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  • Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are EXPERIMENTAL. That means for one there is no typical design, let alone good ones. And beyond the BS that Nuclear is clean, it isn’t, they could make regular reactors that take nuclear fuel that is spent and process it back up, the ones that the Canadian Governments have been talking about would be "Oh this module fails, so pull it out and put a brand new one in, which is made like current reactors and generate waste.

    This means that every SMR that goes up is a TEST reactor and they have to figure out new best practices, not to mention the human factor of running the plants. There are reasons why Nuclear Scientists have been “No nuclear facilities in residential areas” and for “Best Practices in Plant Construction and Design” which they never are.

    And as it is standard plants always have huge cost overruns and mid build redesigns.

    Meanwhile although the cost of Solar and Wind is at a all time low, and the down sides of wind are a fraction of what we thought they were, we are still going to need Nuclear to bridge the gap to decarbonizing the economy and that means the best designs, whether they are SMR, Standard, or Thorium Based, and an affordable maintenance system with VASTLY better maintenance, and then deploy that, and not this "Oh we will throw the Uranium at the wall and see what sticks and that we can use to get soft power in other countries. That will come if you do your job right.

    This government… I tell you…


  • I think it is a chat app that is holding on by a thread, that thread being the network effect. If that cracks and it offers something like Reddit’s Community solutions but only to Search Engines, and it will collapse. Too much to manager for the server admins, to complicated for half of the casual users. Not enough income sources. Now it is leaning into ID Checking everyone and that had more than half its user base looking elsewhere.


  • WolvenSpectre@lemmy.catoCasual UK@feddit.ukClue is in the name
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    10 days ago

    I watched several documentaries over the years that said it is because at the time Football Clubs were referred to as Social Clubs and the team was just part of the Social Club. The clubs were referred to as “Socs” pronounced like the footwear Socks, and the Teams would play what was referred to a s “Soccer” as in Sock-er. Then this got exported to various people in North America, mostly from the South and West of England. Then it fell out of usage in England but no one told us over here in North America so we kept using the term.




  • First Party title is the one who develops it. The Second Party is the Publisher/Distributor of the product. The First party can choose to Self Publish/Distribute, but that would make them still a First Party. The majority of professionally made games are Published or Distributed by third parties, often for partial or complete funding of the game while in development. The Third Party is the one who you typically buy a game from. But not only ones that you buy a game from. The other form of ‘parties’ comes from not the business side of things but from the consumer side. The deal is between you and who you buy the game from. That could be the developer but more typically is from a digital store like Steam, Epic, GOG, and so on. In that case Steam would be the First Party and you would be the Second Party and if you installed something like Playnite that would be a Third Party Launcher. Then further on you have the “Game Keys” route where the parties change again.

    The whole thing is that the “First Party” and so on comes from contract law in businesses that bled into common usage especially with how common First, Second, Third Person was with video game characters point of view, although it is entirely different. Who is First or Third party is entirely based upon point of view and relativity which is why they actually spell out which is which and what they mean by it in the beginning of legal documents.