Anyone who has a penny over 250k in a US-based, (normal) savings account is doing it wrong. His wealth is at such a level that any institution that caters to the ultra-high net worth crowd is probably creating brand new financial instruments just for him. Or he just has his own bank that only deals with his money like Bill Gates did.
18 minutes long?!? You expect me to pay attention to that? Judging from the title, it could have easily been condensed into a meme with a picture of Sam Elliott. I’m kidding. I did read the article in the Atlantic. It was interesting. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Has anyone seen this? A UK company is trying a different method to produce energy from fusion. https://newatlas.com/energy/first-light-nuclear-fusion-projectile/
Sounds like a form of inertial confinement. They can't possibly maintain the pressure against the backpressure of the fusion reaction, so all fusion is going to happen in a very short time window. That basically makes it a scaled-down version of a thermonuclear bomb, which means the total energy expended per-shot has to be pretty low. In a weird way it's kind of like an internal combustion engine. I'm skeptical.
The fusion reaction is short lived. The article I linked gives a much more detailed explanation of their hypothesis. It's really early in the research, so it will be interesting to see if it pans out.
Yeah it would have to be. They're claiming 6.2 MWH per cycle which, while not quite a Hiroshima bomb, is still the equivalent of almost six tons of TNT. I don't know how they'd be able to control that amount of energy released in that short a period of time.
Well I'm glad France woke the fuck up and realized they were closer to the brink that they imagined. I'm guessing it was a lot of "she couldn't possibly" wishful thinkers staying home the first time, who saw it going into a second round and got a little fear in them. Good, you should be afraid. You should be terrified, that her fanatics will be there even when you think you've got it bagged. We could learn a thing or two.
Looks like the Twitter board didn't like hearing from their shareholders' attorneys over the past couple weeks.
No source or link, just tongue-in-cheek speculation on my part since they turned around and are about to accept Musk's offer.
The fact that it's illegal to consider anything other than the purchase price (like for example what a potential buyer might do with your company) is one of those wild features of American capitalism.
In related news, if Trump is unbanned from Twitter I desperately want to see the look on Devin Nunes' face when he realizes he left Congress to run a Trumpist Twitter-clone that Trump refused to use and then ran back to Twitter.
Nobody wants to hear shit from me, but I think the idea of Elon Musk owning Twitter is fucking repulsive. I get that a lot of people think Twitter is useless, but it's really the only platform that I can think of that has near real-time communication between its users. You can't really live blog or live Facebook something like you can with Twitter. Having a bunch of trolls spamming the replies of people on the opposite side of the political aisle with horse porn or white nationalist imagery is going to be a net negative on public discourse, fucked as it already is.