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They'd bring back company script.

And then get eaten by bears.

A sharp increase in Carbon-14 would be visible for a few thousand years.

The rest of the elements released by nuclear testing? Not so much. Cs-137, and Sr-90 both have half lives of about 30 years. That means that after about 300 years, they're both completely decayed into their daughter products.

Now, Cs-137 decays into Ba-137, which is stable. It's also naturally occurring as about 11% of all Barium.

Sr-90 decays to Yt-90, spends a few days as such and then decays to Zr-90, another naturally occurring isotope. Zr-90 is a bit over 50% of all naturally occurring Zirconium.

A lot of that will eventually make its way back down to earth.

Some will still be there, especially in higher orbits, but the majority will eventually see orbital decay.

I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn't take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.

Fun fact for those who don't know. You can forge metal with a wood fire if you have forced air.

There are also ways to build a clay oven so that it has a natural updraft, giving it that forced air. It's actually how people used to fire pottery.

Other than that, you can also use charcoal, which burns hotter with forced air.

Also, a hairdryer puts out enough air to forge with *unless you're running a ribbon burner set-up. But if you are, you likely know that already.

-A fellow hobbyist blacksmith

*Edit to add a word.

Republican AGs have already said they'll use KOSA to block anything trans related, so maybe don't bring that up when talking to Republican senators.

Brother printers are great. If only because they don't add all the pointless bullshit add-on "features" that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they're just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

Basic used "else".

It's nice. "if", "then", and "else". I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, "else" is nice.

That's the coin flip.

The problem is, you can't trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can't trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that's a coin flip.

Michael Shanks disagrees with calling the penis gun a good weapon.