After Knight takes Queen, King should go to f1 to avoid mate on backrow. Gain tempo with Ke2 wasting the rooks time.

The CIA is right leaning wing globally and at home

The US empire chooses to ally with any group who opposes Russia or uses mineral/oil wealth as significant public welfare enhancement instead of enriching their rulership or privatizing for cheap bribes to US national champions, and not being a US weapons customer. This already makes the US empire a demonic evil fascist force. It calling apartheid ethnostates of Ukraine and Israel “great democracies”, and all elections that go against it “rigged” is an ultra fascist view. Control over colonies media is control over their democracy, and control over their people to ensure subservience of allies. Internally, to US, there is always money for the empire and the oligarchy, never for people.

The veneer of democracy and “rules based world order allies” is a BS that helps with its demonism. But removing the veneer to demand more tribute from colonies, and Americans is not change. It simply removes the emperor’s veil/clothing. If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Trump can help Americans realize this. But if you were praising US democracy/values before this, you simply were not paying attention closely enough.

Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

The constitution is no protection against the Army. A military coup does not necessarily mean a more militarist US, or anti-American, anti-pluralist/liberty government. Asking/supporting the military to depose corrupt leaders should be based on that corruption, not looking up whether a nation’s constitution permits it (they never do).

There was this period before WWII when stuff started happening to reduce the rights of minorities, but they weren’t being killed blatantly. Is this where we are?

None of that changes/happens with an exuberant salute. Embarassing for him, but you can ask him what were the good ideas Hitler had.

Americans and world will be genocided because oligarchy can see a path where slaves are a hindrance if they don’t just die quietly instead of being genocided. Oligarchs could instead choose to be richer, which happens when there are more people to make stuff for them and buy their workers’ stuff, but using wealth for power is a simpler thought.

The only viable politics is UBI, but we could only get warmongering neocons as “the opposition”, and you will suck up to the same again.

German police have been especially harsh on anti-genocide protesters as well.

If you get 15k hours and 1500kwh out of the machine, if electricity rates are 20c/kwh, that is $300 in savings. It’s not amazing, but maybe “there’s some appreciation value for members for the clean energy”

600w electrical output requiring 700w cycling power output is not sustainable human power output. TdF riders will usually output 1kwh over their full (4hr ride) day. Enough for 100 toasts

Hmm… I’ve never seen China and Bernie in the same room. Do they say the stuff Bernie says?

If Daddy Xi asks for a Chinese company’s data, he gets that company’s data.

But Daddy Xi can’t hurt you in US. Daddy NSA gets google data just as easy, and next day you suicide with 2 shots to back of the head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

Reasonable to assume that interested parties bribed more than bytedance for Apple and google discretion.

a fusion power plant the size of Earth’s moon, with the same power density as the Sun, could only power around 1 million US homes.

Capital costs alone are prohibitive.

TIL/google ai:

The power density of the sun at its core is about 276.5 watts per cubic meter ((W/m^{3})). This is similar to the power density of a compost pile, but lower than the power density of an adult human’s metabolism.

ok. wow. But solar energy reaching earth can be converted to electricity by commercial PV at 250w/m^2. Even in US installed at under $1/watt with 50 years of useful output, and under 2c/kwh unamortized energy costs. That seems like the actual bar to pass, which is impossible for fusion or fission.

The nuclear industry likes to say that its uranium costs of energy are under 2c/kwh. There are operations costs, unpaid security and insurance. The biggest cost factor of nuclear is, with Vogtle as latest example, capital costs of over $15/watt and 10+ year construction phase. This is completely unbankable, and requires taxpayer advances + subsidies, Even if you hope that construction time financing is included in the $15/w, 5000 revenue hours/year needs to pay 6c/kwh to pay for capital costs at 0% interest rates/ROI over 50 years. With 8% ROI, an extra 24c/kwh in revenue is needed. You only get your revenue hours if all other cheaper energy is suppressed.

Fusion will have higher capital costs than fission. The 2c/kwh “fuel cost” is irrelevant to the cost of energy from the plant.

Average transmission costs for grid is 8c/kwh in US. There are also fixed monthly fees of distribution networks, and meter readings, and utility asking you to pay for its billing/collection staff. $20 to $50/month. Home solar is economic at just the 8c/kwh transmission costs, and cheaper when no grid connection is tolerated. Its much more affordable in Australia than US, due to utility BS and tariffs, but will still provide a tax free ROI higher than 30 year bonds in US.

Fusion power will cost at least 30c/kwh, even if its touted as free energy, because there is a massive infrastructure capital cost that involves a fission plant to not only make tritium, but provide startup/sustained energy input.

There’s a limit on how much we can practically get from solar,

Most residential buildings can self sustain from solar. Dense cities not, but there is dual use grazing and agriculture land, and small portions of desert that could power the world. Solar is enough for type 1 civilization. Nuclear plant energy density is overstated due to their + uranium mine exclusion zones, which could produce more solar power than the uranium content available in those mines.

Long distance transmission creates enormous power wastage, and cities are rarely located in places ideal for large scale wind and solar. Fusion can help deliver power to urban centres, reducing the acreage needed for a solar farm.

A fusion plant will need either nearby solar or nearby fusion plant, with solar only ok if restarting it can wait until daytime. More likely than not, a fusion plant is needed to help regulate plasma temperature based on reaction rate, and cool magnets. But a 10gw fusion plant still is extremely unlikey to need its output overnight compared to day peak demand. A fusion plant needs to be located near a low property value power plant, instead of close to high property value customers.

the economically sound thing to do is to use your fusion reactor to power your relatively conventional fission reactor

A new one to me. Considering how expensive these are, it would be surprising that traditional Uranium mining/enrichment wouldn’t still have an edge. But considering that commercial Tritium is exclusively produced from nuclear reactors, there is a circular money pit economy opportunity.

0 theoretical hope for fusion energy to ever provide electricity under 30c/kwh. These are hot plasma experiments, which could be used to produce mass HHO from water vapour at just 2200C-3000C, even if endothermic. Can get energy from concentrated solar mirrors or just PV solar if plasma is used. Cooling magnets is a huge energy drain. HHO provide the highest turbine energy gain, though a net gain pathway is just slightly more in reach than fusion.

For a 2 slice toaster, they could make 60 toast per hour. Primitive human hunters had an endurance advantage over all prey, as sweat is a cooling system. They could run long enough to exhaust the prey. I still imagine horses could produce more electricity. Though apparently a horse can travel just 20-30 miles per day, while an average cyclist could do 60+.

6 guys simultaneously doing 100w for an hour has a much larger “relay pool” of available athleticism.