Trump's PPP loan forgiveness program was the biggest taxpayer boondoggle and handout to scammers in American history and he wants to bitch about the SBA?

Yeah, fair enough. I'm just tired and forgetting there's plenty of blame to go around for just how ineffectual and broken American politics have been and for how long it has been broken.

Oh, and let's not forget the complicit moderate corporate-friendly Democrat lawmakers whose election/re-election campaigns suck from the health insurance industry teat.

It's too bad Germany opted to shut down all of its nuclear power plants... Now it's importing nuclear power from France and oil/gas from Russia, sadly.

You know what's really urgent? The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Waste can be stored above ground in heavy concrete casks until the bunker space is ready, and because of the energy density, the footprint per megawatt-year is tiny. We need every option on the table to replace fossil fuels.

We don't need AI, true; it's being forced upon us to prop up a bubble. Yes, nuclear is expensive, but it has been done well; the success stories are all quiet ones.

If done well, it's the safest and cleanest non-renewable power source we have. There have been fewer fatal nuclear accidents than with coal, gas or oil. The flawed linear no-threshold exposure model (there's evidence for hormesis even) led to tragedies of overreaction in Europe and Japan.

You seem pretty smart too. I get why it's important to build decentralized power sources (I LOVE my home's solar panels); hope you can pardon my zealous enthusiasm for fusion. We need it, even though we then must prevent unbridled capitalism from dehydrating planet earth once climate crisis averted.

But it is, because minerals cost a heck of a lot more to mine and refine than heavy water. There are no geographical constraints, e.g. location of deposits.

Not if you're going to continue to move goalposts.

I can agree it's probably a stretch that this killing was actually part of a conspiracy, even though it is an uncanny tragedy, because of Occam's Razor (gun violence in the USA being what it is) and all that.

And I was disagreeing with your statement doubting that "technology that takes 100 ton coils cooled with liquid helium" poses an existential threat to existing coal, natural gas and hydroelectric power plants, because once it works well enough, it actually will.

😢 The USA is already suffering massive brain drain due to the Trump regime's tyrannical policies towards universities. This on top of it is a tragic loss of scientific talent we can't afford.

Even though solar is vastly cheaper than fossil-fueled power plants, those (and hydro) supply the essential baseload power that stabilize the grid and produce the same output regardless of weather. Fusion is a truly existential threat to them because it runs 24/7 and the fuel is basically free.

If he says his plan is foolproof, he's a Fed 👏👏
If he says his plan is foolproof, he's a Fed 👏👏
If the plan is his design
And he's sharing it online
If he says his plan is foolproof, he's a Fed 👏👏

And, of course, Venezuela has no weapons of mass destruction. Same as it ever was.