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Everything about boats is 5 to 10 times more expensive than the normal version.

@weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch wait until you hear about the US taxes on solar panels just generally

@WandererUber @weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch I think you mean subsidies

@egirlyuumimain @weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch no I don't. A Chinese panel costs almost 3x in the US than what it costs anywhere else

Solar panels are based because they've created a colossal industrial demand for silver that will make me rich. Therefore I support removing all taxes, tariffs or whatever on chink panels so the people can be enabled to install them on every surface imaginable.

@Hoss @WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary Tbf its probably just the tariffs every green power is the most subsidized industry there is.

The best green power comes from glowing green rocks. Nuclear comeback tour gonna be lit.

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber Those don't count

Brb shoving a reactor in my rv

Uranium Fever!

Bitch go ahead cut my shitbox meth lab off. We will both go out in nuclear hellfire.

@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss That's always been my dream ..

@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss But thanks to Nixon, America's thorium tech still looks like this instead of something ya could throw in a truck..

I have a real conflicted opinion about Nixon because he signed off on a lot of bad policies but was allegedly ultra based in private. Surely this was somehow Kissinger's fault.

The Nixon tapes are a window in to a soul that was too based for his time even.

*Advisors arguing about the war*

Nixon: Why don't we just nuke the gooks?

*uncomfortably long silence*

Kissenger: Mr President...that may be excessive

Nixon suffered from the fact that the American public didn't get the Snyder Cut version of his administration until long after he was out of office.

Nixon: "I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that ready?"

Kissinger: "That, I think, would just be too much."

Nixon: "The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?... I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake!"

@CobaltSasquatch @Hoss @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain Aye, He had a lot of great aspects, but, like all the others, he was swayed by bombs that Mox reactors could make rather than the infinite power, lack of waste, and amazing efficiency of thorium... Plus, Thorium reactors don't give the US an excuse to invade, because they cant be used for enrichment..

Kissinger be like "Mr. President, the military industrial complex demands a long, drawn out conflict that requires many bombs instead of a short exchange that needs only one."

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Kissinger knew if Nixon proved nukes could end a war before they started, Israel's nuclear program would be useless

@HonkHonkBoom @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss thorium reactors fail deadly and that's their major problem (not that that stopped Russia from building RBMKs)

@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss I thought the whole idea of Thorium (salt) reactors was that they cool and stop themselves without continuous power flow somehow? Wasn't there some type of freeze plug or something or other that would drain the molten material if the power went out?

I think Russia had a fuck it approach to building shit tbh.

@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss Thorium reactors are soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
They seemingly do anything and everything, but are somehow unable to be built. See also cold fusion

@egirlyuumimain @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss >soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
don't take this the wrong way but you say this a lot about most things more complex than a shovel...

@Dudebro @WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @sapphire I mean they were communists in Russia of all places
Human lives meant literally nothing

@WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss asking my pet nuke, stand by

@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss That's part of my charm

Imagine mixing European ingenuity, communism, and Asian admixture in just enough volume to care about peons as much as zerg.

Sometimes I'll see a car, or a computer, or hell even a coffee maker, and I'll think to myself "3000 years ago that was in the fucking ground. Some guy woke up one day, looked at a rock and started changing it. We eventually changed rocks so much that we could turn them in to this stuff" and even with the benefit of a White IQ it seems like some low level sorcery

@Dudebro @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire That's how you get a Xel Naga

One of my favorite stories from the Cold War arms race was how America got so shook by the MiG-25 that they designed and built the greatest fighter platform of all time to counter it, and then later found out the scary Soviet wunderwaffe was actually a gigantic piece of shit that could reach its purported top speed precisely once before melting its own engines.

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss it took 4.4 billion with a b years for life to go from rock to pointy rock

It took less than 1/1000 of that to go from pointy rock to iPhone

@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss Really makes you think if it really is a billion years old doesn't it

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain and to be fair the Soviets didn't even hide that fact, we just assumed they made it out of unobtanium and adrenochrome cuz that's how we'd have done it

Nyet, is only have to intercept one time make out of pot metal

@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire Sup

@DEERBLOOD @Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @sapphire saw the reel your gf posted :)

I wonder what went through the head of the first guy that found copper and realized if he put it in a campfire and then let it get cold it would hold the shape. We talk about advancements in technology but copper weapons were the start of empire building. You take that away and we're all sitting in a forest eating squirrel bits

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss to be fair the same way we discover anything
>use weird green rock to make campfire
>check in the morning
>shiny hard orange rock
>try to work it like regular rock
>fails
>really sharp edges though
>find out how to grind off the jags

I'm sure the Soviets were happy to pocket the unexpected propaganda W and run with it as far as they could.

@egirlyuumimain @WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @Hoss Naw, china finally found some sort of fix for the corrosion issues, which if the only real sticking point, or they're just saying fuck it and building them anyhow, but they got it working, their big test reactor has been online for years and they supposedly have commercial models in progress.. and we got a shitton more thorium than plutonium or uranium..

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire I often wonder similiar things about how we developed food or drug use

@egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss everything in prehistory can most succinctly be summed up by "ah shit, that was my last x, I better eat it even though I left it out for y days or I'll fucking starve"

Day 47: Fed Grug the red berries we found. Grug dead. Now will make red berries hot with fire and feed to Grug Jr to see if change outcome

Huh copper is a neat rock to melt, let me melt more and mix them in my spare time because I'm a blacksmith.

@WandererUber @Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @sapphire My gf is prettier than that one

@egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire Observing nature combined with Starvation and desperation.. you test, you taste, you see what sick animals eat, people die from poison and you learn a little more, etc..

@CobaltSasquatch @egirlyuumimain @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire According to some legends which may be true, Joseph of Arimathea was a tin trader, who travelled to Britain on a metals trade in the 1st Century. Though the Iron Age had been well underway for a milennium or so, bronze certainly never lost its basic usefulness - and hasn’t ever not been a pretty hot commodity

@KingOfWhiteAmerica @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Bronze is much easier to work and superior to pre-metallurgy iron in every single way except iron is fucking everywhere

that's why the Bronze Age Collapse happened, Greeks learned how to work iron and instead of the palace controlling who gets a nice sword, every swinging dick barbarian could bang out a shitty cast iron sword in their back yard

@sapphire @KingOfWhiteAmerica @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Yeah, Iron is everywhere, but it doesn't just fall out of rocks with heat like tin and copper.. There's the whole chemical process in smelting that likely took many lives to figure out..