Tungsten is too heavy. Just use a slightly thicker, hardened steel.

If you’re particularly crafty, it could be a fun machining project.

Umbrellas are a valid option at a protest, with a little 3d printing, you could have an attachable basket to attach to the handle.

And then you can shield yourself and others by opening the umbrella as needed.

It will be 6-3 or maybe 5-4. The exact same outcome, but the propaganda machines will spin it as a narrow decision.

Epstein was working for Mossad, and Trump ran the exact same sort of child sex trafficking org, with Russian aid.

So yes, they have a lot of dirt on him, but he’s also a narcissist. A very stupid and evil narcissist.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trumps-teenybopper-model

The thing is, who exactly expects the price to come down?

The only reason why prices are as “low” as they are now is that most countries are actively emptying their strategic reserves.

Pipelines and refineries are being blown up, so the supply of new oil is way down and likely will not recover any time soon, if at all.

From everything I’ve read of the CIA, incompetent is downplaying it.

They’re monsters, that cannot be said enough. But incompetent monsters.

Their modus operandi mostly seems to be using proxies and cutouts. The CIA would never threaten your family. Instead they hand out guns to the people who already hate you and your family, and then sort of just hope for the best.

They also do abductions to black sites, but mostly they seem to be the logistics service of evil giving out money, guns, and drugs to, well, often literal Nazis.

Yes, we already know he’s all over the Epstein files.

2016 had some financial shit between Kraft and Epstein, reportedly arranged by Ehud Barak.

Then in 2019 one of Epstein’s lawyers, Jack Goldberger, joined Kraft’s legal team.

Genetic testing has shown that the Palestinians are, by and large, Canaanites.

They are by default a semitic people.

I will add context to your factual statement with the existence of regulations requiring safety systems to deal with what is called a Double Ended Guillotine break in the primary coolant line. In over 70 years, with reactors in 35 countries, there has never been a Double Ended Guillotine break in the primary coolant line, because it’s physically impossible. Pipes don’t break like that, they just can’t break like that.

The actual (still extremely rare) failure condition is called Leak Before Break.

The safety systems required to prevent the imaginary Double Ended Guillotine break cost millions of dollars per unit and actually make it harder to implement safety systems for Leak Before Break.

I mean, the political sabotage has been out in the open?

https://reason.com/video/2024/03/05/the-political-sabotage-of-nuclear-power/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009279723004544

https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3376034

Also, Onkalo is a perfectly safe waste storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository

But reprocessing it would be orders of magnitude better. Every single element produced in a reactor has a valid use, especially the short lived radioactive ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE

You do know that Uranium oxide is water soluble right?

There are literally billions of tons of the stuff in the ocean already.

https://farmonaut.com/mining/amount-of-uranium-in-seawater-billions-of-tonnes-revealed

And the effects of all of it are easily calculable, because it’s been done.

A major part of it is that nuclear hasn’t been allowed to be cheap.

There’s been active sabotage from the oil industry since the beginning, starting with the Rockefeller Foundation sponsoring fraudulent science via their employee, Herman Mueller. To the CEO of Atlantic oil funding the creation of an explicitly anti-nuclear environmentalist group called Friends Of The Earth in 1970 or so.

Which coincidentally was about the time that the Rockefeller Foundation started funneling money to another explicitly anti-nuclear environmentalist group called Greenpeace.

The political pressure from these groups, plus direct pressure from the oil companies, got extremely restrictive regulations passed, with the goal, and result, of making nuclear more expensive to build and operate.

Look up the double guillotine break, which is a nonsense requirement that nuclear engineers have to design around. Nonsense because the equipment required to prevent this impossible scenario make it harder to deal with the actual likely scenario, which is leak before break.

Yup, that’s why I like to name the people behind the the horrible shit, because a corporation needs to no longer be a shield for bad behavior. The corporation didn’t do shit, the people running it did.

I will completely agree with you, but add the context of Joel Kaplan.

Zuckerberg hired Kaplan in 2009, specifically to foster closer ties to conservatives. He became the head of US policy.

Kaplan was part of the Brooks Brothers riot that stole the 2000 election for Bush, and was rewarded with a Bush White House job for it.

He is good friends with Brett Kavenough and sat directly behind that rapist during confirmation hearings.

Kaplan also used his position at Facebook to exempt conservative propaganda from Facebook’s truthfulness standards. He did this during the height of COVID.

He also made sure the algorithm focused on generating rage, because it focused on spreading “conservative” content. He personally ordered a rollback on the algorithm when staff tried to tone things down a hair.

Kaplan is now head of global policy, and Zuckerberg could not be happier with him.

It won’t be the same grift. It will be slightly different.

Some guns are just built like shit.

Laws have been passed to shield gun manufacturers from liability for faulty products.

Still, this case sounded like premeditated murder more than anything else. And that Texas grand jury, and prosecutor, were fine with it because the daughter hated Trump.

The tankies tend to block lemmy.world.

He was invited.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk-epstein-files-island-visits

I use Atlas.

It’s sitting on my table.

Any chronic health issue in prison is going to be bad. American prisoners are often not given prompt or effective medical care.

It’s not a good situation.