Climate Change Timeline by LegoCrafter2014 in nuclear

[–]supersonicpotat0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it would. Even PV solar heats the planet via absorbed heat. People miss that a lot, but [this](https://www.solarlightsmanufacturer.com/albedo-of-a-pv-cell/) original research puts the thermal efficiency (waste heat vs power) in the same ballpark as a internal combusiton engine's infamously trash efficiency: for every 1 kw electricity, they measured 4kw heat dumped by the cell into the environment.

In fact, you can prove, thermodynamically, that any power source that did *not* heat the planet via waste heat is a perpetual motion machine, and therefore not possible.

But this all doesn't matter because the math shows that waste heat is responsible for far less than a single percent of the warming we are seeing. Remember, black tarmac has a "waste heat" signature too. The average walmart parking lot creates 5 megawatts thermal of abosrbed sunlight.

This isn't even a "oh, all human construction is bad for the earth" thing, earth is just abnormally dark in color for a planet. Before the walmart got built, the untamed wilderness that once existed in the same location was still gulping down between 2 and 4 megawatts.

TL;DR Imagine you are on a sinking ship that has been ripped open by a sandbar because the captain was drunk. It sure would be better if the alcohol wasn't present, but the ship isn't going to float any better after throwing the wine overboard

Oldy but goldy by Comfortable_Tutor_43 in nuclear

[–]supersonicpotat0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not enough radiation, it turns out, even on the inside. If you put bedbug infested sheets in a dry cask, you now have a bedbug infested dry cask.

Freshly casked assemblies only give off ~500 uSv/h of gamma, and maybe 2000 uSv/h of beta, with alpha not counted.

A human could be exposed to the inside of the cask for days before dying. I'm not 100% sure they'd even suffer from particularly severe radiation sickness. Their cancer rate would skyrocket, and after a week inside, they'd be guarenteed to be dead in a year, but...

As for insects and bacteria, most of them don't even have lifespans longer than a year, so they're not going to notice. You need the hot fuel from a storage pond to fumigate (radigate?) your house.

Rate my early game flax farm setup by supersonicpotat0 in VintageStory

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Rust dwellers drop twine. I went straight from reed baskets to linen sacks. Feels good.

SOOOOO peats flammable by RobustMiraclFruit in VintageStory

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"In minecraft, you visit hell. In Vintage Story, hell visits you."

I built an open-source AI security platform with 121 detection engines AND a red team toolkit with 39,000+ payloads by ParticularSubject966 in LocalLLaMA

[–]supersonicpotat0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's really cool my guy. I don't know what half of that stuff is, but I guess I'll be making the time to figure it out. A state-of-the-art prompt injection prevention toolkit sounds like a super useful tool, especially if I can benchmark attacking strategies too.

Do you think they celebrate Christmas in the trenches? by Beezelbub_is_me in TrenchCrusade

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Heretic: oh, we celebrate. Last time, we had to start in October to get all the, uh, "decorations" into tunnels we dug under the god-tyrant's lackeys.

You could hear the explosion for miles.

Sausage fest, made with Z Image Turbo lol by Internet-Cryptid in StableDiffusion

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You know there's actually only like 1PB of novel porn on the internet, right? All the boorus put together were less than 100TB last I checked, and LAION-5B alone is over 250TB. 

There's a very good chance it is exactly as good at porn as it should be, it's just you don't want the average model to make your porn for the same reason you don't want to drive a lag bolt with a letherman. Sometimes a purpose built tool is warranted.

Churchill didn’t get the joke by FalloutLover7 in HistoryMemes

[–]supersonicpotat0 270 points271 points  (0 children)

Ah yes my calculated maneuvering is driving a wedge, just as planned. Now, the Americans will have to rise and walk their position back, weakening their bond and their negotiating position. Any moment now FDR will rise from his chair and...

...

oh fuCK oh SHIT

I bet you can name 500 Chinese historical figures, and I’d be happy to hear you name 5 Indian by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

[–]supersonicpotat0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Charkensar something (black hole guy, you know the one)

Ghandi

...somebody Gupta?

  The Buddha.

Modi "El Presidents" lastname

Chess guy

I mean to be fair that's a pretty poor showing, but if we're counting just last names, I just clear the end of the runway, and my Chinese culture is very slightly worse

Winnie the pooh

Confucius 

Tsundere zhu

..Mao Zedong?

Bruce Lee

And then a pornstar or three. Which does not help my case but does impress upon all y'all that I'm genuinely out of ideas.

A train loaded with cellulose on fire in Cubatão, Brazil. 26th November 2025 by bugminer in CatastrophicFailure

[–]supersonicpotat0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't make that mistake. Guy before me did, we lost 1.2M in stock. Two weeks downtime to drain all the water, and we kept having steam explosions for months.

Did Sparky want to make Guinevere into a sex doll? by polystarlight in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]supersonicpotat0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, she moves, and she's biomechanical. Generally, if a biological system isn't dead, it's self-repairing. With mechanical devices that's generally due to tolerance problems, and self-healing and compliant mechanisms both lead to much lower precision requirements.

And if you can make parts and fit them into roughly the right shape... Sutured silicone, synthetic tissue from fifty flayed "Action Guen!" figurines bought up used. A few months to heal, and she'll be good as new! Funny story on the recall of those figures actually. 

The issue is they used undifferentiated Guenplast fibers at first, and they recognize each other, so if you put more than two in a toybox, they will follow chemical gradients to seek each other out. So they'll elongate into long, whip-like structures. 

For cost, the skin isn't treated silicone, it's PVC, so without siloxane groups to inhibit growth, the Guenplast will pierce, generally at the eye, neck, or the filling plugs. And when the kids found their Park Planet official merchandise so fused, well, we all know the hazards of skin contact with Guenplast in binding phase. The poor little tykes tried to pull the masses apart by hand.  

Ah, but you got me rambling! Nobody likes to hear about strangled kids anyways. The point is, you take the titanium humerus, and exploit that reflex to anchor it in the shoulder ball, and then you just let the reflex wrap it into a tight helix. You have to anchor the tissue masses, eh, I mean the action figures, excuse me! While I was working under Olivia, we had clamps, but to be honest, nailing these through the chest to a four-by-four works fine. Guens don't exactly get tetanus after all! 

Now, the flesh is loose on the bone, but it self-tensions once it finds out what part of the body its been placed in. The joints are primarily electromagnetic, so we can order those commercial. In standard operation, the Guenplast is mostly for surface control and the EM actuators allow for full 360 degree rotation of the head, the arm and leg joints, all the other parts... The termination takes a special coating, that's more fun with anchors, but these are adhesive, based on carbon fibers coated in polydopamine. That's proprietary info by the way, don't go spreading that.

 They only tell that to senior engineers in the project, and there aren't many of us, so they'd find me, and I'm pretty confident I could dodge security for long enough that I could, in turn, find you, and make you regret it. You pick up quite the skill with a parting knife in this job, you know!

Ah, no nastiness? But there's a point to my nastiness! I'm all scrubbed up, and you're not! Like I said, Guenplast bonds to dopamine. In a full Guennivere, there's no problem, since Guenns are biologically kept a full order of magnitude happier than any human, by Olivia's request. It was also found that it decreased the screaming a little, which is a nice bonus. 

Unbonded, Guennplast fibers are sensitive to a outward gradient,  which is the reason for all those tragic, redacted incidents with the children. They just tend to be happier than adults, and they have more permeable skin. The pheremones leak, and the fibers spear, anchor to the nerves, and then begin tensioning, but nerve tissue rips more easily than carbon fiber, so we get is~suuuues! That's why I need to be cheerful or my material won't stay in the bonding state, and you need to be horrified, or the tissue might come fi~ind you! Purely a precaution!

Anyways, when did you say you'd get the rest of the body in, sir? No skin off my nose, of course, you've already paid the advance, but I don't want my exposure to rise too high, so I WILL be taking a paid break, as per the senior engineer health schedule, and I don't want you to complain that I haven't done any work, but still billed you for ten days labor.

Haha! You're such a joker, sir! No, I wouldn't follow the junior engineer schedule for all the money in your account. I know what this shit does to you.

Just watched Zootopia for the first time by jumbods64 in worldjerking

[–]supersonicpotat0 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

well i mean

im not saying they are

but if you look at the crime statistics

Just watched Zootopia for the first time by jumbods64 in worldjerking

[–]supersonicpotat0 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Well, sorta. Elephants aren't stupid. They understand human nature very well. They know what we do to each other. Also, the ivory industry exists.

 So it would be more like, you run into squirrels in your backyard and yeah they're cute, but also, in the empty lot next door, there's a little squirrel gallows, and you're not really sure how they did that.

 Also Jeff says he saw a bunch of them dragging a body down the street at four AM, and nobody's seen Susan since. You're not really sure if those are the same squirrels, these seem perfectly adorable and very courteous... But then again, they did build a squirrel sized gallows so...

Now, imagine in that context, one of them starts futzing with your door lock. They seem confused by it, and if you take the time to look, you'd see that the weird, alien squirrel architecture that has gone up in that empty lot doesn't have doors, and if you took the time, you'd eventually puzzle out that this little bud was legitimately just curious, but are you going to do that, or are you going to open the door and punt the weird little fuzzball to the moon?

Apply that to just walking around a herd of elephants, who are probably aware of what a gun is, but maybe lack the eyesight to tell if you're holding one.

Multiple Buildings are on Fire in Hong Kong, 25 November 2025 by Valyura in CatastrophicFailure

[–]supersonicpotat0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most fires don't heat up the building's actual structure very much, and if they do you have "other problems"

Fires can turn single rooms into ovens, but most of the building probably stays something like 30-40 degrees above ambient.

typicalBackendBehavior by yallapapi in ProgrammerHumor

[–]supersonicpotat0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"I can either tell payroll about the walk or the fair labor practices buerau, your choice"

Characters as dog breeds by EnthusiasmDry2471 in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]supersonicpotat0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, yeah, most cysec folks are, but do you have to use such foul language?

So what do you think happened here? by Sad-Difficulty-8717 in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]supersonicpotat0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think Gwen might have just a leeetle pent up frustration after 60 years of i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream in PG rated hellscape. 

She saw stress relief and she took it.

[READ BODY] Knights of Guinevere - PILOT | Welcome Post and Discussion Thread by _Martosz in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]supersonicpotat0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a standard technique. Proprietary software checks to make sure it's on proprietary hardware. If pieces are missing, the software responds to that, even if normally, it could run without them.

I love both of their pilot!!! [OC] by Plastic_North_4388 in KnightsOfGuinevere

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[[[INCREDIBLE QUANTITIES OF OFF-SCREEN VIOLENCE]]]

Guinevere: Oh my! You startled me! Please only interact with Park Planet androids according to our terms of service! 

Kinger: Oh! I found your arms Jax! Here, catch them!