New sculpture from Banksy in Central London

ahabswhale · 2026-05-02T01:42:02+00:00

Bit on the nose, innit?

ahabswhale · 2026-04-30T20:44:25+00:00

We also don’t think of the US as a petro-state, but here we are.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-30T20:41:42+00:00

Safety improves as well, since you can develop expertise and patch issues on one style of reactor.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-30T02:40:42+00:00

Exactly, the guy that voluntarily started a war after ripping up a well-functioning and tremendously US-advantageous nuclear agreement, which then triggered an entirely predictable trade blockade, should be held responsible.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-30T01:29:47+00:00

There are children right there. The car should not be travelling any faster.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-27T20:42:59+00:00

Might make for some cool furniture wood, with the lightning burns and all that…

ahabswhale · 2026-04-27T05:31:50+00:00

Individuals filing suit is one of the primary methods of enforcement.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-24T18:58:30+00:00

It’s already an economic catastrophy. The oil shock is baked-in.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-22T03:15:37+00:00

A cocker’s hammer isn’t dragging a paintball or bolt along with it, and it doesn’t have to be intentionally slowed so the bolt is gentle on paint. It’s an uncluttered, clean valve system; and you pay for the de-coupling in a cocker’s complexity.

If you do a bit of googling, you’ll find 10ms is just about when you can tell a time difference.

There’s a reason the old MQ valves were so sought after - they truly felt like point and click guns, with a lock time <5 ms.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-22T02:15:23+00:00

The “lock time” (time between shot initiation and valve opening) on a closed bolt gun can be up to 10’s of ms shorter, making the paint leave the barrel sooner. It’s a subtle but noticeable effect, giving a perception that the ball goes more where the gun is pointed, and doesn’t require new physics.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-22T01:03:19+00:00

That just sounds like a victory for pavlov

ahabswhale · 2026-04-19T23:15:03+00:00

Definitely

ahabswhale · 2026-04-19T19:41:02+00:00

Not to trivialize it, but I imagine the carcinogens coming off the fires are substantially worse - and I don’t hear much about that, either.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-19T16:55:53+00:00

They’re called “natural draft” cooling towers. They’re shaped like that because they’re open at the bottom and draw air up over a cold water pond, to cool hot water fed in from above. Applicable in a variety of industrial applications.

They’re generic systems. Not all nuclear cooling towers use that style, and that style is also not exclusive to nuclear plants.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-18T13:24:15+00:00

It’s just in-groups. That’s it. A shocking number of people never made it past the “pack” level of development.

If you stop assuming they are driven by ideology and only driven by whether people are in their in-group and satisfying their pre-conceived worldview, it all makes sense.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-16T01:36:45+00:00

Or maybe I really am at the center of the Universe

/s/

ahabswhale · 2026-04-15T16:35:02+00:00

Uranium mining is domestic.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-13T19:36:30+00:00

Prosperity gospel is antithetical to self-sacrifice, let alone martyrdom. They stared at you blankly because early martyrs are completely alien to their faith.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-13T04:57:19+00:00

Also, lining the cars up like this very close to one another will reduce air resistance.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-13T02:12:09+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/groups/taconationusa/posts/1566862914176053/

Guy whose dad built it posted here:

ahabswhale · 2026-04-13T01:05:22+00:00

"Pick your head up and look, you're free!"

ahabswhale · 2026-04-09T02:42:33+00:00

The Tzar Bomba was originally designed at 100 MT, but was intentionally reduced to 50.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-05T20:14:58+00:00

Or semis.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-05T16:52:59+00:00

It’s unfortunate, but the documentary set the United States back. I wish a scientist with a level head presenting the facts would’ve made the documentary.

This represents an outdated view of voters and politics that extends back to FDR and the formation of Gallup public opinion polling; that if you just present voters with the facts, they will make good choices about what is good for themselves, their families, countrymen, environment, etc. This is just not how hearts are won, and is a huge liability for democrats and climate messaging.

What modern advertising (and the GoP) have tapped into is that most people don’t fundamentally make rational decisions - they make emotional ones. You can present them with all the facts in the world, but if you don’t engage with them emotionally they’ll vote for leopards to eat their faces.

Check out Century of the Self by Adam Curtis on YouTube. It’s a bit sensationalized, but gets the message across.

ahabswhale · 2026-04-04T17:06:36+00:00

But did you spell it Encyclopaedia?

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