I want to add that experimental reactors used for scientific research might never become net energy positive and that would be fine. Their purpose isn't to generate profit, it's to learn more about the physics, so it will be more valuable for them to be adaptable than efficient.

However, that doesn't mean that you can't take a configuration that has been shown to have potential and make a reactor that is more efficient than adaptable and use that to generate power for the electrical grid.

Basically, they have two different purposes.

The term "premium-feeling" does a lot of heavy lifting in that paragraph, one might almost say that it's a bit subjective.

Worst crime: Commenter doesn't like him.

It's the 250th birthday of the US Army, this was supposedly in planning already under Biden's administration. Trump is definitely taking the opportunity to make it about himself though.

I can add that if you ever say something that you yourself think was stupid, it's often better to just own up to it than to play it off (within limits). Something like "That was a stupid thing for me to say, I'm sorry, you're just very beautiful and I'm a bit nervous" as an example.

From the Wikipedia page:

If untreated, symptoms may include loss of the ability to move one or both sides of the face, joint pains, severe headaches with neck stiffness or heart palpitations. Months to years later, repeated episodes of joint pain and swelling may occur. Occasionally, shooting pains or tingling in the arms and legs may develop. Despite appropriate treatment, about 10 to 20% of those affected develop joint pains, memory problems, and tiredness for at least six months.

I am offended by this.

It's obviously z = boobs.

C++ is unironically my favorite language, especially coding in python feels so ambiguous and you need to take care of so many special cases that just wouldn't even exist in C++.

Is no one else gonna do it? Alright, guess I'm it.

Steve Harvey: "We asked 100 people, what is the male reproductive organ?"

Contestant: "The penis"

SH: "A WUH... HUH??"

audience erupts into laughter

Steve Harvey grabs onto podium to support himself

laughter gets even louder

SH: O lordy...

one man goes into cardiac arrest and many others begin vomiting profusely from laughing too hard

SH: YOU PEOPLE NEED HELP

the Earth shatters and Satan rises from the underworld to claim unworthy souls

the universe begins rapidly closing in on itself

SH: (putting on a weary voice) Survey says...

the board shows 100 for "penis"

Harvey is able to get off one more shocked look before existence as we know it comes to an end

One thing I've learned is that conspiracy theorists always seem to end up at racism.

The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.

There actually already is! PeerTube is the fediverse alternative to YouTube, hopefully it'll be able to grow more sometime in the near future.

Luigi Mangione has not been found guilty of any crime. As of the time when writing this, he is an innocent man suspected of committing a crime. Until proven otherwise, he is not the person who shot the CEO.

Driver does however always have the right to veto the music.

If you look at the timeline in the article, post-2030 the act states that it would be indexed.

I would like to note that Luigi Mangione has not been convicted of anything and it has not been proven that he was the one who killed the UnitedHealthCare CEO, there was also a lot of improper police conduct in relation to his arrest.

The joke is saying that he knows something so that Boeing will tale him out.

This is a very brief, very incomplete list but from what has been reported so far they are

• Deporting people with legal visas because they express opinions that the presidential administration disapproves of

• Sending people who were in the US legally to a foreign prison without due process. That last part is especially important, without due process anyone can get punished without having any recourse for proving their innocence.

• Severely damaging international relations and damaging the world's economies without any reasonable process or determination, especially with long-standing allies and trade partners.

• Dismantling large portions of the government, a lot of it created for enabling life-saving research, providing assistance to those who are most in need, and protecting citizens from toxic, dangerous, and otherwise harmful products, including in food and medicine. A lot of it through sudden, unannounced, unjustified, and illegal firings.

• Aggressively attacking anyone who disagrees with the administration, even if their disagreement stems from the law or even the constitution itself, including attacking legal firms that represent those parties.

This is without mentioning what they are doing to infringe on voting rights, redistribute more wealth to the very richest, reduce protections for minorities and strengthen systematic discrimination, and otherwise dismantling democracy at large.

I don't think so either but unfortunately Trump and his fellow narcissists are still there.

Not sure what it has to do with trans people though.

...what?

Society survives because of all its members, if women just stopped providing then society would collapse. They have been coerced using oppression and force to keep providing despite discrimination, not thanks to it.

How is it undesirable for any reasonable person, man or woman, to have equal rights?