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  • When do you think we'll be able to harness nuclear fusion as a viable source of energy?

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  • Fusion has the exact same issue as every other "heat steam to drive a turbine" power plant:Cooling.There's no way around it and you can calculate it.Power output in W * (100 - efficiency %) / 100 = Heat outputThat heat needs to go somewhere. Sure you can use it to heat homes in winter.But in summer, even along major rivers, power plants already need to throttle down in order to not kill all water life downstream and turn the river into smelly sludge. In summer there's no demand for heat, there is more demand for electricity, there's less water in the river, and that water is already warmer.

    Fusion power is no solution for this.Solar and wind power are. They don't need to be cooled. And the technology already exists, and is cheaper than fossil fuels or nuclear TODAY. All we need to do is scale them up.

  • really hard to read

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  • [Loud Explosion Noises]

  • really hard to read

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  • That idea has been used for a long time - in opera houses.

  • why?

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  • I work in IT support.A solid 80% of all issues magically disappear the second I show up.There's a very simple explanation for it – Clarke's Fourth Law:Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

    It's the whole reason why IT wizards are exempt from the usual office dress code.The long hair, beards and flowing robes (or baggy pants and XXXL T-shirts) are vital parts of the ritual.

  • NSFW

    How do you know that the women in your porn are consenting?

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  • Because I only watch porn where the actresses are also the producers and owners of the production company.

  • Obey or Die!

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  • Training Day shows an idealistic new cop who's exposed to the worst corruption inside the police force on his first day.

  • Obey or Die!

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  • Also Rule #5?

  • Obey or Die!

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  • Who's the artist? Please include the source

  • Why skip the 9? Is 9 the middle child?

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  • And the same pronunciation as "no" in German.In Cantonese, the number 9 is also a vulgar way of saying penis (𨳊, Cantonese Yale: gāu)

  • Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux?

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  • TIL as a normal Ubuntu user, you don't get quick and high-quality security updates.

  • What's everyone's favorite bug?

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  • What's everyone's favorite bug?

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  • The one where OneDrive moves all your data to the cloud without asking, then warns you you're running out of cloud storage space, and when you then disable it, it deletes your stuff from the cloud without moving it back to your disk.That one's good fun for the whole family!

    Or the one where OneDrive in its default config uploads your Documents folder to the cloud.And Outlook 2019 in its default configuration stores the .pst file containing your e-mails in the Documents folder.And Outlook .pst files get corrupted when you access them from inside OneDrive.So a default MS Office install can corrupt your e-mails if you click "yes" on everything Microsoft "recommends".

  • How many of you are interested in one single genre of porn your whole life?

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  • Shit, I'm still stuck on Abbey Winters

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  • You can have delegation without hierarchy or authority, if everyone profits from the work equally.Then the planner and manager of the project are just another specialist. The others trust them to know their shit, just like they trust the mechanics or builders.If there's a disagreement over what's to be done by whom, this can be resolved in discussion.Again, this works well if everyone has an equal stake in the success of the project, can freely leave, and isn't just working on it due to threat of homelessness.

    Anarchy is something that governs lots of aspects in life today.For example, the IT team I work in is managed without authority. There is a team leader of course, but he doesn't tell the team what to do at all. We decide that unanimously based on what there is to be done and who is best at which tasks. There is an authoritarian structure around it from the company of course, but our team leader isolates us from it. We document our own working hours, discuss scheduling and vacation days among the team. I've never gotten a "do this" or "you can't take that day off" order from anyone in 2 years.Again, this works because we are all motivated and aligned with the company's goals (and the working conditions are great due to a strong Union).

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  • That works in isolation, but a federation where everyone is free to cooperate or refrain from doing so will always be weaker militarily than a neighbor who can press everyone into the army.So any anarchist federation that is successful enough will attract outside aggressors who want to expand, take their shit or force them to join.

  • do you know any good non-english rap you’d recommend?

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  • Yes, that's generally the caveat.Anarchism works really well in groups where everyone knows everyone else personally, the community is protected from outside attacks by a non-anarchist superstructure, and everyone is free to leave if they don't like it.You can have an anarchist commune, village or town, but not an anarchist nation-state surrounded by other nation-states.

    I'd even claim that small homogeneous communities naturally gravitate towards anarchism (without outside force), but large communities naturally gravitate towards authoritarianism.Democracy in its ideal form combines the two: A state with well-defined, legitimized, limited authority handling the big stuff, giving the maximum amount of freedom possible to local communities for handling their own stuff the way they want to.

  • Considering the fact that a lot of the Reddit mods are also Lemmy mods, what would be the mechanism to remove abusive mods here?

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  • Without mods and rules, anyone is free to write a script that downvotes every post of another user below the threshold where it gets removed.So everyone has the power to silence everyone else. This is the opposite of anarchy. It's a nuclear war.You wouldn't end up with a community that regulates itself. You'd end up in a place where either the most vile users push through their own views, one entirely controlled by bots, or one that's completely disfunctional due to trolling.Everyone who doesn't abuse the system leaves, and the abusers then get bored for a lack of victims, leaving behind a dead space.

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  • I was part of a protest camp with around 5000 people that was organized according to anarchist ideals, for one week.We organized in groups of ~10 people who each selected one delegate to attend a daily "village" plenum.There were 5 villages, and each plenum would select a speaker to coordinate with the other villages.

    Everyone in a plenum had the same right to speak, and every decision had to be reached unanimously.The decisions were non-binding since there was no way to enforce them.Sometimes it got frustrating when a delegate was clearly intoxicated or rambled incoherently and there was no one with authority to stop them speaking.But in general, it worked really well as a tool to have everyone's voice heard, inform everyone about news, and coordinate daily life, schedules, protest marches, and chores in the camp.

    Until an outside threat appeared.Police threatened to storm the camp and the plenum couldn't reach a consensus to refrain from using molotov cocktails against them (in a tent city with children and disabled people sleeping inside).The group advocating for violence ("black block") stopped attending the meetings.The remaining delegates split over the question whether the black block could be evicted from the camp, and most people stopped attending after that.

    The police raid never happened.