McFarius

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[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They're working for something better than money. Exposure! Don't you know working for such a big name will do better things for their career than money! At least, that's what they tell artists.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is fair, I would call that a bit of perspective, bit not unfair perspective. Yes, it did take significant disasters to make the mistakes apparent, so who's to say if anybody would've noticed or how much of a problem they would've been.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Not a problem. To me, nuclear power is the answer to the mantra of "technology will solve the climate crisis," and we've had it for years, yet we're too afraid to use it!

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 75 points 6 months ago (30 children)

Nuclear powerplants are so safe that they've only had a handful of (admittedly disastrous and high profile) failures, and have killed less people per watt hour generated than even wind and solar power. Nuclear power is the safest, cleanest, most efficient form of green energy we can get right now. Yes, it can be dangerous if not managed properly. But Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island were not freak accidents. Deliberate mistakes were made that were known at the time and should be used as warnings to keep the industry safe, not as sirens that lead is to swear off nuclear energy.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

I don't understand. Is this a comment on Trump, Cheney, or the average voter?

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm just saying you don't want to trade the swamp king for the swamp princess. That was just an example of the things Liz Cheney believes in.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You don't want Liz Cheney's help. This isn't an enemy of my enemy situation, or a lesser of two evils. You'd be trading one bad for a different but equally bad. You want to go back to Iraq and Afghanistan? She'd put us back in Iraq and Afghanistan if she could.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's the expected shipping timeline on batch 18?

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Really early on, with the original castle sets, where all the wall pieces were yellow. I believe the space sets were the first grey bricks.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The LEGO group has always been protective of their brand and nervous about being associated with potentially violent content, turning down a partnership with the Halo games because of that. For years, they didn't want to make grey bricks because they were afraid kids would use them to build tanks. All this to say, this seems pretty on brand for the LEGO group.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Because the US military is a heavily politicized institution now, and if we try to spend money that even slightly departs from the way Congress wants, they quickly step in and make a media spectacle of it, talking about how we've gone woke. It's why we can't get the electric vehicles we've been talking about buying for years, why we can't get rid of the planes we want to, and why we end up with ridiculously expensive procurement projects that we basically don't want by time they're all said and done.

[–] McFarius@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Did not know this fork exists. Thank you for enlightening my day, Internet stranger.

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