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The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Nuka-cola is hard to come by here tho.
I've wondered ... are the bottlecaps radioactive?
How does that work out when you have a pocketful next to your nuts?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You joke, but you can buy it. Jones Soda makes it. That said, it's not worth buying except to keep the bottles as collectibles.

    In-game, no they aren't radioactive. Most of the wasteland somehow isn't radioactive enough to set off a gieger counter. Yet a lot of the fresh meat and produce are radioactive. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I quit drinking soda years ago as I got older and needed to cut shit that was making me fat.
    I will (like every other year) occasionally have a Mountain Dew or a Sprite.
    Soda is lovely stuff, but its definitely radioactive.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Not played those games but to be fair in a nuclear wasteland you would expect fresh meat and vegetables to be more radioactive than the general environment. Animals and plants can accumulate radioactive fallout, if it’s diffuse in the soil it can be more concentrated in whatever lives off that soil. Radioactive contamination often consists of caesium-137 which behaves like potassium, and strontium-90 which behaves like calcium, so you’re getting screwed by conventional biochemistry as much as nuclear physics.

    This is a concern in the Chernobyl exclusion zone even now, there’s mushrooms and other forage that must be avoided for this reason.

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