Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Witkoff promised Russian aides he could sway Trump, pressure Ukraine into peace deal in secret phone recording -- HUR exposes foreign-made backbone of Russia’s Shahed-107 drone striking Ukraine’s front line -- Drones strike Russia’s Cheboksary, reports say electronic warfare plant hit again -- Ukraine reportedly destroys 2 Russian aircraft, including rare A-60 laser platform ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/wednesday-november-26-2025/

@swoop I still find it insulting to the physics to use precious heavy metals.just to boil water and make a turbine go brrr...

  • Besides pebble bed reactors are a bs design and given how "P.R." #China was unable to make precise roller balls gor ballpoint pens until not so long ago, I doubt they fixed designs proven to be extremely unreliable

It's cheaper and overall better to invest in Renewables given that it'll be always easier, faster and more sustainable to install the same power in #renewables than #nuclear by virtue if being simpler!

THTR-300 - Wikipedia

Shit like this is why I think #BEVs using #LiIon / #LiPo / #LiCo #batteries are a mistake only topped by #Tetraetyllead and #Freon / #CFC11 when it comes to the #Envoirment and #Safety!

Dave Rahardja (@drahardja@sfba.social)

Attached: 1 video The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. The thought of launching a one-ton battery pack presently ejecting streams of hot flaming gases ten meters away is as horrifying as it is hilarious. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

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Freon - Wikipedia

@pgcd I beg to differ:
#ThomasMidgley did way more harm as an individual...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia

Dang that is a good lookin' desktop. After some more tinkering, I think I have the perfect set up on the lil' ol' #Macbook. The extensions for #Gnome that are currently in use are: #DashToDock, #OpenBar, #Freon, #TopHat and Places. The icons and additional theming are #Numix Circle.
Finally got #aircon fixed ​

It was the shortage of
#freon all along ​

"One hundred years after that stunt before the press in 1924, the planet is still recovering from the ill effects of both of Midgley’s inventions."

Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889-1944), "the man who almost destroyed the planet (twice)," "the man who harmed the world the most," "one of twentieth-century America's most dangerous men, even to himself." (these quotes from other web pages about the man)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html

#gasoline #freon #poison #environment

@photodarren I had heard of this guy. I forgot he was the inventor of two of the worst (in a long list) inventions in the history of humans. Arguably though, it was capitalist organizations who are responsible for the damage. If they had stuck with his first discovery, regardless of the lack of profit, a great deal of death and suffering could have been avoided.

#Freon #LeadedGasoline #LeadPoisoning #CFC #OzoneLayer #EnvironmentalDisasters #capitalism

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haha, new account because I forgot my old password 20 m

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