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[–] just_another_person 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"Okay, sooooo...with no tax revenue or money, zero education, and no energy.......that's still a country somehow right? How does this work????"

[–] NegativeInf 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Doesn't DoE like do nuclear shit?

[–] just_another_person 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also inform the nation's energy policies, meaning taking responsibility for federally funded energy transportation and coordination.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those Texas price gouging electrical bills, they become nationwide under desantis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if we could just go ahead and not let Texas and Florida export their freedumb that’d be great.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

That and more. They have a mandate for nuclear nonproliferation, but it’s more accurate to think of them as America’s R&D lab. The National Labs are fucking incredible! They are so much more than the DoD’s innovation lab. They do a ton of research that isn’t possible for the private sector. They also own and make available equipment that is difficult for individuals to maintain for example: Fermilabs has a particular accelerator, Sandia has the Z machine and a MEMS foundry, and Oak Ridge has one of the most powerful supercomputers and several labs focusing on neutron and nuclear power. Fuck just look up the patents and Nobel Prizes for Lawrence Livermore, Argonne, and Los Alamos. Yes there is a ton of nuclear but they cover so much more. They’re amazing and a national treasure!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The DoE issues security clearances just like the DoD.

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 1 year ago

Yup. They oversee the nuclear weapon stockpile, as well as all the fissile materials- including weapons grade stuff- in the US.

[–] j4k3 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feudalism. We already live in a system of neo digital feudalism where you own nothing. DeSatan master of the Dick Handle state is aiming to bridge our digital and analog feudal future faster than it is happening without him.

[–] nogooduser 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he thinks that it’ll just work like an honesty box. That would level things out actually because it does act like an honesty box for the super rich already.

[–] just_another_person 3 points 1 year ago

You went wrong right off the bat there in your comment with "he thinks". Obviously incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We all buy guns and ammo and go mad max. DOJ exists but if there are enough crimes, it won't be paid enough to handle them all. Also, people would just kill cops with ACAB mentality. They'll run out eventually.