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The KFC gaming airfryer is finally feasible.

They should switch to a shower curtain.

Make America Depressed Again

MADA 2: The greatest depression

What a terrible headline for them to pick. Entanglement was not Einstein's idea. He called it spooky action at a distance because he thought the idea to be absurd.

Most of those are pretty cool, but the watch really let the gimmick compromise the function. Clock faces need to have high contrast for minimizing the time it takes to read the time.

I use howard leight ll-1-d. They're a lot more comfortable than the cylindrical foam earplugs and they seal better. You can get a box of 500 pairs for $60-$70.

https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Visibility-Disposable-Dispenser-LL-1-D/dp/B0001YXOC6

Reddit doesn't always require login for video. The one you linked gives a message about it being mature content and directs people to the app. I find that message odd because it's not marked as nsfw and visiting on old.reddit doesn't give an age prompt and plays just fine.

Helion is a completely different technology vs tokamaks which is what you're thinking of. They pulse the plasma to create brief bursts of pressure/heating/fusion. They do already have their seventh prototype machine operational so while we can't independently verify their claims, it's probably not all bluster.

I have mixed feelings about their approach. They plan to use a deuterium and helium-3 fuel blend. That has a couple major advantages. Most of the reactions will be aneutronic and the energy is released in the form of highly energetic alpha particles and protons. The lack of a high energy neutron is a huge advantage for safety and longevity of a reactor. High energy neutrons are hard to shield from and they cause most materials to get brittle and weaken. Netrons are not good for personnel to be around and they can leave some materials radiactive making reactor maintenance/disposal costly. The other advantage is that since all the energy is released as kinetic energy in charged particles, they don't have to try to absorb high energy photons or neutrons into a water blanket to drive a steam turbine. Instead, the kinetic energy results in an electromagnetic pulse that can be harvested by the same magnets that constrict the plasma to begin with.

Sounds amazaing, right? So why doesn't everyone use this approach? Helium is rare, but Helium-3 is especially rare, making up only about 20 parts per million of helium found in geologic deposits. So simply put, it is currently infeasible to use Helium-3 at scale. Helium-3 can be collected as a byproduct of breeding tritium for use in nuclear warheads. Enough helium-3 is produced for some demonstration reactors, but any real amount of demand will quickly outpace what the DOE produces.

Helion plans on breeding their own Helium-3 in Deuterium-Deuterium reactors they will operate. However D-D reactions are not aneutronic. So all the materials lifespan/shielding/ maintenance nightmares that come with operating a nuclear reactor will still apply. That means operators will have to buy very expensive fuel from Helion indefinitely. Helion doesn't exactly deny this drawback, but I really dislike how much they gloss over it in their public communications.

Here's a video tour of their test facilities that explains the basics of their approach. https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38

I'm inclined to think they've demonstrated enough results that they are likely to be able to build a working unit quickly, however, that would still be a long way off from creating any sort of sustainable supply chain that would be a viable option for anyone beside datacenters.

Taking an oral steroid like prednisone can help prevent asthma attacks for milder allergies, but that might not be sufficient for a severe peanut allergy.

Epinephren is not a gentle drug. You do not want to have to use an epi pen if you can avoid it. It causes the heart to race and result in lots of side effects that would make a flight extremely uncomfortable. I think it's also metabolized quickly enough that a single dose is not going to last a whole flight.

I'm not an expert though, I just have multiple family members with moderate to severe allergies.

Remember when Trump motorboated Guliani in drag? That seems like dei that is worth reporting here.

Maybe make a white Russian?

That's theoretically correct, however, when picking safety standards you should go by how most people would be expected to act, not by ideal scenarios. Is someone commuting to work going to pull over to change the media source or radio station? Probably not. So the controls should minimize how long the driver will look at the console and have their hand off the steering wheel. Media buttons on the steering wheel can seem superfluous, but it helps keep people less distracted.