If you stop new projects in an industry, then the industry stops. It’s about choices. Huge chunks of the cost of construction are from regulation. The idea that regulation is cost free, so is always … (View Post)

FDR began the project. And gave it the highest priority. As Richard Rhodes put it, no one decided *not* to drop the bomb. From the beginning of the project it was ms assumed it would used and used tw… (View Post)

And this was his last speech as President https://youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8?si=wCVPvJ1DIO2nGFLQ (View Post)

The game that is being played here is to let Putin fuck up Trump’s plan. Like last time. Zelensky and the other European leaders are “negotiating away”. Looking reasonable and involved. Then Putin st… (View Post)

The problem is people who are not Plato's Guardians. I've encountered medical staff who believed that they could judge the value of continued life - while the person in question was compos … (View Post)