Sort of? It seems to me that Darpa has only been able to transfer about 800 watts over a 5 mile distance. A nuclear power plant produces something, like, 500 megawatts? This wouldn’t be enough to justify the power production at that scale, not to mention I’m skeptical of any wireless solution that wouldn’t drop some energy efficiency and it would obviously require constant visibility which would also need manned guidance.

If this weren’t Elon musk, I would say producing liquid hydrogen wouldn’t be a terrible way to at least save unused power, but then you have a whole different host of problems.

Stupidest plan ever. How exactly do they plan to send the power to orbiting space systems? And who is going to operate and maintain the systems?

Pretty suspicious that Rob Reiner was out there talking to hollywood figures about anti-trump motions that the film industry could take and then, suddenly, he’s found dead a few days later.

I mean, you know, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. So I’ll just say it’s quite the co-ween-ki-dink.

nobody is forcing Olivia Dean to use Ticketmaster

sigh I really really wish you were right about this, but I think you’re grossly overlooking one important detail.

Ticketmaster is owned by a company called LiveNation. LiveNation paritially owns or signed licenses to almost every single large venue. If you’re a big band, you’ll unfortunately need a large venue and the only company able to provide that service in most of the United States (ignoring Los Angeles, New York, or other huge metro areas) is LiveNation.

So the gambit that Ticket Master has employed: 1 - Bail out almost every huge stadium with financial investment, but with intent to sign a special license which gives them ticket priority (so LiveNation gets the tickets first) 2 - Sell these tickets on TicketMaster, with 1/4th being intentionally given to ticket resellers with the intent of inflating the market (each transaction on the “used” market is actually redirected to TicketMaster).

I’ve looked and in my city (Portland, Oregon) there’s only a 2 venues that are large enough for a popular artist to play at that aren’t owned or invested into by live nation, and these venues might not always be appropriate for acoustic needs. You can read more about this here but, to put a point on it, I actually don’t think artists are to blame for needing to sell tickets on ticket master due to how hard it is to find a large venue in every city across the United States. Otherwise, you’ll end up paying ticket master more for venue access anyway, from my understanding. Granted, all of this is hard to know for sure, as you’d actually have to have experience with managing a multi-million dollar band or singer to really understand the scope of the problem here.

Democrats should officially rename it to “The Trump and Epstein Ballroom” before demolishing it. :)

Fox news wouldn’t know how to report that news.

This guy is so dumb, man.

As if “we’ll just kill people” isn’t just a declaration of war. 🙄

The small government is the biggest lie pushed by the right wing side of our country. In fact, when you read where the money comes from, it actually comes from a “Dark Enlightenment” coalition of techno-fascists looking to dismantle democracy.

These radical centrists are messed up in the brain, left and right can agree to that at least. (We’re all fucked!)

Just when you thought this timeline couldn’t get any stupider.

If there are any germans out there reading this, it’s not to late to enact strong policy. America failed to do so and I fear the repercussions of not taking the threat seriously have only just begun.