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  • TNT has 1162 Wh/kg ratio.

    How do you recharge TNT?

    We are hitting the limit what is doable with energy density.

    I mean, we’re definitely running into a problem of how you build a battery without also building a bomb. But the entire point of TNT is rapid thermal expansion. The point of a battery is very low voltage steady release of electrical charge.

    I might also note that C4 has around 6 Mwh/kg. A bit of applied chemistry can go a long way to improving energy efficiency. And that’s before you take advantage of geometry to focus pressure, via a shaped charge.

    Point being, there’s a lot of clever ways to juice a lemon. We’re a long way from the end of the road on battery improvement.



  • years from now, history will look back on the likes of Schumer and Jeffries as the most pathetic, cowardly human beings we may have ever seen in Congress

    I mean, I’d like to believe that. But does anyone look back at Tip O’Neal or Tom Daschle this way? Does anyone remember these guys at all? Even someone as relatively recent and memorable as Ted Kennedy or historic as Goldwater get drowned out in the deluge of the modern moment.

    I don’t think anyone is going to be talking about Schumer or Jeffries or McConnell or Johnson in something more than a footnote. Maybe Gingrich will get a nod, if only for the degree to which he self-branded and then flopped on his face - a sort of modern day Henry Clay in that regard. But Trump kinda sucks all the oxygen out of the room. It’s like asking who the House Speaker was during the Nixon administration.










  • Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town.

    Idk why you’re trying to couch this as a hypothetical. Imagine trying to talk about Social Security this way - “oh well maybe in theory…” No, brother, the checks are in the mail.

    People really do have family housing that really does exist for real in China.

    But it’s certainly no Soviet Union

    The Chinese Communist system was not organized under the Soviet model. Absolutely true. Maoism-cum-Dengism is not Lenin With Chinese Characteristics.

    Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela also had their own district unique models.

    if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.

    If you go to your local Chinese jobs office, you’ll get a bureaucratic exam that determines your fitness for entry level positions.

    23% of the population works in the public sector. That’s roughly 300M people - China Is Hiring.

    But the private sector is also hiring, often with salary and benefits that outcompete public jobs. The idea that you need to be a trash picker to earn an income is flat out wrong.