If it made them more than $175 million, then they actually came out ahead.

This is why fines should be in the billions.

Someone's bored and trolling.

looks outside at blowing snow and 2 foot drifts

yeah, okay

Yee Haw, Texas

One of the things that really bother me is how people equate Trump of all people, with Jesus Christ.

Christ was pretty much a hippie socialist. And Trump is quite literally the Anti-Christ in the levels of his personal sin, vice and avarice.

But, these people put them together somehow and it makes no sense to me.

Where would that energy and light come from, exactly?

The planet is 80% covered in water.

We have more than enough space on land to build new cities.

There's no reason to build a floating city outside of wanting funding and attention.

I hope he dressed a teenager up as himself to complete the illusion.

No one I know went to see it. I assume it's all a bunch of kids who grew up watching the original over and again.

Would be simpler to just cut back on essays/papers and just test students on the content, in class.

People love RJ's stuff. Except for SW crybabies.

Well, it's been 20 years or something.

"The Sheriff is a-near!"

He's right.

People have been babbling about 'superhero fatigue' since before the first Avengers movie. They still make billions every time a big one comes out.

It's a niche now. Like Westerns. As long as Marvel/Disney keeps making quality movies, people will keep going to see them.

If they make a string of JL/Morbius garbage movies, that might change, though.

Thing is, we want to have the benefits of a government-run and funded nuclear industry, just with less safety regulations and no government oversight.

We are, essentially, a stupid nation.

Well, that's called nationalization. Americans call that communism.

You'll find that SKorean reactors are more safety-oriented than most US reactor models.

The South Korean government is in charge of their reactors.

Ours aren't.

The reason for this is that the military is very experienced with building the smaller reactors. It also doesn't hurt that the reactors are remarkably small since they only need to power a single ship or sub.

There's also the reality that the military doesn't have to worry about expenses. They spend what needs to be spent.

In the civilian world, however, they're trying to build 'small' reactors that really aren't that small, and they keep trying to pitch them as 'cheap' to build. They're not.

Why? Because they need funding. That's it. Nuclear reactors, in the US, need decades of time to be built and decades more time before investors will see a ROI. That's a hard sell for anyone, so they pitch them as being cheaper than a regular plant. They undersell the costs and then start to come clean after a few years.

Could it be done quick and cheap? No. Time, money, quality. You get to choose two out of these three. You want quick with quality? That's going to cost you a ton of money. Quick and cheap? Low quality. Quality, with a cheap cost? That's going to take a fuckton of time.

Oh wow, a nuclear reactor project suddenly sees obscene time/cost overruns?

I. AM. SHOCKED.

Shocked, I say! This hasn't happened since the last time they tried to build a nuclear reactor in the US!

Who could have seen this coming???

Yeah, that was intentional.

It's an infinitely small, infinitely dense sphere of stuff that ignores all rules of physics.

You couldn't see even if you magically were able to enter the event horizon because of how small it is.

It wasn't a big mind-fuck, but Lucky Number Sleven was the most 'fun' mind-fuck movie I've had the pleasure of watching repeatedly.

They would rather ignore the reality than deal with the reality.