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CromleyOne of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
TomWilsonYEG@VoiceofDuum
Sponsored in part by the Government of Alberta - Protecting your income regardless of cost.
Heidi Li Feldman@VoiceofDuum I pay cash money to them too, though only for a digital subscription. Become a member of the Onion at any level and you get content via email. https://membership.theonion.com/ @lisamelton
Dienstag 🌻ANTIFASCHISMUS 👍🏼@VoiceofDuum
Forgot that, when she does, living on earth will end too, did they.
Gripping for (very weak) straws.
Forgot that, when she does, living on earth will end too, did they.
Gripping for (very weak) straws.
woe2you@Dienstag @VoiceofDuum That's the joke, yes.
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@VoiceofDuum can we be entirely sure this isn't a serious talking point among evangelicals who hate environmentalism
Martin Vermeer FCD@mxchara @VoiceofDuum Nah, this is a billions-of-years thing. They don't do billions of years.
@martinvermeer @VoiceofDuum they might think the Sun will explode tomorrow when Jesus comes back
Aerofreak | USA WTF?@VoiceofDuum
Eventually there will be nuclear winter. Where will your precious solar power be then?
Eventually there will be nuclear winter. Where will your precious solar power be then?
Arthur van der Harg@aerofreak @VoiceofDuum Some people have always said that nuclear energy would make the energy crisis go away.
@ArtHarg
Yes, because it would enable them to make the biggest profits imaginable, with all the subsidies and the passing on of all risks, including disposal, to the general public.
@aerofreak @VoiceofDuum No, more because a nuclear winter would come with a substantial reduction in demand for energy.
@ArtHarg
😂 Now I've got you.
Been a bit slow on the uptake.
Renke Meuwese
Morgan ⚧️@ArtHarg @aerofreak @VoiceofDuum it's worth remembering that nuclear power and nuclear weapons are drastically different things, and nuclear power is not going to cause nuclear winter unless a lot of things go wrong 😅 unironically, if nuclear winter happens and solar panels stop working, nuclear power might actually help with that 😭 here's hoping we never need to seriously have that discussion, because we focus on degrowth and also don't put all our energy eggs in one basket
@raphaelmorgan @aerofreak @VoiceofDuum The major difference between them is the timescale on which the nuclear energy is released. All the rest is either control or consequence :-)
xs4me2Hahaha!
Radioactive Ken 
@VoiceofDuum I think I might just have to start getting this in print now.
👽🐦🦇🐉💻@VoiceofDuum everywhere.
@VoiceofDuum *some re-assemble may be required.
Robin Syl 🌸
@VoiceofDuum TIL the onion still has a print version
Tzimisce Flesh@robinsyl @VoiceofDuum They push it quite hard these days.
Éris Serène 
@robinsyl @VoiceofDuum They reintroduced it recently, either 2025 or 2024
@VoiceofDuum this is good :)
Ignas Kiela@VoiceofDuum very pedantic note about the caption - I'm pretty sure thats cultivated rapeseed, not wildflowers
deny@VoiceofDuum
Is it a true ad? 😮
Is it a true ad? 😮
Euan Mason@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum No. In about 5 billion years the sun's core supply of H will have been mostly converted to He via nuclear fusion that currently provides us with energy, & then the sun will expand to become a red giant with its surface just inside the Earth's orbit. At that point the core will engage in a He -> C fusion reaction. After a few hundred million years the core will be choked up with C and then it will collapse to become a white dwarf star. 1/3 #astronomicalTruths
@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The most important determinant of stellar evolution is stellar mass. Massive blue stars run through fusion reactions up to Fe & then explode in supernovae, & the whole process takes just a few million years. Fe is the energy well of the universe. Fusion of lighter elements yields energy, while fission of heavier ones yields energy. Tiny red dwarfs don't reach the He -> C stage, but take hundreds of billions of years to become white dwarfs. 2/3 #astronomicalTruths
@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The key to these differences is that each successive fusion stage requires greater stellar core compression in order to overcome the natural repulsion between positively charged atomic nuclei of increasing mass & charge. Low mass stars can't generate the required core compressions for higher-level nuclear fusion reactions, & also lower compressions mean lower fusion reaction rates, hence the vastly longer lives of low mass stars. 3/3 #astronomicalTruths
Kevin P. Fleming@TreeStarMan @sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum 1,231 Internet points for completely missing the point of a humorous post.
Katakis Lives@VoiceofDuum Reminds me of HOLTOW's Sun Insurance ad on THE FINALS 
cobalt@VoiceofDuum @dabertime I’ve subscribed to print now for 2 years. Never fails that I get a bust-out-loud-laugh from it. Very seriously though, the need for humor has never been stronger.
Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎@cobalt123 @VoiceofDuum @dabertime I should probably do this, too. I could use a good laugh in the mail.
Neblib@VoiceofDuum TIL there was a print version!
Domestic Supply 
@VoiceofDuum The answer seems obvious to me. When the sun explodes, we'll all have more solar power than we can possibly use for the rest of our lives.
Darwin Woodkathe rest of our very short lives
[HANDMAIDEN] xan@VoiceofDuum I still think about the column about Terry` Gross doing Fresh Air interviews whilst driving Ubers, daily
Jo - pièce de résistance@VoiceofDuum
Reminds me of the parody ads in MAD Magazine I used to love.
Reminds me of the parody ads in MAD Magazine I used to love.
sanpan@VoiceofDuum @swoonie Had I kown this, I would have never bought into solar panels! But mainbeam media and big sun will not tell you about this. And of course the extended warranty won’t be covering shit in two billion years either. I‘m so pissed right now!!!
James Stegall@VoiceofDuum It's also my favorite gift to share.
Chris@VoiceofDuum in a trillion years the universe will undergo heat death. where will your precious concept of using energy exchange to perform useful work be then?
@iveyline@VoiceofDuum Brilliant.