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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power.

    Looking at the projects underway I agree with you, however the US was the first to produce a nuclear fusion reaction with a net positive energy result at the NIF in 2022. source The subsequent 5 events have increase net positive yields significantly with the 2025 experiment yielding more than 200% net energy gain.

    To be able to create a energy net positive even on-demand has to be very helpful for research. I don’t know of any other country that is capable of doing that yet.



  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldgoodbye plex
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    9 days ago

    Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.



  • Not far away we had what everyone called “Big Butter Jesus” or “Touchdown Jesus”:

    The “Big Butter” part comes from the region’s fascination with making butter sculptures:

    The “Touchdown” name, for those that don’t know USA Football (Grid Iron), this is the same gesture the referee makes to signal a valid goal:

    However, after being around for years, Touchdown Jesus is no more. I’m not making this up, it was struck by lightning and being made of fiberglass, burned to the ground.