Sonori @ sonori @beehaw.org

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Just wait until every country’s base uses its own capital’s time. The time zones won’t even be in vague order around the moon like they generally are on earth but distributed randomly based on whatever country has the biggest base in the area.

Worse, if different countries bases and teams are using different home time zones than you don’t even have time zones. Two people from different countries in the same room could be different time zones, purely based on the country they work for.

If this fails and everyone with a space program can’t agree to just use the same standard, then time zones could get very, very bad in the future.

Because as we all know, Natrual Gas has an extremely steady and nonvolatile price, especially now that we’ve spent hundreds of billions tying North America’s previously independent pricing to the gobal price.

Or we could, and this is a very crazy idea, go back to not attaching a tradable minute to minute commodities market and instead give control back to reliable contracts and the operators who actually manage the grid.

No I don’t think Israel sprang into existence on Oct 7. I’m not sure how you could even get that from my comment. The entire theory we are talking about is however predicated on the idea that the public sentiment on Tiktok about Isreal’s response to Oct 7 is what primarily drove the current law, so one would expect the cause the theory blames to have occurred before the effect, not after.

Not to cast dispersions on the everything starts with the jews in Israel narrative, but didn’t most of the political movement to force the sale of US TikTok to a US owner and the current law to do so long predate Oct 7 and the more even distribution of support shown on TikTok months afterword. Like I hate to break it to you but congress, especially this congress and the maze of think tanks that draft their laws, just arn’t that fast and efficient at implementing new policy.

I take issue with the word now in the headline. From what I remember polling showed majority US disapproval with Israel’s actions for nearly the entirety of the war since october 7th.

Minecraft, you can only pretend to have gotten away for so long before the block game calls again.

Probably not, after all this was all done on social media locally owned by the target country, so if anything this would push the US to foucus more on large platforms full of voters like Facebook.

This actually happens a lot more frequently than one might think. Offhand in the US alone beyond the Sunshine Skyway and Baltimore Key collapses in the last half century we’ve seen the I-40, Queen Isabella Causeway, and Bayou Canot passenger rail collapses after a ship or barge collision.

The closest parrel so far though might be the Tazman bridge collapse in Hobart, Australia, as that also involved a oceangoing freighter impacting a intracity bridge at night.

The main similarity to Sunshine Skyway here would be that it appears the bridge was built at the same time and from the same template. Overall though, when a building sized chunk of steel designed to crash though walls of water bigger than it is meets a spindly structure designed to primarily withstand wind and snow the results tend to end badly.

That’s why modern post-skyway dolphins or bartier islands are so important, but they’re expensive and at a time when we have generally failed to fund even basic preventative maintenance it’s hard to find the funds for expensive systems that may never be used. After all, the bridge has been fine for decades without, right?

For a piece of legislation written to create a “free market solution”tm by a Republican think tank, they sure do love attacking it.

Especially given how much more expensive they are than conventional hybrids and the hoops you have to jump through to even grt one in my family’s experience.

The small battery capacity they have also means that any household outlet will charge them fine, so it would be really interesting to see why people are going through all the extra effort to buy one and then not use it.

Fusion also produces most of the nuclear waste that a fission plant does thanks to undergoing the same nutron activation process, and while it lacks spent fuel rods, thouse are already infinitely recyclable, so the only real waste saveings would be in low grade waste like dust covered clean suits and such.

This also doesn’t help the case for Fusion very much given that even with these disposal costs ITER has costs four to six times any average fission plant for a donor reactor that has no generating capacity and which is mearly to prove that the physics work, something we did for fission with the Chicago pile in 1942 at an estimated inflation adjusted cost of 53 million dollars.

If it’s this expensive for a proof of concept, it is very unlikely that any full plant would be much cheaper. Compare it to things we can actually deploy at scale today like onshore wind or battery backed solar, and it is pretty clear that Fusion is an expensive but important science project, not a serious proposal to power the electrical grid.

For all the talk about a slowdown, US EV sales are still rising, just not as exponentially as hoped. That being said, China and the EU have been doing better in no small part because of a foucus on affordable and budget cars over the US’s high margin luxury focus.

Unfortunately, the rediscovery of private money along with the hobbling of the financial regulation put into place after the gold standard brought us into the great depression means that the least scrupulous peopkr in finance have a lot of power to try and make fetch happen.

The recent resurgence in crypto is owed entirely to the coordinated lobbying to tie such assets more closely into legitimate financial institutions, making it easier to dupe the working class into putting some of their life savings into the MLM ‘s for dudes.

While this article does a pretty poor job at it, I do think it is important for a financial community to call out that much like how MLM’s use the veneer of legitimacy granted by the government not considering them pyramid schemes to convince people to pay up these people have successfully lobbied the government to get added to these legitimate financial platforms to draw in more exit liquidity after NFT’s fell apart as a way to do that.

We’ve seen the largest real wage growth among the lowest income workers since the 60s. Up until recently the real wage gain was actually entirely seen in essential, unionized, and low income workers, with the rich actually seeing real wage decreases in that time. Higher inflation is obviously going to be a lot bigger problem for owners than workers. It’s just the trend has a really long way to go to make for half a century of falling.

Yes, but at the end of the day SpaceX is the work of tens of thousands of people, not just the guy who provides a pile of money in exchange for constantly forcing the engineering teams to do stupid stuff if they can’t explain why not at an eighth grade level.

I mean the first time he really did something in public was getting mad at a bunch of journalists for just tacking a little blurb about a key Tesla investor when discussing the actual ceo’s presentation at a Tesla press event, so i’m not sure that he fired his PR team so much as the less you know about him the easier it is to like him.

If all you know is that he’s a techbro that used his pile of free money to buy an EV and a rocket company it’s easier to file him under the James Cameron folder of generally inoffensive rich dude with neat hobbies.

OpenAI’s algorithm like all LLM’s is designed to give you the next most likely word in a sentence based on what most frequently came next in its training data. Their main strategy has actually been to use a older and simpler transformer algorithm, and to just vastly increase the scrapped text content and recently bias with each new release.

I would argue that any system that works by stringing sudorandom words together based on how often they appear in its input sources is not going to be able to do anything but generate bullshit, albeit bullshit that may happen to be correct by pure accident when it’s near directly quoting said input sources.

Well no restrictions on what they can buy beyond the fact Russia has halted and redirected all major military equipment exports to Ukraine for the last three years beyond licensed production and even if the war ended tomorrow it would need to spend years restoring its own military before it could export anything of value.

Tieing the country’s ability to defend itself to a hypercapitalist far right government instead of a less ideologically driven nation like India or China is probably also an indication that the government isn’t very serious about going in a socialist direction so much as an indication that it is trying to whitewash its image with hollow rhetoric.

I mean i’d like to see a challenge to a capitalist dominated world, but this sure doesn’t seem to be one.

Actually, fleeing to tax havens tends to be less of an issue for some nations. For instance studies and polling have found that the US would have to raise the top income tax bracket to something around 90% before you would loose more in people renouncing their citizenship than the government gained in the increase.

Corporate tax rate on the other hand is a whole lot more competitive, especially in places like the EU where import restrictions and terrifs are low or non existent.

Ya, it definitely has nothing to do with overly ambitious requirements for nodes, poor siteing of plants by companies, said sites requiring highly skilled workers move to small town Arazona for peanuts, or even the fact that in many cases training worked on these cutting edge nodes ment they needed to learn a second language and spend years in a foreign country for work, and Amaricans arn’t used to being the ones who have to do that.

It definitely wasn’t any of that, it was that they tried to hire a similar percentage of qualified women and black people as apllied to work on these projects. Definitely.