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I thought we’ve been led to believe that the US has sensitive radiation monitoring capabilities that could be capable of somewhat pinpointing the location of the device or at least detect it’s still there or has spread? Satellite detection?

Alpha radiation has very little in the way of penetration. I can be basically shielded by tin foil.

As the Pu238 decays it will transform into other materials that will probably emit beta and gamma radiation which could be detected. And also the shielding might get compromised over time (hopefully not!)

But at least when it was new this would not have been an option. Heat was the only detectable emission coming off it.


> I can be basically shielded by tin foil.

Comically correct, but I suspect you meant to say "It can..."


Oops yes :) That's what I meant of course.

But my point was, even the fuel tubes themselves will have more than adequate shielding against the alpha particles emitted. So it's not even that dangerous that the Sherpas were using them to heat their beds :)

By the way I have since looked it up and Plutonium 238 decays to Uranium 234 which is also an alpha emitter but with a huge half-life (235.000 years). So it looks lke it does not actually produce more penetrating radiation as it decays. The uranium will degrade to an unstable thorium isotope eventually too but this will be quite minimal due to the long half-life.


An associate recently racked up $300k in losses from sports betting. They are obviously struggling greatly now.

Has anyone else heard horror stories since sports betting became legal?


I'd read somewhere that there is a measurable increase in foreclosures and divorces correlated with the legalization of online sports betting.

I've seen one personally, recovering gambling addict who constantly falls off the wagon

I don't dig into the details and obviously everyone is diffrent but I imagine not being able to avoid the constant bombardment when trying to quit isn't a good thing


“How a Psychiatrist Lost $400,000 on Gambling Apps”

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/how-a-psychiatrist-...

Most was lost at DraftKings’ casino apps though, not their sports betting.


> Has anyone else heard horror stories since sports betting became legal?

I worked in the industry over a decade ago and it was nasty already. Know a few people who managed to gamble away entire inheritances.

When (not if) stuff like Polymarket gets legal in Germany, it will get even worse.


I live near a school and a teacher told me a lot teenagers gamble during the recess. At least one boy that tried to commit suicide after his family discovered he had lost a lot of their money.

I swear I have felt like I have dealt with this for the last few years on iPhone. So frustrating. It has forced me to use the the dictation feature.

Using raycast for dictation has been pretty great for me (longer sentences ofc). I wish apple would just acquire and integrate, with local models one day this will be crazy fast.

Crazy. almost a million dollars.

Also, makes sense why Trump moved fast to get his appointees in place and some with no polygraphs.


Closer to a civil war of society in the US.

If there is a collapse and people start starving, and ICE continues as they have, we will have riots and crime and it won’t stop.


I would say this is pretty dang accurate.

Anyone that has had a really vivid dream will tell you the brain needs no help in creating a simulation.

The idea that no computer or system could possibly be powerful enough for the complexities of a simulation is a very trivial way of looking at things and isn’t thinking of something that is readily available.

I have long held the theory the brain is very capable of filling in all the complex details required for a simulation.


This photo is amazing.

Can you imagine being so far away from Earth and looking back to the planet you live on? The experience is said to be life changing.

The realization we’re all human and we’re all living together on this small rock that is floating through space. The overwhelming feeling that we should all be working together for the collective good of our species. Because in the end, all we have is each other.

Instead, it’s an utter shitshow of those in power that are only in it for themselves.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ed2ba5e4b063...


Yes, I can imagine.

It is all I can do, to consider the alternatives but rather make my own mind up about what should happen.

If I, ever, were to see humanity under my thumb from so far away, I would delight in knowing I was far enough away to see just how fragile it is, and always will be.

We humans are a special lot. Thumb sized.


Such a cool device.

Is it possible to buy something like this which is intended to be user installable for Linux that I could test/mess around with?


The device is based on linux devboard so... yes

Holy shit! I had no idea they were everywhere!

Do they get permission or permit to install them?


Some are installed on private property, and supply data to the property owner. Some are installed on public property, and supply data to the government.

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