The REAL headline and buried lede for the original post should be:

Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record

Are You Scared Yet?

I would be.

The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored, because this is done under the direction of a former board member. Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

Who IS Oklo, Inc. the "private nuclear reactor builder/operator"? Oklo is Sam Altman:

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

We're in territory where weapons-grade plutonium is being given at fire-sale prices to billionaires who's ethical boundaries include creating their own demand for otherwise unnecessary, high-risk energy projects. Guys like Altman, who get their ideas from Wikipedia articles about Ayn Rand — because they are one rung lower than people who actually READ that garbage.

But I'm sure no inventory of hot nuke metal will ever go missing.

If I pay on one site, every single other site still has ads. So this locks me into the viewpoints preferred by the curator of one site and to the production values that one site's business model enables.

Unless I am disabled, why would I want a robot to live my life for me?

^^ Yet more AI slop ^^ Give it a rest.

And I have missed several because he generates them faster than I can keep up.

1. Sneakers
2. NFTs with him doing stupid shit
3. Watches
4. Fragrances
5. Cabinet positions: he promises “cabinet advisory positions” to the Maggots in emails, all you need to get one is contribute to him.
6. Bibles
7. His "media company".....just announced they "lost" $400 million in the last year. That's $400 million of other people's money he and his cronies have made off with.
8. The el Bunko guitar
9. Shirts with he and Elmo on them
10. Gold one dollar bills
11. Gold Bars
12. Siphoning money from criminal seizures into a National “Strategic” Bitcoin Reserve thereby increasing money into the shitcoin industry and his own shitcoins.
13. Cabinet positions for his billionaire “contributors”
14. Advertising Teslas on the White House lawn. The Bunk: Elmo announced he’s putting another $100 million into el Bunko’s political operation.
15. $447,000 Birken Crocodile Handbag.
16. Golf “tournaments” at his golf course fueled by Saudi money; the Saudis are above corruption in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Tea (thanx Douglas Adams)
17. Don Jr. has a millionaires club to rich to get inside scoop on new Bunks.
18. Eric has crypt company merging with another so they’ll be listed on Nasdaq.
19. el Bunko’s own crypto so foreign governments and “friends” can contribute directly. United Arab Emirates put $2 billion into the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency outfit, World Liberty Financial.
20. Qatar’s 450 million dollar airplane “gifted” to DoD but he gets to keep it when he leaves office.after DoD tricks it out to make it secure.which they’ll do by first stripping it down and putting it back together again.
21. Auction to dine with el Bunko.
22. Qatar chipped in to help finance a Trump-branded beachside golf and luxury villa project in the country worth $5.5 billion.
23. el Bunko hotels for housing foreign “dignitaries”.
24. Selling pardons, sort of like the Catholic Church selling “Indulgences”.
25. A “gold-plated” phone ostensibly made in the U.S. but looking suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
26. The el Bunko Wireless Company.
27. The el BunkoRX company, they do deals with drug companies to lower prices, for which they profit.
28. The new round of watches and other tat he sells from the Oval Office.
29. $240 Million he’s demanding from the Injustice Dept. for calling him out on his crimes and attempting to prosecute them.
30. Grifting off the Epstein files telling his Maggots he needs their money to defend himself.
31. Deal with Pakistan’s crypto-bros to dump money into his own crypto-crap.
32. Bailing out Argentina and Milei because if Argentina goes much further south, el Bunko and Scott Bessent lose their “investment” in the cypto-crap Milei was promoting until it tanked.

The only people willing to read through 1990's-era source code these days are the hackers :)

CO2 is invisible. Tire particulate would cool the environment, if anything. Quit gaslighting.

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

Say an employee with attention deficit or sensory processing disorder uses Teams on a separate device as a way to improve productivity on their primary device. Refusal to accommodate these conditions can get an employer in trouble under the ADA and foreign counterparts. If you end up fired for this, ask an equality lawyer about your options.

And do these plans for nuclear in Texas also include a plan for where in Texas to bury the waste? Or are they burying their heads up their butts as they usually do for external costs that they can socialize?

Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

He's the guy who routinely called his opponents "Fascists Communists Marxists who are beyond socialist". I'm sure he was both unaware of the irony and of the "horseshoe" view of how those apparent opposites could make such a statement sort of true, just wanting to name call to rile up his base.

But, amazingly enough, now he's trying to bring it to life for real!

Forget trying to learn Lie Group theory from Youtube. Just when you get to a crucial point: Lie groups provide a natural model for the concept of continuous symmetry....

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You mean those extra 20+ mil that contribute to Social Security and Medicare, that work in jobs native born American won't be caught dead doing. The inflation was cause by Covid whacking supply chains and, afterwards, people buying everything not nailed down.

Now we have high inflation, a decreasing workforce which will depress GDP, lower contributions to Social Security and Medicare and also national defense, and crops rotting in the fields. Think you'll get some help to help you through your dotage? Nope, them sort of health care jobs are mainly done by migrants who are now to scared to help Ma and Pa Kettle, and they won't be there in the future for your sorry ass. Jesus, grow a brain.