I have nothing to say about Brandon Gill except of course: try to make it look like an accident.

Oh. I wish. That used to be normal for around here, but now I think I’m going to have to move from Switzerland to Sweden.

Yeah, it was useful for about six months or so, but now it’s just stupid.

You know, I can see where you’re coming from there, but people have to resist with the tools they have at hand. I think it’s a lot more powerful sometimes to keep your resistance in the family, both literally and figuratively.

Or Jewish friends who publicly denounce what is now clearly a genocide are to be protected and lauded, of course.

But those who resist quietly among family and friends, also deserve our admiration. Sometimes quiet diplomacy is the most effective thing, and it’s perhaps even more brave when well meaning folk like yourself are creating these litmus tests requiring public resistance.

I think I was still occasionally using Mac OS in early 1999, but I made the leap sometime that year.

Do not use those to charge, ever:

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/why-usb-c-splitters-can-cause-magic-smoke-release/

One exploded. The other disintegrated.

https://www.sevesglassblock.com/

Toss in an exploding space shuttle and the fall of the Berlin wall and you get Gen X.

Trump is 79 as of the time of the bombing.

It’s just a press release from the university.

Is that a dare? Go ahead man, double dog dare us. Then we have to do it.

One could, hypothetically, turn this around and use it to abduct MAGAts, no?

Even more weird possibilities: would the DoE forcibly relocate the physicists and engineers who do this work? Or would California step in and protect them? In any case I think the number of weapons that wind up under the control of the State of California would not be zero. The same goes for bombers, and missile systems, of which California has the most flexible examples.

Sure, the production missile fleet is in Montana and N. Dakota, but those things are there to draw fire, not necessarily to be used. But Vandenberg and Edwards are in California. What happens to those?

Restlessness.

They are controlled normally by the Department of Energy.

But sesession would be a weird event, and many things would change. Physical location is not one of them. And the physical location of the place where the most advanced nuclear weapons are designed and built is in California.

Would the physicists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore just pack up and leave? Or would they continue rolling out B.83s or something in between.

Loose lips sink ships.

Aren’t the names and identities of these officers a matter of public record?

I do not mean power plants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory?wprov=sfla1

Maybe. They’re floundering since Xi put economics on a lower tier than his own power.

The EU could do it, but it will require sharp thinking and sharper action.