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Asphyxiation, when done correctly, can be pleasurable for the receiving party. You get a kind of “high” from it. But there’s a technique to it to make sure it’s as safe as possible.

Self-asphyxiation was a trend among schoolkids for a while as one of those “challenges”. Got a few kids killed sadly.

Malaysian academic Dr Solehah Yaacob, who drew public scrutiny over claims that ancient Malays could fly

There’s a difference between dissenting opinions and batshit insane ideas.

No.

I have spent my entire childhood in a house at a mere 125m away from the train tracks, with trains passing 8 times per hour (excl. freight which also passes every now and then). You could faintly hear them if you were in the garden, but never in a bothersome way. I have not once felt anything vibrate from a passing train. Maybe this is different for poorly built houses? But it really shouldn’t be an issue.

In France, sure. In Hungary the water level actually dropped below the intake valves so they physically couldn’t pump enough water into the reactor.

IIRC that’s disputed to not actually be Stalin.

Maybe you should read into it more, because what you said is blatantly wrong.

The Paks power plant in Hungary takes water from the Danube, but due to the drought the water level dropped to a mere 23cm. The suction nozzles physically can’t reach enough water. It’s an intake problem, it’s not an issue with pumping it out again or storing it until the water cools.

Here’s an article that mentions this: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nqv05g0do

The Soviet-era Paks power plant uses the Danube for cooling but the water level is so low that the suction nozzles cannot reach it.

Nuclear is actually a very poor fit for baseline power because of the high costs involved and the problem of it being expensive and slow to turn on or off. Kept turned off, nuclear is a massive money bleeder which is why investment companies rarely touch them.

Because solar and wind are variable, you need a baseline that’s also variable to be able to quickly compensate. The only real viable options are battery power (harder to scale), hydro (geographically limited) and unfortunately gas power plants (polluting, but cheap). Nuclear is excellent stable power, good if solar/wind are never able to reach 100% of needs, but multiple countries have now shown that that is very much within the realm of possibilities.

Biggest issue with nuclear remains cost, excessively long time to build and if there’s a drought you don’t get enough water to cool with so you need to switch it off (see Hungary and France these days to see the very expensive consequences of that).

Hey man don’t kinkshame

The fabs in use for the latest chips are typically 1 to 2 generations behind, because it’s expensive and takes a long time to get a new fab in place (these are extremely sensitive machines). Even if China could produce the exact fabs most in use today (which is already a little unlikely), ASML themselves are 2 gens ahead.

This will likely reduce prices on older gen chips though, and those were no slumps either.

Lemmywinks!

It’s one of those names with a stupid variation of rare pronunciations, yes. Shawn is definitely most common.

There are a lot of different pronunciations of “Sean” including one sounding more like “Sheen”.

Because PlayStation controllers aren’t a service and are easily replaced. Bit harder to do with LLMs.

Works for me? Also on Jerboa mobile.

This gets it wrong for the seventy-secoth item.

Was he the first to die or the first to be murdered?

That’s where the Serbian army was. I think the people from Kosovo have forgiven NATO though, if you’ve ever been to Prishtina the multi-story Bill Clinton tribute banner is quite noticeable.

Because they already have an internet plan, and internet coverage is ubiquitous around them. So SMS is just a slower, more expensive option with fewer features.

I don’t think I’ve sent an SMS to someone in 10 years now, that’s how “ancient” it is to most people around here. It’s like sending a fax, reputation wise.

SMS is pretty antiquated tech in a way and just made basically obsolete with internet-based messengers.