You don't have to pay for things that generate more value than they cost. Giving everyone in the country access to free electricity generates more value than the cost of doing it.

The exact same thing goes for healthcare. It's cheaper to give everybody healthcare. According to the Congressional budget office we could save half a trillion a year by giving everyone healthcare. If you ever want to pay off that national debt Medicare for all is how you do it.

You have a scarcity mindset that was put into your brain so that Elon Musk can be a trillionaire and you can wonder when if ever you're going to be able to retire or if you'll have enough time in the day to do the day trading activities needed to stop guys like muskrat from stealing that retirement...

Don't you ever get tired of indulging and comforting lies? Don't you ever want to grow up? Reality is coming for you whether you like it or not. If you aren't going to be dead in the next 10 years you aren't going to have a retirement you're just going to be homeless or crashing on one of your kids couches.

What's your favorite flavor of cat food? Because in 10 years if guys like you keep winning you're going to find out. You better pick a dry option too because you're not going to have enough money for the fancy wet food everyday

I'm American. There's 57 nuke plants here. They're useful but obsolete. And every year more regulations get repealed and more bureaucrats get replaced by cronies.

it's always abject poverty. Can you think of any other solutions besides making everyone poor? Typical right winger. You guys can't cum unless a child goes hungry.

They aren't more realistic they just don't give a rat's ass if there's a meltdown because they don't have to live near it.

I have yet to see anyone explain to me how you prevent businessmen from coming in and skipping all the maintenance so they can pocket a shitload of short-term profits.

Every time I bring this up somebody inevitably just says but oil and gas kill more people. Okay I don't give a shit because I don't want to be alive in America without property and the people of Fukushima lost all their homes and property. Look it up.. America does not treat people without property well. So you can stop right there with your talking points about number of deaths.

I think people who make that talking point are making the mistake that because I'm a left winger I don't have any survival instincts. Honestly I can't blame you for that based on what my fellow left lawyers have been doing for the last 10 years. I have yet to see a single inkling of fear out of them even though nine people just got sent to prison for life because they were in a protest... Oh and we were literally one vote away from turning the US Constitution and all of its protections in the toilet paper.

So I don't think folks know how to respond to me when I have a survival instinct and I recognize that there's no reason for me to be hung up nuclear when wind and solar is right there anyway.

I would love to see someone though take a honest crack at explaining to me how they are going to prevent businessmen from cutting corners at nuclear power plants while our entire regulatory framework is in the process of being dismantled and has been since Reagan...

It is something old nerds are weirdly obsessed with, like Ayn Rand books...

Nuclear power requires a large complex regulatory body that isn't at risk of being interfered with for profit and we burned that bridge to the ground in the last election. The bridge itself was already on fire because it was made of wood from the 1940s...

Meanwhile as long as the country has plenty of land there is absolutely no reason why you can't build out wind and solar and here's a thing that's going to blow your fucking noodle there's no reason why the government can't do that and just give everybody free electricity.

Well there is the Epstein class. They're not going to let you have electricity anymore. There is no amount of money that they are content with and no amount of power that is enough for them. They will not be happy until we are all living in dirt occasionally being blown to pieces by drones if we get too uppity or start building a civilization that could challenge their godhood.

The only place nuclear power makes sense is a handful of countries like Japan that have severe land shortages. Even then I'm not so sure it makes sense especially with their rapidly declining population. Oh and military installations. Basically heavily space constrained places. Even then again we saw what happened in Fukushima when the regulatory framework breaks down and businessmen roll in with dollar signs in their eyes.

You need to explain to me how you stop businessmen from taking over and then skipping all the maintenance. If you can't do that and absolutely nobody here can then there is no way in hell anyone is going to sign off on nuclear unless it's for a giant AI Data Center and then it's going to be poorly built and poorly regulated. Because those companies are already losing money hand over fist and they sure as shit aren't going to spend the money it takes to build a nuclear power plant safely. There is mathematically no reason to because they could just build out solar farms if it wasn't for the fact that the oil companies don't want to let them.

The fact that there are so many old nerds obsessed with nuclear when we could move our grid to wind and solar in no time if we would just stop voting Republican here in the states is why we can't have nice things...

What about corporate profits? Okay just checked those are still going through the roof. Are we still automating all the jobs away while eliminating all the social programs needed to address mass unemployment?

The reason they're pushing for 2027 is they are trying to get it in before Trump leaves office because he is gutting regulatory agencies left and right. So they are hoping to get something up and running before the adults come back in the room.

On the other hand it's entirely possible Trump will get a third term or if he's just too sick for it JD Vance will win the election. There is going to be so much voter suppression going on that if you want to vote blue it is going to be tough.

But I'm sure it's fine. A shitload of multi-billionaires and trillionaires want unlimited electricity right this very second and are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to undermine basic regulations while pushing for rapidly building nuclear reactors in a country with a shortage of high skill construction workers and tens of thousands of multi-million dollar tofu dregs because of it... I'm sure having the guys who can't build a frame square can throw up a nuclear power plant no problem.

I really really hope this country comes to its senses. I'm not looking forward to evacuating my city Fukushima style...

They got a special agreement that anyone who bought it could not sell the shares for the first 120 days. You cannot short a share that you can't trade or buy.

After 120 days SpaceX gets dumped into the NASDAQ index funds by force whether you want to have it or not. This will pump up the value of the stock making shorting it basically impossible until right before the collapse. Unless you have insider information then you will not be able to catch that and deal with it. You will just lose your money.

You need to wake up. All of the systems designed to protect you and to give you even a ghost of a chance in the market have been dismantled and you are in the process of being stripped for parts. Unless something drastic changes you are going to lose all your property.

All you need is some raw milk and colloidal silver and you'll be right as rain! Oh and some roadkill. Don't forget to eat roadkill. /s

I hope you get better I cannot even imagine the bullshit you hear from people if you tell them this IRL...

Patrick Boyle on YouTube covered this but the market for satellite internet is completely tapped out. The high cost of launching satellites isn't going away because physics and that means the bare minimum you can get by charging is going to be about a hundred bucks a month and even that is really cutting it close. There are only so many people on planet Earth that can spare $100 a month for internet and can't just get wired internet which is cheaper and faster and better. Never mind competition from cellular internet.

But what's funny here in a holy shit we are screwed kind of way is SpaceX did such a huge scam IPO and it's going to drain so much cash from everyone's 401ks, 10 trillion dollars is just lying there waiting for the Epstein class to take. So it's no surprise other people are looking at that and getting in on the action. I just saw an article from an economist talking about how the only way to fund the AI expansion is to put their worthless stock into your retirement plan and snag all your money.

People keep telling me that they are just going to pick their own stocks. That's not a retirement plan that's being a day trader. If you have a full-time job and it's not day trader that really isn't practical in the real world. You simply do not have the time to do the research and track the stocks so that you can reliably earn the returns you need to retire off of your investments. That's why index funds were created in the first place. It was a safe place to park your money that was heavily regulated and controlled.

SpaceX broke all those rules and they were allowed to do it because you're not paying attention and NASDAQ looked at all those fat sacks of cash and said we want some of that.

Now the only question is will you die of old age before they get around to taking your property? Because if you're under 65 the answer is no.

But he did so overseas so it doesn't show up in the statistics. It is strange that he the greatest mass murderer of the 21st century though. I guess maybe Henry Kissinger might be in the running.



As for the orange pedophile the effects of his actions don't really kick in until after the midterms because he doesn't want you to know what he did to you. We did take millions of people off their health care so we could squeeze billionaire tax cuts through the reconciliation process and get past the filibuster for those extremely unpopular tax cuts... Oh and your taxes went up assuming you're American which will, I mean honestly with that comment I have questions...

After the midterms suburban and rural hospitals will start closing down because they got huge income cuts from the Medicaid cuts. So death rates will tick up. We also massively deregulated a wide variety of safety protocols and environmental regulations so expect more cancers and more food poisoning.

On the other hand murder rate keeps going down despite the Republicans best efforts so there is that but on the other other hand they do seem like they want to get us into a really really big Vietnam style war and send a few million Young Americans off to die in the Middle East. It's pretty clear Trump was trying to get the country behind invading Iran which would require a absolutely enormous draft. And would result in a lot of dead people.

What I'm getting at here is that you're dealing with complex systems and you put two completely incompetent criminals and grifters in charge of them. The shit is going to hit the fan it's just going to take a little while for it to splatter on you personally.

AI slap generators create code with dubious copyright protections. Open source software relies entirely on copyright to enforce its license agreements so once you start polluting your code it's all downhill from there...

These are people who lost their jobs, spent months sometimes years looking for another one, could not find one, and gave up.

We have 720,000 people who are completely unemployable. Nobody will hire them to do anything except maybe pay them sub minimum wage and abuse them until their bodies break or they run out of money to steal.

That number is going to keep growing on top of the number of full-time working homeless.

In a country with more guns than people sooner or later that's going to be a problem. As automation continues to devour jobs we will eventually hit a tipping point where we can't pay for the services we need to have a even vaguely functional civilization. Police and fire will go first and you'll dial 911 but nobody will come.

A bunch of libertarian numb skulls think this is cool because they think they can just go around shooting people and for a time they are right.

The problem is the horde. Your dipshit libertarian uncle shoots somebody dead because they wandered into their house looking for food. Okay fine whatever. But another guy comes and this one has a baseball bat. So your uncle shoots that guy. The next guy has a machete and the next guy has a gun. He gets a few rounds off but your uncle is a crack shot so again down he goes. Sooner or later two or three of them show up and they have guns and your uncle kills one of them but the other gets a shot off that hits your uncle square in the arm and now he can't hold his rifle.. but damn your uncle is like John wick or some shit he finishes the other guys off. And in comes the next batch of them and this time your uncle has one good arm can't move fast enough and his leg gets taken out. But again your uncle is fucking Superman right so he kills them all. So now with a bum leg and a bum arm the final batch of guys shoots your uncle dead.

That's why you can't let civilization collapse and be okay. Once that happens there's a limitless supply of people who are coming to kill you and you have to kill every single one of them but they only have to kill you once.

But if rationality worked with these numbskulls then they wouldn't be libertarians would they?

Functional unemployment combines people who are underemployed and people who do not make enough money to be functional adults. People in this category who are getting by are either working homeless (we have half a million full-time working homeless) or they are receiving support from friends and family to keep a roof over their heads.

It's become so obvious that the books are cooked I don't think anyone can ignore it anymore and I have seen economists come up with all sorts of fun euphemisms to describe the actual situation.

None of this is sustainable. Here is where all the libertarian twats worried about toaster licenses show up to tell us why it's a good thing that Civilization is collapsing because nobody's going to tell them what to do right?

The average american, about 60%, read as a 6th grade level or the level of a 12-year-old. When you are 12 you get this burning desire to not be told what to do. Some people grow out of it and some people become libertarians or Republicans or some combination thereof.

Like the old joke, There are two novels that can change a bookish kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs

Congratulations on waking up from your coma from 1964. A lot's changed.