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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • This is a good time of year to go, anything past April is brutal.

    Make sure to take pics of the windmill farm on the way back to LA, and get a date shake! 😎

    P. S. If you wanna see some real post-apocalyptic shit, check out the Salton sea… It is a place of death. The only sound is the sun curling paint off former gas stations, cheerful 60s plastic signs of this or that resort by the water cracking in the endless sun, coated in the ever-present tan of dust.

    There are only memories of joy. And they’ve long faded too.


  • In sum, these guys at EAST got the Greenwald limit elevated in their tokamak, which indirectly influences the Lawson criterion: nTTau, density * time at said density * plasma energy released. Lawson is the master finish line for measuring whether a fusion system can actually make more power than it consumes.

    To date, when you cross the Greenwald limit, the man/woman in the operators seat should expect the plasma inside the device to become uncontrollable, hurting the reactor by touching the walls or instruments inside, a so-called “disruption”. Only a few topologies like the stellerator can exceed the limit, and so far, only by 5x.

    But here we have a way to exceed the limit in the much more researched tokamak. This research has positive impact for all but the weirdest/niche fusion devices.








  • This was always true. I want someone who works for the working man and woman. I don’t care if we become socialist, stay in capitalism, what the fuck ever other choice: we as people need to feel taken care of. Any system that ignores its people is doomed.

    Just as important is explaining to people why some choices need to be made that we may not agree with. Raising the gas tax? I’m ok with it, because I already know it’s how we pay for our roads. But what about my less aware neighbor? If they simply see the rate jump, and don’t know why, it leaves the door wide open for a conspiracy schmuck to step in with a ragebait explanation.