tayloraloy.bsky.social
Virginia Tech Postdoc (STS), nuclear energy/nonpro. Former SRO instructor nuke worker. he/him. #TritiumMatters
Dissertation:
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638
FAS Day One 2025:
https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/
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Even if I can’t quite spell “poorly.”
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“Dirty bombs” are portly defined and lack clear military utility. Enriched uranium is not required for a dirty bomb. One of the more effective types might just be a Co-60 dispersal device triggered with conventional explosives.
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Weirdest part, the Messiah for a dominate religion explicitly teaches this in their sacred scriptures.
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What about “restraints”?
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And I, wow, didn’t know until just now that Biden’s accuser literally defected to Russia in 2023!! (I was talking about Franken and the asymmetric Dem reaction, not all the Trump stuff.)
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Other than the suggestive picture playing along with the military photographer on a USO tour and the story that he was creepy and overdid a “kissing scene” (and one person saying he groped her during a photograph) — were there other allegations?
Biden had worse allegations and he was POTUS after.
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I was thinking more along the lines of Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote but for every book.
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Sure, investigate, audit, recount, whatever the available evidence warrants, but I have zero interest in purveying unproven allegations. That is exactly what gave us Jan. 6.
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Vance was a U.S. Senator alongside Alex Padilla for about 2 years. Apparently no need to bother learning the name of a fellow Senator who represents 4x as many Americans as he did is certainly an impression he doesn’t care to make.
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This is nonsense. Maybe they need to do a recount for some weird reason, but NY went for Harris. It will have no effect on electoral votes unless the recount swings to Trump.
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They were literally fellow U.S. Senators for 2 years.
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I agree. (Old) Age has salience on axes of wealth, class, race, and political power.
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Thanks @mattyfield.bsky.social (re)orienting ourselves to how we got here is a valuable contribution and a quick shareable reference to get more people thinking from the same set of facts/conditions.
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Smh you probably don’t even know the population of Cuba.
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IntoTheWildGPT
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With respect to his omnipotence, Q does show never infinite restraint.
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Worried the current series will be too slow a burn to bring the money to subsequent seasons. Really wishing they had kicked off with a miniseries for the first three books. Then they’d have been unstoppable. Fingers crossed for the sufficient clicks and buzz.
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Who would’ve thought that white supremacy, pandemics, and “AI” would have become so entangled and relevant?
Here I am worrying about nuclear weapons like some Johnny-come-lately.
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Read Wanderers a few months ago while sick with Covid. It was a suboptimal but perfect experience.
Highly recommend the book! (Just maybe don’t read it while sick with a relatively novel virus).
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Breaking the NPT by giving a nuke to a non-nuclear weapon state would further degrade Russias standing in the world and lose one of their most important allies: China.
If you need other reasons, I guess take an international relations class.
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Maybe Iran would want to do it, sure, but Russia would never give them a nuclear weapon. Russia has other sources for drone engines.
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I don’t think that would make any sense. CTBTO IMS would be likely to be able to tell if it’s a rudimentary fission bomb or something more complicated. They would look incompetent and Russia would obviously be implicated possibly affect their Chinese support. To gain what?
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Yup. Murderbot has 0% horniness and 100% spite.
Therefore, Murderbot has human-equivalent artistic agency and can fully appreciate premium shows that only humans can make.
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The air defence battery at the Fordow nuclear facility has been destroyed.
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Would you download a Turkey?
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The melting point of turkey is 1600F.
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I honestly have very little patience for this, but where in this report does it say that Russia exported “nuclear warheads” to Iran?
I think you either misunderstood or mistyped something because a report from 1999 does not demonstrate that Iran has secretly been a nuclear armed state for 26 years.
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So more ? than ?, I see.
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And just wait for whatever the CTBTO says.
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Almost bought one, but I can’t make myself for $11+ shipping one shirt. I don’t know why $5 is go and $10+ is no go, but it just seems excessive.
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This last Spring I was honored to have “Work” included in a poetry anthology dedicated to the legacy of my, now retired, writing teacher, Richard Jackson.
It’s an impressive collection, and I’m humbled to be a small part of this substantial legacy of work.
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"This deal sucks because there are covert facilities we don't know about."
"This bombing is awesome; I was just kidding about those covert facilities."
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Clearly, Coffee Soylent
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I doubt Bourdain sat around waiting for it to get cold. He drank that in 10-15 min and smoked a cigarette for 40 min.
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The European mind cannot understand taking 58 min to drink a coffee.
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Present
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That wasn’t even identifiable as a brand name logo. It just looked like a coinbase like font. Must’ve been the weird background.
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One factor is they invest time, money, and care in teaching children about food culture. School lunchtime isn’t a 25-minute calorie cram but an actual part of their education.
Americans are apoplectic at the prospect of their tax dollars being spent on feeding children even by our paltry standards.
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The impersonating line is very emphatic. Like they intentionally did not leave any ambiguity. Which seems a bit odd for on-going and highly fluid situations. Maybe they have solid info that was not fully articulated? I share your hope.