• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

    It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

    …And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.


    But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

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      Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.

      #smallcarrotproblems

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    11 hours ago

    Testing for what exactly? Do we not know enough about them already?

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    11 hours ago

    The real crazy people who would cause a nuclear wae are israel and the usa leaders not Iran

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    20 hours ago

    He’s been itching to nuke something since his first term. Hurricanes, he suggested at one point. And Americans voted him into office twice. Fucking morons.

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    16 hours ago

    One can never be sure what President Brain Worms is talking about but I’m pretty sure Obama started a ten year plan to modernize our nuclear forces early in his presidency.

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    20 hours ago

    Can someone just tell him no one else has nuclear fusion power stations yet but (china|EU|Russia) are close and how much money it would make.

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      14 hours ago

      It would make money at a country level, but does it fill his personal wallets like the oil industry?

      So it’s worthless for him

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      16 hours ago

      It only matters if it makes money for him. Someone wealthy and interested in cracking nuclear fusion would need to be giving him a payout.

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    22 hours ago

    And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.

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      17 hours ago

      I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.