Baza reports that the man seen in a viral video calmly sipping cognac and smoking a cigarette as Paris burns behind him in a viral video is 54-year-old Russian Igor Alterman, a former senior executive at Israeli food-flavouring company Frutarom.
Alterman previously headed the company’s operations in Russia and Ukraine.
In 2020, he was detained in Israel alongside other former Frutarom executives in connection with an investigation into alleged bribery and money laundering involving the company’s Russian and Ukrainian operation, but the criminal case was closed in 2024, with the dispute continuing as a civil matter.
Amazonians would absolutely abhor transgender people. The island has been isolated and excluding men for thousands of years. Why? Because the greed and evil of men. Why would they want a man to steal their identity too?
Russian elections are just
Putin
Putin but social democrat
Putin but liberal
Putin but facist
And then like a moderate conservative that isn’t Putin but gets like .1%
Even the most japanophile weeb who posts religiously on /jp/ draws the red line at Japanese copyright.
Anyway my opinion is still the same. Japs should just straight up say "Subhuman gaijins don't deserve to enjoy our media" and be done with it
I've looked at this again and it is a LOT worse than is being presented.
This is not the philosopher's stone, this is a Superfund site waiting to happen. What they are creating here is not economically recoverable gold but a flammable toxic sludge that *might* have a few grams of stable gold in it.
The proposal is quite simple, it's just using an ongoing D-T fusion reaction, which spits out most of its energy as fast neutrons, to breed gold (Au-197) from mercury-198. This is not the main objective, but a side reaction of a process designed to increase the production of tritium from lithium-6.
Neutrons produced by D-T have a high kinetic energy, which is bad for tritium breeding as these tend to pass right through. So the fast neutron hits an atom of Hg-198 instead, which dislodges two neutrons instead of one, i.e. it is a neutron multiplier. Because the mercury atom is heavy, the resulting neutrons are much slower, ("thermal") which greatly aids in their capture by Li-6.
Overall this process is designed to manufacture a lot more tritium, which is currently expensive and extremely scarce, being ~250x as valuable as gold. In theory, that's beneficial because it's used as a medical tracer, as a boosting gas in nuclear warheads, and would be essential to a power-generating fusion fuel cycle.
The problem is the mercury.
More specifically, the lithium amalgam created from it, but even unalloyed mercury is bad enough. Mercury is a poison for most structural alloys as it turns them brittle. Aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc are particularly susceptible, as are any alloys of titanium or steel that incorporate these metals.
This is of concern because the mercury-lithium blanket being used is a molten metal, held under pressure at hundreds of degrees °C right next to a fusing plasma operating at millions of degrees. The ACTIVE NUCLEAR REACTION is belching out ungodly quantities of highly penetrating neutrons which cause another type of metal embrittlement which even affects the kinds of alloys immune to mercury contamination.
On top of that, it is mixed with lithium, which is itself highly corrosive and flammable. Aluminum amalgams formed by liquid metal embrittlement are basically thermite.
So when it ruptures and explodes, what you get is a RADIOACTIVE METAL FIRE spewing mercury vapor and other contaminants like fluoride, beryllium, and lead into the surrounding area, plus unknown isotopic byproducts of neutron capture which make it high-level nuclear waste.
Even under "safe" operation or safer operating configurations, the gold and other residuals that would get continuously filtered out of the Li-Hg blanket would have to be treated like nuclear waste before yielding anything of value. Because that's what it is. It's the precious metal equivalent of a shit sandwich.
If this ever rolls out, it's guaranteed to cause an major environmental disaster. The risk of mercury contamination is bad enough. Using industrial quantities of it together with all sorts of radioactive and toxic metals is like Minamata and Chernobyl combined. It would kill fusion power forever.
There needs to be a word for this aside from "cheap copy cat"
Guy uses his greenscreen to actually be in game and hold a microphone like he's reporting live and on location.
Now we have people just sat at their desk doing the same thing to I guess look "down to ear"?
Despite the setbacks in Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, and northern Donetsk, Russia’s net territorial gain over the past 100 days remains positive. What is remarkable about this is not the gain or loss of territory, but rather the maintenance of such a broad front line (more than 1,000 kilometers) while a systematic war of attrition continues, one that continues to result in high casualty rates. 🇷🇺🇺🇦
Claude and I built this
Choose a star within 100 lightyears and design an O'neill inspired habitat (or a cluster of them), fit and engine or sail to them, book a century of lasing from your local dyson sphere and off you go!
https://t.co/WkVVMMyqGV
GM
I just remembered the game Spore (2008). I never played it, but I do remember the sheer amount of hyped surrounding it. It was considered one of the most disappointing games of its decade, because the final game looked almost nothing like its E3 2005 reveal.
Now that the dust has settled, can we agree that the performance was mid sincerityslop and that the skinny Russian-Barbie skaters would've wiped the floor with her if they were allowed in