Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar

Tomorrow the world will be forced to look October 7 in the face. Fauda is coming to Netflix worldwide. Episodes 7 and 8 take viewers into the panic the screams the confusion and the terror Israelis lived through that morning. The episodes were so intense that Israeli viewers were warned beforehand. For millions of people October 7 has become a debate a slogan or a political argument. For Israelis it was a morning of people hiding in safe rooms families begging for help and terrorists hunting civilians. Tomorrow millions will finally see a glimpse of what that day felt like. Watch Fauda. Anyone still calling October 7 resistance after watching this is choosing ideology over reality.

Something is very wrong with the president. And yet, still has the codes to our nuclear arsenal and is the single person who can order their use.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

a week ago

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

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@IonaItalia I can get it so the handle is always at the back and it's constantly flipping back and forth.

Augmented reality is the only solution to the map projection crisis.

@yayalexisgay no jury will convict you

This is the most powerful single steam-turbine train ever built for electricity generation. Built at Belfort in France by Arabelle Solutions, two of these enormous machines are being installed at Britain’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. Each can generate an immense 1,770 MW of electricity while turning at just 1,500 rpm, driven by roughly 2.4 tonnes of steam every second from a 4,500 MW thermal EPR reactor. As that steam expands toward the near vacuum condenser, its density collapses and its volume becomes enormous. The final low pressure blades are therefore an extraordinary 1.9 metres long, so large that controlling their weight, centrifugal loads and vibration required new design and manufacturing processes. Its massive welded rotors and high strength steels are engineered to withstand decades of centrifugal stress, thermal cycling, vibration and wet-steam erosion. Together, the two turbines will deliver around 3.2 GW to the grid, enough to power 6 million UK homes and meet close to 10% of the entire UK’s electricity demand from a single nuclear plant. Well performing nuclear fleets can exceed 90% availability, equivalent to roughly 330 full power days a year. Now let's consider the physical scale. Britain’s largest operating solar farm, Cleve Hill, uses more than 560,000 panels across roughly 900 acres. At typical UK solar output, it would take around 79 days to generate what Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor can deliver in 24 hours. Hornsea 2 has 165 offshore wind turbines spread across 462 km² of sea. At typical UK offshore wind output, the entire farm would need roughly 6 days to generate the same amount of electricity. Hinkley Point power plant's permanent development footprint is only 167 acres. Two turbines, gigawatts of sustained output, from a remarkably small physical footprint. There is simply no other major power generation technology that demonstrates power density at this scale quite like nuclear does.

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Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure. - Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it. - Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality. - The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use. - Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled. Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently. New in @WorksInProgMag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bur…

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@typememetics @dhh @Dell I think it's just Jesus

BREAKING: Saruman announces that the Gap of Rohan shall henceforth be referred to as the Gap of Isengard

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Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar

3 months ago

Sometimes I wish Jews did run the world

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@cremieuxrecueil The gender balance in Saudi Arabia is insane…

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@joshstifter The Thirteenth Floor... haven't seen it in a long time though

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One advantage of being a software dev in Australia is most major outages in stuff like Slack or Github happen at like 2am and by the time you wake up everything is fine again. (Biggest disadvantage is that going to conferences is much harder.)

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Pete Firman @petefirman

4 weeks ago

I can make you see colours that don’t exist!

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