HexBroke [any, comrade/them]

Imagine thinking any of the half dozen industry specific publishers have a right to exist in the 2020s

some reason they put a dye made of bugs in it

“Oh no, they’ll make us eat bugs” the people say, while eating bugs in any food within three colours of red

The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, NASA officials said on Thursday.

https://hexbear.net/post/2301742 just soak it all up

costly service

Google already owns so much server and bandwidth infrastructure the marginal cost is likely very low

China

Shit article is a poorly written ad for YouTube premium

Better functionality Free

Imagine paying for something that’s worse

They tried to overthrow the government in 2021

A riot by a few hundred civilians in the Capitol building isn’t really an attempted overthrow mate

Nixon didn’t have a choice around creating an EPA because the situation was so bad, and rejected the relevant commission’s recommendation.

The agency was independent in the sense that it was placed outside the formal jurisdiction of any other agency, but unlike a truly independent agency, its administrator and assistant administrators were to serve at the President’s pleasure and formally report to the President through OMB.

The agency’s pollution control jurisdiction was not combined with any of the federal government’s natural resource management authority, but neither was the pollution control dimension of that management authority surrendered to the new agency.

For instance, the President did not transfer to EPA all of the Department of Agriculture’s jurisdiction over pesticide regulation. The Army Corps of Engineers also retained jurisdiction to regulate certain types of environmentally harmful activities occurring within the nation’s traditional navigable waters.

In addition, at the same time that the President proposed the creation of EPA, he counterbalanced it with the creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) and National Industrial Pollution Control Council (“NIPCC”) within the Department of Commerce. Commerce’s pro-business perspective, the President believed, would minimize the chance of NOAA impeding economic activity within the coastal zone.

NIPCC was made up of senior officials of major domestic corporations and trade associations and was designed to provide an authoritative source within the government on the adverse economic impact of pollution control. Working with OMB, NIPCC was intended to provide the President with an institutional mechanism for maintaining control over EPA.

The average vote in favor of major federal environmental legislation during the 1970s was 77 to 5 in the Senate and 331 to 30 in the House.

As one legislator put it in describing his reluctant vote in favor of safe drinking water legislation in 1974, “[a]fter all, if one votes against safe drinking water, it is like voting against home and mother.”

And why can’t Samsung pull themselves up by their bootstraps and free market themselves a factory, hmmm

Or not be the largest chaebol conglomerate as a result of a US occupation then US backed military dictatorship in South Korea for decades

putting lives of millions at the risk of immediate death

I’m not pro nuclear but this is a bit silly

Francia Orientalis vs Francia Occidentalis for a thousand years

when people say renewables are cheaper they’re not counting the total lifecycle of things like… solar panels.

Yeah the LCOE of solar is likely ridiculously low because they still work decades after th started 25 year life used in levelised cost calculations

Nuclear in the west is so tremendously expensive we may as give up until China makes SMRs cheap

Static pumped hydro

This is from their 2 kilometre Phase 1 track which reportedly exceeded 623 km/h (387 mph)

The Phase 2 track is supposed to be 60 kilometres long

Given the target speed is ~277 metres per second, starting with a 2,000 m test track is a pretty conservative approach

CASIC says the flatness of its test track is within an 0.3 mm (0.01 inch) tolerance, that the 6 m (20 ft) diameter vacuum tubes have a geometric size error less than 2 mm (0.1 in)

They are straight up pursuing a vacuum train

They announced it seven years ago with the eventual goal reaching 4,000 kilometres per hour by 2035 from memory

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2109035/china-firms-plan-develop-4000-km/h-train-just-pipe-dream

this breakthrough was just Maglev

A hyperloop is just maglev in a vacuum. That’s the hard part

The tubes have a geometric size error of less than 2 millimetres (0.1 inch) and must be capable of maintaining a vacuum state for extended periods, presenting significant challenges in fabrication and installation

didn’t Musk releases the Hyperloop thing to try to prevent California from getting high-speed rail?

Yes, like he promised that Teslas could have their batteries changed instead of recharging to get more money from the government.

hasn’t hyperloop been basically discredited as a realistic form of long distance travel

There hasn’t really been any genuine effort until now. CASIC is the real deal and state owned

CASIC is the biggest missile weapon system developing and manufacturing enterprise in China. It is known for developing, researching and manufacturing air defense missile systems, cruise missile systems, solid-propellant rockets, space technological products and other technologies with products covering various fields of land, sea, air, and electromagnetic spectrum. CASIC has provided dozens of advanced missile equipment systems for various nations, and contributed to Chinese crewed space flight, lunar exploration and other Chinese national projects.