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i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am
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(Image is of a wiki page titled "prosopagnosia"; "other names: face blindness". There is an unloaded image below the text- which has gone totally blank.)
The apple they fed to snow white wasnt poision at all it was just a red delicious
as a feminist i support recreational abortion
i have mixed feelings about competitive
*maddest ive ever been, eye twitching* thats baseless. its something else actually.
conservatives and fascists are obviously whom i would consider to be a more pressing political enemy but on a personal level the centrists are honestly more repellent to me on just an irrational gut level. i think having zero interest in anything other than maintaining the status quo because it has not inconvenienced you too much is pathetic, but what's worth is how many of them consider this complete disinterest in how the world around them should operate to be a more Mature and Enlightened perspective than those pesky heated people on ~both sides~ who just can't get get over caring about petty squabbles like "who counts as a full person" and "who deserves food, shelter, and water". absolutely repugnant.
like its not as if i Respect right wingers for being Committed To Their Principles because their principles are uhhhh evil but i sure as fuck Disrespect centrists for having none
YOOOO manic breakdown POSTPONED LOOK AT THIS THING
the kowari....
It seems that the Tumblr team has no other purpose than to delete, close, and attack the accounts of transgender people and Palestinians trying to survive genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
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LOOK AT MY PLASMA BABYGIRL
someone asked why it looks like that so heres my attempt to explain the current state of fusion research in sparknotes format
fusion happens when atoms hit each other really hard, but they dont usually want to hit each other. they need to be forced into it. you can do this by getting them really hot, which makes the atoms move faster, which much like cars doing 90mph in a 65 zone increases the chance of collision
really hot atoms in a really hot gas become what's called a plasma, where all their electrons fall off so the leftover positive nuclei are floating around with negative electrons
therefore, fusion research consists of trying to get plasma hot enough to fuse.
two problems
it has to be really really really hot to fuse
really really really hot plasma is bad for nuclear reactors, humans, and everything that isnt the sun
solutions arise
plasma is electrically charged, so we can control it with magnets. magnetism and electricity happen at right angles to each other, like if an electron is moving vertically a magnet can pull it horizontally, and vice versa
if we get the plasma to whirl around in a circle, we can hold that moving plasma flow in place with magnets
behold! the tokamak
it would be nice if it worked out that neatly, but plasma is really messy and ends up drifting all over that place. it turns out that doing the spiraling helical thing in the diagram is the best way to contain it, but it's not 100%
and even trying to confine it like that needs a huge amount of energy to get a huge amount of electricity flowing through the plasma to get it magnetically active enough for the magnets to hold it in
when people speak of "nuclear fusion in ten years!" they mean that we will achieve "breakeven", when the amount of energy used to just run the thing is "worth it" because we get more energy out
but plasma remains messy, and every time it messes up it costs energy and damages the reactor. an early tokamak had a hole melted in it by what we later understood to be very similar to a literal lightning bolt
the tokamak is a somewhat brute-force approach. what if there was a more elegant method
though we don't yet understand all the messes of plasmadynamics, we understand many of the biggest ones, so we can come up with ways to cancel them out.
one of the easiest ways is rotation: if the plasma drifts left, let it get halfway and then flip it upside down so it drifts back right. or constantly keep rotating it. you can see the same idea on the helical magnetic field in the tokamak diagram from before
so in a stellarator, we've switched our focus: instead of relying on flowing plasma current to respond to the magnets holding it in place, we've reshaped the magnets to catch plasma drifting outwards and redirect it back inwards.
pros: no messy, power-hungry plasma current to force. a stellarator can operate in "steady-state": instead of constantly touching it up like pottery on the wheel, it just goes until you turn it off (or it runs out of fuel or explodes of whatever). since we're already fucking with the magnet shapes, we can also put in extra little twists to trap plasma messes, smooth out the more obvious tangles, etc.
cons: all that magnet fuckery is complicated. it's harder to calculate and design, harder to physically build, and harder to maintain. depending on the design you can make it so the magnets are movable, so for a research stellarator you can try new magnet designs a little easier, for example, but that movable magnet will never be as good as a properly fixed magnet. also the magnets have to be quite close together so there's not really space to build, like, a door into the interior for maintenance or access
and the real con: tokamaks are better. they quickly got much closer to breakeven as we just continued to refine our plasmadynamics alongside brute-forcing the plasma current
BUT
stellarators are getting better
i almost wrote that theyre getting beautiful. they are. just look at her
hope unfounded is a virtue
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
trans women deserve to have little fangs.
*blasts you with boiling hot steam* omg im so sorry 😅 *blasts you with boiling hot steam*
'Cause people tend to not get the memo: People acting strangely in public is not a danger to you. Pacing, talking to themselves or something you can't see, laughing to themselves, stimming, twitching, ticcing, making "weird" noises--it doesn't fucking matter. They're not your personal freak show, they're not broken, they're not a murderer and they're definitely not going to be fucking helped by you calling the authorities or anyone else on em. These actions alone are not indicative of danger to you, as a random person on the street. Shut the fuck up and move on, leave disabled people alone.
how many times is the news gonna believe the "we're in talks with iran" bullshit oh my god you're being given the same lie from a demented 80 year old every day
it's been almost two months since I made this post and we're still seeing the weekly "trump close to finalizing deal with iran" story from major outlets LMAOOOOO keep trying to kick that football charlie brown I think lucy's starting to sweat
