No air bags? Pretty sure that makes it illegal in the USA these days.

Qualifier - it may be legal to drive an airbagless car if it existed before the law requiring airbags came along.

their views to be beyond the pail.

Pale. Beyond the pale. It's not about buckets....

Just curious - what is the legal definition of "hateful content"? If everyone gets a veto on any website that they visit, then effectively we'll have a web that contains nothing of any interest to anyone, because, outside the totalitarian regimes, you can't get as much as 75% approval on ANYTHING...

Wages have not grown anything like inflation, which is why inflation is hurting so much.

Well, of course it hasn't. Why bother creating a pile of money when it just adds extra zeroes onto everyone's balance at the bank. Creating, for example, $2.2T doesn't help the government a lick when it is automagically offset by increasing wages by $2.2T...

Do remember that inflation, pretty much by definition, is caused by the government (they're the ones who control the money supply), for the benefit of the government.

Qualifier: there are a few conditions where inflation is not under government control (losing a war in a big way being one of them), but, in the big picture, inflation is a creation of the government, for the benefit of the government....

The naval ones use highly enriched fuel, which civilian ones do not have access to due to proliferation issues.

Umm, no.

While a Naval reactor uses more enriched fuel than your average civilian plant, this is irrelevant to "proliferation issues" since we make nuclear weapons with plutonium, NOT Uranium (which is what is used for fuel in a Navy Reactor (or civilian reactor, for that matter)). Do try to remember that the Hiroshima bomb is the only uranium atomic weapon ever built (and it was large, heavy and low yield) - we use plutonium to make nukes. And uranium is used for reactors, not plutonium...

Don't have one.

I'm old enough I probably won't survive the next round of lawsuits (or possibly the one after that), and so I don't really care much what humans do to themselves or the planet anymore.

In other words, enjoy your AGW, guys. Or your collapse into barbarism, whichever comes first. ;-p

They all "aim" to build reactors much faster, what actually happens though...

What actually happens is that the NIMBY's sue everyone involved in the design, construction, and approval of the reactor. And as soon as any of the lawsuits is rejected, they'll sue again. And again...and again....

They continue suing till the project is cancelled.

Then they go home, pat themselves on the backs for saving civilization again, and then complain about air pollution, blackouts, and AGW,,,,

As I recall, many years back when I was in Uni, we had a nuclear reactor on campus. Wasn't a problem, except when the anti-nukes decided to do something on campus.

It always shocked them to learn there was a nuke reactor in "that building right over there"....

before they start bashing into each other ?

Enough to make a decent set of rings, I would guess...

No Congress can solve problems, since their ability to get reelected depends on having problems that only they can solve.

You want Congress to solve problems, impose term limits on Congress. One term and you're done for life might work.

Face it, as long as a Congress has control of multiple trillions of dollars, being a Congress-critter will be about buying congress-critters to get your piece of the pie.

Who cares?

The baloon could have cost ten or a hundred times as much, and it would still have been pocket change to a major government...

Hell, that would be pocket change to a major corporation, much less a government...

No, we're not. Chickens, turkeys and wild birds are the dinosaurs today.

And we can use the stuff we "bread" to feed the chickens. Though it's better to use the stuff we "bred" (yes, those two words are pronounced the same way, but that doesn't mean they have the same meaning, so they're not interchangeable).

All that aside, it's unlikely we're going to be extinct as a result of AGW - restricted to arctic and antarctic regions, perhaps.

Though if we can't handle AGW, we're going to have a tough time when we leave the continuing glaciation we've been in since we evolved - even with AGW, we're still going to be living in a cooler period than the average interglacial...

Deer and even bears walk through our yards, it's weird, they are half tame.

Keeping in mind I know no more of your situation than can be expected by someone thousands of Km away from you...

DON'T assume a bear is "half tame"! EVER!! Always keep in mind that a bear can outrun you, and can turn you into lunch in a heartbeat. You can turn a corner, see a bear, and then see the cub, and by then the mama bear has decided you're too close to her wee bairn, and turned you into a pile of cooling meat...

Just curious, but why does your map not count Alaska as part of the USA?

So, how are they planning on ensuring that the new agency won't start doing its own propaganda? Not really much point in having an anti-propaganda agency if said agency is busy putting out propaganda of its own....