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Evil is failure that gained consciousness.
In a stunning tweet, Musk announces the sale of X (Twitter) for $45 billion
In a surprising announcement made Friday afternoon in a tweet, Elon Musk said that he sold social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to his AI startup firm xAI for $45 billion in stock. The deal includes $12 billion in debt owed by X.
Ultra-Processed Life
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Consuming more of this Ultra-Processed World is not a path to "the good life," it's a path to the destruction and derangement of an Ultra-Processed Life.
A list of youtube channels to which I subscribe
Hello everyone!
Well, someone asked me recently, "where do you get all this stuff from?" and I gave them a quick list of resources, mostly youtube channels and websites. But then of course I had to write it out and post it on my blog - so here it is: the list of my youtube subscriptions.
It's a short list, I try to keep the number of subscriptions under a dozen. So actually I subscribe to fewer channels, only the following ones:
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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