In the same vein, I always wondered why they never made a Ground Spider-man who could burrow.

Probably less than the number that decided enforcing an oppressive style of dress wasn’t worth the hassle when faced with minimal societal pressure.

Wow look at that! We did all that and no one died! Nor have there been any significant negative effects! Looks like you’re proving my point.

My long term plan for the waste? Chuck it literally anywhere in its sarcophagus. An old salt mine, a random field, literally dump it in the ocean. Do that, and then sleep soundly knowing that whatever environmental impact you create from doing that with all waste ever created from nuclear power pales in comparison to what we currently do with a single year of coal plants.

The amount of waste from nuclear power is miniscule, and the radiation it gives off is not as high as people imagine. Like yes, it’s still dangerous, but not nearly to the levels decades of oil-industry fear mongering has led the public to believe.

It is the only viable energy solution for space. Solar kind of works, but requires large, vulnerable panels, and loses effectiveness the further you get from the sun. Nuclear energy is the only viable energy source, we have to develop it.

It is. It’s ridiculously cheap. It’s only the regulations and bureaucracy surrounding it that make it so expensive. It goes beyond safety and into unreasonable requirements spawned by decades of attempts to appease NIMBYS whos entire knowledge of “nuclear” is restricted bombs and Chernobyl. There are also the countless officials and agencies who created needless red tape to benefit themselves, or had a vested interest in seeing nuclear fail.

Let me be ABUNDANTLY clear: safety regulations and red tape ARE good. Holy shit, please do not think I am arguing against them wholesale. But regulations on nuclear plants go so far beyond what is actually needed that it balloons costs and time-frames to multitudes of what they should be.

It feels completely disingenuous to use those excess costs to argue that nuclear is expensive, because they are entirely our own fault that they’re there. It’s like saying running a mile is too painful, but then it turns out you shoot yourself in the leg every time before you try. The issue isn’t running the mile, it’s that you choose to shoot yourself in the leg. You shouldn’t be able to use that to argue against running a mile.

Is no one else just a little, tiny bit enormously concerned that social media is having a post-jury interview fest? Like holy shit, is no one else worried that we are suddenly scrutinizing jurors? That’s the first step to killing jury nullification. Imagine getting called to a high profile case, and you make a decision the public doesn’t like. Imagine losing your job over it due to public backlash. Imagine getting stalked and harassed, literally for performing your civic duty. Imagine you stand up against fascism by utilizing jury nullification against an unjust law, only to be mercilessly harassed by the police for months on end because focusing on jurors has become the norm.

When the trial is over, the jurors should cease to exist. The media should not “tell their story” because their story begins and ends with the trial. Jurors identities should be kept sealed once the trial concludes.

I would argue polyester is worse than leather for the environment, but to each their own.

Ok, so you just weren’t reading then I guess? Because this is about Burger King, not McDonalds. And you can get a plain whopper with just the bun vs a plain impossible whopper and it’s the same case, they will taste identical.

All that crap? You mean buns?

We already don’t let young people vote. That’s why the voting age is 18.

Not saying it’s good. But it does appear necessary. This is what people mean by learn to use AI or be left behind. No one is saying you should like it, or that it’s good for society (it’s not), but it is the current state of the world. You can stomp your feet and throw a temper tantrum, or you can try to ride the wave of shit.

But then that wouldn’t be a burger…

Maybe if you are a high level executive. If you’re just an office grunt, hiring a lawyer would be a huge waste of money compared to whatever severance you’re getting.

Republicans.

don’t try and tell me a plant based burger tastes the same as a normal burger

Go to burger king. Get a regular whopper and an impossible whopper. They are literally indistinguishable. Well, until an hour later when the impossible whopper gives you a ton of gas lol.

I have 4 friends in the tech industry that got laid off 1-2 years ago. 3 used AI to trawl job boards and submit tailored resumes and applications. 1 did not. Guess which ones have jobs and which one is still looking?

Ok.

How’s that job market doin for ya?

While MAGA has their head up their ass and loves to pretend to be a target; they are partially a rubber band effect of cancel culture going too far. Don’t believe me? Ask Al Franken.

readily replaceable

I think the last time they tried this showed just how NOT replaceable they are. Every alternative lacks critical features or is still so deep in development that a workable, scalable product is still years away. And that’s not even touching the difficulty of getting people to move.

People switched from mumble and teamspeak to discord because it offered more features and worked better in all but a few edge cases. In the years since, nothing else has been developed that even comes close to matching all the things it does. If you think it’s as simple as slapping together a VoIP program with a chat feature, you are vastly underestimating what every day users would want.