Don’t forget that they lied about the cancer it causes to the entirety of America in front of Congress and nothing happened to them. Just like the Business plot. And the Civil war.

We have a long tradition in America of letting Wealthy White men get away will literally everything, up to and including high treason.

Its true that most people don’t know how the debt works, but that is by design.

We have 39 trillion in debt, but what did we use it for? Do we have nicer roads, better schools, or more hospitals? No.

A huge part of the debt came from the bad bets of companies being offloaded onto the government via the treasury. People don’t understand just how cheap it was (we’ve just about hit the point where inflation is unavoidable) for the Epstein class to borrow government money.

That borrowing was against our future and we won’t have the growth or infrastructure to justify that debt load. My reasoning is that the bow will break somewhere, and it will bring everything else down with it because the system isn’t sustainable as it exists today.

Complete collapse of the financial system brought about by a debt fueled meltdown

I got a feeling stocks aren’t going too matter much here soon.

I work on the uninterruptible power supplies in many of these monstrosities. I heard from someone who works in one of them while I was on a job saying that they literally pay themselves off in 7 months. That’s how much money is flying around in this space, and all that money is just more explosive power for the bomb its going to be at the heart of our economy.

Our team is being run ragged out here in the PNW because of the absolute mass of Data Centers being built on cheap land in eastern WA.

I like to think the person who revealed this to the public was like “Good news, everyone!” like Prof Farnsworth

I already know that if I die and go to hell, my punishment will be IT helpdesk for hangry boomers.

My digital life has gotten noticeably better since switching to Linux and other FOSS

Me. Now digging through init=/bin/bash/ to fix my non booting zimaboard. All because I lost my root password and proceeded to continue to fuck up my media server

It will definitely not be a walk in the park, but the newest ships and landers as well as the tech is so much more than I had on the USS Ohio. The longest we went underwater was 3 months. It definitely wears on you, but you work so much that exhaustion keeps you from any serious cabin fever. This is also helped along by the fact that we keep the oxygen percentage on the sub a little lower than surface air to lower the risk of fires.

To me, the biggest challenge won’t be comfort, necessarily, but zero Gs and being able to hold off the deterioration of the body in hypotension. Humans can live in some pretty shitty conditions and space will necessitate them for now, but having the best view money can buy probably helps morale some.

I think that humanity is on the cusp of its next big jump into a new era. The old ways of doing things are no longer working, and new paths to the future will have to be charted. We are still very much in the veery early days of space colonization, kind of like the build up to the mercury program back in the 50s.

Tech is advancing so rapidly that even at 30, I’ve seen some technology I couldn’t even dream of being real is now just in everyday use, so I remain hopeful about humans in space. Our drive to discover is so ingrained in to what we are that I see it as inevitable (if we don’t destroy ourselves first) It is a compulsion that spread our species to the farthest reaches of our world and I have no reason to believe our world would be the last boundary.

I suppose my time as a submariner may skew my view of life out there some.

I think we could be seeing a shift in the economics if humans can reliably live off world anyway.

I think NASAs SR-1 can show a reliable link to mars via what amounts to automated space trucks, but really only time will tell if we can kick off a new age of humanity or just keep letting neo-aristocrats take over again and again.

Oh so the FBI DOES investigate and prosecute sex crimes.

I think I heard the best explanation as a generation of people being devoid of hope for the future being told that their actually wrong and really just being selfish and life isn’t that bad. Like truly dead inside and just going thorough the motions on autopilot.

Because fertility rates everywhere are going down, and it’s not just an economic consideration. North Korea is racing South Korea to the bottom in terms of who can go extinct first, and they are the most disparate case that could possibly be presented.

There is no “AI wave”. Machine learning can he incredibly powerful when used properly, and is being used to process scientific and medical data in pursuit of improving humanity’s understanding of reality around us.

But that is not what Microslop is pushing. LLMs that exist to chew up RAM, water, and electricity to shit out slop and generate suicidal tendencies in children.

They aren’t trying to make copilot useful, they are trying and failing to make it profitable, just like every other LLM.

Already switched to grapheneOS

“Your story does nothing to convince me that the industry is regulated to “strangle” it. You don’t say what the pipe did”

The point of that story is to illustrate the gross inefficiency and bureaucracy of engineering design changes in the nuclear regulatory cycle. What the pipe did doesn’t matter as much as how regulators chose to approach the problem. They effectively wasted months of manpower and materials for nothing.

That to me is strangulation of an industry. Another is how the Obama administration handled Yucca mountain and how the federal government, by law, owns all the uranium and is thus legally responsible for its disposal.

No real movement has been made on this front by the NRC and is the main cause of why we have all our spent fuel sitting on concrete outside of the plant instead of a long term geological repository.

It came out of the ground, so just dig under the water table into the bed rock and leave it there.

“Completely different scale of responsibility”

And completely different scale of power generation. Nuclear plants are far more power dense, and that is the ultimate factor in “potential danger”. Solar is great for places that we have already developed but are underutilized, like roof tops or farms, but they aren’t going to power an arc furnace or a manufacturing facility or a data center. The power simply isn’t there vs. The land cost that would be required for it would be astronomical.

Nuclear and " renewables " are two different tools for the same toolbox. One shouldn’t be excluded over the other because both are extremely beneficial. The “green” infighting only serves the fossil fuel lobby.

I didn’t realize we put a dollar price on fixing the climate.

That’s a bad faith argument. As someone who spent years in the nuclear industry, a lot of the regulation exists to strangle the industry.

An example was at Vogtle in Georgia, where a section of pipe was determined by the NRC inspectors to be too small and ordered it redesigned.

When that happens, that’s where huge delays come in. The design has to go back to home office and be redesigned and bench tested. While that happens, worm is stalled on that section of the plant. That costs money because all the workers still need to be paid.

They redesigned the pipe and installed it just for the NRC to go back and say that the original pipe was correct and to put it back.

The cost of nuclear also comes from the way we manage energy utilities. When a solar farm is built, the builders can just sell it to the utility and walk away, no consideration for decommissioning or waste disposal or environmental considerations.

A nuclear plant requires a whole plan and money on how it will be decommissioned by the builders themselves. Nuclear is the only power type held to this standard.

Nuclear power is a good thing, and its time the greens and people left of center get on board. Its scientifically sound and immensely powerful with no greenhouse gasses released.

You are correct, technically Prohibition worked, but its one of those “at what cost” scenarios. The absolute explosion in organized crime that came with it along with the associated cost of enforcement for fighting alcohol consumption makes the argument for a different approach.

I won’t downvote you because what you said is true, its just that the negative association of the explosion of crime and government overreach into peoples’ lives gives people a kneejerk reaction to the statement.

People often don’t think of WHY the prohibition movement was so popular that it could get an amendment passed, but alcoholism at that time was so much more severe than we can even fathom today. Their approach was wrong, but they had legitimate grievance.