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People will always keep looking to politicians to make the world better despite their terrible track record.
If they aren't doing a good job primary the hell out of them.
Ah yeah that worked for Bernie.
Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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I think about how we could've paid for two brand new, gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants for the same amount of money as Elon Musk flushed down the toilet to try to shut down a website he didn't like. Extreme wealth is a mental illness, and wealth caps are healthcare.
If you can guarantee two brand new gigawatt scale nuclear power plants for $44b then you can raise that money easily. The problem isn’t the access to money that prevents it. It’s that the the number of NRC approved reactors built since it came into existence is countable on your fingers. I’m not even kidding. If you can pass the regulation, environmental, land permits, local opposition etc. you will be a hundred mill…
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
People will always keep looking to politicians to make the world better despite their terrible track record.
If they aren't doing a good job primary the hell out of them.
Where you get the exciting opportunity to choose between the next set of huckster lawyers and shallow ideologues.
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Back then there were only two ships attacked in the straits, and one was an Iranian shadow fleet ship. I am not sure that is "closing the straits" in any shape or form
So if there's an active shooter on the one alley to your workplace you should still be at work in time, right? :) Or let's make the analogy clearer: if your Uber driver cancels the ride because there's an active shooter on the only road between him and you, it's their fault not the shooter's?
no, but if two ships were hit, while one clearly by mistake, it is very early to say the straits are going to be closed as opposed to incorrect targeting
your analogies have went past me though, generally although a common misconception, countries are not people and wars are not comparable to crime
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#97Somewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.
Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
#98I remember hearing somewhere on this site that medical imaging got pretty good at building systems that recycle helium.
Does chip manufacturing not do this or are the losses at their scale are still large enough that you need a substantial constant supply?
Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
#99Somewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.
The goal is to keep the oil in the ground, to not be burned or to be made into plastics.