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Just to be clear, you know I was joking, right?
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Just had a conversation at my hotel bar with a married dude who was maybe late 50s. His wife went to bed and we kept chatting about hiking and whatnot. Like half an hour deep he casually drops in that he gives great head and I could avail myself of this should I desire. I politely refuse and we keep talking and he goes to bed 5 or 10 mins later.
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Looks like a lot of people are smoking that same weed.
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Would some of the people who are more knowledgable about this stuff like to comment on this as to how excited we should be about this? My vague understanding was that containment of the reaction is the real hard part and that that was the biggest conceptual hurdle to overcome in order for fusion to become a useful source of energy?
Putting it here because I’m reluctant to automatically assume this is right-wing violence.
https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1558795937446871042?s=20&t=Ee2YT4HtKAM_MZVqhjLYbA
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Is there a more reliable source than Newsweek?
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Not much more here, but better than a tweet:
Here’s a tweet
https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1558806763075411971?s=20&t=mYiKqRab1SX6YPvpI15vUQ
I generally prefer news sources that don’t have arbitrarily short character limits and add an extra step between me and the content I want to read. I’m going to be really annoyed when Musk doesn’t buy Twitter and kill the platform.
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i find Twitter most useful as a pusher of non-Twitter content, more or less a replacement for RSS.
When I’m sharing stuff here I usually try to find a version that I think will be most useful to other people. Typically that’s a direct link to an article from a reputable news organization that does original reporting.
Since a lost of posters don’t follow links and only read headlines, I look for something that quotes relevant info so I don’t have to. I think most news tweets I post here are coming from reputable journalists who work for reputable new organizations. Sometimes, they are tweeting about breaking news before there is time to write a story.
Lisa Desjardins, for example, works for PBS NewsHour and is noted for live reporting from inside the Capitol on January 6. She is someone who should have good sources.
I love twitter, but appreciate a good old man yells at cloud too
Why on earth would you not instantly assume it’s a trumpy
I try not to jump to conclusions.
It’s hype and propaganda imo. The experiment took place last August. Sabine Hossenfelder discussed it and the status of fusion research in October in the video below. If you go to yt, there are links to higher quality articles in the info box below the video. If you don’t like videos, the transcript is on her blog.
Although I generally support the research, imo cold fusion will likely get here first. And that probably won’t happen in my lifetime so I barely glance at these kinds of articles.
If you want a second opinion, @microbet might be your guy.
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I started typing out an answer, but left it. The thing about fusion is that it has for like 40 years been something that’s going to happen so there’s no reason to invest in wind or solar or conservation. We need new technology to solve the problem! Current technology will never work! I think some of that is intentionally fostered by fossil fuel interests. I wouldn’t bet against fusion energy being a widely used source in 150 years (if human society lasts that long), and it’s likely worthy of investment and research.
I want to say something boosterish like “we shouldn’t let that stop us from doing everything to keep temperatures within 2 degrees (or whatever the goal is supposed to be)”, but we’re not going to do that. We’re just lucky that wind and solar are now actually cheap and market forces can drive this. Whatever happens will mostly be driven by that and not by what sacrifices people are willing to make or governments will impose. The government may as well spend on fusion, people may as well continue to say “existing technologies are insufficient”, it doesn’t matter, or barely matters anyway.
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