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Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water?
  • im not being sarcastic tbh. If you're that concerned about something like fluoride in the water, you best be sure you never accidentally touch the ground outside, and then put your hand near your mouth.

    There are so many more significant things to worry about, even being near someone who is sick is probably going to be more detrimental to your health.

    but yes i am definitely being dramatic, it's fun :)

  • Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens
  • they've already exhausted the stupid. There is only cowardly left. Russia bombing the UK, and inadvertently, technically the EU would almost certainly result in US retaliation, let alone the nuclear submarines that britain has. And probably the rest of the EU.

  • Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water?
  • ah sick, as someone with vitiligo, this is yet another thing i should put on the extremely metaphorical back burner here.

    (the partial joke here is that people with vitiligo have increased chances of having thyroidal issues due to the immune system or whatever the fuck, health is fun.)

  • Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water?
  • idk probably maybe tell him to never put anything into his mouth that isn't IMMEDIATELY sterilized, before, during and after the process of entering your mouth for fear of possible contaminants getting into your body.

  • Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water?
  • i'm still just curious whether that "science" saying that "fluoride bad" is real or not.

    Or if fluoride is actually just bad.

    Until then i'm not doing anything because politics is probably going to kill me first anyway. No point in making a decision if you aren't familiar with it i suppose.

  • The easiest problem
  • in the linux community it's really common to have applications like MPD, music player daemon, or MPC, music player client, and ncmpc, ncurses music player client, and ncmpcpp the aforementioned one with ++ tacked onto the end.

    Cmus, which from what i can recall is literally "c music player"

    etc....

  • Why haven't you taken the bear pill?
  • i can't answer the question unless i'm given more information smh.

    If we're talking a magical forest shark, i'm not sure i want to ask questions about why it's there. And why it hasn't died yet, presumably. And if we're in a wet environment, then i'm curious how that's accomplished. The ocean is very big.

  • rollin' coal
  • ye, i was mostly mentioning it because it is technically another true meltdown of a reactor within the US.

    Naval sub reactors i know have a spotless record, across the aisle, amusingly. Ship reactors i would imagine are less of a problem, though im guessing those are just stolen from subs so equally spotless most likely.

  • Windows is hell, i need to do something
  • as for video editing, i've been using flowblade recently, it's been pretty good for putting together more basic edits.

    You should install it using flatpak and only update when you have no more active projects (for the moment it seems updates partially break older saves)

    pcmanfm has been pretty solid, i really recommend learning CLI file management though, it's universal and super convenient for the basic things.

  • rollin' coal
  • You can have severe core damage without any nuclear reactions.

    uh actually, i disagree, because in order for the event of a meltdown to establish any amount of core damage, or damage at all, you need to inflict fission. Otherwise literally nothing will happen, because thats how they generate heat, but i'm no nuclear physicist.

    There aren’t “steam explosions” in physics.

    yes? there are? Have you ever looked into 19th century steam technology? Do you understand how combustion explosions work? Yes technically it results from a chemical reaction of smokeless powder decaying, but unless you confine that reaction into a space, it just goes woosh. Once you confine it, and allow it to compress itself it can explode. You are literally just pedantically claiming that steam explosions aren't a specific subset of pressure explosions, the only reason that they are is because steam explosions are so easy to create, and so incredibly dangerous, that them existing in their own field is actually useful to current safety practices.

    This is why properly regulated steam boilers can be used to provide steam to a steam engine to pull freight. But the second you get a low water level slosh event, and it sloshes back, the entire thing flashes immediately, blowing up the boiler, and if not immediately killing the crew, scalding them so badly they die shortly after because their lungs no longer function. I suppose you could argue that the burning of wood or coal is a chemical reaction here, but at the end of the day, it's the heat that turns water into steam, and steam that makes the power.

    The steam was a pressure buildup that caused the incident resulting in an initial pressure explosion. The thing that “melted” the core of Chernobyl was the hydrogen exploding, hence a chemical explosion.

    or maybe it was just the heat from the fuel and resulting runaway fission chain that caused everything to melt into a pile of nothingness? Nuclear fuel just sitting idly by, allowed to exist as is unmoderated (in significant enough capacity) will literally eat through concrete. That's why it's called corium.

    Had it been a nuclear event that melted that core

    it wouldn't have been, because that's not possible, and i never said that was the likely event. I just said that it was a steam explosion, which it was, and a potential hydrogen or secondary steam explosion, of which we aren't really sure on the source of.

    Fucking with the literal power of atoms, in a mostly controlled environment, is the closest we’ve ever come to the Icarus myth.

    idk man, maybe fucking castle bravo at bikini atoll? The one time we weren't sure whether or not a sustained nuclear fission event would ever stop because theoretically it could process the nitrogen in the air into more fuel, causing the entire earth to turn into a nuclear wasteland (it didn't btw) Nuclear fission as used to generate power is literally the safest possible use case of it. Modern reactor designs are literally incapable of having runaway thermal events. Research reactors use a specific blend of fuel TRISO to be specific, that has a specific formulation, that makes it physically incapable of having a thermal runaway.

    I’m fairly certain that fusion power, should it ever come out of the theoretical stage, won’t be nearly as dangerous as fucking around with fission the way that we currently do.

    i mean, fusion is likely to be less dangerous, i'll give you that. But not even that significantly, the main benefit to fusion is that it's the even more spicy nuclear bomb technology, and therefore, easier to exploit.

  • Shell sold millions of carbon credits for carbon that was never captured, report finds
  • one of my favorite fun facts, is that apparently a non insignificant number of "carbon credits" come from unsealed oil wells being sealed up. Which sounds good and all.

    Until you realize that leaving oil wells unsealed is literally illegal and not to regulation standards what so ever. So you are literally paying for carbon credits, that remove carbon, that never should have been in the environment to begin with.

    I love capitalism.

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