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  • The walls get hot, you absorb the heat from the walls with a fluid. You use the fluid to heat water, you use the steam to drive a turbine, you use the turbine to turn a permanent magnet inside of a coil of wire. In addition, you can capture neutrons using a liquid metal (lithium) which heats the lithium, which heats the walls, which heats the water, which makes steam, which drives a turbine, which generates electricity.

    If you poured water onto them they wouldn’t explode. 100 million degrees Celsius doesn’t mean much when the mass is so low compared to the mass of the water.







  • No, it’s recognizing that tinkering means different things now.

    In the 80s and 90s, if you were learning computers you had no choice but to understand how the physical machine worked and how software interacted with it. Understanding the operating system, and scripting was required for essentially any task that wasn’t in the narrow collection of tasks where there was commercial software. There was essentially one path (or a bunch of paths that were closely related to each other) for people interested in computers.

    That just isn’t the case now. There are more options available and many (most?) of them are built on top of software that abstracts away the underlying complexity. Now, a person can use technology and never need to understand how it works. Smartphones are an excellent example of this. People learn to use iOS or Android without ever knowing how it works, they deal with the abstractions instead of the underlying bits that were used to create it.

    For example, If you want to play games, you press a button in Steam and it installs. If you want to stream your gaming session to millions of people, you install OBS and enter your Twitch credentials. You don’t need to understand graphical pipelines, codecs, networking, load balancing, or worry about creating client-side applications for your users. Everything is already created for you.

    There are more options available in technology and it is completely expected that people distribute themselves amongst those options.




  • You’re just confused and don’t understand the terminology of the software that you’re using…

    The Original Poster made a post about a specific person. In the Comment Section there are many people responding to the OP. Each of these comments form a thread. The thread consists of people replying to the person above them.

    The thread is the context of conversation, as all replies in the thread are a reply to a reply, etc to the person making the first comment in the thread.


    The first comment, in this thread in which we’re conversing, is:

    Nazis are shitbags, yes, but like, calm down a bit. Don’t stoop down to their level.

    Notice how it is talking about a group of people and not a single person.

    I’m talking about a group of people and not a single person.

    In this thread, which followed the comment that I just quoted, we’re talking about a group of people and not a single person.

    You seem to be confused and think we’re having a conversation with the OP, who has not commented in this thread.


  • You’re ‘just talking’ right now.

    If you didn’t believe that talking worked and violence is the only answer, then why are you here talking?

    Are you a hypocrite, or just a coward?

    You’re only wasting time and talking reckless so that you feel better about being helpless. You have no idea how to navigate the situation and, like everyone since the beginning of time, you resort to thinking that someone should do violence instead of talking.

    But not you, no, you’re just going to hide behind a keyboard and anonymity and talk about violence.

    The people encouraging violence are often the first target of the secret police in fascist takeovers and I highly doubt that you have more than a flimsy door between you and the goon squad that’ll be kicking it in at 3am.

    At the end of the day by openly and wrecklessly talking about violence, you’ve alienated allies and made yourself a target.

    This isn’t a game.



  • It isn’t a race to the bottom.

    You’re not going to win moderate people to your side by labeling them Nazis.

    It’s a mistake to find the most extreme opinions in a group and use them to label the entire group. Just because outrage and self-righteousness feels good, doesn’t mean it’s actually accomplishing anything.

    The kinds of statements, like in the OP, are just a form of public masturbation. You’re just yelling into the void for the pleasure and mental rush.

    If your goal is to defeat right-wing nationalists, you need to convince the undecided people and that isn’t happening if you’re just ranting like a crazy person because your brain is addicted to upvotes and outrage.