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@KenGardner11 We'll never be able to control the weather unless we first learn how to subsidize luxury car purchases.

@JillianMichaels Joe Kent has positioned himself as a first class grifter. He's basically MTG 2.0 with potential legal headaches.

New Episode in the comments! Joe Kent has positioned himself as a fierce critic of misinformation — but the story gets complicated. His wife works for an independent outlet that spread rumors about Charlie Kirk’s death and has ties to foreign payrolls. Jillian Michaels breaks down the irony, the ties, and the wider implications.

@CREID2852 @neoavatara I don't think so. They're just waiting for missile launchers to pop up, to degrade their capabilities. Soon the air mission will be cover for navy escorts in the Straight of Hormuz.

@MaytownMichael @neoavatara Sooner or later you end up hitting the power grid or water plant. It would have happen if Trump continued the war.

Just remember one key things: Iran is losing in every way possible, except one: TIME. Time is on their side. And they know it.

@CREID2852 @neoavatara I can see that, if Trump made good on his threat to bomb Iran's power grid.

@MaytownMichael @neoavatara Sooner or later: 1) You hit ordinary citizens 2) Make life terrible for citizens 3) Become the Enemy

@CREID2852 @neoavatara We're bombing strategic targets; not ordinary Iranian citizens.

@MaytownMichael @neoavatara Bombing can only kill Iranian leaders and do damage. It was suggested that there was 20-60-20 population divide in which the middle 60% wanted a new government but not a war. So the longer you bomb the more of 60% of population turn Nationalist think US/Israel is the enemy.

@aelfred_D is snubbed yet again. The indignity!

@qdiggs6 More Bobo!

Yeah Jake!!!

@scttfrnks @MsMelChen @KatyaSedgwick 😂

@MaytownMichael @MsMelChen @KatyaSedgwick Cocaine Sharknado! Cross-over event!

The good news is that now they’re not that hungry

@scttfrnks @MsMelChen @KatyaSedgwick What if ... bear with me ... a shiver of cocaine sharks got caught up in a tornado that proceeded to cut a path through a small American city? 🤔

@MsMelChen @KatyaSedgwick We’ve found the sequel to Cocaine Bear

@kaya85kaya @Dr_Keefer Some level of containment is needed. I agree.

@MaytownMichael @Dr_Keefer That might be dumb but not so dumb While I doubt we will ever get an aircraft crash into a reactor Can imagine a lone wolf crazy person send a few armor piercing rounds into one so some level of containment is needed even for non pressured ideas

The SMR craze reflects a fundamental category error & combined cycle gas turbine envy. It tries to map the attributes of a CCGT plant onto nuclear, where the underlying cost structure & physical infrastructure is fundamentally different. A CCGT plant is essentially a jet engine bolted to a heat recovery steam generator and a smaller steam turbine. The critical point is where the complexity sits. The gas turbine, which is the expensive & technically demanding component, is built in a factory, hot functionally tested & shipped to site as a finished machine. Construction on site is largely installation, foundations, piping, electrical connection, using conventional materials & repeatable processes. That architecture shifts risk into manufacturing & compresses timelines. Rather than building the hardest part on site you are simply installing it in 24-36 months. Nuclear does not behave this way. It can incorporate modular components, but the NSSS is only 25-40% of cost. The dominant cost drivers sit elsewhere. Civil works, excavation, basemat, containment, seismic qualification, remain site specific & labour intensive. Nuclear grade quality assurance, documentation, & inspection add another layer of fixed overhead. Safety systems with redundancy and independence are function driven, not size driven, so they do not shrink proportionally with output. The nuclear steam supply system is not analogous to the gas turbine in a CCGT. It is not a fully integrated, factory proven machine that arrives ready to run. The plant comes together on site, under regulatory oversight, with integration, testing & certification happening during construction & commissioning. This is why economies of scale are so strong in nuclear. Many of the costs do not scale linearly with power. When you reduce reactor size, you reduce output & revenue, while a large share of the cost base remains. Studies show that smaller reactors actually increase the relative share of on site construction because the civil works do not shrink in proportion to capacity. The SMR thesis assumes nuclear can transition from a project to a product, capturing the modular, factory built economics of gas plants. The constraint is that the parts of nuclear that dominate cost remain stubbornly project based. None of this explains why the comparison is made in the first place. CCGTs are extraordinarily compelling. They are marvels of thermally efficiency, capital light, fast to deploy & supported by a global supply chain of standardized components. They are the most successful large scale power plants of the past decades. It is natural that nuclear developers would look at that model & attempt to emulate it but in so doing they are committing a grave category error, an error that sets the western nuclear industry up for decade(s) of disappointment. Some SMRs will get built but they will not replicate the CCGT promise. They will be mini versions of large reactors with mini revenues to pay off the significant inherent costs of nuclear.

@kaya85kaya @Dr_Keefer It's an overreaction to 911. A terrorist in control of a jetliner could still target a skyscraper to more effect. Maybe some day we will have air defense systems that we can trust to do what is needed.

@emzanotti Oh to be a noble savage! 🤗

Those poor people love being poor, guys! They’re so *happy.*

@tkped @redsteeze Yes. Because ALL DHS functions must be funded. This should not be remotely controversial.

@redsteeze The democrats have tried again and again to bring forward bills to separately fund the TSA and end this crisis - but the GOP have rejected every attempt. This is all on them (and they're lying again and again about why TSA isn't operating at full capacity).

ICE is already funded. They know this. This is all performative where this guy and his party admitted that their goal is "to hurt people" over it. "Were shutting down DHS and clogging airports" "Why?" "Because ICE is deporting people" This is basically the entire Democratic Party on whole all sitting and blocking a freeway.

@boriquagato What are these alleged policy riders? At the start of this showdown, the Democrats were holding up an appropriations bill, which had gone through committee hearings and passed the House. That's called regular order, and Republicans should be applauded for getting back to it.

@KenGardner11 @neoavatara I had the same thought. There's a plan in play, but Trump is undoubtedly engaging in some improvisation, as he is prone to do.

@neoavatara They don’t care, I agree. But what about the rest of the population? That’s what I can’t predict. We’re trying to create the conditions for a general revolt to happen and succeed. I hate to blurt it out loud, but this might be one of them. Or maybe not. I honestly don’t know.

I don't think Trump realizes how useless this is.

@JHolmsted It's Madness! 😁

@MaytownMichael Thanks! With 3 games in 5 days & cross country travel, I did not expect them to get hot, much less stay hot. That was a hard fought game from both teams!

SWEET SIXTEEN BABY!!!! Texas just keeps fighting! HOOK ‘EM HORNS!!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🏀

She is 4 years old little genius. Wins 1st place at World Competition with Fur Elise by Beethoven.

@Joe_Fann He just needed some time to cool down.

Finally a conclusion. Go Mariners 🙌🏻

@MosabHasanYOSEF Or is it just the go switch for the start of a massive popular uprising?

Trump’s 48-hour grid threat: blackout Iran. Is this smart pressure… or the excuse Iran’s been waiting for to hit oil and energy fields across the entire region?