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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope you know there is a difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, because your comment doesn't read like it.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Oops, misread as fission lol

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They both are “just two decades away”. One exists but takes that long to build a plant. The other is still under development and might exist by then.

Although the race for fusion is getting more exciting every day. We may actually see it happen! And it feels like soon!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't talk as if it was ever funded, that's the whole point.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I always got a kick out of that graph and realistically it can apply to so many worthwhile projects we start but can’t commit to. For example: California High Speed Rail, or really any high speed rail In the US. Preventing climate change

My eye is immediately drawn to the “fusion: never” investment and how far we are below it.

But realistically for fusion whether that would have been true or not, we’ve made huge advancements in computation and modeling, lasers, materials, that just never could have happened on those timelines. Maybe the Tokamak would have worked but the stellarator or laser ignition never could have. While we still don’t have an answer, it might not be the tokamak

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

You are applying funding for research to funding for infrastructure? You either have no clue or are discussing in bad faith. Or both.