This is correct. Russia needs to be showm that they cannot do anything. Ukraine must be totally victorious on the battlefield.

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I would recommend starting with the book "The Player of Games", because it gives the clearest description of what The Culture is actually like and it's a relatively short but fun read. (Also you can find a free PDF of it easily)

Have you ever read The Culture series by Ian M. Banks?

If you like sci fi give it a read, there's some eye-opening ideas there about what the endgame for society with highly advanced AI will be.

Advanced AI will be able to do almost anything that humans don't want to do and do it much better than humans, so this will usher in an advanced post-scarcity age which allows for much less restrictive legal and societal structures.

Nah man. It just adds a sick basline to the whale songs!

Have you ever put salt water into them?

But chlorine is exactly the problem if you want to get H2 because Cl2 amd HCl corrode the aparatus. The great thing about this approach is that it does not produce Cl2.

The problem is the chlorine (Cl2) it corrodes the electrolysis aparatus.

I know screw water! I mean why even would umbrellas exist if people actually wanted water. Gah!

University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the School of Chemical Engineering led an international team that successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

Professor Qiao said, “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 per cent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser.”

The team published their research in the journal Nature Energy.

A typical non-precious catalyst is cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface.

Associate Professor Zheng explained, “We used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalization. The performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionized water.

Professor Zheng added, “Current electrolysers are operated with highly purified water electrolyte. Increased demand for hydrogen to partially or totally replace energy generated by fossil fuels will significantly increase scarcity of increasingly limited freshwater resources.”

Happy people also use drugs. Drug use permeates every strata of society. Some people use drugs to escape life. Some people use drugs to enrich their lives.

Switch to weed

Nurses can call in air strikes? On whom?!

What's MXE?

Much longer than that

Good point...

As someone who made the switch this year, I'm happy to hear it.

"Researchers say they may have discovered the solution to a problem that has long hindered progress with a novel form of plasma propulsion that could one day carry humans to distant planets, and potentially launch a new era of space exploration.

The helicon double-layer thruster (HDLT) is a prototype plasma thruster propulsion system that works by injecting gas into an open-ended source tube, where radio frequency AC power produced by an antenna surrounding it electromagnetically ionizes the gas. Within this highly charged plasma, a low-frequency electromagnetic helicon wave is excited by the antenna’s electromagnetic field, further heating the plasma."