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The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we're talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.

No, you'd leave the store having paid $120 for groceries with no wellness fee tacked on.

Competency tests for everyone!

"These are librul questions! The test is BIASED! The hollowcost is a lie! Ain't no Jews get killed in WWII!"

The alternative is that they just jack up the menu prices to accomplish the same thing. This is just the equivalent of pricing things at $19.99 because people don't understand that really means $20 which sounds like a lot more money.

Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we'll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We're very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there's a lot of hand waving, but I've never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It's really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.

Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.

When websites start blocking clients that don't implement the wei handshake, you'll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.

I do not know why they do not import more food

Food costs money and they've chosen to spend what money they have elsewhere. It is a matter of priorities. It's ok, they don't have to worry about being voted out of office over failing the public.

US uses far more energy per capita than most countries

Incorrect (for a while now). Did you follow the link in my message?

One thing I find interesting about the fediverse is that it is so empty that you can occasionally see honest-to-God pro-NK propaganda. NK lost a quarter of a million people to starvation in the 1990's and are on a fast track to repeat the past. So glad you have access to the internet. Good for you.

His comedy was largely a stream of consciousness type of thing. I'm fairly sure that he only realized that some of the joke he told were stolen after they'd left his mouth. He wasn't the type of comedian who worked from a "tight 15" on a regular basis. It was more that he'd discover that an audience member was half German, half Japanese and would then go off on a spontaneous stream of WWII jokes about their ancestry.