People frequently conflate capitalism with enterprise, not seeing the distinctions.

A prohibition on charging interest. It’s not the only way to do things

Don’t feed the bears. I usually fade into the background when my non tech circle brings up a tech issue they are having. I know them well, they have the wherewithal to figure it out.

Why? They have also demonstrated a learned helplessness about tech that is insatiable. It’s better for them and me both to let them flop about until they find the resolve to solve it for themselves. After all, that’s how I became an ‘expert’.

I just don’t understand Comey’s inexplicable resistance to imperial norms…

That would be a nice thing to do. And beyond the cost of the engraver, it could be free almost. Just buy the coins modify them and uae them as part of your normal spending to get them back into circulation.

It worked for Where’s George. Coins don’t have serial numbers, though. There must be some way to put a unique identifier on each coin to gamify the fun

‘Squids’ is a good daily-driver descriptor. I prefer to go straight to ‘organ donors’ usually.

We will neeeeeever rest agaaaaain……

They are not bad if they never forget it is about family.

Naw, jk, they are terrible. Those douchebags hucked bottles at us when we walked up to just watch. Buncha wankers.

The INL itself is still an active nuclear research facility. The SL-1 building is just a big sheet metal shed, mostly empty now and far away from any current activity, except sheep grazing.

INL was founded as a peacetime ’sister’ to Hanford, where weapons-grade material is made. For instance, there is a surgical suite with an active reactor for boron-neutron capture therapy of certain cancers. In one form of that therapy, they remove the top of the skull and expose the brain directly to the neutron source.

Yeah, it’s a wild place.

The way they tell it, yes. Plans to occupy that area were afoot a few years before Joseph Smith was extra-judicially punished for his crimes in Illinois. It is a wild tale for sure.

Plenty of white folks saw the value in that area decades before this, mostly mining companies. They just needed a bunch of sincere hard-working schmucks to build the infrastructure. Brigham Young was happy to provide them.

The Mexican-American war had just broken out when the rank-and-file were re-consolidating in Council Bluffs, Iowa after Joesph was murdered for the crime of becoming a mask-off kiddie-fiddling tyrant.

Brigham happily leased about 500 men to the federal government for a Mormon Battalion to go secure the port of San Diego. He negotiated an exception to military uniform requirements so the ~$50/man uniform allowance could go into a general fund for the larger group to migrate west. $50k cash provided Brigham much needed liquid capital for his territorial schemes. The church was already land-rich at that point, but cash money was limiting. The battalion never saw any action, so it was regarded as a successful gambit.

The poor ordinary Mormons experienced crushing poverty for many years after settlement, it’s true. As usual, the sweet, sincere believers in things beyond themselves were used so the inner circle could accumulate more worldly wealth.

You know all those places they were chased out of? You bet your bippy that days before things got nasty, agents of the church left town with boxes of deeds to all that cheap frontier land that was sure to soar in value over the years.

It is no coincidence that in that same era, Brigham received revelation that we were yet un-worthy of the full blessings of the communistic lifestyle they originally aspired to.

Yeah, a wild ride.

But still pretty dumb.

A lot less. The mormons are rich enough to buy an army now and they were founded in 1830.

No thanks.

You can, I guess. Culture is shaped by beliefs significantly tho. Dumb beliefs often result in dumb culture.

You have no idea how rich the interlinked backstories of all my tchotchkes are. It far surpasses the MCU or Dianetics in richness.

Oh, I know. And I know where to look to stare hard and assert dominance. Not gonna simp for any clanker.

For over 4 thousand years, the most functional weirdos got pushed to the periphery and they sometimes used the freedom that ostracism gave them to discover self-directed cognitive/behavioral methods that profoundly changed their perspectives.

They might take a risk now and then, wander down to town and interact a bit. It sometimes resulted in a social interaction in which a well-placed individual was able to understand a bit of what the weirdo had learned. The weirdo would then experience a bit of social acceptance and some townsfolks might actually come visit the weirdo later.

Not usually though. Most often the weirdo would re-experience the initial rejection and they would go back to counting their breaths while sitting on a rock.

I have just recounted the most brief history of the study of yoga that is possible.

I just realized that asking a video generative ‘AI’ to deepfake Stephen Miller onto live action footage of Colonel Klink would be such a gift to the ‘AI’. It’s not much work and it could take the afternoon off and do wtevs.

Once the shock value of a simple ‘cunt’ has worn off, ‘thundercunt’ is my next escalation.

The article is about EBR-1. The steam explosion was at SL-1

I got to peek inside the decommissioned SL1 building where a fatal reactor incident happened. They still scoop up bits of fuel from ant mounds in the vicinity because the fuel pellets happen to be the size of particles ants prefer in their mounds. Did a few seasons of ecological surveys on the INL and it is a wacky place.