Yeah, and everyone should be happy about this, a greener Earth is a good thing for everyone, they did it, and we can avoid the apocalypse by simply copying them(, not on coal but on everything else, and they’re not only successful in ecology, we’re so aggressive, as if collaboration/harmony wasn’t desirable&doable).
Usually, it’s “their system is better than ours in those domains, and i want to imitate that”, here it’s more that we’re going to die by the end of century because the forces of the market aren’t quick enough, apparently.
As in Wandering Earth, we could collaborate peacefully, at least if it’s a question of survival ?
What i was trying to point out is that ecology was already very much discussed in the 60s, with the question of the scarcity of ressources already in mind contrary to what one could have thought(, now there’s some talk of “eco-terrorists”, but again eco-fascism isn’t a word that appeared last year), and the majority of the population believes that we’re going to die if we don’t do something, and we’ve already killed a large part of the biosphere.
If our leaders believe that we absolutely have to act NOW, like we’re being told, then journalists should help the viewer understand why the current strategy to survive( climate change) hasn’t borne fruits yet, or is it not an imminent threat that has to be resolved ? Perhaps are we already doing the most that can be done, and/or are on a good track, so there’s no reason to talk about it anymore ? Well, the People’s Republic of China found a more efficient solution, yet we’re not glad to have a greater chance of survival ? Are we not even going to use it ?

I’m not satisfied with what i wrote, i’m trying to write in a logical manner, but it still appears to be nonsensical. There’s either a big conspiracy to make us believe that climate change is real, or we indeed have to act NOW because we’re not even sure if we’ll make it in time to stabilize the rising temperature of the planet. I don’t see a third option.
My uneasiness may originate from me not having grasped the fact(?) that we’re going to die because we’re not changing our behaviors fast enough, and/or i suppose that any talk of impedent doom wouldn’t seem serious in the first place.
A majority may indeed believe in the urgency of climate, but perhaps only in theory, as some distant conceptual object, i.d.k., but we’re not voting for the most ecological political parties b.t.w., perhaps are we kinda hoping that the temperatures will stop rising by themselves, or that we’ll find out that we were already quick enough, 🤷.
If we have ‘to change/act now’/‘no time left ‘for more experimentations’/‘to find a better method’’ though, then we should be glad that a safer/‘more successful’ method has been found, and increase our chances of survival by imiting it. A long comment that should probably have been reduced to a few sentences, ~sry.

You’re saying that this program was a bad thing for the venezuelan/haitian/nicaraguan//cuban population, and i’m saying that 3 out of the 4 countries’ names were considered “terrorists” or w/e.
I didn’t judge whether it was a bad or a good thing, but only found weird that Haiti was put along these 3 countries. While it was mostly an excuse to learn about Haiti, this decision may have been taken solely on the basis of the number of illegal migrants, and not according to the ideology adopted by these nations(, although these two things are linked since by destroying their countries we’re creating a strong emigration).
Yet, once again, this post aimed more at gathering infos about Haiti than discussing this decision. But yes, the number of immigrants did increase since the adoption of these immigration permits, and hence canceling them could be seen as a “good” thing for these countries.

Totally unrelated, but americans get offended when i’m implying that they’re not christians, and i think that very few israelis are indeed jews. But if we were truly religious according to my criteria we would just be destroyed by those who aren’t :

“Thou shall not kill” is great in theory, and it’s easy to say that i’d gladly prefer to be harmed than to harm, even to the point of being killed rather than defending myself ; that even the “Hitlers” wouldn’t be fought back by me, but what about defending someone else ?
I’m glad that many people( i haven’t read) researched what a “just war” meant in the past, yet i don’t think that those harming others for “good” are right either. If you disagree with this comment, that’s because i haven’t made clear that my position on this issue doesn’t exist(, you may be angry at me for not knowing, but can’t disagree with someone who doesn’t know and believe that both positions are wrong).

And it was the birthday of el Comandante/Presidente Hugo Chávez yesterday.

An amazing victory despite all the fucking unjust western interferences and sanctions who destroyed their glorious country. Let’s destroy the u.s.a. so we shall see if they’ll elect a communist in order to escape further destruction.
But then some people will complain about frauds instead of western interferences/sanctions, fuck them.
B.t.w., even if we can never be certain that fraud didn’t occur, including in western countries :

And polls are unreliable, so the opposition cannot use them to affirm their victory :

Also :

I only knew this one from him, prior to Lemmy(, even if i still haven’t seriously read any of his essays), worth a look, what sucks is that we could live in peace, help each other, etc. : https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

Random thoughts, sry i guess 🤷‍♂️

I’m always making mistakes, so feel free to add a correction if you’d like

God(&gods)( in the material world, but also) in the world of Idea(l)s(, and probably other worlds inaccessible to humans as well) :

Yet, correct me if i’m wrong, but in my memories ~90% of the redditors used “social justice warrior” as a.n insult/criticism(, against someone who’s acting excessively nice in defense of someone when there’s no need, like the expression “white knight” for those men on the Internet excessively defending other women, underlining that “social justice” deals with psychological “injuries” and not real injustices, the correct term should have been “societal justice” though since it never dealt with socio-economic matters), while nowadays only conservatives use “woke” as an insult towards other people, sometimes with a larger focus than the previous SJW, targeting everyone believing that some things ought to change in order to make a better world(, while conservatives generally don’t think that such things should improve/change[1]).
Well, i.d.k., not that it matters but would you agree with this impression that “social justice warrior” was used all over the political spectrum ~ten years ago ?

[1] : Far-right political parties want some things to change b.t.w.(, as well as parties unaligned with left//right such as separatists, ~ecologists, ~democrat{for a direct democracy with referendums}, ~royalists, ~theocrats, …).
If conservatives are only defined with their unwillingness to change the current direction, then centrists are the real conservatives. Center-left and center-right bourgeois political parties were elected everywhere in the west(&‘most of the world’) for the last decades(, and had disappointed a hundred years ago in Germany leaving only two alternatives).
We(sterners) saw a lot of societal changes in the last 70 years though(, not so sure for socio-economic changes however, once the productivity increase and its expected consequences for the workers are taken into account).
If people don’t vote(, in the primaries in the u.s.,) for “extremist” parties that’s because we’ll vote for whom we’re being told to vote, and won’t stop trusting our (billionaires-owned )medias as long as we’re personally satisfied with the current situation.
The problem is that our consent isn’t real/informed/enlightened, and we don’t use our collective intelligence, so we may collectively ‘agree with falsehoods’/‘make mistakes’, and it doesn’t feel like our republics represent the will of their population.
If our government represented the will of the people then they wouldn’t hesitate before putting any important decision through a referendum, and having 3-4 of them every year(, emerging from the population instead of the government,) wouldn’t make our “representatives” afraid(, and if we’re realising our mistakes afterwards then there’s usually nothing that another referendum can’t fix).
Beyond direct/real democracy, we’ll still say that it’s our duty to “democratize” the rest of the world, otherwise dictatorships would bloom everywhere and freedom would die, chinese people are happy but we(sterners) have to save them and paint a dystopia instead of rejoicing and teaching mandarin in american schools as a second language.

They’re also saying that these talks about inclusion are racist because positive discrimination is still discrimination. However, when you end a race second-to-last with weights around your feet you probably have more merits than the one ending in third place. Moreover this is about ending social reproduction more than rewarding personal merit, apparently India is the example of a long&successful experimentation of positive discrimination for their castes, of course that rich kids are better at school but that’s not justice.
And while black neighbourhoods have the same results as white urban neighborhoods of the same level of poverty(, or arabs in France, etc.), and that the main reason is that they were raised by poor parents with friends of the same mentality, in a school for children like them, in a neighbourhood and an environment very particular, and while it isn’t genetic since their lives would be totally different if they were adopted, i could envision like 1-5% of their situation being related to a collective psyche, like you don’t want to do a shitty job for a white country, in comparison to asians who are excited to seize the occasion to rise again while it seems possible, it’s a different mindset but this kinda stupid/‘outrageously wrong’ racial explanation is marginal if it ever exists, and makes much less sense in my eyes than the environmental determinism that made peasants of the past engender peasants, and nobles engender nobles.
Which would be good news since we could give everyone the same education as such nobles and that’d be good in theory.
Minorities and people considered abnormal can be disliked and unjustly oppressed, perhaps not a lot in some cases ; in comparison normal people are privileged(, perhaps not a lot but, relatively, they are).
Well, i don’t really care about these questions and there’s no point in talking about that here/‘with people that’d agree’. Woke seems like the new term for SJW

with a 1W battery planned for 2025

I don’t know if you have the answer but, if i understood correctly, such 1W “battery”/generator would produce/refill 24Wh every day ?
If we put 10.000 BV100 in parallel(, to obtain 1W at the same 3V), that’d theoretically be 10 000 * 1125mm^3 = 1,125.10^7 mm^3 = 11L for 24Wh and 110L for 240Wh filled per day ? Ah well, w/e 🤷‍♂️. (edit : thanks for your answers though !)

It’d be very interesting to think of an hybrid system in which the betavoltaic cells are coupled with lithium batteries to give them some kind of natural regeneration over time(, a phone or computer could recover go from (50, or 20, or )0 to 100% overnight/‘when it’s not used’)

This current model only gives 8.64 joules per day, but that’s because 86400 is the number of seconds in a day, so if i divide 8.64 per 86400 i obtain 10^-4 W(, P=E/Δt), and the official/rounded number is 100μW.
Its volume is 1125mm^3 (15*15*5mm)

So, to drive 100km in an hour(, without the need to take into account accelerations for now), we’d need 100*200W=20kWh, or 2.10^4 Wh.
Most electric cars would only enable 4 hours at this rate with an 80kWh battery, but since this nuclear “battery” needs to be able to deliver 24h a day, we’d need 24 * 2.10^4 = 4,8.10^5 Wh

Hence, if we need 4,8.10^5 Wh and we have 100.10^-6 Wh for 1,125.10^3 mm^3 , a rule of three would give us 4,8.10^5 * 1,125.10^3 / 100.10^-6 mm^3 , that’s 5,4.10^12 mm^3 , which is indeed 5400m^3 and not realistic.

Even a 200Wh computer would still need 54m^3 , and a 10Wh phone would need 2,7m^3 , the size of a car.

If the output was mutliplied by a thousand(, 100mW instead of 100μW,) then it’d be 2,7dm^3 , the size of a bottle and still a bit too big for a phone, but a “free” energy for 50 years, and if i’m keeping the thought above of an hybridation as a self-regenerative battery it’d refill 240Wh every day(, 24*10Wh,) but that’s only if the output was multiplied by a thousand, which is unlikely.

Thank you very much for the correction, i didn’t know that.

I wonder if i haven’t made a mistake somewhere though, does it make sense that i’m obtaining 100μW by using seconds, and then comparing it with Wh ? If i had to multiply by 3600 before making this rule of three then that would change the conclusion.
8,64J/day would give 0,36J/h = 0,36Wh ? And would also give 100μJ/s = 100μW ?
I.d.k. anymore, but if i’m right this time then we’d need a 75cL bottle to refill 240Wh every day(, and for electric cars only 75L to refill 24kWh). I wouldn’t be surprised if i made mistakes elsewhere so tell me what you think.

You’re probably right but(, the energy density being a hundred times better than hydrocarbons, we’d roughly need the space for 6 months of fuel(, 50 years divided by 100), and) if your only argument is knowing how to get rid of the excess heat then i can hardly see that as more than a moderate security hazard towards users removing the protection(, and it could even generate money by connecting it to something while unused !)

Furthermore if this technology encounters enough success then we’ll probably find a way to have an impact on the rapidity of the reaction chain, as we do with nuclear reactors, but on a microscopic level, perhaps with a material that can emit the equivalent of carbon atoms, i.d.k., it doesn’t seem impossible.

But yeah, once again you’re probably right, we’ll see 🤷‍♂️

Oh yeah, i wouldn’t advise anyone to take this breakthrough as a promise for the future(, as someone who used to read futurism.com i’m well aware of that).

But i could counter your objections if you’re interested :

• it can already be done currently : David Hahn built a nuclear reactor with the radioactive material extracted from clock hands. The nickel-63 is already present elsewhere(, armour plating, boat propeller shafts, …), as well as many other radioactive materials ;
• but it’s probably not feasible : A stronger argument is that the radioactive material is composed of a layer only 2µm thick, in between two layers of diamond, i don’t know enough about the subject to confirm or deny that such extraction would be too difficult/expensive ;
• and even if it were other materials would be a better choice : Finally, at first sight and in my ignorant opinion, i don’t think it’d add much to a bomb, it seems like it’d only infect people in the vicinity, and is only described in the first scenario here(, see the article titled “Terrorism: Nuclear and Biological Terrorism”), which considers it more useful for polluting water reserves for instance, contrary to ^137 Ce, ^131 I, ^32 P, or ^67 Ga. It’d be cheaper/easier and possibly more effective to steal such materials from hospitals rather than extracting it from batteries.

You’d probably have to drill through more than a few of them to have enough radioactivity leaking, at this point the number of people dying because of their stress testing would probably be equivalent to those dying because of chemical batteries explosion. It’d be up to the authorities to estimate the risks correctly and, as you said, we’ll see how much a battery made to last 50 years will cost.

Since it’s already in use for decades with pacemakers i don’t think that the radiation is that hard to stop, no need for inches of lead.

And i could have said that it’s not a completely novel technology, i used “commercial” in the sense that it’s apparently destined for the general public instead of specialised fields, the wiki article says that :

We’ll have to see the price before finding such batteries in the supermarket though.

As for reliability, the articles say that another advantage is that it doesn’t ignite nor explode, but i suppose that something could happen if you drill through it.

SABC News as well(, not western channels though) : https://youtube.com/@sabcdigitalnews?si=NJVpLshupTA-SkI-

Quite literally apparently, weird : https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1744900071261458617

And this comment isn’t going to be loved, but if they don’t want more immigration for w/e reason then they should be allowed to do so.
The nuances are that this desire is artificially built by billionaires who (pretend to )believe that immigration is a more important problem than socio-economic conditions, that everything will be better without immigrants, that our culture(, who has already been destroyed and replaced by a(n americanised) nothingness(, i don’t like the modern culture, those who died centuries ago are more interesting than our living idols,) is in danger since their children supposedly don’t want to be french/italian/…(, which is apparently incompatible with a dual nationality/culture, you’re a better french/italian/… citizen if you’re virtuous, wearing or not a veil/turban/… isn’t going to destroy whatever our culture became, since school the rich/privileged doesn’t hang out with the poor, and if other cultures are obviously less virtuous then ‘the proximity of our example’/‘our contacts’ should be enough to let them raise the issue, there’s a set of rules that could enable countries to be (almost )as diverse as they want without fearing for their liberty/security, and i hate that we(sterners) know that it’s possible, we’re not trying to make this world even better(, we’re still young hopefully), otherwise we would share a plan/vision and be excited about this utopia), and that we shouldn’t help “poor”(impoverished/exploited) countries, just prevent them to seek a better life instead of helping each other to reach an equal standard of living, etc. If immigration was a cultural problem they would try to revive the extinct culture of our past, beginning with greco-roman authors, i don’t know what is the french/italian/… culture they’re speaking of, it has disappeared many decades ago, we’re euro-american now and that doesn’t mean much(, i.m.o.), french poets or painters are dead, if it’s movies nowadays then we’re not present, same for the internet, getting rid of exploited immigrants ready to give up their life for a future they deserve more than us won’t change that.
We’d need more diversity/‘french exceptionalism’ to have an identity.

Unrelated thought : It is said that with rising inequalities there will be more investments and that this wealth will benefit everyone else, it’s inefficient for enterprises because of inequal wages and other money-pocketing practices that would be considered corruption in a state-owned enterprise, but it’s even more obvious when these investments are made outside of the company : investments in housing raise the rent and make it more&more out of reach to become an owner ; investments in actions raise the dividends and make it more&more out of reach to gain back the full control of the direction, … That rents are representing an increasing part of our salary, or dividends an increasing part of the companies’ profits(, despite increasing wage inequalities), shouldn’t be suprising.

Yeah, a buzzword with legal implications, Myanmar’s rebels are terrorists, good for them.

Videos of his arrival, and official venezuelan statement.

Arrested in Cap Verde the 12th June 2020, he was held in Miami since 2021 under the pretense of money laundering, Interpol notifications or arrest warrants were issued retroactively and, of course, diplomatic immunity wasn’t respected. Here :

And usual accusations of mistreatments.

In order to obtain his liberation, they had to : release 10 americans, extradite fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, and release around 20 political prisoners from jail. (source), it’s as asymmetric as usual.

What’s less known is that apparently Qatar played once again a role of mediation :

The wiki page lacks a lot of the above information, but this extract is ~interesting, they’re seriously claiming that hungry people are easier to control and less prone to revolts, so they’re sanctioning the c.l.a.p. which was feeding the poorest of them :

I still think that evilness is a myth formulated by people refusing to understand/explain, and i’ll continue to think so even if we(sterners) exist.
As an example, the murderous Israel would indeed be safer by destroying Palestine once and for all, at least as long as their estimation of a lack of retaliation from their neighbours proves to be correct.

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Massive defundings and privatizations in sight…

And :

And b.t.w., contrary to what is often said, the huge i.m.f. debt(, with an 8.07% interest rate, more than others,) is the responsability of the right, as usual :


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