I really feel the urge to correct the “infinite power part” because it hurts my soul as a (wannabe) physicist.

There exist no thing like infinite energy generator because energy is always conserved (well, there are some weird corner cases this isn’t true, but that is another lesson).

There are massive “transformators” of energy known as stars (like our Sun)which expel radiation in massive quantities thanks to its humongous size and will take billions of years until it grows into a giant red star and more billions of years until it explodes into a white dwarf (If I recall it correctly).

Billions or even “measly” millions of years is basically “infinite” for human lifespan, I agree.

But it still is finite.

Fusion won’t be “infinite” (billions nor even millions of years) because it will be basically a “microscopic sun”

We’d need something a bit bigger than Jupiter to get something closer to a “infinite-red-dwarf-energy-generator”.

And Jupiter’s diameter is around 10 or 11 Earths diameter, so it is something that is already a big massive for humans to do.

I’d say that photovoltaic cells for solar energy would be easier to make “infinite energy” becuse we are copying what the best “infinite energy users” (also known as plants) have been doing for millions of years.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/SolarSystem_OrdersOfMagnitude_Sun-Jupiter-Earth-Moon.jpg

Also, Tony Hawk is a goddamn excellent game!

Dare I say that it was a pro skater too!

I’d even say that it would make it “easier” to generate elements that are rare on earth for aplication purposes.

The first example already sort of feasible is production (and storage) of Helium.

And if we master (in the far, far future) both fusion and fission, then we can make almost any element “with ease”.

Basically we would be able to do what the alchemist dreamed and be able to “turn stones to gold”.

But nowadays, one of our “new gold” are rare earth like Neodymium for making magnets

And there are other elements that are even rarer and would have massive applications only if they were little bit more abundant than they are now

Now, again, that would be only true in a far, far future if (and a big if) we can truly master both fusion and fission (what I actually want to mean is that my comment is basically an “hallucination” similar to those on r/futurology)

There are a few misconceptions in your comment:

While I do agree that there are other problems like racism and bigotry which existed before capitalism (based on an answer you gave in another comment) and while I do agree these also need to be addressed, I do disagree that capitalism isn’t a major source of problems of modernity.

Why?

Because the cornerstone of capitalism is to use money to generate more money in a feedback loop towards (nonexistent) “infinite money” (which is different from feudalism, roman empire or ancient Egypt which all had some sort of market without being capitalist economies).

SInce it is impossible to make infinity money, an inherent part of capitalism are the crises cycles of boom and bust.

It also makes the creation of services as an afterthought (because making money is more important) and it is also tied to the enshitfication we’re seeing today.

I think you’re calling as “capitalism” a thing that is actually “technological innovation (under capitalism)”

We’re all aware of free/open source softwares

We’re all aware that it is possible to develop technological innovation outside of capitalist framework (and again: Capitalism = Using money to make more (infinite) money)

almost all of scientific researches advances are because of passion of the researches instead of the greed of capitalism.

Yes… Everyone “needs” money to survive. But I hope you do agree that nobody in the world needs billions of dollars to simply survive.

for God’s sake, a lot of people living in “third world” dream of earning 300 dollars a month to survive and consider that making 1000 dollars a month is a small luxury (I’m from brasil and 1000 dollars is around R$ 4000 or R$ 5000 while most people lives with R$3000 or less)

What I’m saying is that, past the required money for surviving and for having a few “luxuries”, there is no need for anyone having millions or billions of dollars every month and that it would be possible to keep scientific and technological grow under such conditions because curiosity and desire for changes are part of human nature.

if it was entirely impossible for humans to develop things without being paid before, then nothing around open/free software would exist.

Even if it was the roman salute, it would still be a fascist salute.

And there is a reason why people say Nazi-Fascism.

Because a Nazi IS a Fascist.

And both must be banned from public discourse!

just to give historical context, Germany, Japan and Italy supported each other in their nazi-fascism for the exatc reason you already said. So there is no surprise that it is happening again with America and Israel

Nope. It is the far right gaining immense amount of power while both moderate right, left and “extreme left” are yelling at the terrorists (far right) wanting to crash the airplanes in the towers.

Be aware that if you lean in the far right, you risk going down with the terrorists while the “osama bin laden” of this story (and to be clear, I mean Elon) will be hidden behind the safety of his bunker.

as you can read on al jazeera, not only Elon did something that clearly resembles the nazi salute but he also has ties with the nazi party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/21/elon-musk-at-trumps-inauguration-whats-the-history-of-the-nazi-salute

There is no excuse or funny remark to be made about it AND there is nothing to defend Elon about it. THIS SHIT MUST BE CALLED OUT!

Also, being “anti-woke” is a dog whistle for nazis and we know that Elon claim to be anti-woke, anti-trans and anti-lgbt.

Also, for all the anti-wokes: WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CARE ABOUT THE PRIVATE SEX LIFE OF OTHERS INSTEAD OF MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS FOR FUCKS SAKE???

I now regretting making the previous comment.

I made the previous comment in a jesting tone like “same… but different… but still the same”

Also, I went into a rabbit hole seraching for variations of nazi salute (because I know from history that brasil integralist movement had their own version of roman salute called anauê) and found about the bellamy salute.

Seeing that the nazis are actually using the “roman salute” as an actual excuse, I’ll take back what I said.

He is doing the nazi salute. Period.

No need to think. One can just read:

Edit: I’ll keep the links, but I must call spade a spade: Elon did the nazi salute. Period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute (also known as Fascist salute)

Forget all that story of different salutes and making fun of elon by saying that he is making the american “nazi salute”

Lets call a spade a spade.

Elon is doing the nazi salute and there is no other way to take it other than being serious.

That fucker must get down from power.

PS: I removed my previous snarky comment about bellamy salute and made this new one because it is a serious business