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Dime
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Kansas couple charged with collecting man's retirement while keeping his body in their home 6 years
A Kansas couple has been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefits on behalf of a dead relative while they concealed his body inside their home for six years.
apnews.com
Dime
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Oklahoma bill would require 'furries' be picked up from school by parents, animal control
The proposed bill banning "furries" and related behaviors from schools suggests animal control would be called if parents don't retrieve students.
www.oklahoman.com
will they net them, or shoot them with a tranquilizer dart ? that might be fun...
a cheap buzz, anyway.
a cheap buzz, anyway.
GenghisKush
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Don't threaten me with a good time!
we have ways of making you smile!
Dime
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World’s largest nuclear reactor aims to power the Earth with unlimited energy: ‘Arguably the most complex machine ever designed’
"The longer that we wait for fusion to arrive, the more we need it."
GenghisKush
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some of these experimental fusion reactors are really very beautiful instruments by themselves, apart from their function.World’s largest nuclear reactor aims to power the Earth with unlimited energy: ‘Arguably the most complex machine ever designed’
"The longer that we wait for fusion to arrive, the more we need it."www.yahoo.com
still, I think molten salt fission reactors are the way to go - safe and cheap and built on tech that already exists.
i've been reading more on the fusion ideas. exactly -what- would you construct something out of to contain a reaction that could conceivably reach around oh...150 million degrees ? unobtainium ?
GenghisKush
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at those temperatures the stuff you're working with is no longer gas, it's all ionized - one or more electron has been stripped off because the kinetic energy of atoms that make up the gas is larger than the energy it takes to remove an electron; the atoms are moving fast because they're hot (and high pressure). so unlike a gas made of neutral atoms you're dealing w a "plasma" of positively-charged ions (I guess they're trying to fuse deuterium, so heavy hydrogen nuclei - a neutron stuck to a proton). first off, because they're all positively charged and because like charges repel, the ions in a plasma will be pushing against each other in a way that neutrally-charged gas molecules don't. despite that, you're dealing with stuff that has an electric charge (a positively charged nucleus) and that means you can move it with clever modulation of the electromagnetic field. they call these magnetic bottles. for single particles, they're called penning traps.i've been reading more on the fusion ideas. exactly -what- would you construct something out of to contain a reaction that could conceivably reach around oh...150 million degrees ? unobtainium ?
ACP Funding Runs Dry: FCC Winds Down Subsidy, Options for Impacted Users
In April 2024, subscribers will stop receiving the $30 monthly discount on home internet.
www.cnet.com
This was written last month, it will be gone by April of this year, absent funding.
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More Education, Longer Life: Global Study Reveals Link - Neuroscience News
Researchers found that each additional year of education decreases death risk by two percent, with 18 years of education lowering it by 34 percent.
neurosciencenews.com
Republicans Push To Legalize ‘Property Owners’ Killing Homeless People in Kentucky
In Kentucky, politicians are preparing to vote on a law that would authorize the use of force against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property.
www.vice.com
i don't think that one will pass the "sniff test", or any court anywhere in this country.
