Me too. This is the most important news story of the month by the “mainstream media”?

Brandishing a weapon is about the dumbest thing you can do. A concealed firearm is used as an absolute last resort, not a peepee enhancer. Any instructor will tell you don't draw unless you intend to fire.

My guess would be its all employees with vested stock options signing this petition.

How do you lose access to google? They perma ban your ip range?

Though realistically, because 240Pu (from waste) is worse in a fission bomb than 239Pu - generally no more than ~20kT, and challenging to get more than a few kT - still enough to take out a city centre but not a metro area - you'll generally want a fusion weapon, which means deuterium and tritium supplies. And Ukraine doesn't run CANDUs, so you're not going to get tritium from the coolant. They'd need lithium targets / lithium in the coolant to breed tritium. Separation of tritium and deuterium are a mix of chemical, electrochemical, and/or physical separation, but are much easier than uranium isotopic separation (deuterium is double the mass of protium, and tritum triple the mass, so the chemical / electrochemical behavior is actually notably different in a lot of situations, unlike uranium).

For a fusion bomb they'd also want a depleted uranium tamper, but Ukraine probably has ample access to that, whether from weapons, armour, old Soviet stocks, etc. Even spent nuclear fuel is mostly 238U, if they don't mind the tamper being highly radioactive.

My personal best guess would be that Ukraine's unstated policy is to have "sprint capacity", like Japan and South Korea do. That is, to not make weapons or anything that would get them flagged as having a weapons programme, but to have everything needed that, if the word "Go" was given, that they could nuclearize very quickly.

Unlike your typical rogue state that seeks to get nuclear weapons, Ukraine has no need for mass centrifuge facilities or anything like that. They already have plutonium en masse, as they're a major nuclear power generation state with extensive waste supplies. Plutonium extraction via PUREX is merely metallurgy (it's not a simple metal to work with, but it doesn't require isotopic enrichment). You need nitric acid (bog standard, nobody will blink an eye), a reducing agent like ferrous sulfamate (not much of a red flag, it has tons of uses), and an organic solvent like tributyl phosphate (a little bit of a red flag, but it has other uses, and there are alternatives), and a bit of gallium (~1%) for alloying - not a problem. Ukraine could very readily have all of this on-hand, an underground lab ready to go, and a rolodex of people to staff it if the order is given. They'd need high explosives like PBXs or TATB, but nobody would blink an eye at Ukraine buying them. High speed switches for the detonators used to be a big red flag item, but today they increasingly overlap with power electronics for motors and power grids. You need neutron initiators, but there's a number of options for that. And running bomb physics simulations and doing small component tests is something they could easily have under the radar - if they don't outright have old Soviet design plans dusted off and ready to go.

The biggest red flag would be Ukraine inexplicably removing nuclear waste (for processing) and/or trying to defeat IAEA monitoring, so that would likely be not done unless nuclear tensions looked severe. Because if it looks like you're sprinting to a nuclear weapon, it increases the odds of a preemptive nuclear strike against you.

Pretty shitty bunker if the world knows about it.

Oh my god who the hell cares.

Beat me to it and he's calling for Tim Apple to run Nvidia. See how the king favors those who gift him trinkets? https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Switching to battery power should lessen power demand. None of this makes a lick of sense.

Company policy I understand. Why is this constant national news? There are much bigger things happening without our own government that the "mainstream media" flat out ignores or at the very least buries in tiny blurbs.

I'm honestly with you on that. Who the hell cares what the CEO of a company does? I'm not even convinced the Chinese spy was that big of a deal. Were any crimes committed?

Some of us haven't migrated from gopher yet.

Is it the UPS or the shitty bundled software doing the test? How could every UPS be time synced that closely? None of mine switch to battery power every 60 seconds. Only the larger model does it every month or so.

Yeah my guess would be the difficulty in getting a vessel not seaworthy to the scrappers. Do any of those places exist outside of India?