Yes, exactly.

What Australia exports is likely Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU), which is less than 20% U²³⁵, and is suitable for nuclear power plants.

Nuclear powered submarines require Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU), which is 20% or more U²³⁵.

Weapons-grade uranium is usually enriched to 90% or higher.

Getting to that 90% level is extremely difficult & time consuming. U²³⁵ and U²³⁸ are chemically identical, so it’s converted to a gas & spun in centrifuges to separate the atoms by weight. Typically hundreds of centrifuges are used in this process. As an example, it took roughly 3 years for the Manhattan Project to refine enough U²³⁵ for the first bomb. That bomb used roughly 60 kilograms of bomb-grade uranium. To get those 60 kg, over 9 metric tons of raw uranium was processed.

It’s this weapons grade uranium that Iran has collected and is protecting.

Hell, it probably won’t last another month.

I see plenty of Amazon vans driving around neighborhoods with the side door wide open…

Has RFKjr told the CDC that they need to promote Ivermectin as a treatment for screwworms?

Well it certainly wasn’t the gas tank if all those burning refineries are any indication.

First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

Time to start with one PR per line of code…

Didn’t he brag about solving something like a dozen wars, and thus deserved the Nobel peace prize? This isn’t even a full fledged war, so why can’t he solve this?

Yeah, but that would require raising taxes, which the billionaires have convinced the masses is a terrible thing because socialism, and look where that’s gotten third world socialist countries.

The only solution, according to the billionaires, and the brainwashed masses, is to give even more money to the billionaires so that they can privatize things even more and throw cutting edge technology at the problem instead of proven solutions like light rail, etc.

Public transit in the US simply isn’t good enough in many cases. Years ago I lived in a suburb north of Boston and worked in another suburb west of Boston. It was about a 40 minute drive during rush hour. Trying to do that same commute by public transit likely would have taken me 4+ hours and involved a bus to a subway into Boston followed by a commuter train and another bus. It would have been a nightmare.

I’m a DevOps engineer and my employer runs a lot of Linux instances in AWS. I’d love for these politicians to explain to me how age verification of Linux web servers should work for auto-scaling environments where instances are spun up and terminated automatically based on traffic volume. I’d also like to know if I should be using the age of our CEO, the age of our company (thanks to Citizens United), or something else.

Haven’t you heard the price of memory is skyrocketing?

Senators that are unable or unwilling to do their jobs should be fired. From a cannon.

What about refrigerators?

Will it block VPNs, proxies, and Bing image search as well?

Hell, my wife’s entirely manual Jeep (manual door locks, manual window cranks, etc.) still has a sensor that warns you if the tailgate is open…

Same plan as Iran:

1. Send the US military to bomb a bunch of stuff.
2. Iran Immediately folds and capitulates to all our demands.

It’s the most bestest plan ever that only the brilliant minds of Trump & Hegseth could have come up with.

Here’s a bit of trivia (I worked for a startup that Ask Jeeves acquired back in 2000 & stayed on for a few more years):

There was a brief period of time where Ask Jeeves seriously considered getting into search for porn. They went so far as to design a French maid caricature named Mimi that was to parallel the Jeeves butler that was their brand back then. They even registered a bunch of domains like askmimi.com before finally deciding they didn’t want to risk damaging the Jeeves brand, and scratched the whole project.

Another bit of trivia: the CEO & executives at Jeeves when they acquired us were short-sighted idiots. One of the products my startup had developed was something we called “text ads” that let people bid on popular search terms for placement of ads along with the search results we served up. It was a fully automated system that required virtually no interaction on our part, and we considered it a license to print money. It brought in a good amount of revenue for us. After Jeeves acquired us they shut our text ads down and sold the service off to another small company. The Jeeves CEO at the time infamously said “we’re in the question answering business, not the advertising business” when this was sold off.

The company that bought it made some improvements to it then re-launched it as Google AdWords, and Google quickly eclipsed Jeeves after that.

I have a “prosumer” internet setup at home for various reasons. It’s UniFi gear, which is highly configurable, and configs are centrally managed. They provide a pretty robust web UI to manage it all, but the configuration all resides in plain text files that you can also hand edit if you want to do anything really advanced.

While troubleshooting an issue recently I came across a post on their support forum from somebody who had used Claude to analyze those config files and make recommendations. Since I have access to Claude through my employer I decided to give that a try. I was pleasantly surprised with the recommendations it made after it spent a few minutes analyzing my configuration.