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IIRC you have to factor in the explosive lenses and various neutron reflectors as well, and to get all the way to the theoretical minimum you basically need literal tons of that other stuff. Backpack/wheeled luggage/shell weight is what’s public, and seems about like about as good as you can get in practice.
There’s exotic choices of fission fuel with a smaller critical mass, but they’re also aggressively radioactive and tend to really really difficult to produce, to the point of impracticality.
Honestly briefcaseness wasn’t the main problem with OP, but it was worth commenting on.
Ah shit, you’re right about Iceland. I thought it was for some reason.
Greenland like usual has no data (because WTF is it really? Independent? A territory?). Denmark definitely is, though, and Greenlanders presently get the full benefits of that.
The Europeans have been training them too, and they’re also competent. If you’re suggesting that’s a replacement for actually spending anything, the “paid in gumption” idea was lame when we were selling it to the US and is definitely lame when we’re selling it to people who might have to rescue us from the US.
The article suggests oil and space for European air training exercises in our hinterland. Critical minerals have been brought up before. I just don’t know if that will be enough, given that they’re still thinking to some degree that they can avoid the whole situation on our continent.
Permean or other oil basins would kill little while destroying US energy sector.
That’s way too big for a single nuke. It’s a geological layer. Even multiples wouldn’t do it. Maybe we could just sink the country while we’re at it. /s
The US is a bank masquerading as a country. Bond vigilantes are real, and crediblity for more debt weak.
Banks don’t have an army or the ability to tax you. Also, the US is still way behind Japan, for example.
Honestly just raw manpower seems like something we could offer them. We can’t send that many experienced soldiers equipped for battle, but I feel like a giant recruitment drive for devoted Ukraine peacekeepers could be sold if it came explicitly in exchange for security guarantees.
Before somebody says it, I’ll absolutely go first, to whatever degree they’ll take me. I really don’t want to be part of America and we don’t have a strong negotiating position, like the article points out.
Edit: Or even simpler, funding for their troops. We still have a healthy debt load and now’s the time to dip into it.
You could put a Davy Crockett in conspicuously beefy wheeled luggage, it’s true. Or a backpack worn by a muscly special forces dude, like in the picture. I feel like people picture a skinny briefcase when you say “suitcase nuke”, though.
Access from nation states cooperating with your nation state “can be made easy”. US has made everyone angry, and won’t know who hit them. A single nuclear detonation in US would collapse its government, currency and economy due to already being up against sustainable debt limit.
Who are we thinking of, North Korea? Russia likes the new guy in America, and China likes stability. India and Pakistan have no dog in this fight, and everyone else was a steadfast ally just months ago.
First off, that’s the sort of thing that will take more than a lunch to arrange. Second, the level or recklessness here is crazy, and killing thousands of civilians with a first strike would make us the bad guy. Third, debt load won’t mean very much if they have the kind of political will that would produce.
I guess I should point out we’d have no trouble making our own nuke if we really needed it, too. There’s hundreds of tons of plutonium mixed in the spent fuel we have in storage right now, and we have lots of people who can design the thing.
They weren’t real and still aren’t. You can make a nuke small enough to fit in, say, a shell (and the US did), but the minimum critical mass is still way too heavy to carry around. That’s just physics. Uranium and plutonium are both significantly denser than lead.
It’s kind of wild you think any nuclear weapon would be “easy to access”.
Yeah, just based on the summery here, I’m not really upset about this. An engagement-maximising brainrot feed was never a great way to understand important issues in the real world.
If you just want to slip into TikTok for a couple hours I see little problem with all-AI content, if you want news go here or directly to a reputable news agency, and if you want to learn something new start with Wikipedia and then branch out once you know what you’re looking for.
China’s strength is in processes involving a balance of mature, last generation technology and cheap manual labour at large scales. That actually does describe EV manufacturing, and the Chinese government has really favoured that sector as well with things like subsidies.
When it comes to cutting edge stuff like automation and robotics, the West is still king, while heavily manual labour has shifted to younger emerging economies like Bangladesh.
Lol, when I see a paper out of a Chinese university I’ve come to instinctively expect poor quality or even obvious fraud. They’re leaders in saying they’re leaders.
Meanwhile, guess who’s actually building the machine tools and factory robots that people are buying? Germany and Japan are prominent. Silicon valley has it’s own niches. Ontario is apparently up-and-coming.
Well, there’s also first job, moving out to a rental and getting into a serious career (the hustling from job to job is a killer for anyone without nepotism on their side). You’re right that there’s cultural changes in the picture too, though.
Because they seem to be earlier to kids than millennials were, based on what I’ve heard,
It looks like average age of a new mother has gone up continuously at least in the US, actually. Teen moms are a big part of it, though, which brings up the the mean vs. median thing again.
Even if the data on housing is correct, are the non-homeowners closer or further from owning? The typical real wage has gone down, and I see little evidence that’s concentrated towards older individuals like it would have to be to not hit gen Z. Anecdotally, in my family the last generation had an easier time. It’s almost painful adjusting their old starting wages for inflation.
It looks like it’s just the Dodge Charger Daytona that’s pure electric at the moment. There’s several plug-in hybrids, though, and I assume a lot of Canadian parts in every “legacy” manufacturer American or Mexican EV. (Also the Arrow concept car, but that doesn’t really count)
Congratulations on being part of the minority who keeps track of things like that. A lot of people just kind of go by their gut on every individual purchase.
As usual in politics and generally anything public facing, it’s not that people are literally incapable of remembering and understanding, as much as just not interested enough to do so.
Carve-outs of the rules have way more practical implications than just making the EU name slightly ironic, though. Asking for both just seems rude to me, but I could be wrong.