What matters is the effective exhaust velocity. For chemical rockets it’s 3 km/s. The article doesn’t seem to mention it?

On top of that, ion drive travel is notoriously slow. So it’s not good for human travel because you would need more life support system for the longer journey, including more food and water, which makes the rocket heavier and is thus undesirable. It would only be useful for cargo transport where it doesn’t matter whether it spends 6 months or 3 years in space.

lifting a 100g schoko 1 meter per second, on Earth

in space no because there’s no gravity, so lifting things doesn’t take energy, only acceleration does. too lazy to calculate now, the relation is simple but i’m lazy.

the article gets wilder the further in i go.

Zuck of all people is one of the dumbest most arrogant assholes in existence. It’s crazy that he doesn’t regularly forget how to breathe. Yet he’s an “infinillionaire” (gotta remember that word btw).

yes

heh, somebody gets my references ^^

It’s a Schrodinger moment for humans.

who you truly are, you can only find out, if you look inside!

only when you do rapid trading. not if you hold for long times.

uhh, i doubt that. at least as long as the company has a sane core business, it’s stable long-term (or rather goes up with the general economy). it can’t “go down more than it goes up” on average.

thank you :-)

i feel like this message is finally getting through. many people say “work is good” because they think it “purifies character” or sth, which is a very christian/boomer thing to say.

where your pension fund is being traded and i bet you would care slightly more about that.

no not really. as long as i don’t sell, it doesn’t affect me if it goes up and down all the time.

no. like, the term “working class” can be interpreted in two ways: (1) people who are inherently workers, (2) people who are forced to work to survive.

which one is being replaced?

insider trading can only make money if somebody bets against it. i think as long as nobody bets against it, it should be fine (as it doesn’t actually generate any profits).

yeah the UK is going downhill very quickly and it’s evident in how nervously they respond to that saying.

i indeed only found out about that rn

But you seem like a refreshingly normal person rather than one of the ideologically motivated internet cold warriors

hehe thanks, i try to be.

i mean yeah, literally, look at how the Iranian regime is allowed to post its anti-US propaganda lego movies on Twitter.

edit: nvm that was a bad take.

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The only way to do this is if meaningful alternatives exist first.

you can’t ban corporate-owned social media because the population would revolt. It’s already revolting when social media is about to be banned for teenagers. just ask anyone on lemmy about this.

the fediverse needs to become an acceptable alternative first, only after that can people move away from big corpo-owned networks.

password protection means you’ll have 0 visitors. it’s better to do proof-of-work instead. which means, the visitor’s computer solves some cryptographic puzzle to prove that it has spent energy and therefore money to visit the website. that makes scraping millions or billions of websites practically too expensive to do, while if you only visit a single website, it’s still reasonably cheap to do.