after deductions) in 2022; 80 BILLION Sept 2024-Sept 2025. https://www.macrotrends.net/st...
Tax them into the damned ground.
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