Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the SPD's paramilitary organisation. He was expelled from the SPD in 1932, and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He went into hiding after the 1933 Reichstag fire, and fled to the United Kingdom, where he received his PhD from the University of Bristol under the supervision of Nevill Mott, and his DSc from the University of Edinburgh, where he worked as an assistant to Max Born.
After the Second World War broke out in Europe, he was interned in the Isle of Man, and later in Canada. After he returned to Britain in 1941, he became an assistant to Rudolf Peierls, working on "Tube Alloys"—the British atomic bomb project. He began passing information on the project to the Soviet Union through Ursula Kuczynski, codenamed "Sonya", a German communist and a major in Soviet military intelligence who had worked with Richard Sorge's spy ring in the Far East. In 1943, Fuchs and Peierls went to Columbia University, in New York City, to work on the Manhattan Project. In August 1944, Fuchs joined the Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory, working under Hans Bethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of implosion, necessary for the development of the plutonium bomb. After the war, he returned to the UK and worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell as head of the Theoretical Physics Division.
In January 1950, Fuchs confessed that he had passed information to the Soviets over a seven-year period beginning in 1942. A British court sentenced him to fourteen years' imprisonment and he was subsequently stripped of his British citizenship. He was released in 1959, after serving nine years, and migrated to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) central committee. He was later appointed deputy director of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf, where he served until he retired in 1979.
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Being a NEET fucking sucks but then I look over at the people stuck working and it's like, unless you're incredibly incredibly lucky working full time seems to somehow suck even more and god damn does that make it very hard to try to muster up the motivation to "do better".
I don't even know what I want from life, if anything. There's so many things that I could love to do as a career but being forced to do them over and over and over fourty hours a week minimum with no breaks would kill all that drive. We have driven passion into the ground, and for what? So people can have a funko pop room or take their shitty gas guzzling child killer truck to get in a gas guzzling plane for a three day gas guzzling cruise in fucking Ireland.
Tbh, if you've ever worked, then you're not a NEET. You have the capability to work, but you can't or won't for valid reasons, I would say. I hate that word. "NEET."
I have not worked lol. I would love to do something minimal but there is no such thing in this world you either do 40+ or you do nothing because they'll take away all the support.
as much as working to make some rich prick more money they don't need is fucking awful, i'd go back to it in a heartbeat
i miss being able to afford thingsYeah that's the biggest issue. Honestly if I could just get on housing assistance and not be forced to use my mediocre income on so much rent, it'd be much better. I qualify for it too!! But they're glaciers because the government doesn't give a shit.
Tbh, it seems that you are alienated from your labor.
You may want a career, a good job, or social role to contribute, but it's hard to do work nowadays.
Yeah. I mean I haven't had a job since like 15 when I was forced to but that's the biggest thing. So much of this shit is 1 of 3 things if not multiple
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Not productive. All the middle managers or insurance corps or corporate lawyers arguing "actually it's good for our client to pollute", if I'm gonna work I want something that helps others in a clear way.
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Low paying. Lol, I'm not gonna take less than the low QOL I already got.
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Treated like shit. Whether that be by customers, by admin, by your boss, by parents, whatever. Not doing that either.
There's just not much out there for me, I suppose. I'd love to go volunteer but all the financial aid could be threatened.
There's just not much out there for me, I suppose. I'd love to go volunteer but all the financial aid could be threatened.
The chief of the unemployment ministry personally in German did order the files of a couple of activists (partially political ones, partially others) and wanted to cut their money "since they were able to do activism full time", which of course is bullshit. Anyhow, he got sued for data privacy breach after that and that made me happy.
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Former NEET here. I got a job as a janitor and it's pretty sweet. I just walk around and check up on the ventilation systems and if anything goes wrong, I just call someone else to fix it.
Night shifts are so calm, I basically just sit alone in the break room and browse hexbear all evening.
Your tasks might be very different, depending on where you end up working, but I can definitely recommend becoming a janitor.
also baristas quite literally meet the marxist criteria for “productive labor” so i don’t even know where patsocs got that idea from
From wanting to yell at others to feel better about themselves and not tip
their whole thing is vibes. they don't read Marxist theory, leave alone try to understand it.
it’s very funny that whenever they do try to link theory it doesn’t back up their claims at all. i can’t even tell you how many times i’ve seen them say lenin’s letter to american workers shows that lenin supports american patriotism and i read it and that just isn’t the case LMAO
Met a cool dude and we had a discussion about integrating smart animals into human society. We were vibing and yes-and-ing each other about how smart various monkeys and shit are. I then said "honestly a bigfoot should just run for president, they'd have my vote" and he just silently stared at me
I think I blew it...
well I can't solve your man problems but I can tell you about babboon human relations. We used to use those mfers to herd animals, seriously. A babboon called Jack even helped a disabled guy to work the railroad back in 1881.
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I keep a text file for all of my ideas and one of them just says "Snagglepuss what would John Brown do"
What did I mean by this?You beat me to this joke too! there's probably a few more down at the beginning.
Scottie Pippen when people don't recognize him be like
Where's the fun, flirty, high-energy and sometimes dirty songs about men who love men?
Whenever I go looking up queer playlists on the various streaming services, it seems that most of the awesome high-energy songs belted out with passion are by and for WLW folks, and most of the whiny mopey grating depressing ones that are very badly crooned are the MLM ones.
There's gotta be some fun dirty energetic MLM music out there. What artists should I look up?
This has been my first week back to work after an almost two month sabbatical, and ive made a terrible mistake. Gonna quit lmao.