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This may be a "hot" one, considering lots of people do not like anything nuclear. If you would want to know my "bias", well I have always been "pro nuclear". So if you want to take this claim with huge mountains of salts, feel free to do so.

Here is a relevant wiki article for radiation hormesis. This is a proposed effect that certain amounts of radiation exposure may even be beneficial instead of harmful as LNT may suggest.

TL;DW for folks who do not want to watch video (I have not included examples or numbers)

• Radiation from natural sources (like radioactive bananas you eat, or from soil or space) are always present.

• Most nuclear safety guidelines consider that there are no "safe limits" of exposure to radiation. For example, there are safe limits of some metals in our body, there is no limit for mercury or lead exposure. There is a required amount of vitamins you need, but there is also a limit beyond which they are not safe. Radiation is treated like mercury in guidelines.

• If it has no safe limits, then due to natural exposure, places with higher background exposure must have naturally higher rates of cancers developing - but the thing is, experiments and data collected does not match.

• Your body has natural means to repair damage done by radiation, and below a certain limit, your body can withstand (and arguably benefit, see the linked article) the radiation.

• Over estimating danger due to radiation leads to large scale paranoia, and leads to general public be scared of nuclear disasters, when they are not as bad ast they may seem.

And pre-emptively answering some questions I am expecting to get

• Do you support nuclear bombs? Hell no. We should stop making all kinds of bombs, not just nuclear.

Are there not better means of renewable energy generation like

• solar? - no, you still need rare erath metals, you need good quality silicon, and you need a lot of area. Until we have a big "stability" bump in perovskite solar cells, it is not the best way. is it better than fossil fuel? everything is better than fossil fuel for practical purposes.

• wind? geothermal? - actually pretty good. but limited to certain geographies. if you can make them, they are often the best options.

• hydro? - dams? not so much. There are places where they kinda make sense, for example really high mountains with barely any wildlife or people. otherwise, they disturb the ecosystem a lot, and also not very resistant to things like earthquakes or flooding, and in those situations, they worsen the sitaution.

change my mind

I'm sad that this is worth mentioning. But if you are dealing with hunger amid threats to SNAP benefits, rice and beans are very cheap per meal and can be bought in bulk. Here's some tricks I've learned:

If you get dried beans, make sure you follow the directions to pre-soak them. Canned beans are easier to prepare, just dump in near the end of cooking to heat them up. Dried lentils don't need to be pre-soaked, but I prefer to cook them separately and drain the water they boil in.

Brown rice, barley, or other whole grains have much more protein than white rice and I find them more filling. Whole grains take longer to cook than white grains.

Frying diced onions in the pot before adding the grains and water is an easy way to kick the flavor up a notch. Use a generous amount of cooking oil (light olive oil is healthiest) for cost effective calories and help making the meal more filling.

Big carrots or celery in bulk are pretty cheap too. I like to dice carrots by partially cutting length wise into quarters, but leave the small end intact to keep the carrot together to make it easier to dice down the side. Add them to the same pot as the grains after the grains start to soften. Beets are also great; skin and cube then boil separately until soft. Change up your veggie to get a mix of vitamins

Get some bulk garlic powder, hot sauce, paprika, cumin, crushed red pepper, black pepper, etc. Season and salt the pot to taste.

You'll only need 1-2 pots and a cutting knife/board for veggies.

I recommend Harvard's Nutrition Source for science-based nutrition information and they have some recipes too

Edit: discussing big changes in diet with a primary care doctor or registered dietician is generally a good idea.

Probiotic supplements may help with gas.

As a bonus this sort of meal has a very small environmental footprint.

Literally the only wiki-based media repository out there.

One is bonkers but all are slippery slope in how the answers will be used to eliminate canidates (meant to post this last month but sorta forgot):

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.

2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.

3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.

4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples, and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

And it should work with practically any browser in existence. It's also one of the few websites still using HTML 4.01.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37585524

source of quote in title

page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

In 1884 the first Yemenites settled in Silwan and for 45 years lived peacefully and in very good terms with their Arab neighbors. It seemed that the people of Silwan, which was known to be a poor village, found common ground with the poor Jewish Yemenites that lived among them.

Despite the attempt to depict the 1929 Arab Riot as a violent incident against the Jews in Silwan, it is clear that it was not the case. From a letter of gratitude that the Yemenite Jews sent to their Arab neighbors, we can learn about the devotion and benevolence that the Arabs have shown towards the Yemenites by undauntedly protecting them, and also about the amity and good neighborly relations that prevailed between the two communities.

"This student, like many others, isn’t just responding to an immediate economic calculation. He’s also caught in an invisible (and increasingly visible) demographic force: America is running out of people his age. Even if colleges fixed their cost and value proposition tomorrow — even if tuition dropped and job prospects improved — there would still be fewer students like him to fill seats. We are hitting peak 18-year-old, and the decline is just beginning."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37036228

Arial comparison of Gaza over the last 22 months of genocide.

They have an interactive map to find nearby little free libraries near you. You can use their map here.

It's a good day to buy some music and directly support artists.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32580759

Why you should know: the price hike of Xbox GamePass caused their unsubscribe page to crash. This could lead to someone putting it off and immediately forgetting, then getting charged for the next pass against their wishes. Cutting payment at the source will piss off Xbox and they'll auto kick you off anyway

https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/gaza_blockade_mental_health_palestinian_children_2022.pdf

It is also concerning that in 2022, more than half of caregivers reported noticing a trend in harmful coping mechanisms among children and young people, including substance abuse, self-harm (59%) and suicidal thoughts (55%).

Non-youtube mirror: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=header-refresh&__goaway_id=abc75c6e815b76f4f3beac79bca740ef&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2F&v=cpuutP6Df84

Credit to Gurwinder Bhogal and Naval Ravikant

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46785145

my phone has been running at 60hz for YEARS and I just now learned that I just had to enable a setting. Why wasn't this enabled by default???

https://hiring.cafe/

Key Points:

• A bot regularly scrapes 4.1 million jobs directly from company websites and uses ChatGPT to summarize and categorize each job.

• Doesn't allow companies to post directly

• Bans recruiting agencies and 3rd party consulting shops (especially the offshore ones)

• There is a filter for "Easy or Lengthy apply" that lets you filter out applications links to sites like Workday, ICIMS, Taleo, and all the other shitty ones.

Why I like it so far:

• Your saved jobs are all on a single infinitely scrolling page (as opposed to LinkedIn that only shows you a few of your jobs per page

• Boolean filters- easily customizable boolean filters

• Saved searches and a daily digest of your saved searches to your inbox

• No promoted jobs like LinkedIn, no recruiter is posting jobs here, no shitty companies like Agoda spamming the board with Bangkok jobs listed in the wrong city.

Overall my job hunting process is much more streamlined. I created a few saved searches based on boolean filters and filtering out lengthy applications like Workday, then saved a bunch of jobs and hid the ones I don't like. The time savings is substantial and really fast and easy because of how streamlined the site is and also because of the lack of recruiter posted spam jobs and irrelevant 'promoted' jobs.

I was able to search for and apply for around 25 jobs in the time it takes me to find and apply for 10 on LinkedIn.

From one of the creators: My 2-year plan to destroy Indeed

Likes from logged in views do count, the like to view ratio is higher due to that.

A German YouTuber tested it with an unlisted video, I can’t find it as of now but I do find a lot of deleted videos in my liked ones…

Basic theory as of the time of the video is that they want to go against bot views. Short views did not decline, only long form video, and of those the people with mostly desktop views are hit the most.

Edit: found it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DZft_zLH4&t=1s