The only real difference between the two is that Venezuela hasn't formally declared war, and this wasn't an invasion, as in tanks on the ground.

Federal law struggles to hobble the Constitutional powers given to the Commander in Chief _within_ our own country. Less still to even try outside of it. When it comes to the safety of this country the President can pretty much do whatever they feel is needed, which is how it should be. Has this power been abused in the past? I think you would find it hard to locate anybody that would automatically say "no". But most of them would also find it hard to tell you when without googling it to see if they agree.

I'll give you one. Drone strikes against individuals. Or any other deliberate assassination which is what that is. We are not formally at war with anyone, and as far as I know none of them were convicted in a court of a law that resulted in a penalty of death. Obama killed a US citizen, no court, just did it. "But there was a process!" Did such process include the judicial branch? Because the intelligence agencies work for the President. Trump's USSC immunity thing actually did Obama a big favor because there isn't any statue of limitation for murder.

Now to counter balance that how many lives were saved this way? The problem is that there are some very bad people out there, by almost anyone's standards, who could best serve this world by leaving it. Hobbling our President from doing so is probably not very wise. I grit my teeth saying that too.

I feel the same. Part of me says "that guy and a bunch of his buddies needed to go.". The other says "we just did a coup d'état"... what a way to start a new year...

Companies do not pay taxes. Those are operating expenses that are passed along in the form of higher prices. You, the end consumer, are the ones paying the tax.

No "novelty" to it, the US Navy has been building and operating high quality reactors non stop for 70 years. Their reactors can quickly spool up or down. Their reactors are designed to take abuse. Ever seen that explosion they set off near a new ship in sea trials? The infrastructure to build and deliver these is already in place. So is the training facility to operate and maintain them.

Not my place to push for proposals in another country. But it'll work here because we are already doing it.

The US Navy has taken 562 cores critical, built and operated 273 reactors, and has 99 on ships now. I've not heard any problems about fuel.

There is no combination of renewables that work 24/7 which means you need a MASSIVE storage system able to supply at least half the country for a week because bad weather happens. You would need extremely high power HVDC interconnects nation wide. My eyes cross trying to imagine the inverter setup able to deal with 5,000 terrawatt/hours in a year. And all of this needs some redundancy because shit happens.

Add in all of the windmills and solar panels, did you say something about cost? lol

So we let the Navy both own and operate the reactors. Kinda like how it's being done right now...

The US Navy has entered the chat... No, really, I saw a quote about that the other day and was a bit startled by it so I looked it up myself. Historically it's about 4 reactors per year and currently about half that. Their models are compact, low maintenance with a long service life between refueling, and can quickly spool up or down on demand. They are also operated and maintained by 20 year olds with two years of training.

Next up on how "the Navy is different". Yup, so maybe we should step out of the way and let them do it.

It's not quite 20%: NHE grew 7.5% to $4.9 trillion in 2023, or $14,570 per person, and accounted for 17.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

So if we were healthier a large chunk of that money wouldn't be getting spent on healthcare hence lower GDP so his statement on the face of it is correct. But he's also wrong because they'd damn sure find a way to spend it on something else which would in turn increase GDP albeit in a different area of the economy.

50 amp NEMA 14-50 and unless they have upgraded the pedestal wiring for EV charging you'll get kicked out for using it that way if caught. RVs don't pull continuous full load power so they get away with a lighter (cheaper) feed.

More like keep you from shooting yourself in the head actually. Trigger pressures have gone up so that they can pass drop testing. California in particular but the European and Canadian markets require it as well. They cock the pistol then drop it on it's butt vertically held from 3m. At this point it's the inertia from the trigger mass that sets it off. Many manufacturer's will use a hollow trigger so they can still have a lighter pull. Others (Colt and their gen 2 Pythons for instance) stay solid with a heavier pull and leave it to you to send in to a gunsmith to "tune it up".

My gen 1 Python if cocked is actually kind of scary. Just breath on that trigger. The double action pull is about the same though.

Factory stock Suburban's with a 6.2L can do 0-60 in 6.1s and the 3.0L diesel does it in 8.4s. Those things ain't exactly what most people would call "fast".

Snide remarks do not improve your argument.

The reason you don't see an issue is because you don't understand the actual risks involved. When my wife had cancer, treatment of which did not require radiotherapy, she was warned about said risks from the multiple CT scans she would be getting for the next 5 years. Been a while so I don't remember exactly what the doctor said but here's Wiki's quote on it:

An abdominal or chest CT would be the equivalent to 2–3 years of background radiation to the whole body, or 4–5 years to the abdomen or chest, increasing the lifetime cancer risk between 1 per 1,000 to 1 per 10,000.[134] This is compared to the roughly 40% chance of a US citizen developing cancer during their lifetime.

Did you catch that last line? A _single_ body CT will give you about the same chance of getting cancer as the average American has over their lifetime...

No, what you are proposing is a machine that will cause you to "grow eggs" inside you. And they'll be nasty little buggers that will consume you from within. You also brought up ultrasound. That's another one we've experience with. Having a ultrasound guided biopsy done is not a pleasant experience.

SpaceX has entered the chat...

You would think that the surrounding countries would be the logical choice. Wonder why none of them will take in the Palestinians? Couldn't have anything to do with how they acted last few times that's been tried could it? You know, attacking Israel from their new homes, starting civil wars, assassination attempts, landing and blowing up civilian airliners with foreign nationals aboard to try to drag other countries into it?

Nah, couldn't be that. They should be welcome everywhere.

That would cause cancers from the x-rays, because the radiation from it is cumulative. That's why we don't use them to pick your shoe size anymore. Yeah, we actually did that for years.

Mr Steinberger is a policy advocate, which he specifically listed as half of his course load when he graduated from Stanford in 2014 with a masters in mechanical engineering. Power engineers are electrical and those are the guys you want to be talking to about this.

What he is trying to do with this article is draw attention away from renewables inherent unreliability without some sort of energy storage attached, at which point it _becomes_ part of the baseload. That's all well and good as long as the sun is shining or the wind is blowing or you have enough storage capacity to last until it resumes. It's when you have a prolonged weather event that the problem kicks in.

That must be a local/by state code because I can't think of any home I've ever been in that didn't have one. Even mobile homes have 'em here.