CalamityBalls

@CalamityBalls@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, apologies, I assumed you could read. Never mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they take ten years to build, start now. Nuclear plants offset 400 million tons of CO2 a year in the US alone. All the waste produced since the 1950's would fit just over 9 meters deep on a single football field. Yes there's mining, it's not great, guess what? Solar panels and wind turbines also require mining. The open pit sort, the sort with wastewater containing the ever-perfidious radioactive elements. All in all, for each ton of rare earth elements extracted, about 2,000 tons of toxic waste is produced, 1-1.4 tons of which are radioactive, usually thorium and uranium funnily enough. A point of interest on the waste, the tailing dam of the Bayan OBO mine in China, responsible for only half the world's rare earth elements, is around 70 million m3, the nuclear waste I previously mentioned comes in at 49,000 m3, or 0.07% of the volume of a single mine.

  All this to say, let's build solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear reactors, because we're in the harm reduction phase, and nuclear reactors are a fantastic tool even if they have downsides, just like everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Armored Core 6, they added ranked matches today.

  Dark Souls 1, want to finally 100% it.

  Minecraft, because it's always nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Ranked Matchmaking Update Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been on other stuff since I completed the game, ready to come back and get into some weird builds for pvp, see they've added new tet legs too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, but rarely. Maybe every other month or so. The situations I do use it, I've been thankful that I avoided phones without a jack. I like having appropriate tools at my disposal, and bluetooth will never be universally applicable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I don't think I've ever seen writing in a dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In some situations, we use "o" for the number 0. Been hunting around for a reason but I think it's just an abbreviation of zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  12:01AM is definitely 00:01, so 12AM is midnight.

  Agree though, 24hr clock is just better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a Soulslike itch, any patient games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Been quite enjoying Thymesia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Decilitres/centilitres are relatively common, but they're the only ones that come to mind.