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Children are of marginal value as laborers when heavy lifting is required, but they require less food, are easier to cow into submission, can fit into smaller places and their smaller hands can often be more suited to detailed work. Once the Industrial Revolution got started they were the perfect mill workers.

Of course this meant that child workers were confined and forced to work long hours around industrial equipment, so there were some quality of life issues, which is why people are so touchy about child labor these days, despite it being perfectly normal before the Industrial Revolution.
There's also a severe difference between "helping out ma and pa on the farm" and the "slavery with extra steps" industrial revolution shit.
 
You’re beating a dead horse here. Nuclear is as good as dead and gone in the West, thanks to carbon worshipping environmentalists and a never ending black hole of red tape and regulations.
This is why I mentioned thorium, it's safer so the environmentalist dipshits who don't understand nuclear physics are less likely to sperg out about it (they probably will when they hear about it using plutonium though). It also produces more energy than uranium does by a lot when the process is conducted correctly.
What’s special about it? You can take some plutonium from nukes or from a regular reactor, and use it as fuel, thereby getting rid of all the plutonium waste that’s one of the big problems of nuclear power.
I'm saying this more so for whenever countries that the US (and by extension the west) doesn't trust gain access to materials like plutonium in enough abudance, but you could just keep the IAEA on there asses to make sure they're using the plutonium for energy purposes.
 
And anyone with a car has an easier time getting around than anyone without one in most places. The opposite of what you said is true. Over the last century, the automobile industry has gutted public transit. Major cities are better off than other places, but even there, it's a shadow of what it could be. The use of public transit isn't incentivized, it's ruthlessly stigmatized. The average person would have more power if public transit were more accessible. North America is owned & operated by the petroleum and automobile industries, who knew as early as the 1910s that their project would result in global warming and began aggressively misinforming the public about climate change as early as the 1970s. It will take years of public awareness campaigning to reverse the damage they've done.
I’ve lived in blue cities. I’d use public transport more often if it didn’t smell like shit and I didn’t have to be concerned about my kids getting stabbed by some meth head. I associate urbanists with misplaced funds and generally making my life harder. Or the cyclist that acts like a vehicle or a pedestrian, whatever is more convenient at that time.

A walkable city would be tolerable, and possible, if we could throw all the hobos over the border via trebuchet.
 
I’ve lived in blue cities. I’d use public transport more often if it didn’t smell like shit and I didn’t have to be concerned about my kids getting stabbed by some meth head. I associate urbanists with misplaced funds and generally making my life harder. Or the cyclist that acts like a vehicle or a pedestrian, whatever is more convenient at that time.

A walkable city would be tolerable, and possible, if we could throw all the hobos over the border via trebuchet.
It's rather amazing that some of the biggest public transit "advocates" in the United States are also the same politicians who often do little about the homeless and crime problem associated with them.
 
Mitch is also prone to having entire Windows Reboot sequences happen mid speech and has a track record of fucking over the new GOP's ideological effort. If there was one man I'd NOT trust to do what you'd expect, it's The Geriatric Turtle
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Precisely. A McCain could happen. I don't see why it would. It has enough pork to make the turtle happy.
It's possible that he flips, in the same way it's possible that we get hit by a gamma-ray burst tomorrow, but I don't think it will happen in this circumstance. Three weeks ago, Mitch spoke at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and all he said was that the Senate will probably make changes to the Trump tax cuts and the Medicaid cuts as the House wrote them. He could have said "I don't like the bill, Trump sucks, a bloo bloo bloo bloo," but he didn't.
 
Holy fuck you sound like propaganda. We literally sell the chinks American nuclear plant tech.
And this is of course where you’re wrong.

Very wrong.

First of all, sure. China bought some American reactors. But they also bought Canadian, French and Soviet/Russian reactors, and used the expertise gained building those to create their own Chinese 3rd and 4th generation reactor designs.

The latest Chinese designs are more advanced than Westinghouse’s old designs.

For example they’re constructing a sodium cooled fast reactor that can close the nuclear fuel cycle. Something America doesn’t have, and hasn’t built in decades.

Another example are IV generation small pebble bed reactors for the interior of the country, which again has no American equivalent.

They’re of course also building a thorium based molten salt reactor. Something American nuclear nerds have been fantasizing about since forever.

Don’t get mad at the chinks for their progress they’re making. It’s not their fault America have let its nuclear industry die. But hey, maybe they’ll sell America some of their reactor designs? Those thorium and sodium reactors sound pretty neat!


Trump is unfucking the regulations. You are an idiot.
At least I know a little bit about the topic instead of just spouting off about China buying American reactors decades ago.

(And btw: After Westinghouse went bankrupt, the Chinese decided to scrap the American AP1000 reactor, and build a more advanced Chinese design instead.)

As for Trump unfucking the regulations: Doubt. It’s too little and too late. America is a whole generation behind, and there aren’t nearly enough nuclear engineers.

On top of that the solar/wind mafia is too powerful. Why would anyone invest tens of billions of dollars in a risky nuclear plant, when the government will subsidize your “carbon neutral” crap.

Trump may be in power today, but nobody is betting billions of dollars unless they know that there’s political support for decades.
 
Major cities are better off than other places, but even there, it's a shadow of what it could be. The use of public transit isn't incentivized, it's ruthlessly stigmatized.
In my experience, this is demonstratively false. The city I'm in forces, through regulation and auditing, companies to incentivize it's workforce to use any other mode of transportation other than your automobile, most notably public transportation. Those incentives are usually monetary awards for convenience but can be any number of approved incentives.

As far as "ruthlessly stigmatized", I don't think Public Transportation needs to waste resources from the Petrol/Auto industry to be stigmatized. The homeless drug addict riding the system non stop to get out of the elements and jerking off in the corner does that for free and its incredibly effective.
 
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It's possible that he flips, in the same way it's possible that we get hit by a gamma-ray burst tomorrow, but I don't think it will happen in this circumstance. Three weeks ago, Mitch spoke at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and all he said was that the Senate will probably make changes to the Trump tax cuts and the Medicaid cuts as the House wrote them. He could have said "I don't like the bill, Trump sucks, a bloo bloo bloo bloo," but he didn't.
My point exactly. Frankly I haven't heard him say much about the bill. I've heard him say more on Iran than this. I take it as conformation that he's on board, even if he's a grumpy turtle fuck. That means his buddies like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are too, since they share the same RINO politics practically.
 
And this is of course where you’re wrong.

Very wrong.

First of all, sure. China bought some American reactors. But they also bought Canadian, French and Soviet/Russian reactors, and used the expertise gained building those to create their own Chinese 3rd and 4th generation reactor designs.

The latest Chinese designs are more advanced than Westinghouse’s old designs.
All inferior to US design.
For example they’re constructing a sodium cooled fast reactor that can close the nuclear fuel cycle. Something America doesn’t have, and hasn’t built in decades.
Lol. We don't build those for a reason.
Another example are IV generation small pebble bed reactors for the interior of the country, which again has no American equivalent.
Lmao.
They’re of course also building a thorium based molten salt reactor. Something American nuclear nerds have been fantasizing about since forever.
Thorium is hippie shit. Uranium is cheap as fuck and can be weaponized, which is good as a nuclear armed country. Also Molten salt reactors are for idiots.
Don’t get mad at the chinks for their progress they’re making. It’s not their fault America have let its nuclear industry die. But hey, maybe they’ll sell America some of their reactor designs? Those thorium and sodium reactors sound pretty neat!
they sound like rattletraps thatll go Cherynobel.
At least I know a little bit about the topic instead of just spouting off about China buying American reactors decades ago.

(And btw: After Westinghouse went bankrupt, the Chinese decided to scrap the American AP1000 reactor, and build a more advanced Chinese design instead.)

As for Trump unfucking the regulations: Doubt. It’s too little and too late. America is a whole generation behind, and there aren’t nearly enough nuclear engineers.

On top of that the solar/wind mafia is too powerful. Why would anyone invest tens of billions of dollars in a risky nuclear plant, when the government will subsidize your “carbon neutral” crap.

Trump may be in power today, but nobody is betting billions of dollars unless they know that there’s political support for decades.
You are in fact a Chinese shill at this point. Huff paint.
 
Holy fuck you sound like propaganda. We literally sell the chinks American nuclear plant tech. Trump is unfucking the regulations. You are an idiot.
Can you furnish a comprehensive list of new construction nuclear power projects in progress in the United States (beyond the initial exploration/assessment stage)?

Good! Make them bleed, or make them admit in court that they're "entertainment" and not "news" (like Fox did a couple decades ago). Then blast that to the public as loudly as you can.
 
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