The meme game is incredibly weak compared to here (thanks PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, cm0002, Stamets, LadyButterfly, etc.). Lemmy has an incredible amount of fantastic memes for it’s size.
I’d like to echo this. My entire knowledge of meme culture is supported by these diligent individuals.
I’ll also add the prior work of @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world . Miss you, squid. Hope you’re doing well in your new home.
“The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[1][2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact[3][4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact,[5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.[6] The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939[7][8]) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.[9]” source
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.
Are World of Warcraft gold farmers still a thing?
Overcorrection in policy is not uncommon in authoritarian regimes. I’d imagine because policy carries the threat of imprisonment, not just guidance.
“The Chinese government wants to promote traditional family values and liking danmei novels is seen as a factor in making women less willing to have children,” Dr Ge explains.
You skipped the “mass market” part.
Those advancements were made possible by the Roadster, which was the true pioneering product that made EVs cool again. A car that was dreamed up and invented by Martin Eberhard, and would go on to be built by someone else that gave him the shittiest end of the most shit-covered stick there ever was.
All credit due to Eberhard and Tarpenning for the idea and some of the initial development of the BMS, but its not like they had a full car ready to sell and before Musk came in. Tesla was established as a company in 2003, Musk was brought in (with his money) in 2004. The first Roadster sold in 2008. Now stop making me say anything positive about Musk just to set the record straight. Its making me sick to talk about him positively after what he’s become and how much harm he has caused human society.
It’s not rare for the first company to bring a product to market to not be the top dog once other companies get involved.
Except Tesla wasn’t the first mass market EV. It wasn’t even the second. The first would be the GM EV1 in 1997:
Many would argue that the EV1 doesn’t count because it was on old technology. Fine then, the Nissan Leaf from 2009 then sporting its lithium battery:
Tesla Model S brought performance, range and styling that both of those were missing. However, we don’t need Tesla anymore in the world if Musk is still benefiting from it.
I’d trade Ukraine getting NATO membership if it means Hungary loses it.
If I understand the explanation, its like when an author (or their proxies) buys thousands (millions) of copies of their own book to make them “sold” so that they can raise their standing on the “Best Seller’s List”.
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.
No, I wouldn’t call that diplomacy.
This is why you and I aren’t diplomats.
If the head of NATO is dependent upon the USA for lots of support to NATO, then it is in NATO’s interest for the head of the USA to like NATO. If you know the head of the USA is incredibly shallow and you can achieve that support simply by sending an email/text message which requires zero dollars, and at best, a bit of political capital, then its a good deal for the NATO head to do that.
This is what is both fascinating and horrible about diplomacy and geopolitics. Its not about being “right” or “moral” in the moment. Its about getting what you want hopefully in service of the overall goal of of your interests. Sometimes that overall goal is “right” and “moral” in the case of NATO usually.
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?”
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?
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?
Iran, take a good look at the amount of military support Armenia received when reached out to Putin after an attack by Azerbaijan:
"Despite Armenia’s appeals for assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and Russia during Azerbaijan’s incursions in May 2021 and September 2022, both entities declined to assist, leaving Armenia on its own.[62][63] "
And Armenia was a signatory on a mutual defense agreement CSTO. Iran isn’t.
“allows”