It is clearly a campaign by the surveillance state profiteers.

Palantir and similar corporations are on tour and hand in hand with our bought off representatives are they killing the open internet.

Don’t get me wrong, I dislike Facebook and such as much as the rest of the HN crowd, but this not the answer.

No, but it may push people on the fence away. The “liberals” will never vote republican anyway.

I don’t trust the endpoint.

They don’t need to be remotely controlled anymore! Autonomous!

Only because you live in a rigged economic system.

ITER is not our best bet for commercial fusion. ITER was a peace project between the USA and the Soviet Union.

https://www.cfs.energy

Side note, all fusion start ups have built upon decades of science research funded in the ITER program, so opposing ITER to fusion start ups is misleading

ITER is definitely the best bet for a workable fusion concept. There are some unsolved issues left, but its nothing compared to the sci-fi solutions most US startups would require.

CFS is ITER with better magnets.

Did you click the link? Nothing “sci-fi” about commonwealth fusion systems..

CFS is the most promising of the US startups. The reason being they have partially pivoted away from fusion towards superconducting magnets. Tbf their concept is also the most likely to succeed.

It is still more sci-fi than conventional fusion developments like ITER.

Source: I work in the field.

Considering the general state of the UK population, this may not be such a bad idea.

No, but the person drinking next to you can suddenly decide you gave them a bad look and decide to pick a fight.

There is a big difference between weed and tobacco.

I am a fairly regular weed smoker. I used to grow my own. I used to smoke tobacco. I can go weeks, months and even years without smoking weed. Kicking my nicotine habit took many, many, many tries and I didn't even enjoy it! They are not the same.

That's a different in the harm, not a difference in the effectiveness of prohibition. In fact, the more addictive the substance, the less effective I would expected prohibition to be (and the more ancillary harms to result, especially from criminalisation).

Cocaine is still readily available.

Pour yourself a nice glass of wine with some coke on the side?

Unadulterated cocaine is not readily available to 99% of people. Who wants to risk getting some fentanyl or whatever else as a layperson wanting to try it?

But from reputable sources

This comment seems addressed to the portion of the population that both doesn’t know how to safely buy illegal drugs and also is able to determine which drug sellers are reputable. i can only assume this is an extremely small amount of people

I get concerned when a product’s reviews are all: “received and looks good, will update review when I try it”

I can only assume they all died.