Most nuclear plants are owned by corporations. Before the accident, Three Mile Island was owned and operated by Constellation Energy (now Constellation Nuclear) and EnergySolutions.

https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/reactors/ownership.php

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

Yeah, but imagine if microplastics had terabytes data on them. Finding plastic fibers in your testicles is a bummer, but finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy Director’s Cuts in 4K? That would be pretty rad.

It depends on context. If someone says “a creep complimented my hair”, I’ll take their word on it. No need to be an ass and say “Well, if they were only complimenting your hair…”

Sorry, it’s never “only” a compliment. Women know when men are being creeps. Even the most vanilla compliment can be deeply inappropriate.

“Your hair looks great today”, he told her:

• as soon as her boyfriend steps away
• as she’s leaving the ladies room
• while backing her into a corner
• whispering into her ear from behind
• while attempting to touch her hair
• while staring directly at her breasts

I don’t wanna hear “but he only said” arguments coming from anyone who didn’t see how the creep said it.

The whole “it was just a compliment” crowd is wrong

Yep.

But if someone’s literally just saying something like “your hair looks great”…

Huh, thought you were just explaining that you were better than this. Oh well…

Found the creep.

Some Republican is suddenly going to be against self defense. Just you watch.

This is correct. You don’t need potable water for cooling systems. Releasing vapor returns natural water where it came from, without adding any more heat to the environment than you already were.

The environmental cost of AI needs to be measured in gigawatt hours, distributed over different energy generation methods.

Adding heat to the system isn’t a big deal if you’re powered by solar energy, for example.

I know that actual game mechanics cannot be patented or copyrighted

In America, sure. But these are two Japanese companies…

I’m not an expert on Japanese copyright and patent law, but I don’t have a great outlook for Palworld.

Stop downvoting this poor guy. He thought this community was a place for weirdos like him. He just misunderstood the assignment.

I’m campaigning for Harris. Democracy is participatory.

1 minute before class: the perfect time to mess with Linux audio and video drivers.

I think the issue here isn’t that it happened long ago that they’ve had a chance to change.

The issue is that they have not changed…

Journalism

Not just the rich gays. Gays that think they’re gonna be rich in the future.

Not really a gay thing specifically. Lots of temporarily embarrassed millionaires out there…

Buckle up buttercup, it’s 46 days until election day. If you don’t wanna hear about it, log the hell off. Or at a minimum, unsub from the “Political Weirdos” community if you don’t want to see tons of posts like this…

My support for Palestinians isn’t automatic support for everything they support. I don’t give a shit if the majority support Hamas in some way, even if I strongly disagree with that support.

But that disagreement doesn’t mean I’m going to stand back and watch these people get wiped out in a coordinated act of genocide. I can disagree with a culture’s values without being complacent as members of that culture are mass-murdered.

There are a fringe minority here who want to see the roles reversed and a genocide committed against the Israeli people, but those people are psychopaths, and they are outnumbered. Most of us just want to see a stop to mass civilian casualties, and you can’t both-sides that issue right now because, even including the Oct. 7 attack a year ago, Palestinians are suffering orders of magnitude more than Israelis right now.

Also, You’re a J.D. Vance Supporter…

Being anti-Arab is just being racist, so good, glad you’re the only overt racist I’ve seen so far.

The guy I was responding to wasn’t earnestly saying that the guy should be charged. He was making a bad faith argument that any law enforcement interaction that doesn’t include an arrest is unlawful. He’s making it seem like the police have no authority to speak to you without a warrant. I was informing him of what is actually happening, not saying he shouldn’t be arrested.

If we had the money

If you had that kind of money, you could just build extensive ground-based fiber and radio networks that invalidate Starlink.

there’s no legal repercussions to going up there and deorbiting the satellites right?

Lmao, what would ever make you think deliberately destroying communication infrastructure would be legal?

Maybe install a defense platform to shoot down any more from spacex, oneweb or whoever else tries putting them up.

If you’re talking about shooting satellites out of orbit from the ground, you don’t understand how orbital spaceflight works. If you’re talking about putting weapons in space, that’s a violation of the Outer Space Treaty.

Also, blowing up satellites just creates clusters of space junk we can’t get rid of, so it’s a non-starter.