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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • The decision to kick a country out of the EU needs to be unanimous with the current treaty. In the past it’s not been an option since there’s at least two rogue states that will block such moves since that will make each of them safe.

    Currently the EU is withholding EU funding to get concessions out of Orban which kinda works. Only a treaty change will fix this when they turn the unanimous voting into a qualified majority voting.

    It’s essentially like trying to change the constitution of a county except currently it’s unanimous voting of the council of countries. Switching to a 75% of countries + 2/3 of parliament would is what the EU is gravitating towards but that will involve more concessions with Hungary.




  • I stick to few sources that generally cover major without the doom and gloom. Generally YouTube channels are pretty good imo.

    • TLDR News (UK, EU and Global) is a great series of channels for that.

    • Caspian report on YouTube for some geopolitics/strategic outlook.

    • Real life lore for couple of deep dives on non-current issues.

    • Money and Macro for macro economic news.

    • Just have a think for climate science and energy transition news.

    • “Good news” is just nice feelgood news.

    Traditional media for closely following elections when they come out such as exit polls.

    For the Gaza issue I did break the cycle and check on Al Jazeera which is the best for middle East news.





  • I decided to read up on it since it looks a bit mental but once you know why it makes a lot of sense.

    Plasma is charged and needs to be contained with magnets because it’ll melt anything it touches.

    To use the magnets uniformly on a donut shaped cloud of particles will cause the particles drift and hit the wall because the donut has particles traveling short distences close to the donut hole and long on the rim. The particle will eventually drift into the wall and destroy the reactor.

    So fuck it, squash the donut and twist it around and now all of parts of a cross section traveling around the donut are traveling equally long distance.