Oh shit somebody who can accurately be called a doomer. This feels like the time I ran into an actual naz-bol in the wild. I thought they were more of a rhetorical device than actually real.

‘it hasn’t happened yet so it must be impossible’ L take.

The graph is showing DOE experts in the 70s’ best guess at when we could have had a successful reactor project with various levels of funding. You’ll notice the line for ‘actual funding’ is roughly half of the estimate for ‘functionally never’ levels of funding.

The ‘fusion is always 30 years away’ stupidity ignores the fact that fusion is only 30 years away, if you actually spend the damn money to invest in it which we largely haven’t.

This raises the terrifying possibility that somebody actually did buy this with the goal of inclusivity.

At this point surely you could just have two individual chairs spaced about that far apart and slightly angled towards eachother. Still anti homeless but also at least a better user experience for, for lack of a better term, intended users.

Probably cheaper than the weird bench and more plausible deniability.

If China’s economic ascendancy happened 50 years sooner we would probably already have it. Democracies are allergic to massive capital investments that take decades to pay off.

Obviously the graph is very out of date, US funding is around 600 million 2012 dollars annually and China’s is double that.

I’m sure a polycule has both tried this and had to stop because it was causing too much anxiety/drama.