wasn’t opining on musks shitware. just the idea that there’s no way to operate in high rad environments.

for specially designed purposes, I’d say from the links above someone’s figured it out.

Components these days are surely even less resistant to radiation

I’d disagree, we’ve had 4 decades to learn how to better harden electronics in high radiation environments. off the shelf stuff? sure that would be fucked. purposely designed:

https://www.sustainability-times.com/climate/mission-impossible-now-possible-these-high-tech-robots-to-heroically-clear-2850-radioactive-sandbags-from-fukushima-plant/

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-robots-are-becoming-critical-players-nuclear-disaster-cleanup

https://www.jalopnik.com/these-robots-go-into-fukushima-daiichi-so-people-don-t-1850032340/

laundry and trash and cleaning the kitchen too. it never ends.

until it does and that’s sad.

I could see them buying up places and doing the slumlord thing but otherwise, it’ll be a net loss for them too: fewer educated workers for their empires

but I doubt they’ll care until it hurts.

not if they’re abandoned because they don’t have accessible clean water, affordable power etc…

people aren’t walking away from livable places.

hope springs eternal.

It doesn’t take half the states, just half the states worth of electoral votes - and yeah, getting texas and florida… not likely. it’s an awesome idea, but the hurdles are real.

It’s to the benefit of hard red states too though.

they’ve never really voted to their own benefits if they conflict with the gop’s mission. see: everything

honest query: conservatives hate popular vote / ranked choice / anything that cleans up the absurdities of the electoral college. how the fuck do we pass something like that with half the states fighting everything?

gee maybe you should ask your mentor, arch fucking ghoul nixon enabler Henry Kissinger for some advice IN HELL

“oh I’m trying to fix it just give me a few more minutes away from everyone” lights joint

aw, that’s cute.

you feel better now?

yup. his only chance at avoiding consequences is to stay in power as a wartime president.

this is why the ceasefire isn’t a ceasefire. I hope Israel does better but… not holding my breath.

If we had done better with trump in 2016 or j6th none of this shit would have happened.

I think it becomes shame because we recognize we’ve benefited from the system that has shit all over so many. Even indirectly, it’s hard to think about all the ways I’ve benefited from - just to say one thing - all the cheap open land (places like texas, nebraska, oklahoma, OR & WA) we got after putting the natives in concentration camps and murdering most of them.

Like, I try to enjoy a national park but then realize: this was someone’s home. Many peoples, in fact. We took it, put up gates, and charge people to harass the animals. And that’s the places we’ve saved from industrial pollution and factory farming.

in my own case, it’s that I’ve (not intentionally but still) benefited from a system that subjugated others (natives, people of all colors, and women) to secure the national infrastructure I’ve directly profited from. Everything from education, clean water and housing, to medical care often shockingly focused on what ails and heals white males. And the sickening knowledge that the same ones who want to deport taxpaying workers who rarely benefit from the enormous amounts of money our country throws around are the same as me, living on land stolen from the people who lived here, who we basically exterminated. Finally, we use the trappings of a pseudo-democracy to declare all men are equal, but really, they mean wealthy heteronormative white men, because otherwise you’re the other and disenfranchisement should be expected.

That’s-just-the-way-it-is? only if you accept it.

we’ve elected a moron who’s dying. we’re in a tight spot.

you can support the orgs and people directly impacted. in my neighborhood I’m supporting WAISN https://waisn.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/KYR-Workplace-Flyer-2025-ENG.pdf

https://members.wafla.org/newsroom/Details/what-are-your-rights-if-you-see-ice-activity-recommended-safety-practices-for-bystanders-250129

action works. but we don’t talk about that on lemmy.

no rush, I doubt there will be surprises

I don’t need to ask, I know the answer already: money.

about a decade ago the fossil fuel interests of this planet decided their profits were worth more than the rest of humanity surviving and they went all in. it dates back to 50 years ago when their own scientists warned them, and the world about the possibilities.

money is the driver.