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They probably have draft proposals that are ready to go after the technology is invented. That way they're ready for a fusion breakthrough if it ever comes.

Are you giving Biden credit for the ceasefire that started after he already left office?

Interesting.

AI of some kind will replace parts of our jobs, but LLM chatbots won't except in some specific cases. This is just a hype bubble.

I have a phone case that is also a wallet/billfold, so I'm already in the brick zone lol

The ones that don't matter to the regime are upheld so Democrats keep thinking the Courts will save them and they keep wasting time in legal battles instead of organizing in other ways. The ones that Trump actually cares about are overturned.

And then it gets escalated to the fascist Supreme Court and dismissed.

Law is a dead end.

One Luigi will never make a difference.

That's just a small hammer too.

Your lesser evil decided it wanted to do genocide more than it wanted to win the most winnable election in history.

I think they meant, "Trump pulling back from toppling democratic governments." i.e. the actual function of USAID

The Sheinbaum method. Just stick to your guns and continue to offer what was on the table before, but allow Trump to claim credit for it.

I'll go farther - ancaps don't exist. Actually existing ancap-ism is always either neoliberalism or fascism.

All the Silicon Valley techbro ancaps are just openly fascist now.

Also, of people who voted he only got 49.9%

Hardly "6/10"

So? My point was that fusion can be monetized. The fact that solar can also be monetized is obvious, I think.

My problem with fission reactors is they take a really long time to get running whereas solar can be deployed quickly, even in areas that are underdeveloped. We need to decarbonize global electricity production at a rate far too fast to build nuclear reactors for everyone in the world.

(Even worse, tech idiots want to waste their time building reactors just to power their stupid data centers.)

But sure, I'm not anti-nuclear.

Besides, my point is that fusion isn't necessary. Even if it's not actually a viable technology for electricity production we'll be fine, there are other options that don't require undiscovered science. Nuclear fission is one of those options, as is solar and wind and hydro etc etc.

I don't think we need it. We're already orbiting a fusion reactor, after all.

I'd rather oversensitive people sometimes win than literally everyone always lose.

Also what feels comfortable in 100% cotton jeans won't feel comfortable in stretchy 60% cotton/40% synthetic jeans. The problem is you men all wear potato sacks and those keep you warm in the air conditioning, while our fitted clothes don't protect us at all!

How do you monetize “too cheap to meter”?

Oh, this one is easy.

You make it illegal for anyone else to do fusion and charge rents because you own the patent.

Wait. Are you saying they actually have the ability to build 10-foot tall mini-fusion reactors?

I think maybe we can build something smaller than a literal star, but there's no practical way to do fusion even on a planetary scale.

So if we surpass being a Type 1 civilization I guess, a million years after we have abolished capitalism.