Dr. Quadragon ❌

@comfy There’s a certain art to using sarcasm and other forms of irony on the Internet.

Irony only works if everybody is in on the joke. Even the butt of the joke, unless it is your explicit intention to offend them. Otherwise, it’s just being an insufferable asshole. Because you end up just confusing and/or offending random people. No bueno.

My recipie: read the room. If you’re unsure your irony will be recognized, don’t use it. Just fucking don’t.

@tamal3 is right.

Fucking hell, people, go touch some grass, go meet real human beings. Not everybody adheres to the moral code you construct in your head, and that is FINE!!

@ada Word.

@infinite_ass

@infinite_ass What about everyone else? Will my friends be happy and secure with it? People I don’t know or care about? Hell, even my enemies?

I highly doubt it.

@infinite_ass

> This chip was put there by very good, smart people who want only the best for the world.

Which version of the “best for the world” are we talking? Your “best for the world” does not necessarily match my “best for the world”.

@DrunkenPirate It won’t stop needing money even if you ditch nuclear and go back to coal.

Ditching nuclear however would mean that it’s all in vain.

Crying over spilled milk is counterproductive.

@DrunkenPirate I’d accept this argument if it were still 1950s.

The year is 2024. Now we know better what to do with nuclear waste.

First, it’s actually crazy recyclable. You can separate plutonium and unreacted uranium from fission products and use it again, making your fuel cycle way more efficient.

Second, you don’t actually need to store the leftover fission products in an on-ground dump, that’s actually mighty dumb. Instead, the borehole disposal can be used. Basically, drill a hole several kilometers deep - that’s easy enough when you take the drilling equipment from all those oil barons - put your fission products in there (they’re quite compact by volume, if you separate it out) and then seal the hole with concrete. Nobody’s going to dig this up ever again. It’s a solved problem.

Cleaning up sites like Sellafield is just dealing with the wartime legacy, when nuclear research was less about energy production, and more about bombs. It doesn’t have to be this way.

@ininewcrow I wanna steal this idea.

@Beastlygr

@UltraGiGaGigantic It’s the only way to fight, though.

@TheImpressiveX

@bstix You don’t have to be rich to be an asshole, but you almost certainly have to be an asshole to get rich.

@UltraGiGaGigantic