The nuclear industry is arguably the most regulated energy industry here in the US. The fact of the matter is that energy consumption isn’t going to go down any time soon, and while solar and wind are great supplements, they are very diffuse and the capacity factor is quite low, requiring more just to overcome the uncertainty in the weather.

The discharge from Turkey point in Florida creates one of the largest protected sanctuaries for crocodiles in the state. So also not something we can’t handle with proper engineering.

Linux: Pain will be your teacher.

That one is particularly funny because they have to be completely unaware of the overwhelming number of 5-9 servers, super computers, and even the space station that use Linux explicitly for its stability.

Then I’ll die an outlaw

In all fairness, it the British peoples’ fault for coming up with goofy names for non goofy matters.

Turns out when everyone acts rationally, we can actually accomplish shit.

It’s basically cavemen huddling around the fire vs having a fireplace in your house.

Well when I operated reactors for the Navy, we procedurally couldn’t exceed a certain outlet temp, but I was not only mechanically possible, but occasionally required when we were operating in very warm waters ;)

Nuclear in America is expensive because we stopped building reactors for 40+ years, so all of the supply chain and expertise atrophied.

France is doing just fine power wise and doesn’t rely on Russian gas to do so. One could argue their actions in North Africa to secure their uranium reserve, are equivalently bad, but that goes for the minerals required for batteries/solar panels/wind turbines, all of which require a massive amount of material to be pulled out of the ground and be processed with chemicals.

It’s unlikely for the lake cooled reactors like 9 mile point to suffer from high inlet temps because the bottom of the lake is a massive heatsink which is already used by some municipalities for cheap district cooling.

I think solar and wind are good for land that is developed but underutilized, like a rooftop, but bulldozing swaths of desert, which hosts its own unique ecosystem, just to coat it in silica and metal feels counterproductive.

Nuclear power is just so energy dense that it makes little sense not to use it. It could completely eliminate oil in heavy polluting industries like shipping. As well as still being able to tie into our current power grid, something that still isn’t addressed in “green circles”.

I am getting tired of it as well. It sustains itself on the circular logic of “Platner isn’t literally perfect in every way, despite clearly advocating pro working class policies, so I guess I’ll just keep voting for the very anti-working class polices of another ancient establishment Dem”.

The fetterman comparison is so hollow on deeper inspection, which the opposition doesn’t want you to do. Fetterman was an establishment dem with an active political career before running for Senate and his opponent was an actual snake oil salesman. Platner had no political ambitions before starting this campaign, and very clearly shows how an actual real person that isn’t a psychopath practices politics.

It finally feels like the working class is waking up from the neocon induced haze shat out by Ronny Rayguns.

Didn’t they find one senator from the south or something in a memory care facility?

The fact that they shut down because of the water outlet temp is due to policy and procedure, not because of the engineering of the plants. We have many reactors in the US that sit on the great lakes and the ocean, both of which don’t suffer this problem.

Nuclear is expensive for the same reason, politics, not engineering or the science behind it.

Sword of Damocles remains undefeated.

Nuclear is actually one of the safest forms of power, with the corollary that competency is the norm in the industry. I spent years in the Naval Nuclear program and they have not had an uncontrolled release of radioactive contamination to the public in the 80 year history of the program.

Three Mile Island killed nobody, and the reactor they are restarting had been operating up until 2015.

While I am less than pleased that it’s basically all going to Microdick’s AI centers, it’s important not to lump nuclear power in by guilt by association.

Yeah he might have known, but at the same time, does it reflect who he is now and what he stands for?

Briefly circling back to the whole “iconography” topic, I think symbols do hold power, but the nature and scope of that power are determined by individuals. I also think that an effort should be made to reclaim these symbols for a more pro-human message (admittedly difficult to do for a skull and crossbones) because I believe it takes away messaging and in group camaraderie between bigots.

As for Platner, he has a past, but if we can’t look at who he is today and how he has grown as a person, what hope is there for any of us? I won’t make the claim that I haven’t said or believed wrong things, and even failed to grow when first confronted, but eventually I did begin to deconstruct, as I got older and experienced life.

On top of that, the alternative choice is 78 year old Susan Collins or equally decrepit, but Republican, Janet Mills. I think Democrats are having a “Tea Party” moment with the new progressive push by people like Platner and Mamdani.

On a side note: it’s refreshing to have a nuanced conversation online with anothet human, instead of a bot programmed to scream the most extreme position. I just migrated from reddit after being banned from r/Seattle because I suggested that the homeless problem will get worse if we don’t address the glaring structural issues. I got in an argument and got called a junkie, so I abandoned reddit altogether.

“Rules for thee but not for me”

The reason I believe his tattoo story is because I spent 8 years in the Navy, and I know how much alcohol is consumed when visiting foreign ports. I can see a very intoxicated group of young marines in a foreign port making a poor decision and getting a cool looking tattoo together without really thinking what it means. And since it’s on his chest, not many people who aren’t family or friends are going to see it that often. Not to mention the Totenkopf predates the Nazi party and was used by imperial Germany in WW 1.

Not excusing it’s use by the Nazis, but I would like to have an honest and frank discussion about how we let bigots appropriate existing and non offensive symbol, which robs the culture that created them of their own heritage.

As for his past comments, being voted most likely to start a revolution in highschool as well wearing communist styled outfits to highschool in the 90s in Maine of all places shows me his convictions lie a little left of center at a minimum.

Just remember, there are a lot more of us than there are of them.

Remember when CEOs didn’t release Manifestos or were even known at all by name to the public. Like when they were just referred to nebulously as “the big wigs” or “c-suite”.

Pepperidge farm remembers.

As for his tattoo, the kind of people that get Nazi tattoos are not likely to get just one Nazi tattoo. Nor are they smart enough to plan far enough ahead to gin up a leftist political career while being “secretly a Nazi”. Also , it doesn’t make any sense to for someone with that Ideology to try and win on a progressive platform.

It makes more sense for that person to infiltrate already right wing spaces and increase the tension with grievance politics and dog whistles to push the Overton window further right. Then it would make sense for that movement to secure support in the media and in the capitalist class to ensure access to non-rightwingers TVs and Internet to push constant culture war grievance culture to exhaust any effort to stop them from seizing power.

As for him being a “Groyper” in his younger years, it would be impossible considering he is 14 years older than Nick Fuentes, the founder of that “movement”.

Aside from the joke, the reality is that the work required to get the wealth to the point where they have complete control will need to be done by human hands. Until they can have robots making robots making robots, they will require human labor which will require human cooperation.

Creating robots is no simple task and requires long supply chains that create a significant attack surface. Copper, steel, ceramics, ammo, batteries, computer chips, etc all have to come from somewhere. Power grid infrastructure becomes even more critical when robots are the only thing protecting you.

That’s why I am less concerned that the Epstein class will be able to pull something like this off. Our current system is in active collapse, and their continued existence is predicated on the current system remaining in place.