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CherenkovBlue
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I thought DDG was some kind of front end for Google search. How wrong am I, and if I'm right, does this mean it's the Google search in, e.g., Chrome browser that's doing this? Otherwise how would DDG be avoiding it?
I commune with the universe by contemplating it and my place within it. The immensity and my insignificance, yet the fact that I recognize my own existence, brings peace.
I know. I'm not saying the Dems needed to save him, just that I thought they might given the pressure of the CR. However, I think it's a good move on their part to let the chips fall where they might right now.
I think my feelings about this can be summed up as "holy fuck". I thought the Dems might try to save him to avoid another budget shit show, but after he lied about them on Sunday and didn't make any overtures to them, they gave him the middle finger as a bloc, and he deserves it.
Right now the Crazy Caucus is effectively acting as a third party spoiler, except they are actually in office, in a position of power.
Will a coalition form, as Hakeem Jeffries put on the table? This could effectively neuter the Crazy Caucus. Will R's actually oust Gaetz and possibly others out of the House? Something else?
Without McCarthy running again or naming a successor, this is a real push-comes-to-shove moment for the R party.
I think they decided that he is such an incredible piece of shit who stabs them in the back and reneges on every deal (see: his attempt on Sunday to blame the budget fiasco on them, his renging on the debt ceiling deal, his stance on J6...) that he wasn't worth saving. Either some R's join with D's to make a coalition (as just called for by H. Jeffries) or the R's have to get their shit together, painfully, for the budget. The last CR clearly showed the issue with the current R party composition. There is a wing that essentially acts as a third party spoiler. The CR was very much a win for the Dems (except for Ukraine funding, although I am of the personal opinion that a clean CR is the correct way to do a CR, fund other stuff separately).
He also blamed them for the budget fiasco on Sunday, saying they didn't want to pass a budget. The Dems were rightfully outraged. They hate him...why would they want to save him?
Because 1) Thorium hasn't been demonstrated in any effective way, 2) the vast majority of advanced reactor designs rely on U-235 for their neutronics, 3) thorium produces U-233 which is always contaminated with U-232 and is hot as hell and hard to work with, 4) we haven't licensed a thorium cycle design and that's wildly expensive, and makes no economic sense when we can separate U economically... Should I go on? Thorium is really only of interest for countries without U deposits and/or access to U.