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Bryan

@sleepyneutrons.bsky.social

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Former Navy nuke & Senior Reactor Operator.
Proud father of a trans kid.
Blog at sleepyneutrons.com

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I spent 2016 telling people not to freak out. That even if Trump won, he couldn't fuck things up all that much. Checks & balances, etc. I was very wrong. Freaking out is the correct response to our current situation. Go for it, freak out a bit. Then, decide how to deal with it & move forward.

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An honor I could do without. My poor AC does not approve.

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Heads. It was a bad guillotine joke.

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Need something to catch it after.

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Absolutely not.

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Mike Pingleton's avatar Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social
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Who needs fireworks? Jeweled chameleon (Furcifer lateralis), SE Madagascar, 2023 #herps 🦎

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We need that Monopoly card that says bank error in your favor. Seriously, it's your fuckup, VA. They did nothing wrong. Congress needs to fix this ASAP. They won't, but they should.

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How are they all blind to the way this ends for them? I'm going to buy stock in a company that makes wicker baskets. We definitely don't have enough to fill the coming need.

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I'm re-reading The Way of Kings right now. Good books, but the series is a commitment & still not done being written.

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It's one of those things I know I should watch, just haven't done it yet.

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It's been on my list for a while now. My wife lives finding great shows I haven't seen. I just don't watch much TV or movies.

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I'll make you feel better. I've never seen Dr. Strangelove. I wonder if I can lose my clearance for that?

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IIRC, that's where I first heard the idea of a great filter, which makes a lot of sense to me for a theory with only the lack of evidence for support.

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I have & I enjoyed that one a lot. The whole series is great.

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Have you been helping SCOTUS write opinions? Because that sounds a lot like something Scalia would say.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥's avatar Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby
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@amityf.bsky.social and I run it together and it’s a volunteer project we get around to when we do, so our turnaround isn’t instant. We appreciate your patience! 🤗

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At this point, we may as well go back to the Articles of Confederation. The feds are powerless unless the President forms a criminal conspiracy to force the states to do what he wants.

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The ghouls are wasting no time on this

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Right about now, in 1863, came one of my favorite moments of the Battle of Gettysburg. Division commander Maj Gen Alex Hays, of Pittsburgh, seeing that his division had smashed the rebel attack, kissed his aide-de-camp, grabbed a reb flag, mounted his horse, and rode his line dragging it behind him

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When you've seen the end of the world once ... LeMay wanted to nuke the USSR as soon as WWII was over. It's such a weird historical thing that we didn't. Take any historical leader & tell them that they have that kind of overwhelming advantage, they use it. Especially knowing it's temporary.

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The decision-making for Armageddon is a scary thought for me. At some point, logic goes out the window & it's entirely up to the personalities involved & the interpretation of mass amounts of data of questionable veracity. All in a window of minutes.

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Spoiler! 3 hits from North Korea, misunderstandings during counterstrike, everyone dies.

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I'm sure it would. Just the destruction of the power grid ensures eventual meltdown. All the people dying would also do it. I mostly found the book's emphasis on how terrible the situation at the nuclear plant would be amusing, given the overall context. Bad? Sure. The worst thing happening? Nope.

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My assumption is that anything inside the initial fireball is gone, reinforced concrete or not. A few million degrees or so should do the trick. I do wonder how the containment would handle a nearby explosion, but outside the fireball. Is the overpressure enough to crush it? The winds?

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Listening to Nuclear War:A Scenerio & I'm laughing at the Diablo Canyon bit. I'm pretty sure that if someone nukes a nuclear plant, there won't be anything left. The crater from a 100kt bomb would scoop out the entire facility & atomizer it. More fallout? Sure. Meltdown? Least of your concerns.

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Inside the eye of Beryl when she was a Cat 5. Hurricane Hunters are all crazy, STG.

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Dr Fim (Mealtime Anarchist)'s avatar Dr Fim (Mealtime Anarchist) @fim.bsky.social
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And are the checks and balances in the room with us now?

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ACE is an interesting metric. In a typical year, strong storms don't form until much later, so ACE doesn't build up until then. This year, Beryl is incredibly strong for June/July & is driving that value up early.

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When I think about what was sacrificed on this day in 1863 for this Republic, and what meaning Lincoln gave it... Government of the people By the people And for the people And then I read the news. Sigh.

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Did this person also discuss trickle-down economics? Cause I have bad news there as well.

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These are probably the most impressive ones I've seen. Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 & Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Just absolutely perfect storms.

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Yep. Climate change has saved the current plants & makes the cost of new ones even worth discussing.

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That's honestly surprising. I work with plenty of people that I know have a better grasp of science than the average person, but are positive it's all a hoax or is just natural variation.

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Earliest Cat 5 on record. This is going to be a hell of a season.

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Here's my sad looking dog, waiting on his person to come home. I'm going to bed, and I hope I wake up in a better reality tomorrow. Goodnight, y'all.

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“Nothing we can do except vote and hope for the best” declares man just handed unlimited power.

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Right? I had too much faith in our institutions in 2016. I thought Trump wouldn't be able to break us. I was so wrong. This is bad & I don't have any faith that our systems can withstand a President given carte blanche to do as they will.

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