I might be jaded from Western scientists always “”“expecting”“” a breakthrough and it never coming, but to be fair they have to perpetually pretend they’re close to a breakthrough to get more grant funding and investments. There’s no interest in science for its own sake in the West.

China is clearly emerging as the leader of scientific development, though, and the political economy in China is obviously different. I’m still pessimistic about fusion, but if anyone figures it out it’ll be them.

I’m not hearing any evidence to the contrary. 🙄

What crime? I didn’t see a crime.

Big problem with the 3rd world cubical farms - how do you evaluate their performance? You’d have to hire even more people to double-check their work, otherwise people will do the smart thing and cut corners to make their job easier.

Using books is definitely a way to keep out contamination, though.

Where do you get the real data, though? They just scrap data from websites, but now that chatbots have proliferated this will only introduce contaminated data. Keeping it clean would require hiring people to scrub contamination from the data sets.

You clearly want to wait around for the Courts to solve everything so you don’t have to do anything. I don’t know you, but I know your type. The only political actions you have ever taken are voting, signing petitions, and maybe donating. All stuff that requires no effort and carries no risk.

Negotiated what? The ceasefire was a trick that Israel used to retreat and rearm and reorganize. Doesn’t matter who you credit for it because the ceasefire was never supposed to last, it was always going to be broken by Israel because they are fucking monsters.

I also think Israel deliberately chose to give Trump a ceasefire to start his term to help him boost his initial popular power and demobilize the anti-genocide protests.

The only thing Biden deserves credit for is his unlimited support for Israel, which Trump seems to have continued. Bipartisan consensus.

It’s been unethical since it bloody started.

Yeah, the genocide didn’t start on Oct 7th. It was ongoing before Hamas fought back.

But what I meant is that people didn’t know what Israel was really doing at first. There was a period where I’d be willing to forgive people for ignorantly believing Israel wasn’t deliberately bombing hospitals. They were wrong, of course, but the truth was so horrible that I understand why they couldn’t believe it. Israel is so evil it’s hard to believe.

I just think we’re far past that point. Everyone knows what’s really happening now.

Who are the lies even for at this point? Everyone who still supports Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza also supports bombing hospitals, they don’t need to keep pretending.

I believe in the power of organized strikes combined with mass protests. That’s what works and what forces Courts rule in our favor. That’s hardly being a doomer.

You just don’t want to have to do anything.

They probably have draft proposals that are ready to go after the technology is invented. That way they’re ready for a fusion breakthrough if it ever comes.

Are you giving Biden credit for the ceasefire that started after he already left office?

Interesting.

AI of some kind will replace parts of our jobs, but LLM chatbots won’t except in some specific cases. This is just a hype bubble.

I have a phone case that is also a wallet/billfold, so I’m already in the brick zone lol

The ones that don’t matter to the regime are upheld so Democrats keep thinking the Courts will save them and they keep wasting time in legal battles instead of organizing in other ways. The ones that Trump actually cares about are overturned.

And then it gets escalated to the fascist Supreme Court and dismissed.

Law is a dead end.

One Luigi will never make a difference.

That’s just a small hammer too.

Your lesser evil decided it wanted to do genocide more than it wanted to win the most winnable election in history.

I think they meant, “Trump pulling back from toppling democratic governments.” i.e. the actual function of USAID

The Sheinbaum method. Just stick to your guns and continue to offer what was on the table before, but allow Trump to claim credit for it.