@philipcprice.bsky.social
Retired Analytical Chemist. Interests - mass spectrometry, chemical safety, industrial incident investigations, environment, travel, photography, SCUBA.
Decreased renewables, increased coal (expensive), less supply:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Robert Peters, Heritage Foundation, now suggests that preparing the Nevada underground nuclear test site could be too time-consuming.
He is seriously suggesting an above ground atmospheric test of a nuclear weapon only 65 miles away from over 2 million people in Las Vegas.
Let's be totally clear - air strikes against another country are a clear act of war.
We would be "at war" with Venezuela.
Really?
DOD can not test nuclear weapons.
The DOE could, but would need several hundred million dollars of new funding from Congress. They currently have no funding, personnel, or facilities for detonating a nuclear weapon.
Heritage Foundation's Bob Peters seems pretty casual about selecting what part of the USA would host a nuclear detonation. Given the track record of "down-wind leakage" from past tests (both above & below ground)...
a bunch of voters could expect new radionuclides in their yards & food supply
Sad fact: many apartments & condos (even new ones) have insufficient wiring to support swapping gas-for-induction. But, a 15 Amp induction countertop unit does cut down on our gas use.
30.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
...but, is AI actually GENERATING any new $$ or GDP?
www.noahpinion.blog/p/should-we-...
Headlines like this confirm "The Economist" is no longer an authoritative source
30.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Last test was 1992 in Nevada.
BIG QUESTION: What state is going to agree to have their real estate re-contaminated, & their voters exposed to radionuclides?
Cutting edge medicine: developing ways to get RNAi molecules into the brain - potential therapies for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, epilepsy, brain cancer, etc. However, current US government is working to restrict uses of RNAi technology.
www.aerska.com#platform
The very definition of "oligarchy"
29.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THERE. IT. IS
definitive economic truth, from a non-politician
This idea that it is somehow perfectly normal to refuse to live next door to people you don’t have enough in common with is bizarre to me. If you want a relationship with your neighbors, GO BE NICE TO THEM. If you don’t, you are totally free to keep to yourself. This is adulthood.
29.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 200 🔁 18 💬 11 📌 2What happens when MAGA political science guys try to play doctor?
29.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My favorite number- ONE
So let's do some math.
$40 Billion to Argentina
40 Million Americans cut off from SNAP
40,000,000,000 divided by 40,000,000 = 1,000
YUP that is 1 thousand dollars for each of the 40 MILLION Americans facing hunger.
But .. let's make Argentina great again, the new MAGA
Time for the International Red Cross, Red Crescent, & ICC to step in?
How is this a prison in the USA?
Are we now on the level of the Siberian Gulag?
April 26, 1942: The Reichstag holds its last session, unanimously passing a decree making the Führer "Supreme Judge of the German People." Any last privileges of the parliament were removed as Hitler became final decision-maker in all matters, including life and death over every German citizen.
28.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 1528 🔁 689 💬 44 📌 12Economics 101: for my urban trips, mass transit costs LESS than 1 hour of car-parking
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More "we've gotta keep the AI bubble inflating" talk, now from Big Oil.
finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-i...
Missing a key historical fact:
WHITES were the "immigrants";
the First People were the Americans.
Trump: "We're gonna go steam first and then electric. Catapults, which is better, electric or stream? I'm gonna put in an order. Seriously. They're spending billions to build stupid electric. And the problem when it breaks you have to send up to MIT, get the most brilliant people in the world"
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President with a 4th Grade understanding of science, wants US Navy to design ships with "no magnets"?
Https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-gets-confused-explaining-water-to-the-navy/
This week, on 30 October, we mark the International Day of Political Prisoners. In today’s Russia, even according to public and self-admittedly incomplete figures from human rights groups, thousands of people are imprisoned for political reasons, and the machinery of repression keeps turning.
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Laura Loomer - able to have foreign journalists arrested by ICE?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Commander-in-chief...
Sharing information on US submarines?
OPSEC hemorrhage!
NOAA flight 42 flying south of Jamaica through the heart of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa. From a screen cap from flightradar24.com at about 7:40pm EDT on Oct 26th
The people on this airplane have a sense of duty and self-sacrifice that Donald Trump will never understand. They are NOAA employees flying their plane through the middle of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa south of Jamaica. And they aren't getting paid.
I wish them safe flying and a safe return
Critical point: MAGAs have made a choice to use hungry children as a political tool.
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Classic "gotta keep the bubble inflating" talk. For the foreseeable future, the cost to keep a human alive "off-earth" will be astronomical. Doesn't mean we shouldn't explore, but economics will NOT be a driver.
tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...
