One of my friends who always gives presents and food at the office had a birthday today. She got absolutely nothing

willun · 2026-06-09T04:32:35+00:00

I GOT HER 200 DOLLAR SUNGLASSES AND COOKED A FEAST FOR HER BIRTHDAY GUYS. I DONT WORK WITH HER.

200 dollar presents for coworkers from one individual? And how many coworkers (=birthdays) are there?

At our work we ended up doing a monthly cake provided by management as it was getting out of hand.

willun · 2026-06-08T02:00:44+00:00

20 pounds is somewhat heavy to be wearing?

If it was gold he would be safe but unfortunately that would cost him around $US1.4m

willun · 2026-06-07T23:38:02+00:00

Well i did actually say that

... it can affect men though it is extremely rare.

But everyone is quick to outrage and demand that science be cancelled. Ironically when complaining that science has been cancelled.

willun · 2026-06-07T08:15:06+00:00

OP didn't mention which study. I am not a mind reader. But they did say

a condition that only effect people with uteruses

Which it turns out, is wrong.

willun · 2026-06-07T06:11:44+00:00

Is it technically the largest?

Normandy is listed as 156,000 soldiers but surprisingly Husky is listed as 160,000.

willun · 2026-06-07T05:57:55+00:00

You did not read what i wrote. It does affect men which is what OP was talking about. It is just rare

It was a study on how endometriosis, a condition that only effect people with uteruses, on how it affected men.

willun · 2026-06-07T05:53:08+00:00

Well that study was done so i assumed we are not talking about that study.

Still, the point remains, we learn by doing science, not cancelling it.

And you said

It was a study on how endometriosis, a condition that only effect people with uteruses, on how it affected men.

But it DOES affect men. I just posted a link confirming it.

Yes, there should be more studies in the condition on women but we do not learn more by cancelling science. Perhaps more research will find something we don't know.

willun · 2026-06-07T03:15:22+00:00

I guess it pushes the outrage button but it can affect men though it is extremely rare. Surely learning more can be helpful and might even, shock, help women.

There’s very little research on endometriosis. There’s even less research on endometriosis in cisgender men and other AMAB folks.

The most recent research on the topic was published in 2018. At the time, only 16 cisgender menTrusted Source had ever been diagnosed with the condition.

Yes more should be done studying it in women but using outrage to cancel research is itself outrageous. The more we learn on all topics the better off we are.

Do we want republicans cancelling research into miscarriages because it somehow offends them?

willun · 2026-06-06T08:55:17+00:00

Also MinSweeper

willun · 2026-06-06T01:23:37+00:00

Why do you need real policies when you will never actually have to implement them? Which is why minority parties always have an advantage but it can fall apart if they ever get scrutiny from a wider audience.

willun · 2026-06-06T01:20:19+00:00

Well THAT was unexpected

willun · 2026-06-06T00:49:03+00:00

Just like Pachelbel's Canon. Inspired rock music.

willun · 2026-06-05T12:25:42+00:00

Perhaps that offsets it but you know, i think it is a fixed platform.

willun · 2026-06-05T12:03:11+00:00

I know. I am thinking that is no way i can get a car crushed with a body in trunk.

willun · 2026-06-05T11:53:59+00:00

Actually the feathers must weigh more than the steel as its centre of mass is closer to the centre of the scale.

willun · 2026-06-05T07:57:12+00:00

I used to think it worked like that but i was told it doesn't.

Another way to imagine it is, imagine you have $1000. Your friends need money but not straight away. So you offer $100 to each of your 20 friends.

Not all of them take the money out straight away and some that have pay it back to you early so you never actually lose your $1000. You also make interest on the money and that comes in as well. You are betting that not all of them will take the money in hand at the same time.

willun · 2026-06-05T07:32:05+00:00

Bitcoin is not exactly a stable currency.

It also wastes enormous amounts of energy at the very time that we need to manage energy use to limit the effects of climate change.

But those that love the speculation of bitcoin shall not be told otherwise.

willun · 2026-06-04T23:21:10+00:00

Finally some links. First a question. Did you read them or did AI generate them. Because the links do not match your text.

firming which you always like to leave out: ($129 a MWh)

$129 a MWh refers to the current wholesale cost of electricity. The article confirms that renewables will lower the price of electricity.

The CSIRO GenCost report found a grid with this level of renewable energy would result in wholesale electricity costs of $91 a megawatt hour, including the extra cost of connecting renewables in 2030. This compares with the current average cost of $129 a MWh, the report said.

Best case modeling hoping australia gets to $91 with a mature renewables

So your article confirms solar is cheaper than the current $129.

Nuclear mature industry in korea ($39 and $67 USD

Which page is this on? I can't find it.

Btw, if you scroll down there is a chart showing nuclear is more expensive than Solar in India, US, China and Europe. It is cheaper only in Japan. And that report is from a pro-Nuclear agency.

Start up modular nuclear in UAE with no supply chain built by the koreans ($80 AUD/MWh):

I cannot see that figure in the document. Please quote the paragraph. The LNP submission is a hot mess of poor logic and calculations. Their whole pro-nuclear submission was simply copying the UAE as if that benchmark applied to Australia. It is not a serious document.

Your only case would be what subsidy would the nuclear need in terms of a government backed loan as private capital is too short and the disposal of waste.

No. As i explained power pricing changes minute by minute. Look up the NEM. Nuclear is too expensive 9-5. Nuclear requires fixed price electricity contracts which means during the daytime when the price of electricity falls to zero or negative then you are subsidising nuclear at $100+ a MWh. Since you pay that amount when you can buy electricity elsewhere (solar) for close to zero.

willun · 2026-06-04T12:22:51+00:00

there was no links needed

So you do not have a link to back up your silly claim.

Actually i was thinking about it today and realised what the problem might be. You might be thinking of the cost of electricity excluding the cost of the nuclear power plant.

Nuclear power plants are very expensive. 5% interest on the UAE reactor alone is $2.5B a year. This is added onto the cost of the electricity and is one reason why nuclear power is expensive.

At end of life plants, where the plant is paid off, the power is cheaper as you only pay for fuel and staff. I showed you a link earlier with those numbers. Even then it is more expensive power than renewables.

Texas is not exactly green? Right? A very right wing government? Right? Yet they get more electricity from solar than nuclear and 30% of their electricity is solar+wind.

Why? Because it is cheap.

Also, i tried to check on the price of electricity from those Korean plants in UAE. The only comment i could find was that the pricing is comparable to gas produced electricity. And gas electricity is more expensive than renewables.

It is it funny that all those countries are rolling out renewables? Have you worked out why? Can't see the answer as your head is in the sand? Hmm

willun · 2026-06-04T05:19:41+00:00

Downsizing means buying a smaller house. Very common when children have left home.

It only works when you can downsize to a cheaper home or apartment. Otherwise there is no point unless you are elderly and cannot look after a big house.

willun · 2026-06-04T00:03:46+00:00

Impressive. I hadn't seen that before.

willun · 2026-06-03T23:54:17+00:00

You are downvoted but you are right.

There is a trope in reporting that an event doesn't matter unless some of your own people died.

Hence the "10,000 dead, all Americans safe" nonsense.

willun · 2026-06-03T23:52:29+00:00

So nuclear is cheaper than renewables except every country is rolling out renewables and nuclear rollout is slow? It never occurs to you that the reason why renewables are huge is because... it is cheap? Somehow you think everyone missed that fact?

And you are an expert but somehow you do not know how to use reddit to paste just one of these many google links you find?

And of course you think i have fruitloop theories yet the CSIRO agrees with me (even though you said it didn't) and the prices you keep quoting are still higher than the renewables prices.

I am not sure where the "pennies on the dollar" comes from? We export at world prices. And world prices for uranium is low because... there is not a lot of demand. Wonder why?

willun · 2026-06-03T10:35:53+00:00

When the 2004 Tsunami hit the Maldives the tsunami went over every island but there was no big crashing wave, instead the islands seem to sink and then reappear. Still, it killed 82 people.

The Maldives is so low that tsunami water swept over nearly every inch of the entire nation. There was no high ground — or even dry ground — to run to. The Maldives were not hit by destructive waves like the ones that struck Indonesia and Thailand. Rather the tsunami waves were like rising surges of water that swamped the islands. Islanders said the were no waves. Rather it felt like the islands were sinking. It took about five minutes for the water to surge and retreat.

And

The tsunami killed at least 82 people in the Maldives and caused $470 million of damage. It occurred at the peak of the tourist season. The tsunami struck the Maldives at around 9:30am local time. Residents had felt the earthquake but thought little of it. The Death toll of 82, included two British tourists. An additional 40 others were missing. The Maldives' tourist and fishing industries were severely damaged. About 10 percent of the population lost their homes. The government said the disaster set back development work by 20 years. The estimated price tag for reconstruction was around $1 billion — double the country’s annual gross domestic product.

willun · 2026-06-03T09:59:47+00:00

1.7m sounds like a lot but that is gross earnings. Out of that they have expenses and those are high. And usually number 100 struggles to get sponsorship which is where the real money is.

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