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Comment Good. Screen Culture was a plague. (Score 2) 23

Screen Culture in particular was spamming YT with fake trailers years before AI really blew up, and labeled them very, very deceptively ("Official Trailer Release", and such). YouTube should have banned them years ago, and the studios should have sued. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Comment Re:China is still a developing country (Score 1) 48

They aren't clones, they are just the optimal shape. The USSR's Buran had similar claims made against it, but it was very different to the Shuttle. No main engines, larger, different mission profile, and much faster turn-around times. It's just that the best shape for a spaceplane is the shape that the Shuttle is, so every other one looks like a "clone" of it.

Yep. Similar to aircraft. There's a reason why planes that perform a specific function at specific performance parameters tend to look alike. Because the parameters demands certain shapes, airflow, capacity, etc, and you end up with planes doing the same mission but designed by different teams yet look alike. See the DC-10/L-1011 airliner situation.

Comment Re:Plasma and fusion science is pointless (Score 1) 58

The stable genius jr. has concluded that fusion technology is pointless anyway. Coal and oil are the future! Soon also on Mars.

Oh FFS. Trump is the most pro-nuclear president in four decades, including supporting fusion research and exploring new reactor designs: Trump Bets Big on Nuclear

"United States President Donald Trump is putting his money where his mouth is as he doubles down on efforts to accelerate the expansion of the country’s nuclear energy sector. The government will spend billions in public funding to reinvigorate U.S. nuclear power, following decades of underinvestment. Unlike renewable energy, Trump views nuclear power as key to expanding the U.S. electricity generation capacity and recently announced the target of quadrupling nuclear capacity by 2050.
In May, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the U.S. to develop 10 new large nuclear reactors by the end of the decade. In addition, several tech companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft, are providing billions in private funding to restart old nuclear plants, upgrade existing ones, and deploy new reactor technology to meet the growing demands from the data centres powering advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) loan office will dedicate significant funds to the nuclear energy industry to support the development of new reactors. This week, the Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated, “We have significant lending authority at the loan programme office By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants — to get those first plants built.”

Comment Re: Is Windows 11 the cause of this? (Score 2) 45

Linux works fine with 4GB but apps don't. I know because my laptop came with 4GB and it was borderline unusable of I actually did anything with it. 8GB made it acceptable.

Meanwhile my desktop has 64GB of DDR4 and I'm real glad I bought it when I did. Most people don't need that much, but I do VMs sometimes and it's important. OTOH gaming showed significant improvements going from 16 to 32.

Comment Re:Measurable levels vs. toxic levels (Score 1) 58

Toxicity is always a function of concentration. Always. Even water is toxic if ingested at high enough levels.

This (the water part) is one of those things that sounds clever at first and then obviously isn't when you think about it some more.

Sealed plastic containers are highly effective at controlling bacterial growth, for example.

We could and do use other kinds of containers with a plastic seal which is not in contact with the contents during storage.

Flossing your teeth with plastic (nylon) is universally recommended by dentists for dental health. [...] Many of these health-*positive* uses would be very difficult to reproduce with other materials.

Nylon is notable in large part because of its stability. This means it leaches less than do some other plastics. Not all plastics are created equal, and we shouldn't pretend they aren't. Nylon is one kind of thing, and Vinyls are another kind, for example.

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