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thepieking

Nuclear is more sustainable and environmentally friendly than solar or wind. Change my mind.

Please note that every weakness of nuclear has been solved:

  • Waste can be recycled into new fuel or completely transmuted into relatively harmless material. The longest-lasting waste product of the thorium fuel cycle only lasts 300 years, compared to 10,000 for "spent" uranium fuel rods.
  • Meltdowns aren't a concern because the latest reactor designs literally, physically can't. These designs, like the molten salt reactor, have already been built and functioned for years in experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • Nuclear weapon proliferation isn't a concern when using fuels like thorium, which are bad for making bombs and can easily be detected from a long range if anyone tries it. We know this for a fact because the US tested it during the Cold War.
  • Additionally, supplies of those fuel elements are so vast that they're functionally unlimited, even without breeder reactors that create new fuel. Due to lack of demand, the US currently buries thorium as a waste byproduct of heavy metal refinery.

"B but nuclear is scaaawwyyy" you're a coward and a fool and I wish nothing but misfortune on you and your acursed lineage

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PROOF IN CASE YOU NEED IT

Been seeing some people confused on what this means SO added this on to the post

Hope this clears it up

Insanely happy with how far this post is going but I need everyone and I mean EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS POST TO PLEASE

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS

We can’t just let this man get away with this and go completely free we NEED to fight back against this.

Here’s what you can do

1.Follow the instructions in the picture (alt text is included)

2.SPREAD THIS,SPREAD THIS LIKE CRAZYREBLOG,REPOST ON OTHER PLATFORMS, MAKE VIDEOS ON IT,TIKTOKS ON IT IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER JUST SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN

3.CONTACT ANY ONE YOU MIGHT KNOW CAN HELP

Your government officials,people who run news websites FUCKING ANYONE

I know shit may seem hopeless right now but that is no reason to atleast TRY to make a difference

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rimonoroni

can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”

here’s a quote from a New York Times article abt it

also bonus quote from that article

“quick question about the punching, judge perlman: how about murder instead”

everybody says that “the government” enlisted these mobsters to beat up nazis, but like. no. no that didn’t happen? judge nathan perlman illegally called up a man who could have him shot dead at a minute to say “hey. i’ve scoured the fucking law books tryna find a way to get these fucking nazis out of here, but my legal means have unfortunately run out. so-” and meyer fucking lansky was like “ah say no more boss lemme call a buncha friends and we’ll get this sorted out real quick don’t even bother paying me.“

can you imagine that phone call. like genuinely. how am i supposed to continue living my normal life knowing this happened. people who loooove talking about punching nazis, taKE FUCKING NOTES

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nonasuch

this is my favorite Meyer Lansky story.

my second favorite Meyer Lansky story is about the time, many years later, that he was at a meeting of mafia heads and one of them started bragging about how his son was following him into the family business.

Meyer Lansky said “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”

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tenaflyviper

If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.

It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…

the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck

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I've seen a lot of posts criticizing terminally-online leftists for thinking that not voting will somehow send the Deomcratic party to the left instead of to the center, and while that is true

I haven't seen many pointing out that voting actually works for progressive causes.

Joe Biden moved to the left significantly on climate because the left wing of the party wanted to work with him. The centrists in the party, like Joe Manchin, frustratingly dragged their heels on everything because they weren't that interested in getting things done. But the leftists in the party, like Bernie and AOC, actually engaged in talks and compromises and pulled Biden much, much farther left on climate than where he started. A lot of great green policy came out of the last four years!

There was even a Pod Save America interview a few months ago where one of Biden's cabinet members (very diplomatically) confirmed that the leftwing of the party was so much better to work with than centrists like Joe Manchin. (Probably because leftists actually care about the things they talk about and want to do things besides go to fancy Washington parties and stay in congress for a million years.)

So, I really cannot stress enough that actually showing up and working with people actually does pay off for your cause. You can do more for the things you care about when you are at the table. Your vote actually does create the change you are seeking, even when you are voting for someone who is not 100% aligned with you.

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My dream for the election is that it’s definitive. I want a 2012-style Election Day where everyone built it up beforehand to possibly be close but then the results start rolling in and it was like “Oh, nevermind. It’s obviously Obama. Everyone go to bed.”

I just want voters to put a stake right through the heart of Trumpism so that it crumbles to ash before our eyes. That’s the dream.

like to charge, reblog to cast

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abigail-pent

like to charge, VOTE to cast

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Best go vote add I’ve seen, maybe ever

I remember posting this back in 2020, not even intending the message to be “go vote”. The last photo was chosen among many others simply because it was a nice visual conclusion to the preceding chaos. The post was made many months before the election, and I had intended more to speak to the overall terrifying political climate of 2020 and all the small things we were doing to fight back and make changes that year.

But upon posting this, I received over 400 asks (I stopped counting) from different people demanding that I take the post down, telling me how dare I suggest that people vote in this political climate, and even several dozen anonymous asks threatening to attack/kill me for “spreading nationalistic propaganda”

It’s hard to remember, but that was the general sentiment around the election online in 2020: Rampant disinformation. Large-scale campaigns dissuading people from voting. Hundreds of negative comments on any post that even MENTIONED voting. You couldn’t get away.

But this election? It’s night and day. While I’m sure there’s still some people whining in a sad dark corner somewhere that moral purity is dead and they’re the last chosen saints of leftism, etc etc, the vast, VAST majority of people have zero tolerance for that bullshit this time around.

We are voting. We are talking to our friends and family about voting. We are reading the actual news and trying to cut through BS online quick-takes. We are getting people to the polls and donating to Harris and standing in line with others waiting to vote.

I’ve voted in every primary and election since I turned 18, but I have never seen young people voting on this level before. It’s truly mind-boggling just how much the younger voting block has mobilized in this election. This is the kind of thing that can change a nation if we let it.

Honestly, regardless of how the election turns out tomorrow, everybody should be so proud of what we tried to accomplish here. Keep up the good fight.

#This middle-aged woman is proud of Gen Z. Go out there and kick ass in the voting booths, young people! I'm right there with you. (Or I was - I voted early.)

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egberts

highlights of trick or treaters:

  • kid who took an eraser, tried to bite it, and put it back
  • little girl who told us she loved us after getting her treats
  • child who, when prompted to say "thank you" instead said a confident singular "halloween!"
  • vampire football player
  • one kid who so gravely misinterpreted the candy limit that we could do nothing but laugh as, instead of four things spread out from any of the buckets, she took four things. from several buckets. all at once.
  • one teenager who asked us how our night has been and when asked the same, took a look at the table and said "it just got a whole lot better" while rubbing his hands

kids are so funny

#my kid, when smol, many years ago: "I love all these people who are giving me candy. I love them sideways eight!"

#we had just learned the symbol for infinity, see...

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A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."

Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.

VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.

NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

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reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

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many posts i want to make but i don't have the energy to make them in detail or to fend off the foolish misinterpretations.

I must tell y'all sometime about the Hybrid Cattails... Typha x glauca they are so fucking mean to her.,.god forbid women do anything

fuck it

  • there are multiple species of Cattails all around the world
  • USA's main one is the native Typha latifolia the broad leafed cattail. It likes fresh water
  • There is another cattail called Typha angustifolia the narrow leafed cattail. It likes brackish (kinda-salty) water. We thought it was invasive for a while but it is probably native too.
  • Recently, the two species of cattails have started to breed with each other and form a hybrid called Typha x glauca.
  • The Hybrid Cattail is considered to be invasive.
  • Wait a minute...
  • If both parents are native species, how is the offspring invasive?
  • Well, the theory is, Typha angustifolia likes brackish water and Typha latifolia likes fresh water, so the two species did not have much of an opportunity to meet and form offspring. UNTIL...
  • In the northern part of the USA, there is lots of snow in the winter, so when humans built roads to drive cars on, they needed a way to melt the snow so it would be safe to travel. So every winter, the northern roads are coated with massive quantities of salt.
  • But all that salt has to go somewhere...and that somewhere is into the waterways and wetlands.
  • So, in those polluted waterways and wetlands, a cattail that likes its water salty might have a grand old time. Therefore Typha angustifolia was able to move inland, hybridize with Typha latifolia, and form the hybrid cattail
  • That's the theory, anyway. We don't really know if it's true.
  • At any rate, the Hybrid Cattail displays hybrid vigor, the quality seen in some hybrids like mules where the offspring has superior qualities to either of its parents. It is much more aggressive and can grow to 12 feet tall and form MASSIVE stands of cattails that outcompete all other plants.
  • The Hybrid Cattail has also invented a weird new survival strategy. Cattails, as you may know, grow in the shallow water at the edges of ponds and marshes, and they spread by rhizomes, which are horizontal stems that grow buried in the mud.
  • Like with other plants, the roots of cattails need access to oxygen so they can do cellular respiration, and the leaves of cattails need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. This is why cattails usually can only grow in shallow water, and why most plants can't grow in water at all!
  • Wait, did you just say "usually?"
  • Well first I have to explain how cattails can grow in water. In a strategy similar to many other aquatic plants, cattails have air passages in the parts of their stems and leaves that grow underwater, so there can be exchange of gases needed for cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Make sense?
  • So cattail rhizomes have air pockets in them. And somehow, for some reason, the hybrid cattails have figured out that instead of growing rhizomes in the mud in the shallow water, they can just use the air pockets to make their rhizomes float on top of the water.
  • So the hybrid cattails can form enormous floating cattail mats far away from shore—and sometimes they break off from shore and form a floating cattail island in the middle of a lake
  • That's fucking awesome—
  • —I mean bad. Because they're invasive. Right? So we have to get rid of them? Right?
  • Yeah so... hybrid cattails are realy aggressive and dominate wetlands that used to be more diverse...but cattails are not bad. In fact they're keystone species. Lots of birds and amphibians NEED cattails for it to be a good habitat for them to breed. Cattails filter the water, protect against erosion, and they are even useful for just about every human need. The leaves are great materials for weaving, the juice has medicinal properties, the rhizome is starchy like a potato and edible, and the fluff forms great pillow stuffing. Native Americans used cattails for thousands of years.
  • But state websites and conservation organizations tell people hybrid cattails are invasive and you should kill them.
  • Hopefully in an environmentally friendly way, right?
  • ...HERBICIDES?
  • Oh, of course, "be sure to follow the labels and make sure what you're using is safe to apply near waterways." As if people can be trusted to read and take the labels seriously—and as if the companies can be trusted to accurately label their toxic shit, or even test it on non-target organisms like aquatic invertebrates! And anyway, almost all common herbicides are NOT safe to use ANYWHERE near water because they are lethally toxic to aquatic life
  • Oh yeah by the way
  • Hybrid and native cattails are fucking impossible to tell apart in the field by looking. Even experts have a 75% failure rate. You have to basically sequence their DNA
  • so websites tell people to identify the cattails based on "aggressive behavior" even though that is completely subjective
  • same websites also say "basically every cattail in our state is hybrid"
  • cool. so a blank check to go killing a keystone species because it happens to be an aggressive super-cattail more powerful than regular cattails.
  • One site tells the story of how a conservation project rounded up a floating cattail island SIX ACRES BIG and...destroyed it.
  • wait, isn't this a plant that is edible and useful for literally everything? and you just fucking...wasted it? Six acres? Imagine just...burning six acres of an edible crop that also produces medicine and weaving materials. That's what you just did
  • imagine a crop that you can grow ON WATER
  • And it filters the water
  • I look on google scholar for articles about hybrid cattail. A recent article moans that just going on and killing a bunch of cattail isn't enough to Restore Nature Forever and you have to keep going in there and breaking up the cattail mats and ripping out the cattails to maintain biodiversity
  • So...nature produced a version of a useful crop that was a keystone part of nature, but now extra vigorous and strong, so that it would actually need to be regularly harvested by humans for biodiversity to thrive the best.
  • Listen
  • I think this is the opposite of a problem.

this is one of MANY examples where the silly eurocentric idea of "Pure Untouched Nature" and "Land used by Humans for human needs" being totally separate, just falls apart

We will need to harvest the cattails to maintain biodiversity...so why would we use poison on them or rip them out and destroy them, when they can take care of our needs?

Imagine destroying a perfectly good resource only to use farm land in some other place to fulfill your needs, because of silly ideas about Nature not being "For" you.

The cattail offers itself to us in the time of need...

This is also an example of how complicated the concept of "invasive species" can actually be

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