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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • I don’t have a WSJ subscription so I couldn’t read the article. One thing I haven’t seen discussed is being house trapped. If you purchased a house before everything got crazy and refinanced with a sub 3 interest rate you are effectively trapped in your house now. You would need to make so much more money to buy your same house now. It would be a stupid financial decision to move for a job. What you end up with a stupid long commutes.





  • I was a nuclear operator in the Navy. Here are the actual reasons:

    1. The designs are classified US military assets
    2. They are not refuleable
    3. They only come in 2 “sizes”: aircraft carrier and submarine
    4. They are not scaleable. You can just make a reactor 2x as big
    5. They require as much down time as up time
    6. They are outdated
    7. The military won’t let you interrupt their supply chain to make civilian reactors
    8. New designs over promise and underdeliver
    9. They are optimized for erratic operations (combat) not steady state (normal power loads)
    10. They are engineered assuming they have infinite sea water available for everything

    There’s more but that’s just off the top of my head



  • It’s always nice to see my shitty little hometown making national headlines for incompetence and bigotry.

    A little background you won’t get from anywhere else about newberg:

    It was a sleepy little town of about 15,000 in the Portland metro area. It had some decent jobs (it’s actually the dental equipment manufacture’s western hub). Over time the cost of living there has exploded. It is within commuting distance of Wilsonville (Oregon’s tech hub) and Hillsboro (Nike/Intel). It is wine country as well. The locals are getting priced out of the area. As expected, when people feel they are getting left behind by society they turn to conservatism. Now you see the results of that. Conservative grifters promised more than they could ever deliver and wasted needed resources fighting losing ideological battles.

    It makes me sad :(