(May 22, 2025 at 12:08 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 22, 2025 at 10:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:

Only off by 1800 miles. SO close…

Boru

He could fix that with a Sharpie.

The awkward moment where Trump accidentally does something good.





Granted, he's probably going to find some way to fuck it up (I hope to Hell he doesn't cut corners for safety), but given that nuclear power is probably the most sustainable form of alternative energy that actually has a chance of replacing fossil fuels, this is a good thing.

The entire point of the bill is to cut corners. The notion being that if only the regulations were eased there would be more nuclear power. There will not be, there will simply be more looser regulations.

The donald is king nimby. A nuclear power bill has about as much to do with nuclear power as a religious freedom bill does about religious freedom.

(May 23, 2025 at 9:29 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The awkward moment where Trump accidentally does something good.





Granted, he's probably going to find some way to fuck it up (I hope to Hell he doesn't cut corners for safety), but given that nuclear power is probably the most sustainable form of alternative energy that actually has a chance of replacing fossil fuels, this is a good thing.

Building single 1 GW reactor involves capital costs of as much as $10 billion. Given a mean construction time of about 7 years, financing will just about double the cost. Once you build 15 or 20 such reactors, the unit cost drops significantly (which is how South Korea manages to build them for about $2.5 billion).

If the US wants nuclear power to address rising electricity demands, they should have started building these things 50 years ago.

Boru

Addendum: Please don’t take any of the above as me being against nuclear power.

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex

This $1.5 billion golf complex outside the capital, Hanoi, as well as plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale. And as that blitz makes the Trumps richer, it is distorting how countries interact with the United States.

To fast-track the Trump development, Vietnam has ignored its own laws, legal experts said, granting concessions more generous than what even the most connected locals receive. Vietnamese officials, in a letter obtained by The New York Times, explicitly stated that the project required special support from the top ranks of the Vietnamese government because it was “receiving special attention from the Trump administration and President Donald Trump personally.”

They face intense pressure to strike a trade deal that would head off President Trump’s threat of steep tariffs, which would hit about 30 percent of Vietnam’s exports.

The White House said, in an emailed statement, “All of the president’s trade discussions are totally unrelated to the Trump Organization.” It argued that there are no ethical issues as the president’s family develops about 20 Trump-branded properties worldwide, because the president’s sons run the businesses. President Trump’s financial disclosure report, however, shows that he still personally benefits financially from most of these ventures.

At town-hall meetings in early April, officials told hundreds of residents that the best they could expect was about half of what their land would have sold for even before the golf project was announced in October.

Amid a chorus of outrage at one meeting, nearly everyone stormed out. Word of the offered rate spread through streets and into the fields. Opposition has hardened as farmers fear losing investments in saplings that take years to mature, and the security that the land has provided for generations.

“They’re not listening to us,” Le Thi Thanh, 57, said on a recent fever-hot afternoon, squatting to graft young custard apple trees. “They just come here and impose their will.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world...oject.html

Laws and rules just don't apply to his Trumpiness

(May 25, 2025 at 2:49 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Laws and rules just don't apply to his Trumpiness

Boru

Trump, while praising a new steel partnership, referred to Nippon Steel as 'Nissan Steel'. In February of this year, he made that same gaffe three times in 40 seconds.

Why aren't Republicans questioning Trump's mental acuity?

Boru

Quote:"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE, THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY,

"HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

No wonder Trump is an authoritarian, if he really thinks like this.