There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.

Some work went into fission designs as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

She could be a dominatrix, no sex necessary.

I really wish there was a way to run microG with graphene. I don’t want google binaries on my pixel at all if I can avoid it.

Till then, Calyxos with microG is privacy respecting but likely won’t resist feds trying to get at your data. If you’re just looking for strongly improved privacy and some moderately improved security, Calyx is pretty nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plutonium_Files

I hear what you’re saying. What boring people to be afraid of novel cultures.

Anyway, fine, close the border and make it so only US citizens can do all the labor nobody wants to do. Watch how much doesn’t get done; the economics behind work and such don’t change rapidly. I’ll bet most small farmers get destroyed with fields full of rotting, previously ready to harvest crops because nobody can offer a citizen enough to do the work, in a way that still yields a profit.

The billionaires with factory farms and prison labor will likely win out again.

Sure, the unborn work for that too.

I just wonder what is so scary about immigrants to people?

Why is there such an obsession with immigration?

Do you want to pick strawberries? It’s back-breaking and sucks.

E: thanks for all the replies. I wrote this while pissed about the results, it was supposed to be rhetorical.

At this point, work on helping immigrant friends and neighbors however you can, whether by helping with immigration paperwork or "other"methodologies.

Arcs don’t need to be high current. But this will absolutely fail at some point, how soon is a question.

I got a long one from red wing while getting the boots, as a “freebie”. Solid steel.

I didn’t like how it handled, but it was way way more comfortable and predictable than a tesla 3.

Having moved here from CA, voters in both places will tell him the same too.

I’d like to add on, just for shits and giggles you ought to change brake lines regardless of whether they seem ok.

E: aneurysm typing

Hmm, I don’t think that’s true either. You as well, stranger.

Quite a long, pedantic response.

I didn’t in fact read your other links, nice to see you’re unable to imagine others having lives and limited time. At no point did I say you ate meat, but that you are using similar tactics.

Curious, how much writing you do when all I ask is whether you think animals experience curiosity, and how much of it doesn’t have anything to do with that question.

Rolling back through your overly elaborate discussions here, you’ll note that I never said humans and animals had the same emotions, nor to the same level we as a species do. But I do say what they have is analogous, and that the line between anthropomorphism and observation can itself be a fuzzy concept.

Do you understand that, or will you resort to ad hominem again?

Unfortunately I’ve got to disagree with you from the outset, they do in fact express emotions, having witnessed one of my pets feel less inclined to partake in activities he very much normally enjoyed when his compatriot of a different species eventually passed away due to age. That is one clear example I’ve observed on my own, several times in a couple of different species over the years (unfortunately).

It’s a bit pedantic, in truth, to state that these animals don’t feel human emotions. Do all of us experience ennui for that matter? Envy, to the same level as one another? Which leads to a paradox of how one defines a conscious, human mind at all, if it were indeed based only on what emotions are present when presented with a similar stimulus.

Further, I’m noticing that you’re focused on dancing around “are they human”, not “are they conscious”, a more interesting & insightful question. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed this tactic among people who don’t want to feel bad about eating other conscious beings. If you eat other passengers on this ship called earth, so be it, but avoid the cowardice that comes with assigning them lower value in a pseudo-intellectual manner.

Do you think animals are capable of being curious, even when there’s no impetus for them to be? I certainly do.

How do you know?

My pets express themselves pretty clearly, despite having much more limited ability to communicate across species lines.

I feel reasonably confident in stating that I believe animals are conscious, just to varying depths.

We all know they do. It just makes compartmentalizing other… activities easier for some people.

… None of us were confused by the saying. You obviously are confused about where you stand cognitively, in comparison.

Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓

Pretty great actually, the drivers are kind of annoying but whatevs. I like the nightlife and all the natural beauty, turns out you can have both in the city.