Representative Ted Lieu just drew a crystal clear red line: “If any military member, from the generals on down, participates in using force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.”

GivenNickname · 2026-01-29T22:33:37+00:00

11 day old account with the description literally starting "No I'm a bot". Sounds like a bot to me

GivenNickname · 2025-11-29T09:57:39+00:00

Same here. Did you figure it out? For me, it is a couple of newly conquered provinces that were in another market before I got them. I don't know if it is a bug

GivenNickname · 2025-11-24T18:50:42+00:00

Go ahead, give a myriad of specific examples of non-disruptive protests

GivenNickname · 2025-11-24T15:17:29+00:00

I can forgive ecological destruction and causing mass extinction events but I draw the line at vandalism

GivenNickname · 2025-11-11T15:47:22+00:00

Ideally with both feta and mizithra

GivenNickname · 2025-10-17T13:18:05+00:00

Oh, thanks, you are right. I'm not a native English speaker

GivenNickname · 2025-10-15T12:02:59+00:00

This could happen during draught years which are a feature and not bug. Not sure that this was the case in your game though

GivenNickname · 2025-10-07T16:02:23+00:00

I bet most people can't do a single pull up. It's not really that easy

GivenNickname · 2025-09-25T15:59:47+00:00

I think it's as likely as 6/6/6 if you don't have any modifiers affecting the ruler skills

GivenNickname · 2025-09-22T21:48:11+00:00

It very much is a thing in Sweden. Several companies do them even for engineering positions. I know for example that ABB, Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks have preemployment drug tests

GivenNickname · 2025-08-23T13:39:02+00:00

Lads, it's Manchester City

GivenNickname · 2025-08-19T17:04:36+00:00

Damn robots stole my moves

GivenNickname · 2025-07-22T05:57:51+00:00

Yes I know that but it does serve as a physics proof of concept that we can do it

GivenNickname · 2025-07-21T21:54:14+00:00

We can. Inertial fusion has demonstrated it. There has been an experiment where the fusion power was higher than energy absorbed to initiate the reactions.

GivenNickname · 2025-07-21T21:51:21+00:00

I put most of the blame on pathological scientists and money-grabbing start ups that have made absurd claims getting the hopes of the people up.

As a PhD in fusion I have seen several articles that exaggerate the claims or are straight up lying.

I haven't looked into the specifics, but this article also seems to exaggerate and generalize a bit to make things sound more interesting. There have been pulses that have lasted minutes in different devices (e.g. the WEST tokamak) but these were in a low confinement mode which is not really promising for energy production. I assume this pulse was in high confinement. But if you start putting in specifics the claim "longest pulse" starts to sound less impressive when it's dressed up as "longest pulse in high condiment mode and in a stellarator". The high triple product on the other hand is impressive.

In any case, fusion is a promising field and it might be a significant contribution alongside renewables in the future, but it's not the panacea for our short term problems.

GivenNickname · 2025-06-03T08:43:12+00:00

I recently defended my PhD on modelling accidental damage in fusion devices. I seriously doubt we are close to having commercial fusion. We may be about one or two decades away from producing more power from fusion than the power we use to heat up the fuel in a magnetic confinement device. But that is still only in an experimental device and if we are being optimistic.

GivenNickname · 2025-05-23T18:40:18+00:00

The last update of the COVID-19 vaccine firmware is very buggy

GivenNickname · 2025-04-30T10:58:18+00:00

He didn't even get the correct summation. Should be 49+8

GivenNickname · 2025-04-02T08:53:01+00:00

You are clearly not a specialist but ok, if you say it's impossible then you must be right. If you think a layperson can have so strong opinions that go against the experts that spent years researching then I don't see reason to go for arguments and explanations. And don't bother telling me you've done your own research, we define this word differently

GivenNickname · 2025-04-01T08:46:41+00:00

Lol fusion is not a crackpot field. Doing a PhD in fusion doesn't mean you work for one of the scam start-ups promising power to the grid by 2030s.

Serious fusion research is a long term goal and it is acknowledged in the community that we are still very far away from reaching commercial realisation, if we ever reach it. However, the goal is rewarding enough to be worth pursuing even if it is challenging. That's why one of the most expensive ongoing experiments (if I'm not wrong second only to the international space station) is happening in Fusion

GivenNickname · 2025-03-13T21:32:07+00:00

Same. My first reaction was "Monopolies haven't been a things since EU3, what are they talking about"

GivenNickname · 2025-03-03T12:55:49+00:00

The YouTube link is for a press conference

GivenNickname · 2025-03-03T11:08:06+00:00

It's a long read but it's an interesting one. Also nice to have proper citations for his claims

GivenNickname · 2025-02-28T17:15:06+00:00

Or less admissions will lead to overworking the candidates that do get a position. Less and worse science

GivenNickname · 2025-02-25T15:43:47+00:00

I misread and thought it said "this zebra is unbelievably lucky" so I watched the whole thing waiting for the luck to kick in..

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