Might not be much meat to some of the skeleton jokes, but at least they have good bones.

conspiracy theorists will fear things like this and then be against social programs to help the homeless get housing again

It’s not that it will work out good (though in a sense, it has for the R in that they got what they actually wanted), it’s that if the Rs have ~50% ish support, no matter what they do, because of them going that route, the only way to beat them is to get everyone that isn’t them in a coalition together.

To be fair, it’s not like everyone that doesn’t vote hates him. Some do I’m sure, but there’s also going to be people that think favorably of him but don’t bother voting, just as there are and have been for his opponents

Given that Iran has it’s own orbital launch capability these days, I wonder why they’re getting Russia to launch them?

Personally I enjoy pizza this way, hot such as to very very slightly burn the roof of one’s mouth if one is not careful with it. Adds sensation, like, physical spiciness

Looking at the website for company I order mealworms from when my colony hasnt bred enough of them for gecko food, a box of 1000 crickets is like, a bit over 20 bucks, not counting shipping. So assuming the UK has a similar business somewhere with roughly equivalent prices, 6000 is like a couple hundred bucks worth of crickets, or less. Not cheap but honestly not terribly expensive for such a huge number of insects, probably wouldnt even need the layaway

I guess my objection then is that I tend to take “just scale it up” to imply “all the tech development hurdles are done, we have a working prototype of the machine we want to build, we just need to construct a physically larger one”, and so was taking the process of improving the efficiency of the reaction to useful levels and figuring out how to make a significantly more efficient laser as “we don’t have this technology done yet, because we still have these milestones left”. In other words, we’re just arguing from confusion over different definitions of a word rather than the reality of what those words are referring to

That’s what I was talking about regarding the lasers. As far I understand that result, it’s net energy in a physics sense, as in the reaction itself produced more energy than put in, but because the energy put in isn’t electricity itself, and the conversion process between electricity and energy in the laser is inefficient, the entire machine as a whole isn’t energy positive, just the reaction. It can’t yet be used as an electric generator, unless the reporting I saw on this at the time was inaccurate

Er, not really with fusion actually, unless you just mean “have made atoms fuse regardless of if it generates net energy or not” in which case we’ve had it for decades. We have managed net energy production if you compare the output of a very powerful laser used to compress the fuel to the energy of the resulting reaction, but crucially, the laser in question isn’t perfectly efficient, and only a fraction of the electrical energy put in is turned into laser energy in the beam. This means that we still don’t have net electricity production, and even once we finally get that, getting the tech efficient enough to produce enough electricity to be cost competitive will be a tough ask, especially as electricity from solar in particular has been going down in price of late.

if they were randomly placed, then couldnt you have a sponsor-block type system where instead of the ad segments being marked and skipped, information about the video is externally stored somewhere (like perhaps a really low res screenshot of the video every couple seconds, or some number generated algorithmically by a frame of video), and the results should be the same for all users for the actual video part, but if the ads are placed randomly, the ad section will suddenly not match the data other users had, prompting the video to skip until it matches again (with a buffer included if they remove the ability to move forward)

And we do. It seems silly to hold their wishes in such high regard compared to our own anyway though, we know more about how our system works in practice than they did when thinking of it after all, both because things dont often go completely as planned and we have the actual experience of using the result for a significant time, and because the system has been already changed in various ways already over that time.

We don’t have to stick with the original design, the founders were in no way perfect

Not hard to find when it’s hogging so much space at the top of the map

-claims to be against the US sending weapons to Isreal while they’re conducting a genocide

-works to ensure the election of a man who’s prior history of presiding over foreign policy towards Isreal proves that he would support them in this even more than the present administration.

Make it make sense.

Ah yes, because if a politician could control the weather, of course the thing they’d do with it is attack several swing states right before the election /s

I’ve never done this because my cutting board is wood and my dishwasher too small to fit it, but are you not supposed to dishwash bamboo? Never heard of this

Plot twist: 50% of each individual patient survives. Hope you get lucky with which organs make it

Sounds like this guy needs to back where he came from, and back where he was before he came there too, and so on and so forth until he ends up back at elementary school history class.

To be fair, regardless of one’s stance on the utility of current AI or the wisdom of developing it, it is an extremely difficult and potentially world changing technical achievement, and given there isn’t a computer science prize, physics is probably the most relevant category to it