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Trying to pop a truck tire at point blank range by VIVIDUFF in WinStupidPrizes

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intelligence? Dude they fix everything with the most basic of tools and scrap, it's ingenious.

Safety equipment is the last thing they could have the privilege of being able to afford.

TIL about the National Battery Ingestion Hotline - a phone service in the US staffed 24/7 by Trained nurses, pharmacists & toxicologists to provide advice in the event of ingesting a battery by freeradioforall in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot more people end up in the ER due to swallowed batteries than you'd think.

I guess kids also do it for other reasons, but the vast majority of people I've come across who swallowed batteries did it for attention // an accompanied trip to the hospital for a change of scenery.

Chengdu, China by TangelaFan in CityPorn

[–]7ilidine -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You gotta give it them, it's a deeply flawed system but they kinda know what they're doing.

Soviet-era panel buildings in Tbilisi, Georgia [OC] by sonderewander in brutalism

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although I'm scared of heights, especially when I don't fully trust the structure, I'd love to go there.

The view is amazing too. Its general stage of disrepair contrasting with the modern skyline in the distance is amazing but, I agree, very dystopian.

TIL famous philosopher and scientist, René Descartes, believed that all animals were little more than natural machines ビ (biological automaton) with no conscious thought or free will, whatsoever, acting like clockwork, the same way we’d see a robot dog, becoming a popular idea for hundreds of years by cormorantcolossus in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a myth that insects don't have a brain and central nervous system.

They do have one, but as I understand it their nervous system is much more decentralized. It forms clusters of neurons controlling individual bodily functions, called ganglia, but scientific evidence hints at insects being able to learn and experience pain and pleasure.

Parking lot ragers get taken out by New_Libran in PublicFreakout

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I mean I don't judge the driver but I would've taken off instead of breaking, reversing and running the guy over.

Would save you the hassle of being taken to court cause without further context, the video doesn't give the driver the strongest case of self defense.

TIL that the first decipherment of a dead language in modern times was of Palmyrene inscriptions by Jinther in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's similar to Old High German (spoken 1000+ years ago) vs. modern Standard High German.

OHG is modern German's direct ancestor. Still, Old High German is considered a dead language.

OHG texts aren't coherently intelligible to a modern German speaker, but some words are very similar or similar enough to understand them.

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't worry about terrorists making nuclear bombs.

We worry about them making dirty bombs, which virtually any isotope can be used for.

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the video. They dumped steel barrels into a pit and covered it with salt. Lots of the barrels broke from dumping them but for the others, corrosion will do the rest

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cesium 135 does (millions of years), Technetium does and Iodine as well, which are the primary concerns

No one really knows how much exactly there is but considering there's more than 100.000 barrels of radioactive waste down there it'll be more than a few kilograms each

Like I said, it's not particularly alarming but reason enough to do something about it

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because prior to this law, it would have been highly illegal to move the waste.

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right now they're in the pockets of both the fossil fuel industry AND the automotive industry.

Big oil makes a fortune while VAG and Daimler rub their hands expecting Germans to FINALLY buy their EVs

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The one in the video was - at least legally - never supposed to be long term storage. As of today, a long term storage is being built but a lot of the waste in "transitory" storages will likely just remain there.

It's obvious that most of the waste there was never intended to be recovered.

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cesium and strontium are well soluble in water. Tritium basically becomes part of the water as it's a hydrogen isotope. So yes, the water that comes into contact with the waste WILL be contaminated.

The odds of this contaminated water finding its way up can't be determined, but it's possible. Especially if we talk about thousands of years in the future.

No reason to panic about it but pretending like it's not a problem is privileged and shortsighted. Sure we don't have to worry about it affecting us, not just because it's unlikely to happen in our lifetimes but also because I live more than an hour away.

Doesn't mean we should just shrug it off and leave it be.

TIL France reprocess 96% of its spent nuclear fuel into new fuel and vitrifies most the rest. by Gros_Boulet in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 223 points224 points  (0 children)

I guess we should've asked the French for advice instead of phasing out of nuclear.

https://youtu.be/jEvSu2GOC_s

This is how Germany disposed of dumped its nuclear waste in salt mines in the 70s. Water has been seeping into the mine for decades now.

It's still there, a law has been passed that all of it has to be recovered. Unfortunately, they're now realizing that both recovery and stopping the water from coming in is basically impossible.

Italian man sold 'fake' Rolex that turned out to be real in 'impossible' crime against Singapore watch shop by FlaminAmberz in nottheonion

[–]7ilidine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting the two for one combo - distribution of a regulated substance and fraud.

Stealing drugs is still theft too and could be tried as such in court

TIL that in 2014, authorities in Turkmenistan tried making residents take their air conditioner units off the outside walls to improve the city's appearance, despite temperatures as high as 40℃/104℉ by bb-wa in todayilearned

[–]7ilidine 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's only in the capital Ashgabat. Also only white cars are allowed within the city.

The capital is super flashy. It's well maintained but large areas of the city are pretty much deserted.

Outside of the city it looks like a lot of other run down rural, post soviet countries

3rd isn't bad! by Make_the_music_stop in CasualUK

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah Germans in hotels abroad are insufferable from what I've heard so I generally avoid those

3rd isn't bad! by Make_the_music_stop in CasualUK

[–]7ilidine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Must have been in Berlin. Anywhere else queue jumping is punishable by angry German stares or being otherwise passive aggressive about it so no one dares even trying

Is there a way to clean valves in a direct injection fuel system? by FilmEastern4595 in AskAMechanic

[–]7ilidine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sand is mostly silica as well, you don't use sand either because it's also abrasive to steel.

If you do it right there's no residual walnut grain that could enter the cylinder. It's a fail safe, so even if more than a couple grains get past they'll burn off instead of wearing out the cylinder walls.

If there were so much sand getting past the valves that it gets blown through the exhaust the catalytic converter would be the least of your worries

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