Boomer Humor Doomergod

A lot of the comedies from this era feel like a bunch of sketches stitched together rather than a cohesive story. I recently rewatched Fast Times at Ridgemont High and it had the same feel.

Imagine how much productivity we’d have if we cut work to 0 hours per week

Probably for similar reasons we can’t go back to small cars: People are getting older and can’t handle them.

ETA: Old people need giant text so they can read things. Big screens show more big text. They also don’t want to drop down into a small car, so they buy SUVs and trucks. So they make SUVs and trucks and great big screens for the old people who are most of the population.

Source: I am an old person. Except I drive a small car because it’s fun

Because they use water for more than making steam. Much more water is used to cool the steam condensers and is often just dumped into the surrounding environment to cool off. Turkey Point in Florida has miles of canals that cool this water down.

If you don’t believe me, then listen to the IAEA who created a water management program for just this reason:

Countries in water scarce regions, and considering the introduction of nuclear power, may show concern on the requirement for securing water resources to operate nuclear power plants and search for strategies for efficient water management. Experience has shown that nuclear power plants are susceptible to prolonged drought conditions, forcing them to shut down reactors or reduce the output to a minimal level.

If you send the water through a bunch of pipes it needs treated before it can be put back into the environment. This is true of any industrial process. This takes it out of circulation for a while, and in an arid state like Texas that’s a waste.

And reactors need a lot of water, which is why they’re built next to the ocean or a lake or something.

Building them doesn’t waste water, running them does. In a place with a lot of water they make sense but any industrial water usage in a place with limited water supplies - when there are lower usage alternatives - seems wasteful

One of the windiest, sunniest, emptiest places on earth and they want to waste water building reactors instead of renewables.

Hell, the geology means you can store energy in the ground using pressurized air.

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

This post has big CGP Grey energy and I love it

Maybe we’ll use newsgroups for actually talking to people again

Civilization and Factorio are also pretty addicting

They make mini PCs with five Ethernet ports that are perfect for this sort of thing.

Allow me to translate from Chav: The Register first reported on this which created the feedback.

Then a bit of soma and some orgy-porgy

My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

Ignoring the fact that living rooms and conference rooms are different rooms for a reason, how is this at all desirable?

My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city

Don’t worry I’ll be fine because I don’t have to rent out my living room and can see the stars.

This article feels like someone trying to make New Urbanists look bad.

[The Humane AI team will form an] AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work

Hope they like figuring out how to sell printer ink

Join your ship’s surgeon for an evening of Boccherini duets

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box (open a port)

Nothing so fancy. Just some postgres machines to show off different recovery modes

My job let me buy a bunch of Pis to set up a cluster for a demo so I’m having a lot of fun