#RFEC — Remote Fusion Energy Collector. A silicon based device that can convert the radiation of remote fusion sources to electricity with an efficiency between 20-30%. Might get to more than 30% with new materials. But passive energy collection with RFECs can cover domestic electricity needs, especially when combined with batteries. Formerly known as solar panels.
On Saturday, I was invited by a #German friend to come over for an asparagus dinner.
For those who don't know, Germans go absolutely WILD for asparagus around this time of year.
I was a bit nervous. as I never liked asparagus, so in the 8 years of living here, I just never joined in #spargelzeit. So this would be the first time I tried them here.
Well, I've been missing out, it was super delicious, and I wonder what was wrong with all the other asparagus meals I had before.
It’s a insane and unbelievable to hear now from the German foreign minister that Ukraine 🇺🇦 desperately needs heavy long range weapons 🤦🏻♀️
Germany is sitting on a stockpile of heavy long range accurate Taurus missiles but 🤷🏻♀️ Germany is already more than 2 years refusing to provide #Ukraine 🇺🇦 with those Taurus missiles
When will the German Government stop this incompetent behavior and start to provide Ukraine with enough Taurus missiles?
A #German court has ruled that the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or #AfD, can officially be classified as a suspected #extremist group. This means Germany’s domestic intelligence service retains the right to have the party under surveillance.
If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.
That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. #Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.
Some in the #German parliament say they should deploy #NATO air defense on the borders of countries which border #ukraine to cover Ukraine's western areas. This follows a number of #Western countries intercepting missiles bound for Israel earlier in the year.
I just found out one actually useful use case for #LLM (a.k.a. “AI”).
There is thousands of tonnes of documents from #german#nazi#regime detailing basically everything what happened, who was involved and who participated what and said what.
Feed ALL of that to an LLM and ask it “how can we avoid this happening ever again”. I have a pretty good guess my self but some people aren’t that convinced. Perhaps this is The Key. #history#sciense#neverAgain
A Green party politician in Dresden has been #attacked just days after another candidate was assaulted and hospitalized by a group of youths. It comes as the interior minister hosted an #emergency summit to discuss how to prevent political #violence amid rising threats against politicians.
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.