I could be mistaken but doesn’t u238 go down the full alpha decay chain ending in lead206 albeit with a few random beta minus decays thrown in that also shouldn’t penetrate glass?

Part of it is the decay frequency but also how it decays. Uranium238 does an alpha decay that can’t penetrate the glass

I put livable wage in quotation marks because it wouldn’t actually be a livable wage. The pay would likely be 1-2x minimum wage which is still not livable in most places

The presence of a livable wage doesn’t affect any of those though?

The employer still pays FICA on tipped revenue, and paying for insurance has nothing to do with their wage

Best service I received was in Japan without tipping

Servers don’t want the system to change as they make more money with tips than they would from a “livable wage”

If you don’t want to accept a present for your child because you think it’s bad then you say that. When a person offers a gift to your child and your immediate response is that you plan on selling it that makes you a dick

Also how is this family both so poor that they need to sell the shoes for groceries but also so selective where they don’t want a practically new pair of popular mainstream shoes

I saw it posted on other social media and did just parrot what I read

But upon further examination I found this quote which is not definitive but they are asserting a very easily disprovable claim which makes me side with the victims as I would assume that the police would try and get the video of the shoplifting out if they had it

“Wiley denied police claims that her friend was shoplifting, and said the purchase of baby diapers was likely caught on camera in the self-checkout. She added she had not been charged by police.”

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2026/06/17/mississippi-mother-speaks-after-mississippi-police-officer-shoots-1-year-old-kohen-wiley/90593788007/

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/kohen-wiley-senatobia-shooting-mother/522-67b5ce4a-ed9c-4d0e-b4e8-10e54d2717a7

She wasn’t shoplifting… she had a receipt for the diapers

Then they should be happy that someone else gave a present to their son so they don’t need to buy shoes for them, not talking about selling a present designated for their child…

The plants then die and release that CO2

Turning it into a mineral means it won’t just be released

A paper from around a decade ago talked about using WiFi to identify key strokes so with large data models we have today I would assume they could get pretty good fidelity on a person. Maybe not enough for “beyond a reasonable doubt” but probably enough where your WiFi company is selling your data on what you do at home

To be fair neutrons are usually harder to block. Lead has a tenth thickness of 2” for gammas whereas the smallest tenth thickness for neutrons is around 6” for borated poly and the most common shields are water at 10” and concrete at 14”

So yeah it is different but overall it takes much thicker shields to block neutrons than gammas

Myth of Sisyphus is a great book if you want to lean into the absurdism

Modern subs are almost all nuclear powered so less of the diesel smell (still some from lubricants) but nuclear subs can be underwater for weeks at a time so they have to scrub the air which is an imperfect process that leads to some funky smells

If you remove the thermostat and redline it in a garage it still won’t be able to keep up because it doesn’t have the airflow that’s required

The concept of closed loop cooling for servers has always existed and it works for home computers. What is conventionally called closed loop cooling just means that you transfer heat from the computer to a liquid and then from the liquid to air. Transferring 100MW of heat to the air is what makes this difficulty especially in a stationary computer.

We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system

The problem is the rate that it leaves the local system is faster than the rate it returns so in the long term the local systems lose water. If you want to look at it even deeper it’s actually sooo much worse as it also causes local droughts which kill flora which then cause less water to be stored in the local system which then kills more flora and so on as you get desertification and then by pumping down aquifers those aquifers can collapse and never hold the same water that they used to hold

So yes it does fall back to the ground but that’s an explanation for a 10 year old learning about the water cycle. An adult should be aware of how much more damaging it is

Car cooling systems are stupidly expensive, run at temps that would damage computer CPUs, run outside, and have a really nice advantage over computers which is that at higher heat loads they also tend to go faster thus cooling them off faster.

Now imagine you redlined a dozen cars for days on end in a garage in the middle of the summer do you think you might damage some components?

It is still very possible to use closed loop cooling on data centers but any system you build needs to be able to work in summer temps which can be as high as 35-40C and needs to do that without letting the computers exceed 60C. An air cooled system to handle that much heat is going to be very expensive and use a ton of power (and power generation also uses water)

People mentioned corrosion which is true of all sea water systems but in evaporative systems you also have the addition of salt forming on all the evaporative surfaces which can drastically increase corrosion more than normal seawater and cause fouling

So to do this properly you would want an RO system making freshwater before the cooler which at that point it would make more sense to just have a separate company doing desalination.