
Augie Fackler
@durin42
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Version control hacker. Musician on the side. Inactive on Mastodon via @[email protected]
Joined August 2007
I’d like to respond to a disturbing contention from Senator Tim Kaine, during a recent confirmation hearing.
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Now we have video showing what two metric tons of West Virginia graphite looks like as it's extruded by our friends at Amsted Graphite Materials. This is the first reactor order of American-made, nuclear-grade graphite in over a decade, and it's coming to @RadiantNuclear!
Feast your eyes on two metric tons of West Virginia graphite that will be slowing down neutrons in our first nuclear reactor by next year! Baked at over 2500C by Amsted Graphite Materials, it’s the first reactor order of American-made, nuclear-grade, graphite in over a decade.
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
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The Framers of the Constitution were clear that only Congress is empowered to commence offensive military hostilities. But there are people on the left and right who reject divided powers and fundamentally hate America. They’re working deliberately and methodically to destroy it.
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This is not Constitutional.
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@NewFounding @thomasbsauer @UsaRidge *cracks knuckles* Okay, here are some guiding principles if the federal government is going to sell land: Sell land in states that have the most federal land (as a percentage of total land mass). This is a real state sovereignty issue and could be politically popular and
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Chicago deep dish pizza is exponentially better than NY style, Detroit style, or any other style of pizza. #NotEvenDebatable
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This is astonishingly illiterate. See, inter alia, Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 and Article II, Section 2. Moreover, as Scalia noted, it’s precisely *because* the federal government has plenary power here that the individual rights reading of the Second Amendment (the Standard
Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
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I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling—I am a Republican & I am embarrassed!
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No member of Congress should be eligible for re-election if our country's budget is not balanced---deficits not allowed!
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Under Obamacare, what we call “health insurance” isn’t really insurance It’s a scam Better said, it’s a cartel formed by a collusive agreement between big government and huge healthcare companies This has worked out great for healthcare giants And for the growth of
"What's the point of health insurance if you have to pay full price until you meet a deductible? My deductible is $6,000. I have to spend $6k in medical expenses before everything is taken care of. And there's no co pays..." https://t.co/jGydh0YAzY
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So apparently the State Department has a Substack and they are absolutely cooking “The global liberal project is not enabling democracy. Rather, it is trampling democracy, and Western heritage along with it, in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people.”
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Hi. Meteorologist here! ⛈️ The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY was fully staffed during the tornado outbreak on Friday. 🌪️ 🔗 https://t.co/bvr2T37trq Tornado warnings were issued. 🚨 I know everyone wants to blame Trump for everything bad that happens, but you
Winning!!! Trump won Kentucky by 633,451 votes in 2024. His thank-you gift to them was immediately disabling their tornado alert systems, leading to 18 deaths in one day alone.
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The choice of Cardinal Prevost of Chicago over Cardinal Pizzaballa indicates the continued supremacy of Chicago deep dish pizza. Follow me for more papacy commentary.
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Chicago guy elected pope. No ketchup on hot dogs now canonical law.
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Maybe Pope Leo XIV will canonize Pope Leo XIII
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