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Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power.

Looking at the projects underway I agree with you, however the US was the first to produce a nuclear fusion reaction with a net positive energy result at the NIF in 2022. source The subsequent 5 events have increase net positive yields significantly with the 2025 experiment yielding more than 200% net energy gain.

To be able to create a energy net positive even on-demand has to be very helpful for research. I don’t know of any other country that is capable of doing that yet.

Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.

When did they become human remains? Before or after launch?

Long before. Its a company that, after your death, will fly some of your ashes to space. For orbital services, the ashes are then returned to your estate, and in this case that can’t happen because the vessel wasn’t recovered. They also offer deep space launches where your ashes never come back.

The actor that played Scotty on the original Star Trek has his ashes flown to space, as an example.

Are World of Warcraft gold farmers still a thing?

This is one of my personally learned lessons of wisdom that took me far too long to figure out:

“A lot of the time you just need to let people continue to be wrong”

I’m not talking about when you’re going in for surgery and your doctor told you he is going to amputate the wrong leg. I’m talking about when someone says something that is factually or morally incorrect. There is an infinite amount of wrong people in the world. You will encounter dozens of them on a daily basis. You would have an opportunity to personally correct quite a few of them. Don’t do it. Smile, nod, and walk away.

Lets say you want to correct them and in the best case you’re successful. They now know what they said was wrong. Most people really don’t like to be corrected, even if they were wrong. They are embarrassed, possibly shamed, and at worst, humiliated. What kind of interaction do you think you’re going to have with that person going forward into the future. Do you think they will embrace you as the really intelligent person that took your time to help them out? No. They will think you a pompous, arrogant, know-it-all. And for what? You spent all this time and energy on something you don’t even really care about. Your purpose in life is not to be “Defender of the truth, hero of logic” or anything. You’re just a regular person, and the guy on the subway does not give two shits that he mispronounced the word “nuclear” as “nucular”.

In the professional world its a bit different, but even then, most of the above applies. You have to be careful where and how you correct someone. Even if the ultimate outcome is for the good of the organization, you can alienate those that you need to like you for you to effectively get your job done. You can quickly develop a reputation as an uncooperative “Diva”. That is career poison and no matter how good your subject matter expertise, this reputation can forever limit your advancement.

So unless the outcome of something really and truly matters to the outcome pf your life or your job, and sometimes even then…let it go without saying anything. Let them be wrong, and leave them behind you never to be seen by you again in your entire life.

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now”

Results that require a long time to from work are ultimate started long before you need the results. However that isn’t always clear at the time back then. Sometimes it is and procrastination means you’re without the results today because you never started and the time has passed anyway. That doesn’t mean that you should simple discard the idea the results were needed for. You can still achieve the results, but delaying the start of the work now is the worst thing you can do. Starting right now is the best choice to move forward to get the results you want.

I doubt it was anything that insidious. I’m thinking its more the carelessness of taking a household resource and removing it to a private space making it unavailable to the rest of the house. Someone that doesn’t think of others would do that, and it was likely simply the most recent example of him doing that.

We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.

Bad comparison on that one. KitKat brand in the USA is an entirely different company that the rest of the world. So they aren’t even the pretending to be the same recipe.

I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don’t experience that with other brands.

See now I’m curious how Sri Lanka’s capital city got its name.

and play a lot of classic wow.

I’m wondering if you can tell me where I can find Mankrik’s wife.

There are already bacteria and fungi out there that show signs of breaking down plastics but at a very slow rate btw. It could function only under very specific conditions, like UV light exposure or sea water.

I wouldn’t consider UV light to be specific. Sunlight has huge amounts of UV and sunlight is, well nearly everywhere. Sea water would also be a bad catalyst to choose. Lots of parts of boats and ships that come in contact with sea water (through the bilge or as sea spray) intentionally use plastic as it doesn’t rust or corrode in the presence of marine environments. What you’re suggesting would remove that protection.

There are already bacteria and fungi out there that show signs of breaking down plastics but at a very slow rate btw.

Sure, but we’re not talking about those. You’re suggesting releasing a bacteria that is being designed for industrial scale and use of rapid plastic decomposition. You don’t see a difference there?

I’d like to know how else you would remove plastics from the wild.

I’m not required to provide a solution just to point out the catastrophic shortcomings of a proposed one.

Why would it be random?

Perhaps I should have used the word “uncontrolled” instead of random. If you’re expecting this bacteria to work against, say, a field with plastic litter in it, its going to be in contact with lots of other things made of plastic that aren’t waste. If the bacteria is able to self replicate, and you’ve released it into the wild, you’ve effectively killed the use for nearly all plastics as things that are still in use will be decomposed.

We are already releasing huge amounts of artificial chemicals into the wild.

Thats a bizarre argument. That would be like saying: “We have lots of murders in the world, so why not intentionally murder more people?”

I think there’s a reason assumptions make an ass out of you

Sure, you could say that about any new story you read on the internet. I have no desire and am in no position to act on my assumptions here on this news story, so I think making assumptions like these are fairly benign.

I also think there’s a good amount of evidence that the nephew here is the cause of his own downfall. The uncle isn’t the first man that the nephew has stabbed to death:

“In the documents, with sources confirming, Denver police previously arrested Vigil on Sept. 3, 2021, for the death of Timothy Gama, 54.”

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Wait, are you suggesting releasing bio-engineered bacteria that destroys plastic randomly in the wild? You don’t see any practical problems that would cause?

If you’re at a point where you can feed it to bacteria, you’ve already separated it from the environment and the waste stream, right? How else are you going to feed it to bacteria?

According to a probable cause statement obtained by FOX31, Vigil told officers that someone in the house was making a sandwich and asked for hot sauce. When Vigil reportedly responded that the condiment was in an upstairs bedroom, a verbal dispute broke out and quickly escalated into a physical fight.

I can’t tell if I’m just getting old and jaded, but the 20 year old murder nephew was living with extended family (the Uncle), and while living there he decided that the household hot sauce bottle was acceptable to take (and keep?) in his personal bedroom. This smells like a certainly level of entitlement on the part of the nephew. The nephew then killing the uncle in the uncle’s own house says it even more.

While many plastics have a really bad reputation for recyclability, isn’t HDPE (#2 plastic) one of the few stand outs that recycles very well?

But lighting, layout, smells, sounds… Everything is accounted for.

Yet there is only one smoke-free casino in Vegas, and even then its only been smoke free since Sept of 2020. I wonder if their science says that cigarette smoke encourages gambling in non-smokers. That isn’t my personal experience as its a huge turn off, but for others it might.

Sure, but now you have the science to back up being shocked.