For one thing, inequality is still way lower than it was before democracy.

Wouldn’t the US working in ever deeper cooperation with both China and the EU be better for business? Billionaires move pretty easily between all three anyway.

By all appearances they’ve never fully committed with China because of the ideological gap, and are cutting out the EU now do to new, emerging ideological differences.

Taking in Africans is political poison right now in Europe, and outsourcing local industries has never been super popular even if it makes sense.

I’m sure it will happen, Africa will develop and start taking on lots of low-end manufacturing and similar, and Europe will probably be a very good customer. But, in terms of a strategic alliance for the EU, most African nations are not a contender. South Africa maybe.

It’s a nitpick, but boiling causes cooling. If you dump water into space you actually do get a mix of ice and steam/vapour.

Otherwise, yes. If we assume most of the water is still inside the plant it will take some time to cool.

TIL it’s called the “systems reply”. Looks like there’s a few named replies I never came across.

Ah, okay.

IIRC only for a tiny, non-selective subset of users unlucky enough to pick your two bad nodes. Otherwise Tor would basically be dead.

Was XFCE a thing when the project started?

If you don’t trust your own hardware or are worried about a session being compromised it also offers some protection - especially if you have a physical read-only switch on your media.

Tor isn’t on postquantum encryption yet, which is less than great.

Besides that, about as good as it gets, and at the cost of being less usable.

Yeah, but it’s open source, so so what? When people say this it seems like either cope to justify doing nothing, or some kind of ritual purity thing.

Okay, undeliverable in the same sense their tanks are by air. Sure, you can load a T-34 (which looks like it also comes in at 27 tonnes) on an aircraft, but it’s not intended as a scalable way to use them. You’ll remember the plane was almost knocked out of the sky by the blast as it flew away. It was also the only model they had that could do it, and it couldn’t go very far with such an unusually heavy load.

The largest nuke that saw actual service was the 25 MT American B41, which had impressive yield for it’s size, despite, as you can see in the wiki’s picture, still being a very significant device. There was also a project to design bombs of unlimited yields, but the scientists were basically just goofing off, and the army told them to stop it.

The modern Western (and Chinese?) design is at the other end of the space - being as small as possible while maintaining efficiency. They have just enough of a fusion stage to support full burnup in the fission stage.

More of a history question than a science question.

I mean, Western nuclear powers tested pretty close to/deliberately on their own troops and civilians in the coming decades. It’s possible the decisionmakers didn’t fully appreciate the effect of radiation on health, although the scientists would have certianly known it’s dangerous. At best they could have claimed ignorance of the exact long-term effects, and I’m not even sure about that.

Also consider the main landmasses nearby were Korea and China, which the US was also racist against, and which were at the time under Japanese occupation.

It’s back down to kilotons, actually, albeit hundreds. The tens of megatons thing was to make up for the inaccuracy of early delivery methods; now firing more small bombs is preferred. And the Tsar Bomba was undeliverable - purely for show.

They’re also a lot cleaner now, too - Fat Man and Little Boy were quite dirty, so significant fallout did happen. Little Boy was used in an airburst, and so it’s mess was distributed pretty globally through the stratosphere, but Fat Man’s came right back down in black rain.

A vacuum is a great insulator, though. It may well cool slowly enough to go dormant and eventually vitrify, if it’s something cold-adapted.

I was going to say anything except maybe an aridity-adapted plant would dry out very quickly through those stomata, because it would be boiling off. I kind of forgot about the non-leaf plant parts, though.

So what’s the threshold for this power to be used? It doesn’t actually say.

Is Heise a reliable source? There’s not much corroborating this ATM, and the legislation title returns nothing - maybe because it’s just a draft.

Edit: Also ironic that they make you sign away your full GDPR rights to view the privacy article without an account.

SWAT breaking in to enforce some drug law and shooting the dog is a pretty common thing in the US. They still do it. But, we’re not talking about the US, so it might be harder to just sweep that kind of thing under the rug with tough-on-crime arguments.

I mean, I don’t think Karl Popper would qualify as the new generation of anything.

I guess, but if when you’re getting to that point you have to ask what knowledge even is and if it’s possible about anything.

Definitionally, physicalism is actually more inclusive than materialism, not less.

Physicalism is closely related to materialism, and has evolved from materialism with advancements in the physical sciences in explaining observed phenomena. The terms “physicalism” and “materialism” are often used interchangeably, but can be distinguished on the basis that physics describes more than just matter. Physicalism encompasses matter, but also energy, physical laws, space, time, spacetime, exotic matter, structure, physical processes, information, state, and forces, among other things, as described by physics and other sciences, all within a monistic framework.

In a modern context where everyone agrees light exists and is not a fermion I’m not sure it’s worth even distinguishing the two, though.