I break things. Then I put them back together. Then I break them again. Just to show I mean business.

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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Honestly, India.

    It has just an insanity and intensity to it that you won’t find anywhere else. The drawbacks are real, the filth and trash is on another level, the poverty can be emotionally paralyzing to witness, the food just spectacular, but first and foremost the nature and the pure adventure that you can still find in spite of the social mediafication and digitalization of everything.

    I was there 25 years ago so before the forced digital enema that took over the world, and it was a once in a lifetime experience I deeply cherish to this day.

    I went there last year again and while much of the mystery is lost because of the above, India is simply so massive and diverse that it still gives that culture shock arriving from a Western country.












  • Right? Let’s build world class long term storage, it’s like a parking garage, a scam old as time, just rent out space to whoever can’t or don’t wanna deal with their shit and cash that check monthly. And we can enrich and be lords, of course there are some political obstacles to say the least but what are we if we don’t dare to dream

    Maybe I’m thinking about the whole thing in a SimCity 2000 kind of way but that’s just how I was brought up.


  • I am extremely pro. Hear me out. For instance in Scandinavia, we have some of the largest uranium deposits in the world. Yet we import most of our fissile material from Australia. By boat.

    The Scandes (mountain range) happens to be one of the best places to store spent fissile material on the planet.

    We also have a highly educated workforce, and some of the best universities and colleges in the world.

    We also have regional depopulation in the areas where this would be relevant, and suffer from brain drain, because there is more money to be made abroad for the whole range of academic disciplines, so the smartest people, and a fair chunk of the lesser smart people, move abroad. Because lack of opportunities and money.

    Furthermore we are addicted to not only fossil fuels like carbon and gas, we (Europe) import most of our energy from Russia (famously). And we are making a lot of geopolitical concessions for the privilege (Nordstream springs to mind).

    My proposition is that we expand nuclear power in the nordics, massively. We mine our own uranium deposits, store the spent fuel in our own mountains (think Moria, Nords would make for great LOTR dwarves), create a massive surplus of energy, then sell it off to the rest of Europe, creating basically an energy export hegemony. The energy basket of Europe.

    We’d be fucking kings.

    Then we’d create a Nordic Union, and get nukes, but that’s a different story.

    (Just as a fun fact, Sweden had one of the worlds most advanced nuke programs after WW2. They got talked out of it bc USA)