Thanks for the source.

What’s the connection with Mamdani?

Try troubleshooting with curl from a terminal.

curl -vvv xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8080

You’ll see where the delay is happening and have somewhere to start digging from.

When I’m out in the woods at night I do have to remind myself I’m probably the most dangerous thing in them to keep the spookies at bay.

Apart from the bears. And the the skinwalkers.

But building on and believing into a chance that things could work out similarly between Russia and Germany and the rest of Europe was not stupid.

Schröder ending up on the board of gazprom immediately after ending his chancellery kind of dispels the notion that nordstream was built for any reason other than massive German government corruption.

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I wish I could help more, but the old “side jobs are forbidden” being in the company handbook is legally flimsy, if not completely unenforceable. Just because your company says so, or it’s in your contact doesn’t actually make it legal.

The MHLW states that it actually has to provably interfere with your job in some way. The hours outside your day job are your own, not your companies. Don’t close your kojinjigyo and just submit your own tax adjustment every year. Unless you’re making lots of money your HR won’t even know.

I’m responding to what they wrote…

What does this have to do with the US? You literally just claimed Japan has no responsibility to make amends for the war because:

the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years

the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years

The government has refused to apologize. Schools don’t say anything bad about imperial Japan. Every new years my local shrine hangs up the rising sun flag signed by all the local soldiers who were out commiting heinous acts in neighbouring countries. If you’ve ever visited Japan and stayed in an APA hotel, the owner is the Japanese equivalent of a Holocaust denier and has a book in the drawer of every room explaining Japan did nothing wrong. Even the Hiroshima peace museum starts its plea for pity with “somehow Japan found itself at war”. Not to mention government celebration of war criminals at Yasukuni.

Japan has a cultural problem acknowledging their wrongdoings during the war. Japanese people are now very pro-peace in general, but it’s a mistake to pretend the past can’t repeat if we don’t remember and understand it.

So then you need 15km² to cover the day, another 5-10km² to cover the night, and then however much space and lithium it’s going to take to store all that energy.

And this still doesn’t solve the problem once you’re a little too far off the equator.

I love solar, but we can’t pretend it’s without its own challenges.

A utility scale solar installation comparable to an average fission plant would take 15 square kilometers. Not to mention how complicated the infrastructure to actually transmit that power is.

Space is only one challenge though. You have no energy production at night, and energy generation can drop by half to almost three quarters during winter at higher latitudes.

fusion companies are essentially giant bubbles of debt owed to venture capital currently

There’s a couple of loud, commercial fusion companies sucking up VC money, but all the serious projects are nationalized (China) or are projects run by public institutes with government funding (EU).

You’re right, but simultaneously your rhetoric is completely defeatist before we’ve even identified what can be solved. We won’t know the potential until it’s solved but you also can’t be sure of the cost.

Yes you’ve provided a list of engineering challenges that everyone is aware of. It doesn’t change the potential.

Helium, what, have you smoked waccy tobaccy today?

It was a joke, but fusion technically produces helium even if it also consumes it for cooling.

https://nomad-laboratory.de/uploads/publications/th/Fusion-Helium_supply_20131213.pdf

In the case of the HCLL reactor with lead as multiplier, various Pb isotopes are produced in the (n, 2n) reaction [26], and there is no α-particle emission. The amount of helium produced annually remains at 0.39 t.

Fission reactors need to use helium as a coolant too though if they’re high temperature (like gas reactors) and they don’t produce shit except waste.

No other energy source puts materials under the same trauma

I’m sure people said the same thing the first time we thought about turning a piston with literal explosions.

The engineering challenges are immense, but these challenges shouldn’t be an excuse we use to prop up inferior, dirtier power generation.

No risk of a meltdown, doesn’t produce nuclear waste, doesn’t need uranium as fuel. Also produces helium securing the balloons for future generations.

Cold rated heat pumps work up to -30 these days too.

Sliding further into barbarism.

Are those houses where people want to live though?

In Japan we have houses in the country you can buy for less than €1000 but there’s no work there.