Ah yes, these “experts” who visit China only to come back and report on something obvious that’s been publicly known already are just spreading CCP propaganda! 
The US grid isn’t weak, we could build a bunch of small nuclear reactors if we wanted!
Is that happening?
… You are a CCP spy
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tradition to be outraged that you can’t just be wildly racist
Googles Okla nuclear reactors
Jesus the company was run by Sam Altman until recently.
Also, as far as I can tell, the company hasn’t sold anything.
It really is bizzare to see how detached from reality all this is. They think that simply having an “idea” means that they can practically and profitably create that idea in reality, no actual labour power or skills or industry required. The US seems so far removed from actual reality that they might start getting priests and wizards to cast spells to create things for them soon.
The US seems so far removed from actual reality that they might start getting priests and wizards to cast spells to create things for them soon.
And we’ll call them: “Economists”
And we
'llcall them: “Economists”
They think that simply having an “idea” means that they can practically and profitably create that idea in reality, no actual labour power or skills or industry required.
the natural outcome of silicon valley+robber baron hagiography tbh
Ask the sales rep if it’s a boondoggle or a scam
She laughs
“They’re good reactors sir”
look inside the pressure vessel
It's a scam
Capitalism is now making 3D renders of some rejected 1950s technology, vibe with V.C. shitheads and blame the failure to materialise your unworkable ideas on environmental regulations.
bit idea: try to get VC funding for the retro-encabulator
AI-enhanced encabulation
holy shit this would get so much money
“Then I added some fins to lower wind resistance. And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp.” - Sam Altman, probably
As I said in my other comment, maybe they can get something going with Operation Stargate pumping a ton of money into the nuclear space, but with over a decade of VC funding and nothing to show for it I consider them vaporware.
I love how r/conspiracy is extremely distrustful of the US government… while also automatically believing everything the US government says about China and North Korea
I doubt there’s a single post there with 10+ upvotes that wouldn’t be endorsed by some part of the Usian intelligence services.
That’s in no small part because of the CIA’s involvement in the conspiracy theorist scene
Also, Oklo’s mini reactors are fucking vaporware. Every press release about them talks about them like they really exist, but the company has been around for over ten years and has not put one real kilowatt of power onto the grid despite how “proven” the technology they are allegedly using is.
Maybe that will change with an infusion of cash from Operation Stargate or whatever, but there’s a reason its stock has been tumbling and its not because its investors think the company is going places.
Even if they worked, thinking that portable nuclear reactors could be rolled out to sub for the entire US energy grid is just… Really dumb.
In the interest of strengthening your rhetoric, it should be noted that the point of the comment and indeed strategies like Oklo’s is to NOT put power into the grid but rather take data centers completely off the grid and power them via a disconnected localized microgrid dedicated to the building.
when you refuse to invest in your own infrastructure unless it’s part of a “race”
Investing in the master race
I try to remind myself that there’s a good chance people like this are teenagers.
Only teenagers can believe thousands of FBRs can be safely built because the website said so. The kind of reactors whose coolant explodes on contact with air. American data centers are just going through to burn gas with their own apocalyptic gensets.
Only teenagers
The intellect and maturity of the average teenage white USian isn’t very far below the ones of the average white USian dad
You see them on youtube comment sections of pro-nuclear podcasts trying to talk like intellectual gents from the 1800s. I have been shitty about nuclear here but it’s more of a gag reflex to them and redditors who treat it all like magic.
The bit in the Simpsons where Bart and Hoemr were just about equal is actually true.
time:in 5-10 years, Disney will hold enough power to make insulting their intellectual properties no longer protected speech. saying star wars sucks will put you on a hit list.
the first person killed by the Mickey Mouse Death Squads, Brought To You By Disney Plus and Hulu (MMDSBTYBDPH) will be a redditor who thought they epically owned Mr JingPing online
Reddit will blame China
Imagine calling yourself a conspiracy theorist, and then believing you got banned on an American platform, who’s Director of Policy literally worked at the Atlantic Council (a CIA front), because of their adversary. 🤡
I imagine that 100% of the conspiracy subreddit mods are CIA though, not even as a joke, like, they full on would be making sure that the first result that comes up on google when people search about conspiracies and conspiracy theories is totally under their control.
Everybody mogged conspiracy theorists so hard that anyone who calls themselves that anymore is either mindbogglingly stupid, andor a contrarian.
Reality has a Chinese propaganda bias
fuckin BARS.
Fun fact about the Winnie the Pooh meme! And it’s racist origins! This is the progenitor of the entire meme:
Some very cool people captioned it: Xinnie the Pooh, and (GUESS WHICH LETTER THIS IS)igger, Too!
Insulting Pooh is bad enough on its own. But insulting Tigger… ugh. Maybe I’m biased because he’s my favourite Winnie the Pooh supporting character, but… yeah, screw you if you take such a cheap shot at such a cute kitty. Tigger is a nice guy and just as sweet and hug shaped as Pooh, this isn’t cool.
(Even if those pictures do look very similar, there was definitely a way to joke about that without being racist towards either of those public officials, or rude to Pooh and Tigger. Although, as someone who does not respect the United States as a nation, I do consider comparing Tigger to a US politician to be an insult in itself.)
To clarify: that isn’t official Pooh and Tigger art. Somebody drew that specifically to make the racist joke.
Oh, well, that explains why it didn’t quite look right.
And yep, that’s a hell of a lot worse. If it was just “Oh, those two look a lot like a well known scene of Pooh and Tigger! There’s a good international relations joke in there because Pooh and Tigger have such an interesting yet friendly relationship, with Tigger always pouncing him and yet they’re still close enough for hugs!”, well, that’d be understandable, and a lot of younger adults who aren’t Pooh fans tend to be… less tactful… with such observations than a Pooh fan might be, so I could accept it as someone simply being mildly rude, but to draw Pooh and Tigger simply to use Tigger’s name as racist wordplay?
That guy deserves the fucking wall. Or better, feed him to a tiger. Since letting Tigger bounce him to death isn’t possible and it wouldn’t be fair to inflict the trauma of killing onto Tigger if it was possible.
The U.S. is embracing solar+storage, but both sides are fucking it up by making it political instead of actually being productive.
So, they’re not embracing it then?
Winnie the Pooh is a wholesome adorable character and the next person to slander the good name of Pooh gets a fucking knife in them
Not to mention they’ll complain that you can’t use adult terminology on TikTok and then turn right around and pretend like it’s a grave insult to refer to Xi as Winnie the Pooh
Have some fucking balls if you’re such a brave martyr then
It should be a crime punishable by a thousand honey jars to the head leading to a painful death.
This. The next person to imply Pooh is a communist and mean that negatively, or use him to insult China, gets the fucking wall. After, of course, they are made to climb a bee tree and fill a hunny pot or two for him while dodging the disturbed bees. That nice bear needs a hug, not to be used as an insult.
(I don’t imagine he’d be particularly willing to read theory, or fight in a revolution, but once you explained to him that communists really just want society to progress to its next stage of being and for people to have greater equality and more collective decision making, I do think he’d be supportive of the cause and happy to provide hugs, manage the honey supply, and generally raise morale. But calling him a communist as an insult isn’t cool, even if I do think he’d side with whoever promises him enough hunny for everyone and equality for society as a whole, and communists are more likely than any other ideological alignment to promise that and achieve it.)
Its always nice to find someone as passionate about pooh bear as I am. Love that little rascal.
Yep. Himbs the best bear. Love Pooh. He’s just such a nice cuddly bear. The archetypal living teddy bear character. He’ll split his last pot of hunny with you if you’re hungry, and give you a hug if you’re sad or hurt. He’d probably give you a warm fluffy hug and his shirt if you were cold.
He’d probably lose attention half a sentence in at a leftist book club, and refuse to carry a weapon and actively fight a bourgeois state… but he damn well understands sharing, and would agree that people should be better at doing it. He probably isn’t interested in politics, but he’s also probably the same kind of socialist I was at age five - wants people to share and everyone to have their needs met, and if that makes one a communist, well, he does wear red already.
But I don’t just like him because he’d probably agree with me politically, and would have even more so when I was a little kid. I like him because he’s hug shaped. Because he’s the cutest little bear ever. Because he’s a good friend. Because the only thing he ever gets truly upset about is his friends getting hurt or being completely out of hunny. Because he’s so nice. Because he’s so careful to not let little Piglet get hurt. Because he tries to be understanding of his friends, even if understanding things isn’t his strong suit. Because his response to every scary situation is to stand up for his friends. Because he’s always up for a hug. Or teatime. Or a picnic and Pooh Sticks.
Because he’s the Archetypal Teddy Bear. And that, is why I want a Pooh hug. Because sweet cuddly bears give the best hugs.
You are my new favorite person in the world. Im 35 and still laugh like a child when Pooh gets stuck in Rabbits door.
Aww, thanks.
Yep! That is indeed very funny. You’d think after the first couple times that happened, Rabbit would have installed a larger “Pooh size” door, or stopped feeding Pooh when he visits… but then, Pooh gets stuck a lot. He gets his head stuck in hunny pots, he gets stuck in bee trees… it’s funny when he gets stuck, even funnier when he’s pulled out of somewhere he’s stuck and goes flying.
Pooh’s basically always doing something utterly hilarious, when he’s not being cute and huggable. I love that silly old bear.
I have a stuffed pooh that wears a Luffy hat (when im not) and ill never let him go.
That’s adorable. I have quite a few plush Pooh Bears myself, Pooh Bears give the best snuggles.
I do have a stuffed panda bear that wears my favourite hat when I’m not wearing it, funnily enough he has a red jacket and he’s roughly the same shape as a standard plush Pooh Bear. He’s a lot more political than you’d expect from a teddy bear, and extremely sectarian, he loves asking people “so, are you a Maoist or are you wrong?” and he’s tried sharpening his claws on my Soviet flag a few times because he’s still mad about the Sino-Soviet Split, but… Well, can’t expect much else from a panda bear. At least when he’s being sectarian, he’s too busy with that to try to steal and chew up my bamboo cutting board.
Here’s a pic of him in said hat…
Every conspiracy thread ever:
“Third grade and Fox News was right! ‘Murica good and the corporate elite is your friend! Because I said so!”
all you have to say is winnie the pooh and you know you’ll get some reddit gold from some kind stranger!
I TIP MY HAT TO YOU SIR!
YOU ARE A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR!
Edit; thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Edit 2; wow! This is my most updooted comment!
Edit 3; ah , I sse the bots are out in full force. Bring on the downvotes!
The next person to slander Winnie the Pooh gets a broken hunny pot to the head.
That bear is a wholesome pile of hugs that does not deserve to have his good name ruined by racist nonsense left over from the bloody Cold War.
I may not want to hug any modern socialist leaders as much as I want to hug Stalin, but I’ll take a Pooh hug from the actual bear, he definitely needs a good snuggle for putting up with all this nonsense.
(And, y’know, our site mascot here is a bear, so we gotta stand up for our fellow bears, right?)
