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- Comment on China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Students on strike against military service: “You’re not a coward if you don’t want to die for Germany!” 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, maybe adolescents would have been a better word. “Child” can be meant as developmentally before puberty (which wouldn’t fit here), but in most English countries it also has a legal meaning of being under 18 (or 21) years old - that’s what I had in mind.
The participants of the protests are mostly underage and objectively lack the many privileges and rights of autonomy which our society awards older people. That they protest despite that is all the more impressive.
- Comment on Students on strike against military service: “You’re not a coward if you don’t want to die for Germany!” 2 weeks ago:
It’s only not compulsory if enough people volunteer. It’s like robbing someone and telling them at gunpoint: “I’ll only take your money by force, if you don’t give it to me out of your own free will.” “We’ll force half a million of you to die and kill for the oligarchy unless of course you volunteer to do that.”
- Comment on Students on strike against military service: “You’re not a coward if you don’t want to die for Germany!” 2 weeks ago:
They don’t though. They do not have any right to do this protest during school hours at all. They literally disobey orders and risk being kicked out of school for participating. Those brave children are being threatened and punished by principals, teachers, parents, politicians and the police. All of whom have abandoned them to be grinded into mush at the eastern front for a pointless war. And the children stand up for live and peace anyway against the coming of the fascist death cult. Read Karl Liebknecht.
- Comment on Students on strike against military service: “You’re not a coward if you don’t want to die for Germany!” 2 weeks ago:
They already passed the law that will bring back compulsory military service under the pretense of only resorting to it if not enough young people volunteer.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 3 weeks ago:
Moths, they’re cool and cute.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Bombs are insanely powerful too and yet useless as an energy source. What matters is cost in cent per kWh. Fusion showes every sign of becoming very very expensive, even in the best case scenarios.
Laser based fusion for example literally uses gold coated diamond pellets, hundreds of which have to be shot into the reaction chamber to even break even energyweise in theory. At that point, no energy is produced at all and costs per kWh are still infinit. And the lenses get destroyed so fast you constantly have to exchange them.
Meanwhile both renewables and energy storage technologies continue to get cheaper and cheaper. Fusion faces barriers in engineering, fundamental physics and even in mathematics (modeling plasma is critical). Some of which might be insurmountable in principle. But I’m the end the one barrier that matters is the economic one. And no one even has a plan on how to tackle it expect for shoveling an insane amount of tax money into the fire indefinitely.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
In Germany, funding for research is being cut alot. The solar cut happened a long time ago and fifty thousand jobs where lost at the time. Last year, they basically cancelled almost all battery research (needed for electric cars and stuff). Now, many more important stuff is being refunded. Except for fusion. Fusion is receiving a big boost in funding. Everyone and their dog are doing fusion research now
I think, that’s not despite the famous “fusion constant” (fusion being always “only” thirty years away), but because of it. Unlike solar or batteries or anything else that actually works, fusion does not threaten to disrupt the oligopolies of the power companies, or the car companies or anyone else’s. It enables a wealth transfer (accumulation through dispossession) to companies involved in the research, without contributing to the crisis of overaccumulation, because no use value exists, so no value ever needs to be realized. It’s like building a pyramid in the desert.
- Comment on Netherlands' seizure of China chipmaker Nexperia sparks concerns among global auto companies 1 month ago:
Sure and when was the last time a company in Europe was nationalized for similar reasons? That’s right, it never happens, except to targets of the empire. Mismanagement? Corruption? Tax fraud. They are ubiquitous. European politicians see it as their foremost duty to protect the guilty CEOs, stakeholders and companies.
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 2 months ago:
I found this on wikipedia:
Irène “was accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench in 1946”. That was from her own work. She lived another ten years, than died from leukemia.
Ève lived to be 102 years old and died in her sleep in 2007.
- Comment on Relativity 2 months ago:
Hate it when I accidentally drive over a lagrange point on my bicycle and the resulting tire wear leads me straight into a wormhole.
- Comment on UN experts say U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to ‘extrajudicial executions’ 2 months ago:
How about using the term “terrorist attacks”?
- Comment on arborholing 2 months ago:
What are signs of ‘species domestication’?
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
Or imagine it the other way around: The heat death has long started and we live in it. Who knows what kind of civilizations existed in the first quark gluon plasma 10^-12 to 10^-5 seconds after the big bang? They would have been tiny, fast and highly energetic. There are many orders of magnitude in size more between us and the plank length then between us and the observable universe. There’s lots of room down there. To them, we would seem like sluggish giants living off of tiny sparks within the faded light their long dead world set free when the universe became transparent 18,000 years after the big bang.
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
Life could also just slow down a lot, use less energy. It would feel the same. Billions of years go by in a flash on the far end of the bell curve. But no problem, there always more time.
- Comment on Nice. 2 months ago:
Pavlov sits at the bar with some friends enjoying drinks as someone walks in and the door bell rings. He suddenly gets up. “What’s up? Are you leaving?” One of his friends asks. “I just remembered,” he replies. “Got to go feed my dogs.”
- Comment on don't look up :) 2 months ago:
Celebratory staff outing with a free picnic to honor a newly discovered comet on safe, far away orbit?
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can’t stop wondering what that feels like.
- Comment on Burkina Faso's military junta arrests European humanitarian NGO workers for 'spying' 2 months ago:
Sounds reasonable. Probably should have done that sooner. Also, it doesn’t take much accusing, since that’s literally how they describe themselves: as collecting security information for foreign NGOs.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
There are different ways to compare the “sizes” of infinite set. So you could both be right in different contexts and for different sets. But the one concept people mostly mean, when they say, that some infinities are larger than other, is one to one correspondence (also called “cardinality”):
If you have a set and you can describe how you would choose one element of a second set for each element of the first, than that’s called a one to one correspondence. In that case, people say the two sets have the same cardinality which is one way to define their size (and a very common and useful one).
For example there is a one to one correspondence between the integers and the even integers. The procedure is to just take the integers and multiple each of them by two. So these two sets have the same cardinality and in that sense, the same size.
There is even a procedures that proofs, that the set of the rational numbers has the same cardinality as the natural numbers.
But Cantor proved, that there can never be such a procedure, that established a one to one correspondence between the natural numbers and the reals. So it’s in that sense, that people say the reals form the larger set.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
Also almost all real numbers are undefinable. (Unless you’re using a model, that makes them countable.)
So that means, if they are all different, than almost all the “humans” on the bottom track are something we can not even imagine in principle. Wouldn’t be surprised, if infinite Superman’s where among them.
- Comment on Germany approves €2.46m in arms exports to Israel after partial halt 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s Germany alright.
- Comment on 2 OP 3 months ago:
Okay, wow, it was true all along. Thanks for sharing that cool video!
- Comment on 2 OP 3 months ago:
I tried to research that, but couldn’t find anything. I have to call bullshit.
- Comment on Hue hue hue 3 months ago:
It’s fine, the sun send us an heart emoji.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 3 months ago:
No, it’s just a joke. But lots of veggies are.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 months ago:
That laser is way too close to his eyes. Anyway, probably just seeing the speckle pattern, which granted, can look really cool and moves with your head as you tilt it.
- Comment on The Pp 3 months ago:
roles can be swapped immediately
must be nice
- Comment on US spies stoked separatism in Greenland, Denmark says 3 months ago:
That would never happen. NATO is not an alliance among equals. It’s a manifestation of the US empire. Everyone should be pleased if it breaks up. Russia wanted to join NATO, which Putin supported before and during his time in office. But the bloody war machine always needs an enemy…
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 months ago:
Definitely not Feynman. He developed his whole public clown persona only to distract from his guilt over participating in mass murder. Curie was literally to radioactive to safely get anywhere near to. Her remains are sealed in lead. Which of the other ones had least toxic masculinity?
