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I like to think being a homogenizing swarm is default behavior and the Borg just got really good at it. They're still not as good as The Culture, of course, who make your biological and technological distinctiveness not matter. Or to put it better:

“Even the most urbanely sophisticated, scrupulously empathic and excruciatingly polite civilisation, it had been suggested, was just a hegswarm with a sense of proportion.”

Brother, this is a nation built on shipping slaves from African wars and toppling governments for Banana plantations. It is far from unprecedented for private citizens to do this shit. It's frankly expected.

India currently has a plutonium stockpile that would allow them to assemble around 1k plutonium pits for bombs on top of the current hundred or so bombs they have. They're quite flush with the stuff. Pakistan mostly uses high enriched uranium for bombs.

I have the right to get a manufacturer that is not liable

Absolutely not. Gun ownership is not a positive right. The state is not required to subsidize ownership of guns to allow it. You could argue that the state can't make it prohibitive punitively, but you can't argue that the costs of externalities are punitive.

Fast breeder reactors with on site fuel reprocessing are still not economical. Thorium is more than a generation away.

It's the US v Abbott after all. Gov. Faubus was justifiably afraid that Pres. Eisenhower was going to have him locked up after not complying with a court order to desegregate the schools and caved before the 101st airborne arrived.

India likes CANDU based reactors like this because they don't want to enrich uranium. They focus on plutonium production for their bombs and want to eventually create plutonium breeder reactors for a thorium fuel cycle.

Edit: the fact that they natively breed tritium without a dedicated lithium channel is good for fusion or variable yield bomb initiators too.

Oh Patricia, you're just so random. I'm sure you were hilarious in middle school.

Mask off, Huckabee.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67630985/united-states-v-abbott/

Judge pretty much says Abbott isn't offering a defense that is valid (which frankly will allow for a summary judgement) so that's why they put out such a harsh order. Abbott has already appealed.