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Comment · 4 months ago
How universal is this argument; giving money to politically powerless groups (19th century Irish, homeless people, jobless people during the depression) somehow makes them poorer, seemingly this argument never applies to the already powerful or wealthy.

"Too much money and you lose your initiative, thereby making you poorer in the long run." Said nobody, ever.

Comment · 6 months ago
Same.

But perhaps the underlying technology is a superconducting SQUID.

The ability to detect a heartbeat from distance is far fetched though.

Comment · 8 months ago
I saw this and what makes this particularly pernicious that you assume it was a fan applying ai voice to his authentic words, but you don't know.

There is also an ai slop channel featuring Leonard Susskind.

Comment · 1 year ago
Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.
Comment · 1 year ago
Kamala Harris is a progressive, who by certain objective measures, was the most left senator, even further left than Sanders. Of course in the general election she moved to the center, as did Trump. Kamala lost all seven swing states.

The democrats should move to 90's style triangulation, it works.

Comment · 1 year ago
You mean deep seek r1 generated this?

With what prompt?

Comment · 2 years ago
A classless society that never aspired to have or need a warrior class, to a society that inexplicably needs a "warrior class" that presumably answers to the moneyed capital class alone.
Comment · 2 years ago
Or sci fi holograms?
Comment · 2 years ago
The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law -- the conservative Supreme Court has endorsed this.
Comment · 2 years ago
Curious how an ostensibly "conservative" court can ignore the concept of enumerated powers, the constitution clearly does not grant immunity to the President, so the conservative court invents immunity when none is explicitly granted.

Indeed, the concept of immunity is recognized in the American constitution for legislators in a limited way, so this isn't an oversight by the framers corrected by Robert's conservative majority, rather the lack of immunity for the executive is a feature and not a bug of our constitution, and all republican forms of government.

Ironically the American president now has more power than the King of England, George the III, at the time of the American independence. King George had to follow the laws of Parliament, as did all Kings of England since the passage of Magna Carta some 500+ years prior.

As of today our President no longer has to obey the Constitution or the law so long as the act is deemed "official" by the conservative majority.

Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder if covid infections, perhaps in rare cases the vaccines themselves, is to blame for the post-pandemic phenomena of ADHD medication shortages, the crime wave, school discipline (lack of), the so-called college enrollment crises (precipitous decline), and record low OECD test scores.All of these can be explained by dopamine dysregulation.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe.

A better explanation for the slowness of the national laboratories is they their word will be taken more definitively on this issue than anyone else.

They are the ones with reputations and have to answer to critics in the private sector, amateur sector, and in Congress.

I think their slowness is an encouraging sign, it means LK99 isn't easily debunked.

Comment · 3 years ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1685088625187495936.html

The most immediate and interesting are improvements to generators (35%) and SQUIDS.

Comment · 3 years ago
They claim to have observed the Meisner effect, quantum locking unique to superconductors, a pretty big signal, so more likely fraud than a mistake.
Comment · 3 years ago
The critical temperature (Tc) >= 400 K or about 127 C, so apparently this material requires relatively high heat to reach superconductivity.

This is unusual, superconductivity is a low temperature phenomenon. Recently though, other researches have claimed room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, but low temperatures.

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