Commonwealth Fusion Systems expects to have net energy production from the whole machine in 2025/6 Commercialization a handful of years thereafter

Practical fusion will be coming online in 2025 /6 with the SPARC reactor from CFS. High temp superconductors FTW. Practical QC requires maintaining a superposition of at least a million physical Qbits. Nit happening in the next 3-4 decades. At least.

And of course, most newcomers to Linux will take the default desktop both because they have no idea which one is really best for them and because they'll figure that it's the default so it must be best. I'd bet that if the various DEs were listed in a random order not only would far less people would start out with Gnome, but few of them would migrate from one to another because in their own way, they're all good.

Same here, but I abandoned Gnome when I saw what Gnome 3 was going to be and I've never looked back. If they can't manage to raise enough cash to pay for themselves, maybe it's time for it to die.

Now, Congress has stepped back and allowed you to get a hearing aid from anyone.

And note how far the prices have dropped. Proof, if any were needed, that the big name hearing aid makers were gouging the public.

If I wrote that Bytedance was losing money, I miswrote. My intended meaning was that TickToc was unprofitable.

Fuck that noise. That should be protected, and was well with in scope.The EPA is not riding roughshod over any common citizen. A billionaire with no regard to the environment, sure. Any company just straight dumping pollutants into the ground water, year fucking get those guys. Not all land should be developed. Do your own research.

Tomorrow it will be insulin prices or something.

I'd like to see them go after the prices of the interferon drugs used to control MS. My sister used to need to take one of them once a month, and before she was taken off of it the price had gone up to $1600/dose. The feds had put anybody using it on MedicAid automatically, but that's a huge, unreasonable price for something like that.

And hearing aids. Notice how you can now get them by mail order at about 1/10 the price the big boys charge? Wonder why they've always been so expensive until now? Well, here's the answer: "Everything the traffic will bear!" Congress should have stepped in with an investigation decades ago, but they were too busy pocketing campaign contributions to bother.

According to TFS, the company is losing money, but they're still fighting to hold onto it and would rather shut it down than sell it. This suggests that profit was never the main goal of its owners, and that propaganda or other intelligence gathering has always been its purpose.

Point one granted. Point two not granted. Thats a really dumb argument . We don't have two rational parties. Just one. The other is too busy arguing before the supreme court that we shouldn't be a Democracy and elections shouldn't be considered as determinative. Until they accept the extensive proof that 2020 was legitimately won, their lack of votes on anything is not significant.

Obviously, the gig economy. They all complete for low pay random per task jobs.

No, the lack of clear English is the first barrier to getting anything resolved. The lack of empowerment is the second one. But there are very normal obvious requests that can be done by support, if you can get past a language barrier. How do I know? Because I've lived it. Google pixel offers the ability to close caption live phone calls and it does an amazing job with accents. So at least I can understand them. So from that stand point I've been able to phrase my requests properly to get them understood by the support staff. With that accomplished, I've been able to actually get reasonable support. Sure they have a script and limited powers, but most of the time that's all you need.

Which part of it? If you're talking about the fighting, he's kept himself in shape but she's regularly training in martial arts and learning new styles and techniques. If memory serves, she used three different styles in that fight and was getting a fourth ready when he tried to escape.

(Food sizes also seem weird to me no matter what. Why do tomatoes come in 28 ounce cans? Who decided that was a good quantity? There's probably some interesting history there.)

I'm only guessing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it had to do with filling boxes of a certain standardized size. They made the cans so that they got a convenient number into the box and then checked to see how much they held.

That is every religionist's favourite fantasy and it does not survive contact with reality. I've had a major near death experience, it did nothing at all to convince me of the existence of god.

I think you've slightly misunderstood that quote. It doesn't say that atheists stop being atheists in foxholes and stay that way afterwords. It only claims that they start believing in someone who might keep them safe while in the foxhole but says nothing about how or if they believe later.