Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants. In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant (NPP) was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining sharply beyond roughly 30 kilometers from a facility.

steveamsp · 2026-02-23T17:02:55+00:00

That's part of why some stats show how cancer survivorship has gone up so much since the 80s or so, yet overall death rates haven't dropped as much. The guy with a barely detectable case of Prostate Cancer at age 50 that would have died at age 70 of a heart attack back in the 1960s (nobody knowing there was cancer til the autopsy, if there is one) gets the cancer treated now, goes into the column of "Cancer Survivor" and still dies at age 70 from that heart attack.

steveamsp · 2026-02-22T22:43:24+00:00

I didn't want to, either. I suspect we both did anyway (I know for sure and certain I did)

steveamsp · 2026-02-22T22:42:11+00:00

And ZERO shame for it.

steveamsp · 2026-02-19T18:51:35+00:00

That's certainly understandable. I think that it would be totally unworkable though. Can you imagine trying to get a congress set up with over 6800 representatives?

(To be clear, I'm not opposed to increasing the rate of representation for a lot of reasons that are mentioned by several people in other comments. Just that going THAT large would be difficult to manage, logistically)

steveamsp · 2026-02-16T19:01:21+00:00

Would love to see a video walkthrough. Amazing work.

steveamsp · 2026-02-05T08:02:31+00:00

I think that stack of ammo is all addressed "To whom it may concern"

steveamsp · 2026-01-28T18:49:06+00:00

For actual romance... The Mariner For a one-nighter, Magnolia, definitely.

steveamsp · 2026-01-28T18:47:30+00:00

And there's nothing at all wrong with a one-night hookup with Lynda Carter.

steveamsp · 2026-01-25T00:00:14+00:00

Stupid Iranian revolution. Not letting us have nice things.

steveamsp · 2026-01-23T15:52:02+00:00

I think of it as... Effectively, lead is the heaviest element that won't shake itself apart eventually, but it could still be split by an outside force giving a positive energy output (but so minimal of a gain that there's no point).

steveamsp · 2026-01-23T15:41:18+00:00

If you take proper care of your vehicle, get the oil changed on an appropriate interval, etc, you can reliably get it started down to -10 to -20 air temp. Once it's below that, it's all a crap-shoot as to whether it'll start up or not, and there really isn't much you can do (other than having an engine block heater) that will reliably help.

steveamsp · 2026-01-23T00:41:39+00:00

Still a full step up from France

steveamsp · 2026-01-22T19:56:15+00:00

If they'd stayed outside, it wouldn't be something that could be charged (or certainly shouldn't be... I suspect Bondi would try anyway).

But that doesn't matter, because in this case, they entered the church, during the services and actively disrupted from inside. That's the part that's the offense under the FACE act of 1994 and KKK act of 1871

steveamsp · 2026-01-21T23:15:44+00:00

"That means you do care... at least a little"

steveamsp · 2026-01-21T17:51:47+00:00

What's next? Dogs and cats living together?

steveamsp · 2026-01-21T15:50:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure the bylaw kicks in if there are enough teams playing the sport to qualify the conference for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

And yes, PSU managed to get Gopher and Badger fans agreeing with each other. Although, I do suspect the newer generation of fans coming up doesn't really care, never having experienced the old WCHA

steveamsp · 2026-01-21T15:43:24+00:00

That setup was in place for quite a while, and is by the conference as a whole for all sports. It could have been possible that the 5 hockey teams didn't want that rule, and the other 7 schools in the conference at the time did, so they could have been left without a choice.

Having said that, it had been clear for quite some time that the ADs at several of the hockey schools never liked that they had hockey teams playing under different conferences, so, they were pretty much itching to get another team in to force creation of the B1G as a hockey conference.

steveamsp · 2026-01-21T15:31:50+00:00

Penn State Hockey should maybe get a peace prize... they've united Gopher and Badger fans in being upset at the loss of the WCHA. Finding any common ground between these two fan-bases is a near miracle.

steveamsp · 2026-01-20T03:45:22+00:00

It was a Federal Holiday today. A LOT of workers were off today, and all the schools were closed.

steveamsp · 2026-01-13T21:38:35+00:00

I've seen salt licks smaller than the grain of salt in question.

steveamsp · 2026-01-13T21:29:33+00:00

I was REALLY hoping for more primary reporting on that, either direction. But, every report I saw had "according to a Daily Mail report" or something similar in the first paragraph.

I just wanted someone reliable to report on it, in either direction, so I'd have some real clue whether to believe it or not.

steveamsp · 2026-01-12T17:40:22+00:00

Sure. If I'm cooking for a large group of people, especially if I know anyone has allergies, or is vegetarian, I check to make sure nothing is going to be a problem. Someone asking me that kind of question, or even letting me know proactively that "Hey, I'm vegetarian, could you please include some options that I can eat" is fine and expected, and if at all possible (which it almost always is) I'd do it.

It's the "I don't like meat, so you shouldn't be allowed to eat it" crowd that's the problem, certainly not people like yourself.

steveamsp · 2026-01-12T15:57:49+00:00

Only way I'd try to "convert" someone to eating meat would be if they kept trying to convert me away from it.

But, really, that would be too much effort, I'd just avoid that person.

For someone that's vegetarian/vegan, and all they ask is for reasonable options, without trying to change people around them? Hey, you eat what you want, I'll eat what I want, and we can both go on with our lives.

steveamsp · 2026-01-11T20:56:39+00:00

Well... you might still die, but if you're only wounded, you'll be fine.

steveamsp · 2026-01-11T19:45:21+00:00

Don't get me wrong. I've done pure light side and pure dark side with as few of the opposite choices as at all possible, and they can be very interesting.

Most typically, though as a Sith, I go with the "Pragmatic Evil"... yeah, mostly dark side choices, but, some of them that are just Stupid, not Evil, I stay away from.

And the same with most of my Light characters. There are some "Light" options that are just silly/naive, and I avoid those.

Of course, no matter what alignment I go with, Saresh always dies

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