it’s like he’s purposefully trying to think as little as possible

combined cycle gas powerplants can get almost to 60%

i don’t think they’re planning to build anything, but it’d be very funny if they ended up doing that anyway bleeding MS out of money

i don’t think TMI even has space for 5 blocks

i think it might be latin

no one has seen this coming, no one

bombs are single use, there’s no need to pick it up now

why it was there in the first place? they probably had no idea, or if there was post-war cleanup it went undetected for some reason

any explosive weapon will sometimes leave duds, there are GMLRS, javelin and excalibur duds documented. ww1 era shells could be the worst because by some estimates up to some 20% failed, then fuzes were often brass so they didn’t corrode, but shell or bomb body were steel or cast iron so they did. when fuze gets almost set off then loses mechanical support it sometimes becomes more likely it’ll be initiated on its own

that would be 25-35 reactors, as long as cooling is available you can just put them in one place. 5GW is around size of largest european nuclear powerplants (Zaporozhian, 5.7GW; Gravelines, 5.4GW; six blocks each) or around energy consumption of decently-sized euro country like Ireland, Hungary or Bulgaria. 25GW is electricity consumption of Poland, 30GW UK, 35GW Spain

this is not happening hardest because by the time they’d get permits for NPP they’ll get bankrupt because bubble will be over

a lost not very computer literate dude who just got scammed i guess

and now when somebody will generate exactly the same thing, it won’t be new stuff either el reg: Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

last time this mix was tried, the result was corporate tax evasion

fuck this horseshit, half of my publishing is with wiley. is there a shop out there that doesn’t feed all of its papers to wisdom woodchipper?

find the point where the idea of taking psychedelics went from “they’ll make you a better (more egalitarian/antifascist) person” to “they’ll make you a more efficient capitalist monster”.

i think it happened somewhere around the time when microdosing got popular as an idea since that made psychedelics more palatable for normies. 2015ish i think?

ceasefire has been in place for four years at this point. many syrians went to lebanon as refugees, estimates place them at something close to 1.5M. maybe some of them are going back

if that was mixed with fuel, sure (15kt) but on its own should be a bit less (6.5kt)

“This is a ship that nobody wants, but that nobody can get rid of.”

20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate

i see something resembling a solution, right there

you have no idea how fucked up middle eastern politics can get. first split by sunni/shia/other religions, then allegiance to syria/iran/israel/iraq/egypt/selection of gulf states, and sometimes by tribe/clan allegiance too just to keep things from getting too easy. then try to make a government out of like 15 parties all with divergent goals funding and incentives

i’ll make it shorter for you if you don’t have attention span for a paragraph of text:

pagers are probably a war crime, but it’s relatively minor compared to airstrikes that happened since (and before)

pagers thing is probably illegal pending extra details but it’s not the worst thing that happenes there. not like this case will see hague ever so it’s probably a bit moot on that ground

it’s middle east, there are no innocent orgs, except civilians, and no one has actual incentive to limit civilian casualties. i’d just wish that both likud and hamas lose because neither is compatible with remotely sane stable politics in region