China's "artificial sun" has reached a new milestone...
https://www.newsweek.com/china-artificial-sun-smashes-nuclear-fusion-rpecord-1794706?amp=1
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Who cares about China, we need to throw everything we have at defeating Russia.
Shangai is incredible.
Makes NYC look like an aging hell hole.
Clean(!), safe(!!), affordable(metro to anywhere just US$.70), no tattoos, no weed, minimal alcohol (bars, liquor stores, etc.), great food, pristine public bathrooms everywhere, no vagrancy, etc.
The future is with the Asians - I'm thoroughly convinced of thatweek,
It is a paradise, if you don’t mind not having regular and fair elections, universal suffrage, independent media, the separation of powers or the independence of the judiciary. Then throw in the absence of freedom of association and freedom of expression.
Of course you may say that the Chinese approach is more enlightened, with their alleged focus on the justification and intentions of ‘Democracy,’ and how good governance can engineer the proper delivery system of democracy to the people. But this is a circular argument, where government always refers back to itself and not the people. It is a totalitarian/authoritarian surveillance regime. Feel free to move to this paradise and report back your findings.
Look everything is say is true, the problem is we are going to end up with the same thing in the United states. Less freedom, meaningless elections, state run media and the the justice system now has a clear agenda.
The problem is that things will run just much better in China. The US will have all the disadvantages of China and none of the advantages.
What 'things' are you speaking of? Totalitarian brutality? You might be on to something. China is much better at that than the west.
"Advantages" such as media suppression, imprisonment of dissidents, forced labor or genocide of minorities, etc. The fact that those things will "run better" in China is a loss for US freedom and democracy? Yeah.
I suppose that if the mechanistic outcome, that being an efficient state that controls most aspects of its people’s lives was all that mattered, you might have a point.
Democracy is not about having things run efficiently. It’s about people having a say in the running of their government. And in that respect, it’s messy and non-deterministic, except in the sense that people have a freedom of movement and expression. Especially expressions that the government does not like.