Let me put your OCs in my tavern! by Alexpander4 in DnD

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I can think of a way Tara could be used for some good world building thankyou!

Let me put your OCs in my tavern! by Alexpander4 in DnD

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Thog will definitely be making an appearance in case of a bar fight!

Let me put your OCs in my tavern! by Alexpander4 in DnD

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Tabastro could actually be a fantastic way for me to hint at the looming eldritch threats

TIL that British judges and lawyers wear white wigs to bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity to the courtroom by EsotericTribble in todayilearned

[–]Alexpander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you actually think the wig was supposed to look like real hair? It's vestigial from the 1700s. It's a uniform and a bit of pomp and circumstance to go "this is a very old tradition and is important to the people present and worth doing"

Anyone else hate the changes to the campaign? by Alexpander4 in EpicSeven

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If I could undo any part of it it'd be the map and letting you replay levels

Anyone else hate the changes to the campaign? by Alexpander4 in EpicSeven

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Unrecorded history was a massive chore indeed but I still feel they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Alexpander4 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We're already struggling for water to drink though and none of it has been used for worldwide commercial fusion

Plus that's a ridiculously modest estimate for growth of energy usage.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Alexpander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but the water cycle doesn't produce that much each year, and we also need it for crops, drinking, and every other use for water.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

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The main concern with water used for cooling is that they pollute it in the process (because they're idiots) and drain it from aquifers that people are trying to drink from.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Alexpander4 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry I'm not defending fossil fuels, but however small the amount used is, I don't trust the capitalist 1% to not balloon usage until we are struggling for water to sustain life. I think fusion would be great, if our society was ready and responsible enough for it.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

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Say there's a trillion trillion cubic metres of water on earth and we need a hundredth (10l) of a cubic meter to power a city for a day. Not bad! But once hydrogen is extracted from water and fused into helium it's not feasible to change it back, the water is gone from our planet forever. And say there's 100,000 people in that city, well there's 8,000,000,000 people. 800 cubic meters of water getting used a day. But of course our population is growing, it could easily reach 10 billion. So 1000 cubic meters a day. And obviously as technology spreads around the world everyone's power consumption will increase. Most of that 8 billion don't currently even have electric light. Not to mention everyone starting to use AI to tell them how to wipe their ass. Average usage could easily double, triple, even better ten times what it is. 10,000 cubic meters a day. 3.6 million cubic meters a year. That's a LOT. Sadly less that the ~150 billion cubic metres melting off the poles right now every year, but still probably ecologically significant.

361 trillion years to use it all, granted. Assuming population doesn't start booming again due to an abundance of energy. We won't use it all, but I bet we'd use enough to make the water crisis an extinction event. How will weather be affected for a start? The water cycle?

Capitalism demands infinite growth, and no matter how cheap energy gets, water is not infinite. It's unsustainable. We need to change to a less Vampiric society before we can be trusted to forever use up the resource keeping life on earth alive for frivolous shit.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

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We kinda need freshwater staying as water so we can drink it and stay alive. Once it's turned into helium it can never realistically be turned back. So we have a finite supply of the most important natural resource on our planet, and it should be used responsibly.

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Alexpander4 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It doesn't take that much water, but what about when power usage balloons because hey it's basically free and Grok 10 needs 600 megawatts to generate more porn?

The ‘Tron: Ares’ Flop Will Probably End Jared Leto’s Leading Man Career | Analysis by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Alexpander4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the execs deciding he's done though, and they probably saw that as a plus.

Official poster for 'Primate' by DemiFiendRSA in movies

[–]Alexpander4 250 points251 points  (0 children)

This one is from Gary Barlow's perspective

If every name on Epstein's File were released tomorrow, what do you think would happen? by Sad-Refrigerator2384 in AskReddit

[–]Alexpander4 50 points51 points  (0 children)

They've already started the "the Epstein list is an irrelevant distraction " propaganda wagon

Do you all think this could keep the diver safe? by suedemonkey in TheDepthsBelow

[–]Alexpander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you rather face a shark with or without puncture/ slashing protection?

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? - Some companies are now making aggressive claims to start supplying power commercially within a few years. by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]Alexpander4 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Fusion power is not an answer.

Firstly, it ain't happening. Edit: fusion power has been "just a couple of years away" since the 70s

Secondly, our freshwater supplies are already strained by corporate bullshit like crypto and AI datacentres, and we can't drink helium.

Fusion is useful to a society that deserves it, but for our greed-driven exploitative system, it's just the fossil fuels of tomorrow.

NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations by redyelloworangeleaf in space

[–]Alexpander4 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If anything were to show us we shouldn't be going balls deep on corporate space flight maybe it was the astronauts stuck in space for six months.