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I’m talking about gold

In one instance, TD Bank employees collected more than $57,000 worth of gift cards to process more than $470 million in cash deposits from a money laundering network to “ensure employees would continue to process their transactions” and not declare them in required reports, the DoJ said

I’m just laughing at the mental image of three dudes or something trying to spend that.

‘Fuck… I’m SICK of Starbucks Breakfast Sandwiches…’

You stop that. Stop that right now. We will not bring trends from that other site here, no matter how well executed that are.

I love this one. I’m imagining really loud quacking

Why did you take my body type and put a goose head on it?

This is a work of art

Last electrocution was in 2020. Yeesh.

Maybe the could help clean up all the fucking trash

Holy cow, I thought the electric chair was removed in all states. Gruesome

right? The voices are annoying as fuck, but once you get past it it’s very 90s esque comedy.

That squealing sound you will be hearing are my tires as I peal out of my driveway to go watch the northern lights tomorrow

My kid is obsessed with Henry Danger. It’s corny as all get out, but can be pretty funny. This is one of the better scenes and entirely related: https://youtu.be/a3q4IXx7zeY?feature=shared&t=117

My dear Froggie (and silence!) I don’t know who is downvoting you, but they can fuck right off.

You make great points. I particularly like this one:

Solar and wind have simply become so cheap, and nuclear so difficult due to the required generational knowledge being lost, that by the time you trained up enough people to relearn what the old builders knew, and built a sizeable amount of them, it’s simply too likely that we could’ve built double the generational capacity with solar in the same amount of time with far less cost.

I’m not a staunch nuclear advocate by any stretch. I want green power however we can get it, provided the environmental costs aren’t abhorrent. You’re very right about the brain drain part, too.

There’s mining involved in any energy transition. One part that I like about the Nuclear option, however, is that the deposits are generally high grade (v.s. copper, and rare earth) which result in less surface disturbances. For instance, Cameco (northern Saskatchewan) has uranium ore deposits that are ~20% w/w. Their deposits are so rich, that they have to dilute them with inert waste rock before running through the mill. These deposits are just sitting there, ready to be used for green energy, but as you point out, there’s too many hurdles.

Solar and wind seem like they’re really picking up speed, and that is wonderful. I know there’s still some issues to iron out about excess generation/power storage/power fluctuation. I could see small batch reactors helping with that potentially. I don’t think an energy transition is going to be a one size fits all thing. It’s going to be based regionally, on what makes sense.

Remember your right to refuse unsafe work

According to OSHA, workers can refuse to work if:

1. They reasonably believe that they are in imminent danger of death or serious physical harm.

2. The danger is so urgent that there is not enough time to address it through normal channels (such as reporting it to a supervisor or OSHA).

3. They have already requested the employer to eliminate the hazard, and the employer has failed to do so.

BOBBIT Chopping motion with hand

There’s massive budget over-runs for just about every mega project. I concede that nuclear is at the top of the list that I link. I actually heard a good talk about how doing field trials can really help reduce overruns for a major project (e.g. mining). Hard to do with a powerplant, I suppose, but easier to do with nuclear storage.

NIMBY is a real thing, and you’re right: the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters weigh heavy in the public’s mind. Donning my tinfoil hat, I’d almost wager that the oil industry did a smear job on nuclear, similar to how marijuana was smeared by cigarette companies.