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pointers posted:wow lol CANDU reactors are fantastic. they can run off completely unenriched natural uranium, nuclear waste that comes out of other reactors, old nuclear bombs, and even thorium in the mythical thorium economy. they are also very difficult to melt down and don't produce anything that could be used in a nuclear bomb except tritium, which is necessary for thermonuclear devices, but if you have all the stuff required to make the rest of a hydrogen bomb you can make tritium with your eyes closed i mean sure each reactor needs like a billion dollars' worth of heavy water but lol if your country doesn't have tens of thousands of deep lakes with lots of the stuff hanging around at the bottom the whole world could run on CANDUs forever
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qntm posted:just windmills everywhere, I like windmills *skips maintenance because lol money, turbine spins itself out of control during a heavy wind and the brakes fail, turbine explodes into pieces from sheer force* *designs lovely maintenance shafts, workers trying to maintain it burn to death after calling their loved ones on a cell because there's no escape* still a better option than anything else we got besides solar maybe hydroelectric kicks a lotta butt too but loving with damns basically reams any wildlife or cities or water rights situations going on so lol good luck with that I don't actually know anything though so whatever
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seriously what the gently caress harper. canada used to have some of the world's best nuclear scientists, aerospace engineers, roboticists, and other high tech industry. all those scottish immigrants don't ya know (scots have always been the world's best engineers). thanks a lot for defunding basic research in favor of ripping poo poo out of the ground you huge rear end in a top hat
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qirex posted:yes, what you do is the most important thing in the word *pats on head* it kind of is though, sanitation is pretty much the first loving thing any civilization needs to get in order
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computer parts posted:is Nevada the Midwest now anything not on the coast or The South is the mdiwest.
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duTrieux. posted:it kind of is though, sanitation is pretty much the first loving thing any civilization needs to get in order modern medicine wishes it had even half as large of an impact on human life expectancy
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i don't think you can really put one over the other...the greatest advance in human healthcare in history was probably germ theory because all of those things mentioned naturally grew out of it. keeping sewage contained, disinfecting drinking water, handwashing in hospitals and restaurants, sterilization of surgical tools, etc. you had cases like john snow deducing "there's something wrong with the water" but it took the discovery of microorganisms to actually understand the link between the people dying, the pump water, why boiled water was safe, etc
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too bad germ theory is just a theory and not, you know, actually a real thing
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just poo poo in the woods and dont live in the woods? i dont see the big problem here
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Sagebrush posted:i don't think you can really put one over the other...the greatest advance in human healthcare in history was probably germ theory because all of those things mentioned naturally grew out of it. keeping sewage contained, disinfecting drinking water, handwashing in hospitals and restaurants, sterilization of surgical tools, etc. you had cases like john snow deducing "there's something wrong with the water" but it took the discovery of microorganisms to actually understand the link between the people dying, the pump water, why boiled water was safe, etc nah people who study public health point directly to having pipes in the ground as the single largest determinant for life expectancy separating out your sewer runoff from your drinking water is the absolute primary thing that aid orgs do when they come in to either impoverished areas or the sites of natural disasters (or both like haiti) if your sewage isn't contained people poo poo themselves to death really quickly, usually starting with all of the children
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Sagebrush posted:i don't think you can really put one over the other...the greatest advance in human healthcare in history was probably germ theory because all of those things mentioned naturally grew out of it. keeping sewage contained, disinfecting drinking water, handwashing in hospitals and restaurants, sterilization of surgical tools, etc. you had cases like john snow deducing "there's something wrong with the water" but it took the discovery of microorganisms to actually understand the link between the people dying, the pump water, why boiled water was safe, etc do some googling about either hookworm in the south or the recently discovered link between sanitation and malnourishment in india even among the well-fed
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it seems stymie has passed the torch to sagebrush in recent weeks
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this is why i get mad at companies like google who are all "let's fly blimps with the internet to help developing coutnries!!!" when what they need is goddamn toilets and sewage infrastructure
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duTrieux. posted:do some googling about either hookworm in the south or the recently discovered link between sanitation and malnourishment in india even among the well-fed arkansas had such a serious historical hookworm problem that they were able to study the specific kind of retardation that an infestation does to you if present from walking age
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more people in the world have cell phones than do toilets.
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:it seems stymie has passed the torch to sagebrush in recent weeks im not really sure what people are taking offense with in my post?? i didn't say that sewage wasn't a big deal, just that understanding "germs are what cause disease" is probably even more important because it leads to "ok keep germy sewage away from people" and also dozens of other conclusions that improve public health
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duTrieux. posted:this is why i get mad at companies like google who are all "let's fly blimps with the internet to help developing coutnries!!!" when what they need is goddamn toilets and sewage infrastructure i really get pissy whenever someone mentions the One Laptop Per Child project for this reason because that' what people in the third world need. not clean water, or large-scale agricultural improvement projects, or physical school buildings with enoug textbooks and pencils for all the students, or meaningful governmental reform. laptops! cheap lovely laptops for everyone!
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what kind of cell phone do you use?
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hookworm is literally worse than hitler
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in non-tech [but still] bubble newsquote: The nation’s biggest life insurer by assets is weighing a legal showdown with the U.S. after a panel of regulators concluded it poses significant risks to the financial system and warrants tougher oversight.
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Sagebrush posted:i really get pissy whenever someone mentions the One Laptop Per Child project for this reason obligatory reminder that this project resorted to just throwing crates of the laptop out of helicopters near villages and then hoping for the best
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Sagebrush posted:im not really sure what people are taking offense with in my post?? i didn't say that sewage wasn't a big deal, just that understanding "germs are what cause disease" is probably even more important because it leads to "ok keep germy sewage away from people" and also dozens of other conclusions that improve public health i'm fascinated at how recent that development even is modern medicine is only around 150 years old (counting from the advent of vaccines is typical) and the study of public health in a proper statistical evidence-based sense is just 50 years old duTrieux. posted:this is why i get mad at companies like google who are all "let's fly blimps with the internet to help developing coutnries!!!" when what they need is goddamn toilets and sewage infrastructure yes but you see once they have high speed internet floating around in their air then and only then the global economy can work its tendrils into the area and elevate them all out of poverty with jobs like resource extraction
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qirex posted:in non-tech [but still] bubble news metlife is right, they should be free isn't this america?
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all those kidnapped nigerian girls could use the OLPC laptops to post help messages to Facebook
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Sagebrush posted:i really get pissy whenever someone mentions the One Laptop Per Child project for this reason if they get the internet they can raise funding and disrupt the local economy and elect their chosen officials
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also because the OLPC project was supported in the majority by their deal where you spent 200 dollars and get one laptop for yourself and one goes to peru or wherever, and the only people doing that were horrible fuckin open sores spergholes who just wanted the laptop to sperg around with because it's open source and runs gnu plus linux and it's ONLY A HUNDRED DOLLARS, ie the same people who buy garbage android tablets for 49.95
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bassguitarhero posted:all those kidnapped nigerian girls could use the OLPC laptops to post help messages to Facebook
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duTrieux. posted:hookworm is literally worse than hitler in 30 years it went from infecting 3.5 million people a year to 138 good work jimmy 
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bassguitarhero posted:all those kidnapped nigerian girls could use the OLPC laptops to post help messages to Facebook did the kidnappers use pickup trucks
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:it seems stymie has passed the torch to sagebrush in recent weeks Stymie is right though.
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Citizen Tayne posted:Stymie is right though. stymie's never right don't quote or compliment anime dog tits
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there are a couple former olpc people at current job, they're good people
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fritz posted:there are a couple former olpc people at current job, they're good people were they on the helicopter squads
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FMguru posted:the greatest living american (jimmy carter) has almost singlehandedly eliminated hookworm's cousin (guinea worm) in africa it still blows my mind that he won a us presidential election.
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Citizen Tayne posted:Stymie is right though. i'm basically always right, you just disagree with me
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i'm not always right, but i'm never wrong
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Carly Fiorina is laying the groundwork for what one ally says is an "imminent" presidential campaign—one that could launch as early as next month. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who raised her political profile with a failed run against Sen. Barbara Boxer of California in 2010, has frequently been mentioned as a long-shot contender to seek the Republican presidential nomination. The speculation is driven by equal parts novelty and activity: Fiorina, who paid several high-profile visits to early-nominating states in 2014, acknowledged that she would likely be the only woman in the GOP field. "Look, I think it would be great if we had female candidates—or candidate," Fiorina told National Journal earlier this year. Fiorina is now poised to become that candidate. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation, she has authorized members of her inner circle to seek out and interview candidates for two key positions on her presidential campaign: political director and communications director. Notably, the sources said, her associates are aiming to fill both positions with women.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKWlOxhSIKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKlc77K5dg
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Sagebrush posted:CANDU reactors are fantastic. they can run off completely unenriched natural uranium, nuclear waste that comes out of other reactors, old nuclear bombs, and even thorium in the mythical thorium economy. they are also very difficult to melt down and don't produce anything that could be used in a nuclear bomb except tritium, which is necessary for thermonuclear devices, but if you have all the stuff required to make the rest of a hydrogen bomb you can make tritium with your eyes closed i loving love CANDU's so much gently caress you if you dont love nuclear power
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