Man I can't keep the narrative straight, are western countries supposed to be responsible for most of the rebellions in the world or are they supposed to be opposed to rebellions?

TL;DR: Pray.

Realistically they couldn't do anything short of become a Chinese protectorate. Trump and his psychos wouldn't be constrained by the civilian-death-minimizing ROEs that the US historically uses and which have enabled guerilla warfare as a viable strategy (yes I'm being serious) so there's next to nothing that could be done in an actual hot conflict. There'll be american deaths, especially because these fuckwits will absolutely attempt something like an opposed landing because it'll look badass, but Venezuela lacks a viable path for denying the US air supremacy and once you lose that there's not much left that can be done.

It's an impossible premise, and it will remain that way for even the speculatively distant future. People riffing off that is not a sign of the moral failing of lemmy, you need to calm down.

Given that the radiation of nuclear waste has frequency way higher than UV, why can’t it be used to feed a photoelectric generator?

You're probably using one of these right now (albeit indirectly)! They're called Photovoltaic nuclear batteries and they're critical to modern encryption. They ensure that encryption keys, which are stored in highly volatile memory (memory where if power is ever lost the contents are immediately erased), never lose power unless the memory modules are physically disconnected.

The reason they're not used more extensively is that they just don't produce very much power - the high-energy electromagnetic radiations are very difficult to harness constructively (things like gamma and X-rays) and as a result we have to do some weird physics stuff to convert them. PVN batteries convert particle radiation, beta radiation from tritium decay specifically, into usable photons via a thin coating of phosphorus on the glass, instead of them being captured directly.

(this is a wild oversimplification just to be clear)

I think this is more to visualize the size of the ascent on K2, rather than the true size of the mountain.

"Belgian" the breed of draught horses, I suppose that was a bit unclear. They're the only genre of horse I nominally get along with - in temperament they are extremely large, on the whole they are quite calmly amiable and they just enjoy doing their job in a way that I always found very reassuring as a child.

Also made the very wise decision, as a group, to not mind the cold - which is good, because if the damn things decide they don't want to do something (like go outside for walkies) there is no power in heaven or earth that can convince them to do it. "Obstinate" does not even begin to describe them.

... the counterpoint to that is, if they do decide to do something (like, say, go into the next meadow because it looks softer or they heard a rumor there might be girls or they got the vaguest notion that you don't want them to go over there) you cannot prevent it. Growing up we had electric fences to keep the coyotes out of various places (wouldn't kill, but it would ruin several hours of your day if you leaned on one ask me how I know) and a Belgain will casually stroll through them legitimately without noticing.

Tethers? snapped. Fences? Get fucked, find me a post that can withstand two tons of casual and completely innocent leaning for more than a minute. Ditch? All Terrain Legs. Property lines? Extremely conveniently they are Too Stupid To Understand. This gets doubly frustrating when you are the one to have to go out and splice the fences back together because Daisy saw some hitherto unmolested patch of dirt that sung out to them to be defiled with horse poop and stomping.

The fuck am I supposed to do? I've been organizing, I've been to protests, I've done everything I can to head this disaster off. I'll be fine throughout this and I'll do what I can to take care of the innocents who're going to suffer, but what the fuck else is there to do? Clearly people either want this, or don't care enough to try and stop it. So, fuck it. They can reap what they sow. Maybe this will wake some of them up, or they'll all fucking die of the next big pandemic and then they won't be a problem any more.

This feels like one of those things that sounds really reasonable but is, in fact, complete bullshit.

Seriously, last ECCC someone tried to bring their kids in to the late-night 'how to photograph models in latex' panel. I just can't imagine what it must be like to be a person who not only thinks that's a fine idea (it was even listed as 18+ only) but thinks it's such a fine idea they should spend a solid five minutes angrily arguing with a volunteer about it.

(good panel though!)

IDK, this one seems pretty unsurprising. That's a damned tiny package, I can't really see another way of fastening it together.

Now if it were me, that would be a reason not to make the damn thing in the first place but what do I know...

Whats happening. The dems are bantering. This isn't how this works, they're supposed to roll over and disappoint us. They know that. That's been their entire strategy. Is this what optimism feels like?

As much as I loathe m$, the one thing they got right was forcing casual users (windows home) to install security updates as top priority, whether they like it or not. I know we all hate on windows, and rightly so, but that policy does nullify this particular vector and that is great for the consumer-level users.

(... for the sake of argument lets just pretend windows doesnt have 10,000 other vulns the malware devs can just exploit instead)