Until those alternatives displace all of coal and gas…

It’s not cost effective, but it’s more green than gas or coal

The radioactivity from the long half-life radionuclides is much less intense.

Radioactive iodine is still dangerous because it can stay in your thyroid gland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product

You can still use newer technology to get rid of the most potent LLFPs, though

There are always new techniques and improvements. If you look at the current state, we haven’t even had a slowdown

The amount of waste is tiny. Coal plants cause more radiation than nuclear plants because of tiny amounts of radioactive matter in coal. You need to burn so much coal the amount of radioactivity is higher per unit of energy.

Until we shut down all coal plants we shouldn’t even think about closing nuclear plants

It used to take a computer with a ton of ptocessors to beat the best human. Now your phone can do it. When your most common tasks can be done on a phone NPU, and fewer GPUs need to be in the cloud it will get more efficient

I bought the same things from the same store in 2017 as today. The $5.99 yogurt is now $7.99

There’s two different brands, 4 lbs and 5 lbs and they have the same price

Other things went up similarly, like half a gallon of organic milk was $4.99 and now it’s $5.99

I did not see a single thing that went up 50%, not one

Vault number 98, 2k, 2003, 7, 8, 10, 11

It puts out literally zero carbon. Once you build a nuclear plant it’s 100% green after the construction

Source on inflation being underestimated?

Also if something like housing grows in price faster than inflation, then something else has to grow slower than inflation for the inflation number to be what it is. No matter what category you pick that grew faster than inflation, it doesn’t matter to the overall increase in prices by definition

For example, grocery prices have increased slower than inflation. It doesn’t actually make my argument any stronger, since it just means other things increased faster

It does not have a monopoly, there are other headsets

People are simultaneously too poor and spending more on video games

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252457/consumer-spending-on-video-games-in-the-us/

AMD would have gone broke if it didn’t

People are not growing poorer, they are growing richer

https://www.bls.gov/charts/usual-weekly-earnings/usual-weekly-earnings-over-time-total-men-women.htm

People make more money now than before the pandemic, even inflation adjusted

https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

We measure this. Underemployment is not that high.

VHS

Don’t have to tell me, I just tried summoning quillbeasts while looking at health bars

I don’t know, mine keep breaking every few years around the device. I think it’s because I sometimes grab the phone without realizing I was charging it

Because they wasted 5 people’s time on it instead of pulling in the first pr

The piece of paper is basically much more likely to survive in a corner barring a fire. I have crumpled pieces of paper from 20 years ago. My PATA hard drive… I don’t even have a computer with that connector