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  • My secret is compartmentalization. Whenever one of those thoughts about practically every western countries sprint into facism or our planet swiftly becomming uninhabitable pops up, I just file that thought away in the existential horror box before reattaching the chains holding that box closed and finding a nice quiet mental corner to hide it in.

    Plus if there's ever a time where I need a mental breakdown then that box is always there for me, lurking in my brain like an aging bottle of perchloric acid forgotten in a chemistry lab cubbord slowly precipitating highly unstable explosive peroxides.

  • Texas becomes seventh state to ban lab-grown meat: The new law establishes civil and criminal penalties for selling the product.

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  • That's the thing. It's too late for them to get in on the real ground floor. The tech is already basically here with increasingly well established companies. Now the cheapest best optionfor the old meat companies to stay competitive is to try to block the new competition. Of course that method won't hold up long term but we all know shareholders only care about next quarter.

  • Texas becomes seventh state to ban lab-grown meat: The new law establishes civil and criminal penalties for selling the product.

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  • Protectionism for meat companies is why.

  • They’re cooked

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  • big if true

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  • Wait, is she actually just that stupid? I thought she was a standard conservitive conman but it's starting to look more and more like she is just honestly mindbogglingly dumb enough to have actually believed it all.

  • ‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know

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  • No, you've got it all wrong. It's good opera etiquette to jerk off at the opera to show that you're enjoying it. Etiquette doesn't demand the preopera wank; it's just so you have better endurance for your proper opera wank.

  • 'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre

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  • They use adiabatic coolers to minimize electrical cost for cooling and maximize cooling capacity. The water isn't directly used as the cooling fluid. It's just used to provide evaporative cooling to boost the efficiency of a conventional refrigeration system. I also suspect that many of them are starting to switch to CO2 based refrigeration systems which heavily benefit from adiabatic gas coolers due to the low critical temp of CO2. Without an adiabatic cooler the efficiency of a CO2 based system starts dropping heavily when the ambient temp gets much above 80F.

    They could acheive the same results without using water, however their refrigeration systems would need larger gas coolers which would increase their electricity usage.

  • Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

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  • Yup. We recently hired a guy straight out of the HVAC-R program of our local tech school and he barely had any refrigeration knowledge. Aparently they only teach you barely enough about refrigeration to get an EPA cert and nothing beyond that.

    Hell, out of the three new techs we got recently, the one who actually went to tradeschool is the least competent. If you want to get into the trades straight out of highschool you best bet is to just start with a manual labor job for a year or so so you have something to put on a resume that show you can work. After that just apply for a low level position in your trade of choice. Once you're in your employer should be paying for you to get any certs that you need.

  • These States Are Debating Castration for Sex Crimes. Experts Call It Cruel and Pointless.

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  • It has the same issues as any other permanent punishment in that if somebody is wrongly convicted then it can't be reversed. Hell, we still execute people we know were wrongly convicted fairly frequently. If this passed then there would definitely be wrongly convicted people getting castrated. Being castrated also doesn't prevent sex offenders from reoffending. The lack of sex hormones would reduce sex drive but for most offenders it's less about the sex and more about control. Also if a reduction in sex drive is the goal then there are chemical means to acheive that (which still don't actually stop sex offenders).

    So you would just wind up castrating a few innocent people while still making no difference in the actual offenders ability to reoffend.

    Unless we can know with absolute 100% certainty that the accused is guilty then the best thing to do with people who are convicted of henious crimes like that is to just lock them up. That way they can't hurt anyone but if new evidence comes out that proves them innocent then they can be released and the damage can still be somewhat remedied.

    Even if we somehow could know with absolute 100% cetainty that they were guilty (I'm not sure how that would even be possible) castration still wouldn't make sense because it still leaves them the chance to reoffend. IMO if we lived in a magical world where absolute truth could be known by all then rapists should just be killed because the risk of a rapist reoffending outweighs the worth of a rapist and nothing else will actually ensure they won't reoffend.

  • Italy: Man gets stuck driving car down Rome's Spanish Steps

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  • I remember my moms old Garmin GPS always said "turn left down bike path" when we got close to home. I also one heard it tell her to turn left down a river while we were driving over a bridge.

  • Walz calls Trump a "tyrant" who abuses power and violates rule of law

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  • The DNC campaign managers broke him.

  • Container ship sinks off India's south coast with hazardous cargo

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  • No idea. I just work with acetylene and am familiar with old acetylene gas machines which use calcium carbide to make it. I have no idea what those toxins actually do in large amounts because I'm only used to dealing with them as fairly trace contaminants. I just know enough to know that the acetylene itself shouldn't be much of an issue but those two chemicals could be.

  • US federal judges consider creating own armed security force as threats mount

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  • West, East, and Center, each heading up a major chunk of territory

    Fuck no. Don't lump us minnesotans in with basically exclusively red shithole states.

  • Container ship sinks off India's south coast with hazardous cargo

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  • Good thing it's surrounded by water.

    Joking aside, if it didn't burst into flames right away then it's probably fine on the acetylene front. The main hazard of acetylene is just the insane flamability (explosive limits 2.5-100%). But it's also very soluble in water and isn't really harmful to the environment on it's own. There are actually bacteria that can use it as a food source. So the acetylene is just going to be quickly disapated by the wind and disolved into the ocean where it'll be broken down into harmless products.

    The bigger concern is that, with that much calcium carbide reacting, there was likely fairly substantial amounts of phosphine and arsine produced as well. Those are both pretty damn toxic. Normally the amount of both of those produced in a calcium carbide reaction is fairly small but when there are several shipping containers of the stuff reacting then those normally trace contaminants are likely going to actually amount to something.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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  • Technically yes, but in the current political climate phrases like your initial one are frequently said by right wing wackos to alude to various protected classes indirectly. For example. With your initial comment

    and as such the system is beneficial to minorities (specific ones, not all).

    The first thing that pops into my head isn't billionares, it's alex jones ranting about "the jews" and "the world order", because the way you wrote that comment had a lot in common with the way those people talk when they're trying to not say the quiet part out loud.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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  • I think they were meaning the billionare class and they just phrased it very suspiciously.

  • Did I Mention It's A Botox Bullet?

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  • Yeah, never got the hate for Arby's in particular. I mean there are far worse fast food places.

    *vietnam flashbacks of KFC kitchens

  • Did I Mention It's A Botox Bullet?

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  • If it's a big enough bullet then you could still do both. Hell, I wonder how many sycophants a .50 could go through and still hit the toupee wearing traffic cone. I mean, their skulls are pretty thick.

  • Was he ever cognitively there?

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