Some Random Susan

yeah he was locally famous for throwing an enormous snit about a proposed wind farm off Nantucket sound that would have impacted the view from his house.

Will never forget hearing David McCullough speak weeks after 9/11 when he said “actually this is not the worst thing that’s ever happened” and hoo boy, the gasp that went up from the crowd…

Tweet on X by Nick Touran commenting on Isaiah Taylor’s flawed analysis Nick Touran @whatisnuclear Nuclear engineer here. This statement cannot possibly be true. Any nuclear reactor of the power you're referring to makes spent fuel would give a person a fatal dose within a few seconds if they were to hold a handful of spent fuel. Can you share details of this analysis? [excerpt of Isaiah Taylor’s incorrect claims on Reddit]: principles of strong negative thermal reactivity feedback and low power density, leading to completely passive decay heat removal from the core. Our analysis indicates that holding the spent fuel from this system for five minutes gives the equivalent radiation exposure to receiving a CAT scan. 12:28 PM • Apr 8, 2025 . 108.3K Views

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I have this horrible feeling Trump’s plan for Iran involves selling them mini-reactors made by a self-taught high school dropout who once famously miscalculated the lethality of spent nuclear fuel on Reddit.

NARRATOR: Historians will not, in fact, struggle to explain what happened.

This is the equivalent of one’s older sibling smacking you with your own hand while saying “WHY DO YOU KEEP HITTING YOURSELF?”

Iranian vessel on fire after U.S./Israeli strikes near the port of Bandar Abbas in southeastern Iran.

One thing I have learned from years of talking with and reporting on truckers is that times like these always wipe out small shipping companies and owner operators. It’s brutal and it sucks, for them and for everyone who depends on them (ie all of us)

“when your enemy is making mistakes”

Well.

Trump phones! Trump Drones!

oil prices billowing like that smoke cloud

Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf were struck

trying and failing to stop the forced exorcism of a mentally ill person

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

At least some Americans are benefiting from Trump’s Iran War.

You know I didn’t think it was possible for me to loathe any senator more than Mitch McConnell but Lindsey Graham is making a run for it

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Abject insanity

Oh south korea hit a circuit breaker on the market

murder by line drawing

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I don’t think Bibi’s reading your tweets Linds

At this rate, crude oil will hit 250 before America does.

NIKKEI go burrrrr

Asian markets can’t hurt you if you don’t look at them. Just pretend they’re not real.

Man, Town Meeting’s gonna be lit this year.

Just a hop, skip, and a jump to $150 from here

Ooooohhhhh wow.