We are hitting the limit what is doable with energy density.
I mean, we're definitely running into a problem of how you build a battery without also building a bomb. But the entire point of TNT is rapid thermal expansion. The point of a battery is very low voltage steady release of electrical charge.
I might also note that C4 has around 6 Mwh/kg. A bit of applied chemistry can go a long way to improving energy efficiency. And that's before you take advantage of geometry to focus pressure, via a shaped charge.
Point being, there's a lot of clever ways to juice a lemon. We're a long way from the end of the road on battery improvement.
years from now, history will look back on the likes of Schumer and Jeffries as the most pathetic, cowardly human beings we may have ever seen in Congress
I mean, I'd like to believe that. But does anyone look back at Tip O'Neal or Tom Daschle this way? Does anyone remember these guys at all? Even someone as relatively recent and memorable as Ted Kennedy or historic as Goldwater get drowned out in the deluge of the modern moment.
I don't think anyone is going to be talking about Schumer or Jeffries or McConnell or Johnson in something more than a footnote. Maybe Gingrich will get a nod, if only for the degree to which he self-branded and then flopped on his face - a sort of modern day Henry Clay in that regard. But Trump kinda sucks all the oxygen out of the room. It's like asking who the House Speaker was during the Nixon administration.
These aren't conspiracy theories. They're well documented, exhaustively researched, and heavily reported upon programs and organizations.
The conspiracy theories came about as attempts to cover up the above. The Helter Skelter motivation, which then bled into increasingly lured claims about rock music being mind control and a race war prophecy were the conspiracy theories. These claims helped cover up MK Ultra as a project and deflected state effects at manipulating civilians onto mass media and The Culture War.
Similarly, it wasn't "Big Tobacco" that was the conspiracy, but the repeated denial-ism funded by tobacco corporations which sought to conflate restrictions on smoking with some kind of police state pogrom on the working class. The same game got played with asbestos and lead paint and motorcycle helmets and seat belts. Wave after wave of reactionary media funded by libertarian-aligned business interests tried to blame the victim or mystify the source of harm.
"Big Sugar" is a complete misnomer, as the shift to corn syrup over sugar was in direct response to the Cuban Revolution and the sudden shortfall in sugar supplies following the US embargo. That, again, wasn't any kind of conspiracy. But the increasingly aggressive sales tactics of soft drink salespeople certainly created misconceptions about their benefits and hazards.
And what’s the point of trying to dismiss all conspiracy theorists as racist lunatics?
Yes, why would anyone conflate eugenics, phrenology, and other pseudo-scientific claims of racial superiority, or the increasingly apocalyptic predictions of social collapse coming from segregationists and their business allies, might feed into conspiracy media.
I would like a thing. All retail commerce has been monopolized by a handful of big box storefronts. One of those storefronts sucks marginally less than the others, such that I can actually find what I want to buy and expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion.
But I shouldn't shop there because... ???
Wonder why bad things continue to happen.
Damn, so true. We should never have quit shopping at TargetWalmartSears Woolworths. Now we live in Capitalist Hell and its all our own fault.
Follow the bread crumb trail on a lot of these assholes and they all run through the same set of alt-right media intent on radicalizing people into hating one another and eventually killing them.
Whether its the "Haitians ate my dog" hoax or the "Hamas is running Columbia's student unions" canard or the "Comet Ping Pong is a hide out for ritual child cannibalism", the goal is to turn people against one another and justify violence against them through the police.
The apex of the modern conspiracy theory is the lie about Evil Immigrants Sneaking Across The Border to Do Crime. And the consequence of believing it is a bipartisan government support for ICE kidnappings and concentration camps.
Newly released Epstein emails offer clues to meetings with the founder of 4chan, the site known as a hub for far-right propaganda and QAnon conspiracy theories.
Off and on for months, Mr. Bannon, a leader in the MAGA movement and a former top aide to President Trump, had been advising Mr. Epstein on how to handle resurrected allegations that he was a serial pedophile. Mr. Bannon recommended which lawyers to hire — his own — when to lie low and when he should jump on an opening to push his narrative. He scheduled what the two men called “media training.”
By crushing the left, and abandoning popular Corbyn policies that Starmer had himself signed up to - such as nationalising utilities, abolishing student tuition fees, ending NHS outsourcing and opposing illegal wars - the clique around Starmer broke the promise of change that voters expected.
Backing Israel’s genocide was only the most extreme example.
The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX and Donald Trump’s “first buddy” has been trying to justify cuts to programs like social security, arguing that the fraud has cost the government up to $200bn.
Time and again, conspiracy theories are used to undermine serious journalistic inquiries, distract from ongoing scandals, silence outsider critics, destroy progressive socio-economic reforms, and perpetuate crimes against humanity.
Not only were the conspiracy theorists - from QAnon and Bannon to Mandelson and McSweeney to Theil and Musk - instrumental in covering up the truth of the Epstein Scandal, they were routinely complicit in the actual sexual abuse.
Follow any one of these conspiracy rabbit holes and at the end of it you'll inevitably find some media savvy billionaire - a Rupert Murdoch or Ross Perot or Charlies Koch or Robert Mercer - propping the whole bag of bullshit up so they can hustle another Reagan or Bush or Trump over the line and loot your back pockets while you're not looking.
That's assuming the conspiracy isn't straight up manufactured by the IDF to help justify another round of drone strikes in Gaza.
Planet is choked with guns. They're everywhere and very easy to get. Absolutely no reason you need one that's been churned out by a printer you got on Temu.
Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town.
Idk why you're trying to couch this as a hypothetical. Imagine trying to talk about Social Security this way - "oh well maybe in theory..." No, brother, the checks are in the mail.
People really do have family housing that really does exist for real in China.
But it’s certainly no Soviet Union
The Chinese Communist system was not organized under the Soviet model. Absolutely true. Maoism-cum-Dengism is not Lenin With Chinese Characteristics.
Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela also had their own district unique models.
if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.
If you go to your local Chinese jobs office, you'll get a bureaucratic exam that determines your fitness for entry level positions.
23% of the population works in the public sector. That's roughly 300M people - China Is Hiring.
But the private sector is also hiring, often with salary and benefits that outcompete public jobs. The idea that you need to be a trash picker to earn an income is flat out wrong.
