Next up, triple secret gaslighting! So you’re just done saying anything relevant or substantive now then, huh?

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So you're going to scare people who don't know any better, and then block anyone who calls you out on it. Preying on people's ignorance and fears for karma. Cool.

Another great example is calling anything you disagree with gaslighting. It destroys the meaning and hurts people’s ability to accurately call it out when it actually happens.

So you’re concerned that a thing that hasn’t happened yet, in a reactor that is already in the process of being shut down, will happen. Ok, probably not first place of concern but a degree of paranoia when it comes to nuclear safety is a good thing. Yay for good intentions. Sounding the alarm over things that don’t matter hurts your ability to keep people safe.

If something bad does happen, but if you’ve been overreacting about the things that don’t matter, nobody will listen/care. It hurts not only your own credibility but people’s impression of the dangers of radiation in general. If you are legit worried about nuclear safety, then clearly communicating accurate information is priority #1. This post and your comments until now do none of that. They make the people who believe you less safe. You are doing harm. That’s why I’m hung up on this.

Because after actually dangerous accidents rushed regulation was passed saying any leak must be cleaned up regardless of how dangerous it is. Remember the coal power plant example? This is not like the Ohio train derailment.

It is tritium. Its radiation cannot pass through the skin. If ingested, it decays within a few hours. You know the radioactive material doctors use to photograph the path your veins take? Thousands of times more radioactive. Hell, assuming they never clean it up and you live next door and consume the entire leak yourself, that would be somewhere between an X-ray and an international flight’s worth of radiation. Those exit signs they hang in schools all over the place? Waaay more tritium than this. You absolutely consume way more radiation naturally.

You are proving my point. People don’t understand the relative dangers of different radiation levels.

I hate to break it to you but they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. Any leak must be cleaned up. Even if it’s plain old tritium.

What talking points? It’s basic science literacy. People don’t seem to have a sense of scale for sieverts so I thought of the first thing I could to give people a relative sense of what we’re actually talking about here. Should I convert it to banana scale for you?

Serious question, how dangerous do you think this is?

It’s a tiny amount of tritium. A sheet of paper could deflect the radiation this article is talking about. People just see “nuclear” and freak out without any sense of scale or relative danger.

It’s tritium. Jesus we need to stop with these dramatic headlines. You’ll get more radiation damage just walking outside for an hour in the summer.

Living close to a coal power plant has waaay more radiation than this. Fun fact, it’d be uniquely economical and convenient to convert retiring coal plants to nuclear. Trick is, coal plants aren’t regulated for radioactive exposure and waste. As soon as we convert these the nuclear regulation kick in. They’re waaay over the tolerable limit for a nuclear energy reactor but coal plants get a pass.

People are overly paranoid of nuclear energy and not paranoid enough when it comes to coal and oil.

lol. Little late to the party. That’s kinda the whole financial point of these systems.

It wouldn’t automatically be shared with her. It’s all opt in. I would send an invite and she could accept it. Either of us could leave at any time. Once or twice a year my phone gives me a privacy review notification where it walks me through the data I’m sharing with apps and others, allowing me to change it.

If my wife decides to put the dog AirTag in my car, she could, but I could also check that any time I wanted. If I didn’t want her to see my location, I would check which devices are sharing location and where they are. Since it’s opt in and Apple has those periodic privacy reviews, I think the level of risk is low.

The current approach of spamming AirTag notifications when someone who lives with other iPhone users uses them creates a pattern where we learn to ignore them, which is a far bigger risk.

The only real alternative is to not have the technology exist at all. That’s not going to happen. I’d rather it be done by a responsible company like apple than someone who doesn’t take these precautions.

That’s not really helped or hurt with shared tags. If my wife already shares her location with me, there is no added risk to her if our dog’s location is also shared.

I think this is the easiest fix. It’d be great if there was a way to share the AirTag with family, but at very least don’t alert when I can already see that person’s location because of their phone or watch.

Right, an air tag that’s shared with family increases transparency. The AirTag can still function as it’s meant to, but wouldn’t alert when my wife takes our dog to the park without me. It would be useless for stalking my wife because she would be able to see the AirTag and its location in her account too. As for handling breakups, Apple has a great privacy checkup tool that lets you completely separate your shared data with someone instantly.

The solution here is shared AirTags. No added risk, fewer false positives which in turn make people safer because they’re more likely to trust the alerts they get.

They’re not talking about firing it at a Lagrange point or anything. It’d have to be a constant supply. Kinda like that episode in Futurama where the “solution” was to keep dropping giant ice cubes in the ocean. This isn’t a real fix.

Thinking about this application in space. Is this efficient enough to run continuously on a journey to Mars? 4,000 lbs of thrust, would that provide some mild gravity to passengers on board? Enough to mitigate health challenges to traveling passengers?

I kinda expected snow. TIL

So like Tiberium from the Command and Conquer series?

AI powered social media bots and influencing attempts are absolutely a thing. We’ve all seen bots on social media a few years ago. They used to be pretty easy to notice. They didn’t leave, they got better.

The US should as well. We can use it to pay for the weapons and aid we send Ukraine. Delaware alone has over $1B is frozen Russian assets. I’d also be interested to see if the GOP attempts to filibuster a bill doing so.

Am I the only one who thought of nano bots from Big Hero 6?

The thing is, it gives people what they want. It’s a mostly positive place where people share interesting things. Why American companies have to promote so much negativity is beyond me. It hurts long term growth.

Yeah, with electricity there are a lot of potential sources of power. Solar and wind, but candidly also diesel, methane, even burning wood and trash is an option in a pinch. The military also gets access to a suite of small to midsized nuclear power sources. For them it’s about flexibility. With just gas and diesel, they’re a lot more limited. Solar powered FOBs can operate independently for a lot longer than one dependent on regular gas trucks.

They’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. I see two reasons. First, oil is a liability. Getting it, often from hostile foreign powers. Transporting it. It limits the military’s strategic options. Second, when already poor govts struggle to deal with successive natural disasters, that creates civil unrest and the potential for geopolitical destabilization. Who has to deal with that instability? The military.

When it comes to fighting climate change, the military might not be doing it for the same reasons we are, but they’re a formidable ally in the fight.