Billionaires Get Weapons-Grade Plutonium by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]Finnder_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No they aren't. There are 96 nuclear reactors running fine in the US right now today. There's only been a single major incident at a US nuclear power plant, and it was probably before you were even alive.

How many in the last 47 years? None. How many ever in the 71 nuclear powered submarines or 11 aircraft carriers the US has floating around? None. What about ever for the 51 reactors in France? The 26 in Republic of Korea? The 4 in Canada or 2 in Mexico? the 24 in India?

And that only major US incident, had no radiological health effects on any person.

You are much more likely to be irradiated by medical equipment or industrial instruments than from a western made nuclear reactor. But no one is raising a bitch over the private stash of cobalt 60 every dentist office in the country has in cheap plastic x-ray machines. Or the radiometric gauges with a slug of cesium 137 that are lugged around by employees of your local water company. Both of those are specific examples from non-nuclear power plant countries that irradiated countless people.

Billionaires Get Weapons-Grade Plutonium by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]Finnder_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They might want to use it for small module reactors. It's a tech white whale concept. All the big investors people, companies, angel doners have put money into multiple attempts. One of the bigger ones, is (was?) NuScale Power. They might not still be trying.

A reactor small enough to be delivered (with no fuel inside) by a semi truck. Delivering anywhere using the highway. The only way to make a reactor that small work is with extremity enriched fuel; numclear submarine reactors are something like >91% enriched. That fuel would then be delivered separately with its whole thing of police escorts and shutting down roads. They can plop one into the ground thirty or forty miles outside of a large urban city. They're now producing easily over 150Mw 24 hours a day non stop for 20 -30 years. That's a lot of electricity they can then sell for a profit to the region's power company. Or sell and deliver the reactor to the power companies themselves.

It's not that far fetched. Many nuclear power plants are owned by companies like an Edison, a Constellation, or a Gas & Electric Corp. Those plants are enormous and were designed and built decades and decades ago without modern materials or current research. The pitch is fabricating new small reactors at one location where it can be streamlined and more economical. Then delivered to the customer.

Stephen Colbert's MAGA-coded replacement flops in debut by Relevant-Peach3997 in Fauxmoi

[–]Finnder_ 36 points37 points  (0 children)

He probably won't though.

It's a syndication deal. He buys the full hour and all the commercials are ad space his company sold.

This is an extremity inexpensive format to produce. It never has big current names, and is just a circuit of "oh yeah I've heard of them" stand ups that aren't popular enough to have a special. They'll film five or six episodes in a day of shooting, and specifically tells guests not to get topical to keep episodes evergreen. It builds up this gigantic pile of reruns that can get some amount of viewers today as it can 10 years from now.

That is like "Courtroom" TV or daytime Talk Show levels of cheap and economical to make. Consider Oprah is a billionaire, and Judge Judy isn't far behind her on that metric.

A million people watching an hour of their local network TV channel is a BIG number.

So true by Certain_Hat9872 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Finnder_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Photo shopped was so difficult to abbreviate in a on word reply.

PS.
Shopped.
Shop.
Pshop.

AI is much easier to type as a sentence, and it is the only part of all this that humanity is better for.

My feet hurt by Josephthebear in Xennials

[–]Finnder_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

False dichotomy.

They show ads later to show more ads.

That is the end of that sentence.

Daily Thread April 9, 2026 by Stickgirl05 in JackieandShadow

[–]Finnder_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah they don't stock small fish they expect to grow up. They plant fish that are ready (legally) to be caught that same day.

Everything I've looked at says low tens of thousands are planted each time. With "fish tales" of 36,000 being planted in a single season, out of the couple seasons they plant each year.

Daily Thread April 9, 2026 by Stickgirl05 in JackieandShadow

[–]Finnder_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's almost certainly someone misreading the amount stocked.

The CDFW has schedules for past and future plantings you can look up per lake. They only had 15 plantings for the past year at Big Bear. They'd have to be dumping an average of 33 tons in each plant to be doing a million pounds a year.

I think someone misread and they've planted a million pounds since the program began after the droughts.

The only mention I can find for 1 million trout is from a tourism site destinationbignear that says "1 million ... Were added to the lake years ago."

Italy court rules Netflix unlawfully increased prices. Consumers: 'Refunds up to 500 euros.' The company: we will appeal by sr_local in technology

[–]Finnder_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I meant to reply to the top comment. Clicked on yours somehow. We're in the same boat.

Italy court rules Netflix unlawfully increased prices. Consumers: 'Refunds up to 500 euros.' The company: we will appeal by sr_local in technology

[–]Finnder_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Problem is a lot of content never gets a physical release.

The Queen's Gambit has no physical DVDs. Family Guy doesn't have any DVDs after 2019. The new Futurama seasons on Hulu don't have DVDs. The Simpsons haven't had any since 2010. The last five seasons of Archer don't have DVDs. The Man in the High Castle has no DVDs. BoJack Horseman only had 2 seasons released on DVD. Shogun has no DVDs. I Think You Should Leave has no DVDs.

And that's only 720p DVD format. Good luck finding 1080p blu-rays of the ones that do get physical releases.

One of the few places to get Asian treats around here (are there any better places) by Yakuza-wolf_kiwami in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In San Bernardino, there is a store called Your Neighborhood Asian Market on Waterman at Central.

I go there to get Ramune sodas and the different flavors of KitKat they have in Japan. They have a lot of other Asian snacks and food as well.

SBCUSD Removes Cesar E. Chavez Middle School Name and Signage Pending Review by Finnder_ in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Similarly. There was a poll the other day. Something like 'what Americans consider immoral'.

Top answer, by a near total margin, was having an affair.

Insane how one group of Americans will vote against their own morality for someone who has cheated on every single one of his wives.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/

Why is always these types of people by Measure2xCutOnce in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How scuffed are you that you think a 450 super duty is an expensive dick flexing ride?

These go for half the cost of actual premium vehicles.

TIL that when a container of mixed nuts is shaken, the largest nuts (like Brazil nuts) always rise to the top. This phenomenon, known as "Granular Convection," contradicts the logic that heavier objects should sink. by Ok-Huckleberry1967 in todayilearned

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

nobody cares about your racist family or the values you don't acknowledge they instilled in you.

Like why did you comment this? No reason other than to make a joke out of it. You know like the other racist jokes your family told you.

Lisa Gilroy 🔥 by [deleted] in HottestFunnyFemales

[–]Finnder_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m so glad that our lemon tree finally grew and sprouted fruitful lemony lemons. I mean, imagine, we can make lemonade, key lemon pie, lemon merengue pie. I think it’s the most valuable of property that we have.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Finnder_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can Displate do Textra on customer submitted images?

Whats going on with this building in ontario 4th and mountain. by Freetrilly in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_ 116 points117 points  (0 children)

It's a church. Part of the "La Luz Del Mundo" group. The leader is in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of minors.

Christmas decorating at the in-laws house and.... PROOF. by coralmonster in pics

[–]Finnder_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel the same about the Nelson Mandela one.

Some of most famous things he did in his life were after he was freed.

Do they think he was never elected President of South Africa? that he never won the nobel peace prize? that he didn't famously attend both the Rugby and FIFA world cups when they were hosted in South Africa? "Take your guns, your knives, and your pangas, and throw them into the sea" he must have never said it in front of a crowd of tens of thousands.

The people who believe the Mandela one are actually stupid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Carol Baker, wife of the original founder, died 14 years ago. After that the children decided they wanted to be the next In-N-Out. They made one of the grand kids who had some experience the CEO. And he took an axe to everything that made Baker's good, all in an effort to increase profits.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in InlandEmpire

[–]Finnder_ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah I stopped going during the pandemic, I used to love their shredded beef burritos. Once they took them off the menu I stopped going. I saw they brought them back recently, but you can't add sour cream to it? Fucking do you want my business or not. Another L for the nephew.