Ben Krasnow of AppliedScience is still going strong and has yet to be revealed as an asshole - same for the WellTheresYourProblem crew, Jenny Nicholson, Hbomberguy, OutOfDarts… Im sure theres more, but there’s a few if folks are looking for recs!

Absolutely insane to just have pop up, I didn’t even realize this was on the horizon. Goddamn I’m excited for this tech.

Given what some of those schools currently assign, Wilson’s books would be a legitimate improvement…

This mechanosynthesis strategy is not limited to placement of isolated C2 units on the Si(100) surface. Once transferred, surface-bound IR-C2 structures can undergo successive reactions

Oh shit this is actually huge. Like, actually building real things huge.

As I understand it that’s rarely the solution anymore, targeted radiation treatments and drug therapies have revolutionized treatment of thyroid cancers.

… But we can always hope.

The changes mean that China could meet its 2030 climate commitments even if its absolute emissions increase, the report said.

GOP: “Write that down, write that down!”

JS-class steam locomotives were used in active service at a rural coal mine in western China until 15 January 2024. Railfan & Railroad stated in 2022 that “the only places on earth to see steam locomotives in revenue freight service are small switching operations in China, North Korea and Bosnia,” but that these were “sporadic at best.”

(via wikipedia)

As far as I am aware they are still in sporadic use; while I have seen no journalistic reporting that gives confirmation either way, I have seen numerous videos from rail fans in recent years happily sperging about their use.

Dear god, is it truly 2026 already?

(That was regular service lines yeah - there’s still sporadic service for fueled steam locomotives, and some industrial campuses like iron foundries are still using them as yard engines)

There’s probably examples with much less of a time difference too - there were (and as far as I am aware, still are) fueled steam locomotives in use at several facilities in china as recently as 3 4 2? years ago.

Sorry, what? What does this have to do with monogamy, at all?

Design changes yay, age restrictions… depend heavily on how they’re implemented (so inevitably they’ll be horrible)

They’re pretty pronounced so there’s deep overhangs + not much working space on the interior. Fine to wipe down sure, but anything requiring even a little scrubbing was miserable and a standard dishwasher’s spray was blocked by the geometry. We tried to use it a couple times because it was neat but then everyone in the friend group collectively gave up on it as being very not worth it.

Fuck, what a horrifying way to die…

Ah, I see they’ve reached the section on Window Functions…

… while I believe it about the funding issues, the first bit sounds like a story made up by the FBI to give leftist groups a false sense of superiority. "Don’t check for us, there’s no need, we can’t even read" and it seems pretty dangerous to actually believe that.

… I might be wrong, but were they not making a comment on the overall situation and not this specific example?

Probably as useless as using it for interviews - I mean wtf, it sacrifices battery life to run a big dumb motor when you’re playing music back??

No, I’m still not interested in educating you beyond that one single topic (and some meta-commentary). If you cant understand how ascribing behavior based solely on racial groups is racist, there’s no hope for you. If you want to discuss the one topic that I’ve already clarified I’m game to discuss feel free, but otherwise you can just keep wearing the mask of performative disinterest and repeating your affirmations in the bathroom mirror of internet commentary for as long as you like. I really really am not doing this.

And here we have you again:

and it really just was segregation, not based on race, which makes it no Apartheid

But if we look into it, we find:

In 1836, young Benjamin Disraeli wrote:

[The Irish] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character.

Wait, so that means… this wasn’t a gotcha at all? It really was Apartheid?

Drat that wascally warl0k3…

I want to drop the facade for a moment here and clarify something important: I’m not doing this to troll you, I’m doing this to point out to you that you don’t know what you’re talking about. You just don’t. You’re arguing from your heart, and I’m sure you’re a decent person despite this, but what you are spouting is utter bollocks.

When I said, wayyyy back when, that I didn’t have the patience to educate you? This is what I meant. You’re either ignorant of or forgetting about basic concepts, like how race is a purely social construct that has changed wildly (even in the past few years). You’re trying to argue too many things, and you don’t have a coherent point or a firm basis on which to base your supercilious exhortations on the nature of racism. An example would be the idea that the irish could pass as british: well yes/no, the black irish faired much better than than redheads for this exact reason, but redheadedness being the defining trait of the irish race is a stigma that survives to this day (yes, the term is not an irish term - but I don’t know of another one to describe that segment of the population). And fair play to you for getting it wrong, it’s a complex topic and ignorance isn’t shameful (just the denial of ignorance) and all that. But still.

The reason I keep picking at just one issue (Apartheid, in this case)? I told you I was only throwing you a bone on a single issue. There’s just too much wrong in what you’re saying, and I just don’t want to deal with all of it. Please understand that I’m not trying to be mean, I just sincerely do not have any interest in trying to teach you when you’re so damn hostile. It’s just no fun for me.