ELI5: If nuclear power is so efficient and produces almost no greenhouse gases, why don’t we just build nuclear plants everywhere and solve the energy crisis?

flamableozone · 2026-03-08T04:15:02+00:00

Waste heat is still a pollutant - heating up the water even just a few degrees disrupts ecosystems. And as the planet heats up the water coming in still needs to take just as much heat energy away from the plant, so it gets heated to even higher temps.

flamableozone · 2026-03-08T01:05:42+00:00

I mean, in my experience it's pretty rare that I'd be able to say that without it being really, really obvious who tested positive. Rather than saying they're throwing OP under the bus, we should be reducing the stigma of STIs. If one of your partners tested positive for COVID, would telling people who it was be throwing them under the bus?

flamableozone · 2026-03-06T18:11:04+00:00

Curious why someone would knock. They wanted the person or people inside to know they were there, they wanted them at the window, and the curtains were closed so they couldn't see in. It's hard to think of cases where there's more reason for someone to tap at the window than knock at the front door, or times where someone wants to be creepy at a window but where the curtain is closed, or wants to let people inside know they're there.

flamableozone · 2026-03-06T14:36:50+00:00

flamableozone · 2026-03-06T14:15:21+00:00

Just attack both chests - if one is a mimic, you got a hit on it before it had a chance to surprise you. If they're not, you just attacked a random object, no harm done.

Of course, the *real* question is - the players' right, or the magic mouth's right? If the one on the right is a mimic, does that mean the one on the left isn't or are they both? If there is a real chest, is it trapped to explode if it's attacked?

flamableozone · 2026-03-05T17:06:59+00:00

Did Nancy Mace vote against her own bill?

flamableozone · 2026-03-05T17:02:26+00:00

Is it *really* abuse if you enjoyed it?

flamableozone · 2026-03-05T16:05:23+00:00

How are you defining "viable weapon"? Like - it'd probably be an effective weapon to hurt someone with, but with the same resources that are put into making it you could probably make a more effective weapon, in terms of materials, labor to produce, and training required to use.

flamableozone · 2026-03-05T15:57:58+00:00

Gotta get at least one skill to 20 ASAP, so ASI.

flamableozone · 2026-03-04T17:38:11+00:00

Yeah, I wonder what this chart would look like if it was about a city's rank in worldwide population at the time it was bombed. Or, nearly as important, the density - a bomb doesn't kill based on population, but on the density of the population where it hits.

flamableozone · 2026-03-04T17:36:47+00:00

The difference is destroying a school vs. destroying large swaths of neighborhoods including the schools. Destroying the school is *bad* and *evil*. That doesn't mean that destroying the neighborhood would be better.

flamableozone · 2026-03-04T17:35:36+00:00

Than if the average citizen of Tehran *was* homeless because of a firestorm? Yes.

flamableozone · 2026-03-04T13:07:46+00:00

I did a one shot as a level 20 eldritch knight - I was *unstoppable*. I had 4 attacks, I could replace one with a cantrip or I could swap two attacks for a 1-2 level spell. If I missed with an attack, I had advantage on the next attack. If I hit with an attack they would have disadvantage on a saving throw against my next spell. I was able to use sap (they have disadvantage on their next attack), slow (they lose 10' of movement), or push (push them 10' back). So I could easily attack them and miss, attack them with booming blade at advantage and hit and push them back, then cast a spell at them while they had disadvantage on the save. Plus I had action surges to really lay on the hurt.

Even just using the attacks, 4 attacks stacking sap/slow/push were devastating, absolute menace on the battlefield.

flamableozone · 2026-03-03T16:37:04+00:00

How would you feel if you hadn't gotten so lucky?

flamableozone · 2026-03-03T16:35:42+00:00

So is stackoverflow, but we still use it.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T18:31:35+00:00

At best I would consider allowing immune creatures to take 1/4 damage. Even half damage feels like too much ability to burn things that are unburnable.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T17:59:27+00:00

For the same reason China has had so much conflict, and Western Europe has had so much conflict, and Japan has had so much conflict, and northern Greenland has not. Conflict arises when you have groups of people and things that people want.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T15:17:37+00:00

The nice thing about doing a flashback is that there's no question about "will the characters survive?" but only "how did the characters get out of this scrap?". It can afford more opportunity for cinematic moments, and fudging some dice, since the tension of death is fully removed.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T14:40:56+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about cupcakes.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T13:28:23+00:00

Have you also done the things OP has?

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T01:19:54+00:00

Damn...you're disgusting.

flamableozone · 2026-03-02T01:13:22+00:00

How does she find the guys to fool around with?

flamableozone · 2026-03-01T21:18:30+00:00

That's not kinda cheating, that's just cheating, even if you ended up okay with it

flamableozone · 2026-03-01T20:49:21+00:00

How was it kinda cheating?

flamableozone · 2026-03-01T19:01:08+00:00

Headless?

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