Conome

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

Kars4Kids has been banned from advertising in California as it has been deemed deceptive by a judge for helping exclusively Orthodox Jewish kids in the New York and New Jersey areas despite having eight year old actors of all races singing their jingle. https://t.co/Id4WSbRiLI

[Insane Mega-CD Facts @InsaneMegaCD]

Demon fusion in Soul Hackers (Sega Saturn, 1997)

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

I cant hate most progressives, I remember the first time I went to an anime convention I knew almost instantly that if I found a community like this as a lonely teenager it would have warped me beyond repair, I assume the assorted lefty theater gays and fat girls were the same

[吉野@連邦(renpou.com) @yoshinokentarou]

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クレイジータクシー愛に溢れたこのチャレンジ、なんだかよくわからないが凄い!!
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[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

“Survived the horrors of war” 🙄

This tweet reminds me of that old joke about WW2:

Person 1: My grandfather died in a concentration camp.
Person 2: Was he sent to the gas chamber?
Person 1: Nah, he fell out of the guard tower.

Ilhan always leaves out the part where her family was PART of the Somali dictator Siad Barre's regime. Her father was part of Barre's military apparatus (as an officer), so the family benefited from regime ties and lived a relatively privileged life until the collapse.

They only fled once the commie regime fell.

[Conome @Conome]

@eigenrobot standard interaction tbf, asian immigrant asks native-born where they're from, should've asked where their parents are from

[Maw @TheEbonyMaw]

One of the many examples of why I have such disdain for modern directors. The reason a story should be retold is because its message resonated with people.

But modern directors instead think what THEY want to say is more important. It’s conceited & untrue. It doesn’t matter.

[planefag @planefag]

I just realized that all the people lecturing us on how we can't deny ourselves "elite human capital" by banning various foreigners from our universities were also diligently defending universities systemically biasing admissions against asians and whites

[Conome @Conome]

Poverty is the natural state of animals.

[Conome @Conome]

Even more aggravating that the scene and quote are both fake, is the idea that Alma would ever invade Ramza's space while saying that, and that Ramza would be pressed enough to have to take a step back.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Chicago drawings by the late great artist and musician Wesley Willis (1963-2003)

[eccö @3CC0__]

Cyber Kei (FRUiTS Magazine)

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

How to make a battery that lasts 5000 years in three steps

1: Take used graphite shielding from a nuclear power plant.
2: Scrape off the layer of carbon-14 thats formed via neutron bombardment
3: Compress this along with carbon-12 into a diamond.

Diamonds can convert radiation directly into electrical current, something first proposed by the University of Bristol in 2016.

The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. It decays by emitting a low-energy electron which bounces around the surrounding carbon-12 diamond crystal lattice generating electron-hole pairs, which creates a small electrical current. From the carbon-14 you get usable energy and nickel-14, a stable isotope.

One gram of carbon-14 would produce about 15 joules of energy per-day at an operating voltage of 2V - for reference, an IoT mesh network device that sends 12 bytes every hour consumes around 0.10 joules per day. A single one-gram diamond battery could power 150 mesh network nodes for 5000 years before the power output drops off substantially.

There are 250,000 tons of irradiated graphite shielding containing carbon-14 from the worlds nuclear power facilities today.

You can also tune the output power by choosing different radioactive isotopes - a Russian team developed a prototype battery using nickel-63 as the radioactive isotope and achieved a power density of 10uW/cm^3 output and specific energy of 3.3Wh/kg - about 100x lower power output than lithium-ion batteries, but over the 100-year usable lifetime it contains 10x more total energy.

Nuclear diamond batteries have emerged from the world of academic research into a startup based in Switzerland, @ndbtechnology, building chips that provide ~100uW of power that last decades.