Jeez and I feel like I’m tempting fate just by using a custom domain.

I’d be surprised if they don’t start setting performance records soon. First plasma was a few weeks ago.

If waste heat becomes a problem then we have been wildly successful beyond our most optimistic hopes. Signs point to that future being an utter fantasy. It’s squarely in the “good problems” category. I wish we could just choose between another order of magnitude increase in industrial output and increasing the temperature of the planet by a few degrees

https://youtube.com/shorts/GcmYRSpDrOY

1. Lots of wars and refugee crises.
2. Almost certainly unilateral moves by middle-sized nations seeing existential crises to inject albedo-altering aerosols into the stratosphere.
3. Depending on the timing of things in the next few decades we may be in an ice age very quickly from ice cap melt acceleration cooling the ocean. In an ice age the amount of arable land would dramatically decrease and if there is a harvest season at all it will be very short. Nearly everyone would starve.

The UN Chief resigning as a result would be a show of power. Calling for it and not getting is a show of weakness.

It depends on what you mean by “work out”. If the goal is to stop conflict by eradicating a culture, that’s worked many times.

They are remarkably close to being able to push the “ethnic cleansing” button. They have stated their motive, they are close to achieving the means (their popularity is not far behind what Nazis were when they took power).

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-far-right-afd-marks-10-years-since-its-founding/a-64607308

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2018-04/germany-talks-experience-report-meeting/seite-2

A personal anecdote: in 2020 entertained a German visitor (who never offered up a party affiliation, but it can be inferred) for a few hours at a bar. They managed to convey all sorts of political views supporting suppression of others but stopped short of directly calling for genocide. However any reasonable conversationalist would understand what they meant. The closest thing I can think of for this in English is “dogwhistling”, however I am convinced there is a better German word for it.

If you’re asking because you don’t know how truly awful and scary AfD is: AfD is truly awful and the prospect of them gaining control is very scary. One of the world’s richest people can make things happen in politics.

If you’re asking because Musk supporting right wing politics is well known: yeah but see above. AfD is scary shit.

Altium. Reasons. (the octopart integration is really nice)