Poayjay

I was a nuclear operator in the Navy. Here are the actual reasons:

1. The designs are classified US military assets
2. They are not refuleable
3. They only come in 2 “sizes”: aircraft carrier and submarine
4. They are not scaleable. You can just make a reactor 2x as big
5. They require as much down time as up time
6. They are outdated
7. The military won’t let you interrupt their supply chain to make civilian reactors
8. New designs over promise and underdeliver
9. They are optimized for erratic operations (combat) not steady state (normal power loads)
10. They are engineered assuming they have infinite sea water available for everything

There’s more but that’s just off the top of my head

As an OG DW fan I hope this isn’t a repeat of 9, but I’m not optimistic. “1 v 1000” and “realism” are two completely different things.

It’s always nice to see my shitty little hometown making national headlines for incompetence and bigotry.

A little background you won’t get from anywhere else about newberg:

It was a sleepy little town of about 15,000 in the Portland metro area. It had some decent jobs (it’s actually the dental equipment manufacture’s western hub). Over time the cost of living there has exploded. It is within commuting distance of Wilsonville (Oregon’s tech hub) and Hillsboro (Nike/Intel). It is wine country as well. The locals are getting priced out of the area. As expected, when people feel they are getting left behind by society they turn to conservatism. Now you see the results of that. Conservative grifters promised more than they could ever deliver and wasted needed resources fighting losing ideological battles.

It makes me sad :(

The Ukraine war has demonstrated what a military asset Starlink is. You can control drones in real time with no direct line of sight.

Yeah it’s more like, hey you just bought stabilizing jacks and a water hose for a travel trailer. You must have just bought a new camper. Let’s bombard you with add for stick-up-hooks, rv-mattress sized sheets, cheap plastic dishes, etc.

Literally my first job out of college. We were hybrid, and the amount you had to come in was based on your seniority. Most days it was just me on an empty floor. “Meeting” people was doing shitheads favors so they wouldn’t have to come in to the office.

In what world would it ever be ok for a Supreme Court justice to buy and sell individual stocks?

Uninvited visitors are the real world version of a pop up ad. They get zero consideration from me

Almost $80,000 per daily user?

I have a 2023 Honda ridgeline. The car play works but doesn’t work well. About 50% of the time I have to unplug and plug in my phone again. About 2% of the time I have to restart my car completely to get it to work (yes I’ve tried a different phone and a different cable). I will not buy another new Honda exclusively because of this. GM is so out of touch with how important CarPlay is to consumers.

The first step in “no longer relevant celebrity comes out as conservative to cling to the fringes of stardom.”