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”I have dealt with several US presidents. They come in with ideas. Then men in dark suits show up and explain to them how things really work. Then you don’t hear about those ideas anymore”
Know-Your-Customer: Crypto's Quiet Kill-Switch
Authored by 'Ghost Ghost' via BitcoinMagazine.com,
The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arrive through a nationwide ban or an emergency executive order. It quietly showed up with a checkbox and a Terms of Service agreement.
The Boomer Mirage
Authored by Josh Stylman via Substack,One Chart. Three Generations. Total Extraction.
I saw this chart making the rounds on Twitter this week, and it stopped me cold. While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.
Anonymous Voice Vote to Shield Bayer-Monsanto—And Dump Toxic Sludge on America’s Farms
They buried corporate immunity in the budget—and passed it without a single name on the record. Section 453 shields Bayer from lawsuits. Section 507 rebrands PFAS-laced sludge as "fertilizer." The House Appropriations Committee approved both by voice vote. The public never saw it coming.
User Comments
Blabbering on tv is not the same thing as running a society. In fact, politicians don't "run the society", industrialists and operators run it. Lumberjacks run the society.
Running a society is hard work, men's work! If a woman wants to run a society, she needs to grow a pair of balls, and then "free time" will be a thing of distant dreams. WTF is "free time" anyway? My time is not free.
To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.
Key Features of the Power System
The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.
Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.
The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.
Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.
Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year