My instincts say that Germany is profiting from this the way the US does with its own military Keynesianism. 🤷‍♀️

The article and the links aren’t clear: are these tanks gifts or was Ukraine forced to pay for them with loans?

Storing hydrogen is also very hard, the molecules are so small that they cavitate through any solid material trying to hold them. I’ve heard loose carbon fiber is good at holding hydrogen but I don’t think they’ve figured out a carbon fuel cell yet.

This sidesteps the problem of cavitation by just breaking hydrogen away from the electrolyte instead of storing it as a pure fuel.

Yeah, fuel cells are very different since they react the hydrogen. I think these batteries only use hydrogen bonds to carry electrons. Or to positively charge the anode and create current? However that works? I’m not a chemist or electrical engineer lol

It sounds like a hydrogen battery rather than just burning hydrogen as a fuel source. If I had to guess, the hydrogen positively charges the anode when it forms a hydrogen bond with TABQ, and the charge differential is what generates current.

My understanding is that hydrogen is a single proton, though, and it sounds like TABQ stores it.

Hydrogen is a proton.

TABQ stores protons.

It sounds like it’s a bunch of hydrogen bonds with the anode.

Is this distinguishable from hydrogen in some way?

Israel is not a serious negotiating partner. They’re always modifying and modifying their conditions to push Hamas to reject it. If they accidentally get Hamas to agree to anything they’ll quickly modify their demands further to get a rejection.

But like, even if it sticks I can just go at it with my steel spatula and it’s fine.

I guess some people just don’t want cooking to be an involved process. Stainless isn’t necessarily a “set it and forget it” way of cooking.

It doesn’t even taste good! I fully understand cooking unhealthy food for the sheer joy of eating it, but low-fat PFAS garbage is missing one of the most important flavors of our pallet. I spent so many years thinking I didn’t like vegetables lol

Today I broiled broccoli, carrots, onions, bell peppers, peas, and garlic in oil and sweet chili on a stainless pan. 🤤

It’s not fair that politics are in command! China needs to let the chaos of the market determine everything or else they’ll reveal how fucking stupid and inefficient the market economy is outside of the econ101 classroom.

Switching to stainless has been great. If something sticks I can just scrape it off and then add a little more oil to prevent a repeat. I’m not sure why non-stick pans even became popular. I guess probably the low-fat fad had something to do with it.

Well, no, birth rates are low because the reproduction of labor is unpaid labor. Yes, development is associated with lower birthrates, but only because no developed country has ever seriously tried to make reproductive labor a real job. Doing so would decrease the size of the workforce for production of commodities.

Now you’re totally right that the people migrating from the Global South are fleeing underdevelopment from imperialism, and that this is itself a factor of underdevelopment. What you haven’t considered is why the imperial core limits migration.

Racism is part of it, but only part of the larger structural base. If they allowed unlimited migration the imperial core would be filled with people from the periphery as they flee underdevelopment. This would at once reduce the availability of labor in the periphery and raise the contradictions of imperialism by making peripheral concerns into domestic concerns.

Migrants influence the society they’re part of, causing agitation against imperialism. This would, ultimately, destabilize the core and allow for development to resume without imperial meddling.

Okay, but then we can’t just frame the discussion as “increase birth rates or society collapses” because there’s a very obvious third option that they aren’t taking.

Why can’t immigration replace births?

The US has created an entire parallel global economy with its rampant use of sanctions-based warfare. If you sanction everyone, eventually, you just sanction yourself as enemies freely trade with enemies.

And Trump is going to make it even worse with his plans to place tariffs on everyone from China to NATO and NAFTA partners.

All while the parallel global economy just grows and grows.

The only solution is to make childcare paid i.e. every single person that has a child gets a stipend worth a full time job.

Because it is a full time job.

Even if the only people who stay are fascists, the fact that there’s fewer of them still weakens the state: fewer soldiers, fewer workers, fewer tax payers, fewer customers, etc etc. “Israel” needs to grow to survive.

Statistically, Evangelicals are declining too.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/642548/church-attendance-declined-religious-groups.aspx