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hey those almost killed nicholas cage
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Jul 24, 2023 18:24
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an elegant soap on a rope configuration
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Jul 24, 2023 18:35
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the german reactor design was so dumb lol Are you dissing the Power Rangers?
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Jul 24, 2023 18:42
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"just hang some cubes on a string, the fuhrer won't know the difference"
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Jul 24, 2023 19:01
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The most important knowledge the Soviets needed for their atom bomb project was details on how to set up the industrial program needed to purify large amounts of plutonium. Luckily, that was all published by the US in the Smyth Report.i say swears online posted:what's still classified anyway? what about making an atomic bomb today isn't on wikipedia? I remember reading Clancy's sum of all fears as a kid and there's a disclaimer at the end that he purposely got some details wrong to discourage terrorists You can make a much more efficient atom bomb by injecting tritium into the plutonium core at the right moment. The details of that process are still classified. A terrorist could easily make a Hiroshima bomb with a $1000 gift certificate for Home Depot and 200 pounds of uranium-235 ingots, but the uranium is the hard part. Plutonium bombs are much cheaper than uranium bombs.
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Jul 24, 2023 19:22
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Chamale posted:
A bit of an oversimplification. The precision required to collide two halves of a core together in a properly aligned way requires at least a somewhat precise engineering job. And trial and error is no replacement. The way I've heard it put is "a lone nut putting together an atom bomb is a myth, but a typical college faculty would have no trouble"
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Jul 24, 2023 19:32
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incensed engineer: EXCUSE ME but i had to go to school for a long time to efficiently kill millions of people. you cant just get some rear end in a top hat off the street for this!!
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Jul 24, 2023 19:42
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remembering that the chinese nuclear program (and its space program too) got a head start since the US deported Qian Xuesen because they were too racist
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Jul 24, 2023 19:42
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yellowcar posted:remembering that the chinese nuclear program (and its space program too) got a head start since the US deported Qian Xuesen because they were too racist they deported him for being a communist
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Jul 24, 2023 19:46
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wait, if memory serves they didnt even deport him. he tried to leave and they detained him for years
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Jul 24, 2023 19:47
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:Western media reporting China has officially made “gay” illegal or whatever so what's going on here? are they closing cia outlets or what
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Jul 24, 2023 19:53
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gay chinese....
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Jul 24, 2023 19:56
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eventually he was put under house arrest and then deported he applied for naturalization at first but that didn't go anywhere then the feds started to accuse him of being a communist. he only wanted to leave because he wanted no part in helping the US build nukes if they were gonna be used on china
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Jul 24, 2023 20:00
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I would make the same principled stand
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Jul 24, 2023 20:03
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also wasn't a big part of the insight provided by german scientists more about rocketry and missile delivery systems than actual nuclear bomb engineering? Maybe it happened in different phases like the first wave of scientists from germany had one focus and the ones scopped up after the war had another focus or something, I might have mixed them up
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Jul 24, 2023 20:05
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Didn't China legalize being gay like almost a decade before the US did?
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Jul 24, 2023 20:12
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Eminent DNS posted:also wasn't a big part of the insight provided by german scientists more about rocketry and missile delivery systems than actual nuclear bomb engineering? Two German-Jewish physicists, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, were the ones who proved in 1940 that a nuclear bomb could be made by purifying uranium-235, making it much more feasible than previously thought. Because they were German, they weren't allowed to work on radar, so they worked on the atom bomb project which had been a lower priority until that discovery.
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Jul 24, 2023 20:13
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ikanreed posted:A bit of an oversimplification. The precision required to collide two halves of a core together in a properly aligned way requires at least a somewhat precise engineering job. And trial and error is no replacement.
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Jul 24, 2023 20:46
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Tom Clancy has about as much bearing on reality as star wars.
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Jul 24, 2023 21:23
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croup coughfield posted:gay chinese.... (rhymes with "gay talese")
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Jul 24, 2023 21:59
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never gonna bend and im never gonna break everybody fronts everybody fakes never gonna stop and im never gonna stay here with the gay chinese
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Jul 24, 2023 22:02
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Chamale posted:Two German-Jewish physicists, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, were the ones who proved in 1940 that a nuclear bomb could be made by purifying uranium-235, making it much more feasible than previously thought. Because they were German, they weren't allowed to work on radar, so they worked on the atom bomb project which had been a lower priority until that discovery. i hope they were allowed to work on radar one day...
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Jul 24, 2023 22:30
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croup coughfield posted:wait, if memory serves they didnt even deport him. he tried to leave and they detained him for years I double checked on it. China had to trade him with more than 10 captured US pilots from the Korean war. This was worse than Oppenheimer's brother, who admitted he was a communist party member, lost his university job and became a cattle rancher. Neither the US nor Nazi Germany trusted immigrants and left leaning scientists, but the US was cunning enough to use the scientist to get the bomb before they spit them out
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Jul 24, 2023 22:41
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croup coughfield posted:gay chinese.... mr mullen hello
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Jul 24, 2023 23:50
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Megamissen posted:mr mullen hello Excuse me, that's Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China Nick Mullen
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Jul 25, 2023 00:04
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knowing that the term for gay and comrade are the same really puts the revolution in a new light edgar snow: so all these men here are comrades? mao: hehehe you could say that
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Jul 25, 2023 00:09
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Truga posted:so what's going on here? are they closing cia outlets or what The only mention I've seen about something like this was from this account which I wouldn't take at face value https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1683378516031868929?s=20 Regardless, I thought China was already pretty "Don't Say Gay" when it came to media stuff They also posted this tweet which I hadn't seen yet but I'm almost 100% sure gay couples haven't been able to adopt children in China ever??? https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1683326808232697856?s=20
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Jul 25, 2023 00:22
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I was listening to a Taiwanese analyst and this is supposed to be a big deal. https://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV/status/1682329881663635456?t=p9biyk4tjP7YmLe8NC8y6w&s=19 Maybe this is the reason Brics countries didn't want Macron to be there.
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Jul 25, 2023 00:36
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stephenthinkpad posted:I was listening to a Taiwanese analyst and this is supposed to be a big deal. oh my god are we really doing the exact same mistake of bretton woods again
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Jul 25, 2023 00:41
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Raskolnikov38 posted:oh my god are we really doing the exact same mistake of bretton woods again First as tragedy, second as farce
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Jul 25, 2023 01:11
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Raskolnikov38 posted:oh my god are we really doing the exact same mistake of bretton woods again difference is the cpc is all about capital controls and regional currencies for clearing so this seems more like bancor that never was
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Jul 25, 2023 01:11
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I think using gold instead of oil or whatever China has to back the new currency will get India on board. India has a lot of gold stacked in the Hindu temples.
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Jul 25, 2023 01:15
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It is hard to see how Bretton woods was at all bad for the US either and Bancor was never implemented.
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Jul 25, 2023 01:45
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Ardennes posted:It is hard to see how Bretton woods was at all bad for the US either and Bancor was never implemented. bretton woods and the post period were good for the US but the fundamental instability in the whole system was that the US had to print more dollars than it could ever possibly cover with gold bancor gets poorly covered outside of specialist texts but it was really never more than a currency of account in Keynes' plan which was a complicated mess where national accounts could use it for clearing purposes instead of having to use national currencies (which was to be to the dollar strapped UK's benefit because now they could settle trades in bancor rather than having to somehow procure dollars)
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Jul 25, 2023 02:01
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listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TINI6XrrBXk the two hosts go over the history of the dollar dominance and how it came to be post-WW2 and then its failings and now current decline. they made a passing mention that if should there be any shared trading currency between brics nations, it might be something like a commodity backed currency however that's gonna work
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Jul 25, 2023 02:04
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https://twitter.com/TripInChina/status/1683043020688576512 what a wild way to cut trees ngl
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Jul 25, 2023 02:07
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It seems like a real problem with overshooting or accidentally blinding someone though hitting a reflective surface.Raskolnikov38 posted:bretton woods and the post period were good for the US but the fundamental instability in the whole system was that the US had to print more dollars than it could ever possibly cover with gold A fiat dollar wasn’t exactly a disaster either for the US, I would say the end of history was a bigger deal. As for a Bancor, it could work, it just you need strict limits on BRICOR supply and surplus/deficits between states. It is simply that the US was so strong after the war they could just force everyone to use USDs, and China really doesn’t seem interested in forcing the RMB for a pretty wide variety of reasons.
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Jul 25, 2023 02:22
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Raskolnikov38 posted:bretton woods and the post period were good for the US but the fundamental instability in the whole system was that the US had to print more dollars than it could ever possibly cover with gold our accounts were balanced except for the expenditure on Vietnam
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Jul 25, 2023 02:24
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Raskolnikov38 posted:bretton woods and the post period were good for the US but the fundamental instability in the whole system was that the US had to print more dollars than it could ever possibly cover with gold how is it bad for the US that they got like 50 years of free poo poo
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Jul 25, 2023 02:41
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crepeface posted:how is it bad for the US that they got like 50 years of free poo poo Printing greenbacks? Of course it is good for the US. That's why the rest of the world wants a different trade currency.
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Jul 25, 2023 02:44
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