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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The ITER was basically supposed to have been built starting in the 80s from my understanding… Until cheap fossil fuels dried up all interest in funding fusion research. When it takes 40 years to fund a single project via international collaboration, 50 years is a short timescale.

    Even with renewed recent interest, fusion still has less than half the funding it did during the energy crisis. Of course the predictions from that era were optimistic given they were no longer able to do experiments like these when they expected them to proliferate.






  • By biological father was an anonymous sperm donor before the technology to sequence a person’s DNA for under 10 billion dollars was a thing. They did not give their DNA to ancestry. Their sister did, having no clue that her brother had donated. Yet ancestry has matched her to several nieces and nephews, outing her brother’s history to his sister and the children who were never supposed to have access to that info. It’s not just your own information.

    Similarly, one of my half siblings suddenly found out that his dad wasn’t his birth dad.

    Anyways, he happens to be cool with the fact that he suddenly had contact with offspring who weren’t supposed to know who he was.

    But our DNA is interconnected. It doesn’t just belong to one person.