Had a boss that refused to give me full time cause that would cost company more money, but would harass me if I ever called out. Would remind him that he refused to make me full time and didn’t give me a raise that year so I sure as hell wasn’t driving through a blizzard to come to work a night when I hadn’t been scheduled until 15 minutes before he called.

Yeah this ain’t relatable at all. The only time ever spent a night in a hotel with a family member was when my dad chaperoned a school trip.

How are there more bronze medals than silver, and more gold medals than silver?

Me who bought AMD cpu and gpu last year for my new rig cause fuck the massive mark up for marginal improvement on last gen stats.

New rule, everyone is a puppy until proven otherwise.

https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Land-use-of-energy-technologies_1350.png

I’m not against renewables but utilizing them as our main source of energy just is not practical for long term, there are serious ecological issues that have been sidelined because of global warming/climate change. Things like rooftop solar only become viable in low density housing, but low density housing is also not good use of land.

I don’t know to laugh or cry when I see peole quote the thousands of years waste storage of nuclear. That’s never been a thing, and never will be.

Land usage is what makes nuclear the most ecologically sound solution. Solar and wind play their part. But for every acre of land, nuclear tops the chart of power produced per year. And when you’re trying to sate the demand of high density housing and businesses in cities, energy density becomes important. Low carbon footprint is great for solar and wind but if you’re also displacing ecosytems that would otherwise be sucking up carbon, its not as environmentally friendly as we’d like.

If you calculate the cost of nuclear and include that you need to store the waste for thousands of years i

This hasn’t been true for decades.

High Level Nuclear waste, aka spent fuel, can be run through breeder reactors or other new gen types to drastically reduce their radioactive half-life to decades and theoretically years with designs proposed in the last few years. Only reason reactors don’t do this is lack of funding and demand for such things, the amount of high level waste produced is miniscule per year. And there are theories proposed already that could reduce ot further but nuclear phobia pushed by the oil lobby prevents proper funding and RnD to properly push those advancements to production.

My particular company emails contain privilege information and there is absolutely zero trust in letting smart phones aka roaming data leaks anywhere near that.

Ah yes you can join our ‘Greater Good’ if you volunteer to be our slaves and castrate yourself. Also if you change your mind and try to leave we’ll kill you.

Enlightened 40Kism, we know we are the bad guys, cause there are no good guys, just worse villians.

Thought it was 5 billion but at this point i don’t recall

Sun will expand not explode. Still gonna burn the Earth though, assuming orbits don’t get wonky somehow

TIL cats are really bad at math.

The concept of timezones is fine, we need a way to differentiate when days start so its a bit silly for everyone to go off of UTC or any other clock, how are you going to track the exact date, is half the world just going to go from the 8th to the 9th during their workday

What can be fixed, is making timezones uniform amd straight lines, not zigzagging abominations where its possible to drive due north and have a time change 8+ times.

Makes cuddling more fun but Im also from Minnesota so take my bias with a grain of leftse

Orange cats have one brain cell they have to share with other local orange cats. And usually when its turn to use it they are asleep.

There never was any evidence they were scavengers and numerous fossil examples that T. Rex did infact hunt large herbivores for food. The most notable being a T. Rex’s tooth found in a hadrosaur’s spine, and the wound showed signs of healing meaning the hadrosaur was alive when it was bit and survived the encounter.

“We not only have a broken-off tooth embedded in the bone of another animal, but the bone has healed over the wound, and a nasty wound it was too,” said David Burnham at Palm Beach Museum of Natural History in Florida. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/15/t-rex-tooth-embedded-prey-dinosaur

Other evidence includes fossilized footprints suggesting a group of T. Rex of differing ages stalking their prey. This isn’t to say the T. Rex wouldn’t take advantage of a dead animal and opportunistically scavenge, as any large predator will today, but this probably wasn’t their primary means of getting food.