None taken. I mean the idea of a representational democracy. People were there, and there's still more than enough land to go around.
In an alternate timeline, we could have negotiated for the land with the native Americans, invited then to join the US, or let them keep their sovereignty but within bounds of their choosing, while always allowing them to become citizens if they or their descendents desired. We all could have won.
Slavery? We didn't need it, if growth at all costs wasn't our insignia. The land provided/provides more than enough, if we take care of it.
But this is all fantasy, destroyed by greed, and laziness. Doing it the right way would have been hard work. And we know how fucking lazy pieces of shit like musk, trump, Epstein, et al actually are.
This is a good time of year to go, anything past April is brutal.
Make sure to take pics of the windmill farm on the way back to LA, and get a date shake! 😎
P. S. If you wanna see some real post-apocalyptic shit, check out the Salton sea... It is a place of death. The only sound is the sun curling paint off former gas stations, cheerful 60s plastic signs of this or that resort by the water cracking in the endless sun, coated in the ever-present tan of dust.
There are only memories of joy. And they've long faded too.
In sum, these guys at EAST got the Greenwald limit elevated in their tokamak, which indirectly influences the Lawson criterion: nTTau, density * time at said density * plasma energy released. Lawson is the master finish line for measuring whether a fusion system can actually make more power than it consumes.
To date, when you cross the Greenwald limit, the man/woman in the operators seat should expect the plasma inside the device to become uncontrollable, hurting the reactor by touching the walls or instruments inside, a so-called "disruption". Only a few topologies like the stellerator can exceed the limit, and so far, only by 5x.
But here we have a way to exceed the limit in the much more researched tokamak. This research has positive impact for all but the weirdest/niche fusion devices.
Yep. Am American, sad about what a seemingly good idea got warped into over 250yrs. Fuck this joint, but there will most certainly be real monsters created in the void until things stabilize.
What an insightful G.