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"Back in my day" people protested knowing that they'd get arrested. I don't know why this has apparently been forgotten and they're surprised by the arrests? Is the civil rights movement not taught in schools anymore? As long as we avoid another Kent State this is just how it's always worked. Whining about it by the protesters just shows a lack of understanding in regards to how the world works. Have they not even seen Greta Thunberg getting arrested? Amateurs!

"This complicates our plans for a land bridge to Kaliningrad!"

I seem to have misplaced the world's tiniest violin. Sad.

We should go back to this. I want to ride on a subway with everyone shouting "Meet hot singles in your area! Improve facial skin with one simple trick! Secret and confidential. Eyes only!"

Yes, the vague equivalent would be for the Native Americans to reclaim the United States via superior force ~1800 years from now.

It would put Israel "on the back foot" in regards to the conflict. Israel would be tied up negotiating for hostage release which is exactly where Hamas wants them. It stops being a question of who is winning a battle and turns it into "how much is Israel willing to sacrifice".

"European settlers" in the sense that they hadn't been in Israel since the Romans kicked them out in '65 for causing too much trouble with all their messiahs and religious zealotry.

The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we're talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.

Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we'll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We're very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there's a lot of hand waving, but I've never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It's really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.

Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.

When websites start blocking clients that don't implement the wei handshake, you'll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.

One thing I find interesting about the fediverse is that it is so empty that you can occasionally see honest-to-God pro-NK propaganda. NK lost a quarter of a million people to starvation in the 1990's and are on a fast track to repeat the past. So glad you have access to the internet. Good for you.

It's going to be tough for some communities. Some of the Lemmy devs are literally avowed Communists and that is bound to cause friction.