I recall wondering when the pendulum would finally shift back from the siege mentality and we could get on with living.
It never did.
9/11 was so ingrained into the American psyche. Moreso than even Pearl Harbor.
The promise for what might have been compared to what we are has never been more stark.
Ilhan has been in her seat for 4 terms, any day now she'll reveal her secret plan for Sharia? What's she been waiting for? I don't even particuarly like Omar, I think she's an omnicause slopulist but I'm not so deranged to think she's some secret Islamist.
I guarantee whatever media figures you get your news from are far more radical. How about you share your media sources and podcasts with us?
Source: thousands of years of history.
Turkey and Iran for example were once free nations.
And yet the fact you said that shows us all you actually haven't read the history of either of those places to understand why they are where they are now. Also you know who is the biggest fawning fan of Erdogan? Donald Trump and Republicans.
Meanwhile we have JD Vance campaigning with Victor Fucking Orban which is a form of authoritarianism far more likely to grab hold in the US but that's white folks so you have no worries about that do you.
Close to how I want to see nuclear power re-launched in America:
Legislation for funding 10-30 new reactors, owned and operated by government (like TVA does already)
Build them on selected Federal land sites
Have the Army Corp of Engineers certify and plan on a standardized design for construction (example, work with Westinghouse on our own version of an AP1000)
Fund a Manhattan Project style research initiative into fuel reprocessing and build a site(s) to absorb waste fuel.
The need for them came from relativity, but the atomic clocks needed to be able to handle such fine corrections are based on the hyperfine transition of 133Cs. You're not getting very far on atomic clocks without particle physics
Sounds like Newton. Long tradition, I guess
This is all true and part of the reason the successful nucelar programs currently, the ones building new plants and plans for expansion and have kept up those capabilities are all State-Owned-Enterprises. The risk-reward and incentive structures just are not there for private industry.
Here is the list of planned and under construction reactors currently: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworld-nuclear.org%2Finfo...
All of them are State-Owned-Enterprises.
American nuclear power advocates are a contradiction; they want a big expansion of nuclear power in the USA but for their own political reasons refuse to leverage any state power to do it, thus here we are in a 40 year lurch wondering why anything is not happening while they've been their own worst enemy to that cause. At this point even though I am an advocate for nuclear power I would say the last 10 years have led me to the position that it's too late, there will never be the political support for such a venture so we can just give it up.
America ceded the opportunity to be the leader in both renewables and nuclear power for the same short sighted craven political reasons: "gubmint bad" as the foundational principle for half the political power in the nation. Dopes.
When economists analyze the effect of corporate raiders like Broadcom, it turns out that this is actually good for capitalism.
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"Okay, nuclear power. Yeah. Yeah, they did give us that. That's true. "
"And industrial-scale superconducting magnets!"
"Don't forget GPS satellite relativistic corrections!"
"And radioisotope therapy!"
"Electron beam therapy?"
"World Wide Web, wasn't that created by particle physicists?"
"Yeah, they did do that."
"Capacitative touchscreens too, you know."
"All right, all right, FAIR ENOUGH! But APART from computers, telecommunications, nuclear power, PET scans, MRIs, satellite communications, superconductors, radioisotope therapy, electron beam therapy, heat-shrink tubing, cargo and baggage screening, smoke detectors, muon tomography, capacitative touchscreens, and the World Wide Web, WHAT HAS PARTICLE PHYSICS EVER DONE FOR US?!"
"Synchrotron light sources for drug discovery?"
"Oh, drug discovery?! GROW UP!"
Well, part of the answer is clearly "because the official stance of the US govt. is that AI should not be regulated". (Yeah, it's more nuanced than that, but that's the short form.)
Yeah, what has a better understanding of particle physics ever done for US, huh???
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Yes this is what they do in China. The entire country spans several time zones, but the CCP declared that everyone is on Beijing time. So in some parts of the country a business might be open at 8 am, but in other parts it might be 10 or 11. So in the end having one time zone has all the same problems of time zones (have to track what effective time it is in different regions) and no advantage whatsoever.
Yes I also don't really care about the the time changes and honestly I hardly notice them. Most of my clocks change automatically so unless someone reminded me about the time change I'd never hardly notice.
I think people honestly psych themselves out with the time change and amplify all their feelings of tiredness. It's a bit like family members I know that lived abroad and whenever they'd be here visiting they'd constantly be reminding themselves of what time it was back home and then complaining about jetlag. When I travel I set my watch or phone on the airplane to the destination timezone, try to get as much asleep as possible, and never think about what time it is back home.
"Well I don't see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy." -- Ellyn Mustard, about marriage
