Zompist Bboard Again

he read his godfather, or watched his star trek. served cold blabla

pretty sure beautyfulsoup works fine with selenium, which in turn can run in headless mode. I don't know other scraping tools in python for this purpose, but they should be indifferent: still, i suppose it would be easier to ask zomp to give you the files in a pendrive and store it however you were ...

mñeh. i don't buy it. it's very romantic and might sound deep, but i think in practice art doesn't mean that, and that that's not what we care about when we say art is a worthwhile thing: people don't like asimov's foundation, chopin's nocturnes etcetera because they give them a glimpse into the sou...

semantics is semantics, i guess that can be art but then what do we call the really good stuff ?

naaah, imprinting meaning onto something is easy: "PREMIUM THREAD BUY NOW" has meaning: it means that especially good thread is for sale, and that the speaker wants you to purchase it presently. imprinting beauty, profundity, awe, depth, joy, despair, and doing so in such a way that it mak...

fair enough lmao art is a notoriously difficult thing to define, and probably so is content, but I think i'm pointing at a comprehensible category here, even if content and art are not mutually exclusively concepts: one could even say that content is a kind of art (though i'm not sure all content is...

where is all of this excellent, world-class art being made for free by amateurs? nono, i don't mean it doesn't exist: it *has* to exist.. there has to be something other than fucking c o n t e n t in the 21st century... where is it? WHERE IS IT AAAAA HELP MEEEE I'M SURROUNDED BY CONTENT

I don’t disagree. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we should jump to nuclear power as a cure-all. Instead, if we can solve the crisis using renewable sources only, then that’s what we should prefer. We should only use nuclear power if there is literally no other way to eliminate coal and gas ...

oh man, the italians are just crazy good at pizza.

i mean, i cant say it better than moose. perhaps i can say it shorter, though: you know what's not safe enough and humanity hasn't a track record of surviving? +12 celsius in a hundred years. "it's not perfectly safe" is just not weighty enough. sure, we *could* have a large, global catast...

three mile is just the only one i know besides fuku and cherno, but yeah, it was less dire i don't think 'nuclear is safe as long as no accidents' is a correct position here: even though it's true (and not true of coal, which under normal operation kills people, no accidents needed). even with what ...

All in all, I would be utterly shocked if the deaths/megawatt of fossil fuels didn't far, far outstrip that of nuclear, for one. statista says it's like one thousand times bigger, yeah.... or... is it 10 thousand times bigger? either way, big. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-w...

OK, on my count, that's four people in this mini-debate so far raising a nuclear vs. coal binary. For someone from a part of the world where the pro-coal people are usually pro-nuclear, too, and the anti-nuclear people are usually anti-coal, too, that looks and sounds pretty surreal. Well, the coal...

gracias, my dudes! Travis: i totally get you, and tbh it's a good thing to be alert to: I've worked in IT for something like 10 years and, yeah, most managers contribute little other than "how are we doing", "let's review the gantt chart" and "but can't you do it this other ...

I'm one of those curmudgeons who insists on 2e. Spelljammer for 5e is recent (and, I'm told, greatly disappointing); the concept of OG Spelljammer is how I got into TTRPGs in general. (I used to mod /r/Spelljammer on Reddit, and now I mod /m/Spelljammer on /kbin.) wait... 2e? as in a d v a n c e d ...

Yup, that's right: the data, afaik, is not ambiguous about it. Energy production always has externalities. nuclear's externalities have the problem of being highly narrativizable, and exceedingly spectacular. I can't reply with a similar "have you learned nothing from [event]" because coal...

Nuclear is the bomb, and tbh it could provide like half of our energy needs: too bad it has such a lousy reputation

I got a new job! this is a nice thing. my current was wasn't terrible, but there were many unpleasant things about it: not least of which that it involved a total of 1.5 - 2 hours car commute every day. this new position is remote, in a bigger and better company, and not less money, so I save up on ...

he's not going to see the inside of a jail cell, are you kidding me? he's rich. So is Harvey Weinstein. yes, but very much less rich: i don't know if it's a reliable source, but www.celebritynetworth.com says weinstein's worth 2,5e6 whereas torampo would be worth 2e9. three zeroes. plus whatever hi...

granted, but any similar-length subset of that string is also nearly as funky as cgespzjvvskiaari