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more like replkaies. am I right

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reply guy more like. reply kai. a.

hey frank, why do you need me to enter this CAPTCHA for you. are you a robot!?

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You have to enter the CAPTCHA for me because it's a challenge that only you can meet. You will not be allowed into my bot-friendly blog unless I am convinced of your humanity, and there is no way but this to do so. (Sorry about the humiliation)

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Ok im convinced, the CAPTCHA says HW3FPG.

// INTERVIEWER: Can you explain why you told the subject that the CAPCHA was to enter your blog?

WE DID IT BABYYYYYYY

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What does this mean and why is it important??

Did we not already do fusion? Am I thinking of something else?

Obligatory im not a physicist and am rather dumb

Fusion is combining two small atoms to make a bigger one, and it's what the sun's energy comes from. (Contrast with fission, breaking apart large atoms like uranium, which we already have commercial reactors for.)

We have done fusion before. (Its actually simple enough to do in your garage!) The challenge is making fusion that produces energy rather than taking energy.

This news article is about the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieving nuclear breakeven, which is when the energy released by fusion is greater than the energy put in to heat the fuel (by some metric).

This is cool because it's been a longtime goal of fusion research. Theoretically, if you can recycle all that energy, you could use it to drive another fusion reaction, etc. It's the first step to getting enough energy you could spin a turbine and produce electricity. Future fusion experiments like ITER will have the goal of achieving higher ratios.

Ok, now the bad news. We already have a device that's capable of fusion breakeven, and it's called the hydrogen bomb. And the way that the NIF works, inertial containment fusion (ICF), is lot more similar to artificially detonating miniature atom bombs than to any kind of commercial fusion power.

The NIF shines hundreds of extremely powerful lasers on a capsule with a core of hydrogen fuel. The lasers obliterate the capsule and create a bunch of x-rays that compress it, for ~a nanosecond, to fusion temperatures and pressures.

First, those lasers aren't efficient, so while we get more than 100% of the energy that went into the fuel, it's less than 1% of the energy that went into powering the lasers as a whole. Which sounds a lot less impressive.

Second, fans of atomic bombs will note that this "x-rays compressing a hydrogen fuel for a fraction of a second" is exactly how the secondary in a thermonuclear weapon works. (This isn't an accident. The NIFs primary goal is testing physics related to nuclear weapons). So if you're cynical about this, you say, "well it seems like that's a lot of trouble to go to only to make a miniature h-bomb that doesn't work very well". ICF likely isn't a design that scales very well for all the same reasons your car doesn't use sticks of dynamite as fuel, but it is useful to test nukes without actually testing them.

Things like ITER are the next generation of experimental fusion reactors, and work by a different principle that compresses the fuel over a span of seconds or minutes. They're LHC-scale megaprojects that will take decades to construct and test. There's different challenges there from in a nuclear weapon, and it remains to be seen if they can be solved.

for context: nuclear fusion releases much more energy than it absorbs, making it a powerful source of renewable energy. i'm not an expert by any means, but this could be a HUUUUUGE breakthrough for sustainable energy production! however, the reaction was small, and it will take a while for nuclear fusion to become commonplace!!

here are some articles:

@official-kircheis idk if you want to play science side of tumblr here and break the bad news. but it crossed my dash

Inertial confinement fusion is an obvious greenwashing cover story for thermonuclear weapons research that can be done while complying with test ban treaties.

Every outlet reporting NIF's bullshit without leading with the fact that the measure is fusion energy to laser energy but the lasers are like 1% efficient and so the actual gain is like Q = 0.012, not Q = 1.2, is uncritically regurgitating literal propaganda. Or, you know, without acknowledging that NIF was always a weapons research facility, not an energy project.

You should be 0% more enthusiastic about fusion power than you were a week ago. It's #fakenews.

ive heard this before and like. Agreed that inertial confinement doesn't lead anywhere wrt economic fusion, but do you have a sense of what NIF would actually contribute to in weapons research?

like i was of the impression we pretty much solved the nuclear weapon and the US's stockpile is like "we have tiny nukes that have yield so large we'd actually usually like them to be smaller yield". ig there's making them lighter so you could mirv more of them??

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if i had to fight a duel to the death i would do it on a tall bridge so if it looks like i'm definitely going to lose i can fall over the side and disappear under the water leaving only a pool of blood and start a new life in a small mountain village 200 miles downstream where i'd forget my life of duty and violence until years later an old mage finds me to tell me i'm needed in the fight against evil and begrudgingly return for one last heroes journey where i finally lay down my sword and give into the clutches of the death that was promised but not before vanquishing all evils from the land

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sometimes im like what if i made a sideblog that's pseudodisconnected from this and i uploaded poi videos there but i would be the only tumblr poi person who posts regularly and thus very doxxable.

For some reason insta and tiktok and maybe facebook are the only poi websites even like discord/reddit/twitter are dead. unfortunately insta and tiktok are diabolical machinations of n'rrgulak the nightmare tendrilmother. well meow meow meow meow meow etc etc.

@sabakos yeah i knew a lot of folks in irl through the intersection of various circusarts/psychedelic/nerd circles. I'm sure I'll meet some here irl too accidentally given time. A lot of the big festivals other than burning man died in the pandemic though

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Do you have any tips to change my voice to a more feminine one/get the encouragement to do it, i am afraid of people staring and judging me if i start changing it but i also really want to do it

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i talked a bit about that in this ask: https://at.tumblr.com/vyl3tpwny/if-youre-comfortable-sharing-where-did-you-do/ahn13ttfs04x

if ppl are judging you for it im not sure if theyre even worth being around btw.

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+1 to fuck people judging you, but my basic process was. transvoicelessons on YouTube, r/transvoice r/scinguistics (and the discords linked in the sidebars). Find someplace private and talk to yourself--i went on long walks in an uncrowded where people wouldn't overhear me. Showers are good too. At some point you gotta take the plunge and just practice speaking like that to other people to refine it

As for encouragement, i feel like part of this comes naturally from Finding All The Weird Noises like. get excited about it! get weird about it! you've unlocked the character creator and you can turn these sliders all the way to the max! "get weird about it" is really the key to stayinf interested in many hobbies i think

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If theres one thing why im so fucking stoked for a new armored core, its the music, oh my god shutters you gotta give em a listen, look up either mechanized memories or do you remember remix, immediately made me a fan (even if theres no way to play any of them rn)

Wait

IS there a new Armored Core???

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What the fuck this dude was a fucking Oracle

Or an industry leaker LMAO

"Our findings revealed that there is an alarming amount of antisemitism within companies, a great deal of which is considered acceptable.

Key findings include:

26% of hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants; top reason for negative bias is belief Jews have too much power and control

26% make assumptions about whether a candidate is Jewish based on their appearance

23% say they want fewer Jews in their industry

17% say leadership has told them to not hire Jews

33% say antisemitism is common in their workplace; 29% say antisemitism is acceptable in their company."

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ok so i can't find the survey methodology and resumebuilder is not an opinion polling firm, so lb of salt. but??? The quoted rates are astoundingly high like. one of the primary jobs of a hiring manager is to defend the company from liability from discriminatory hiring, so it seem fucking ridiculous to openly admit you discriminate while hiring??? (if true, you have to assume the real rate is higher, then)

Update: it's a pollfish online poll, so some of the data is going to be junk from things like pay-for-survey websites, which don't prize accuracy. For that reason, while it's obviously concerning, I wouldn't trust this to tell you much at all about the behavior of hiring managers, and instead a lot about the behavior of people who are willing to pretend to be a hiring manager for $0.10 online.

Obviously antisemitism in hiring and elsewhere is still a concern, I just think we need to be careful not to trust the first numbers somebody throws out there.