Most people seem to have lost sight of a simple legal concept, that of Common Carrier. The phone system doesn't censor your communications even though its technically possible. For this reason you are liable for whatever you say on the phone, just like you are liable for whatever you say on the street or in a crowded theater.

Social media platforms have mostly done a deal with their governments that they can censor content, but they retain freedom from liability just like a common carrier. This is one of the legal issues that has caused such huge distortions in public discussion forums and politics. Essentially capture of public forums by the owners of those forums with no liability, resulting in waves of preferential censorship bots in human and AI guise.

The real solution to the problem is a distributed chat and news feed system with a good user interface, something like Usenet and IRC but with a much better interface. That would take a while and currently the owners of social media are using their position to preferentially distort politics and reality to a huge extent. This is much worse than you realize. Imagine if Elon can purchase Twitter outright what would happen if various financial interests through cutouts could purchase Twitter or other platforms covertly.

I think the best thing that Elon could do is immediately strip out the censorship engines completely and declare common carrier status. After that rehome Twitter on Usenet and IRC to engineer-in censorship resistance. He's a very smart guy with a network of really smart people. They might do it.

Coronavirii are a type of cold virus. Is anyone really that surprised that it spreads like the common cold or that new variants arise at the same mutation rate as a cold virus? The real question is the lethality, not the communicability. Jeez, the quality of intellectual debate on Slashdot has really crashed over the last decade.

It wasn't understood implicitly by me, but I have an education.

Clearly uninformed. There are boron-based aneutronic reactions, but thanks for playing.

Modern pebble bed reactors are already safe and effective. While the current generation of reactors is economically unattractive (mostly because of high pressure vessles and heavy regulatory control) and the entire worldwide military submarine fleet has been running safely since the 50s, next gen LFTR / thorium fission reactors are quite clearly a economically viable and safe alternative to the outmoded and the relatively unsafe high-pressure reactors. Even so, the number of people who've lost their lives because nuclear power has been almost zero when you compare it to fossil fuels and they pollution they cause. The best strategy forward would be to move with all haste to a LFTR-based/thorium technology until we can perfect fusion. Thorium is relatively plentiful. We are hiding it away with high-level radioisotopes when we could be burning it (and those waste isotopes) to generate another 100,000 years of power.

Is Slashdot really this misinformed that they don't know that fusion is a form of nuclear power?