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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ve used Comcast and CenturyLink. I would say CenturyLink, while not perfect, is miles better than Comcast. I pay $70 for gigabit: symmetric, no data cap, never had an outage, monthly contract. Only had to deal with support once when I was returning their router.

    Comcast had shitty uploads, long contracts, data caps, outages, shitty support, would call me randomly trying to sell me TV plans. I had a Comcast tech cut random wires in the network closet for my building and gave me an outage when I was using Starry, they’re beyond horrible.




  • Interesting, I’ll have to look at the source article.

    But as far as I’m aware the total amount of nuclear power has been decreasing in recent years. This might change with China’s future plants.

    I’ve also read about small modular reactor designs gaining traction, which would help alleviate the heavy costs of one off plants we currently design and build.

    Not saying the source is wrong, just saying that’s what I used to form my opinion.


  • I think that’s too simplistic of a view. Part of the high cost of nuclear is because of the somewhat niche use. As with everything, economies of scale makes things cheaper. Supporting one nuclear plant with specialized labor, parts, fuel, etc is much more expensive then supporting 100 plants, per Watt.

    I can’t say more plants would drastically reduce costs. But it would definitely help.



  • I think we’ll be in bad shape when you can’t trust any opinions about products, media, politics, etc. Sure, shills currently exists, so everything you read already needs skepticism. But at some point bots will be able to flood very high quality posts. But these will of course be lies to push a product or ideology. The truth will be noise.

    I do think this is inevitable, and the only real guard would be to move back to smaller social circles.