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Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23


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21 minutes ago, psv88 said:

It absolutely will not happen within our lifetimes. Will take hundreds of years 

hundreds of years from now, if humanity still exists, we'll be an interstellar species.

Progress is logarithmic.

Have a look at this blueprint, we've already achieved some of these goals.

 

https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/research-and-technology/fusion-energy-and-iter_en#the-road-to-fusion

 

A study on the benefits of broader approach activities under the current agreement and the expected benefits of continued participation was published in May 2021. Major achievements include the design and construction of JT-60SA, the world’s largest tokamak.

On 23 October 2023, JT-60SA began operation, achieving a tokamak plasma for the first time.

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but it should-- at least we wouldn't see her on TV if that was the case
what pisses me off is that people who do literally nothing to benefit society make this kind of money.

Hard disagree with you here, and not regarding tax policy.

She’s worth it because a lot of people have decided what she produces, they enjoy. It’s no different than a consumer good like those made by Apple. A lot of people like it and are willing to pay premiums for it. You can’t legislate taste.

If an individual or organization is creating a good that people want, you should be able to enjoy the profits from it.


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30 minutes ago, North and West said:


Hard disagree with you here, and not regarding tax policy.

She’s worth it because a lot of people have decided what she produces, they enjoy. It’s no different than a consumer good like those made by Apple. A lot of people like it and are willing to pay premiums for it. You can’t legislate taste.

If an individual or organization is creating a good that people want, you should be able to enjoy the profits from it.


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I believe in a healthy society, billionaires don't exist.

The simple fact is no one needs that much money and there are people who can barely survive who deserve a much more equitable society.  There needs to be not just a wealth tax but a maximum wealth cap for how much a person is allowed to make and keep.  The rest of that money can be used to bring up people who are barely surviving.  Since the 80s our society has rapidly become more disparate.

Not to mention there are people like teachers and nurses who perform a much more useful function in society who are far more important than she is and who have to take on second and third jobs because of dysfunctional society.

And if I owned those teams in either Buffalo or Baltimore, I never would have allowed her to even be in those stadiums-- and as long as she stays out her obnoxious and immature fans would stay away too.

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On 2/3/2024 at 9:07 AM, North and West said:

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No wonder (North) America is ahead, always go with leading edge technology. These underground computers do nothing but process visual cues for a full year and then without trace of error they proclaim an infallible result. Or so I was told by Wiarton Willie (Canada's leading climate expert) (Wiarton is YVV on Lake huron, Georgian Bay actually). There is also a Shubenacadie Sam but I understand he could not get through the 40" snow drift to give his opinion, but I would say six more weeks of winter could be a sensible interpretation of what he was grunting down there under the snow. (eastern NS has been buried in 30-40 inches of snow recently). 

I laugh at media coverage out west, we also have not only groundhogs but marmots looking for shadows. The news guy says, without any trace of irony, "In the east, P-Phil (or Wiarton Willie etc) are calling for an early spring, but our local expert, Cascades Curtis (or whoever) disagrees ... and calls for six more weeks of winter. Talk about a grasp of climate, either spring comes early or winter stays on everywhere in N America. ... and they want to be my latex salesmen. Anyway, I know they only show the rodents to annoy their weather person who has to pretend to be interested. Usually the intro is, "the rodent says X but our expert, who is so much smarter than a rodent, says what? Expert? Are you awake?" And they don't really sound very confident about knowing more than a rodent, to be honest. 

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9 hours ago, Rjay said:

Los Angeles getting smoked today

There's no need to hear or see any drought talk coming out of the west for at least another decade.  For several years all everyone talked about out there was how all the lakes were drying up and they would be out of water..... well they got what they wished for.

 

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8 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

There's no need to hear or see any drought talk coming out of the west for at least another decade.  For several years all everyone talked about out there was how all the lakes were drying up and they would be out of water..... well they got what they wished for.

 

Wrong.

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1 hour ago, IrishRob17 said:

Wrong.

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Well, now they're saying there's no more drought in California

and this is even before the current deluge.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-07/california-is-drought-free

 

There’s no drought anywhere in California: How long that’s expected to last, and why

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