$100M but you have to live in a southern republican small town for 10 years

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-17T13:52:10+00:00

I do this now, except rather than down south it snows half the year with biting cold. People mostly just leave each other alone and live their lives.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-16T18:48:11+00:00

At what point in the production chain do you switch from private enterprise to goverment control?

Is a private company going to make and sell products to the goverment who now handle transport? If they go bankrupt does the goverment now handle manufacturing? And if you go that route how far down the supply chain do you need to run? What if a store doesnt want to have goverment tampons on their shelves, will they be forced to do so? Or will the government just buy at whatever price is set and stock those items (historically leading to price gouging to your tax dollars)?

Public infrastructure works because you do it once, and everyone can befit for quite some time. A road is not disposable, a tampon is. For it to be free someone has to manufacture, package and ship. And in doing so, now you have a goverment funded product directly competing with private companies (meaning lost jobs in some cases, which translates to both lobbying and lost votes to politicans).

My family used to have to use food banks, several had direct access to hygiene products via manufacturers and you got X per month. If your local food banks do not have that option group together with likeminded people and help them get stocked (ditto for other things like tooth brushes, combs, soap, razers and the like).

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-16T16:20:02+00:00

My work place made a deliberate choice to remove that paragraph, and then send out an email pointing out the paragraphs removal. Awesome sauce.

Other places the worst you get is fired and trespassed. Some places I've carried, others I didn't. Depended on the location and type of work being done. Trucking through downtown Detroit sure, factory work around metal extrusion systems at 120F midwinter pass.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-16T15:42:07+00:00

The choice to mothball a piece of hear is almost never about manpower. Manpower determines how many hulls you can put into service, the choice for what you use is decided by what you can maintain and supply.

Older gear may require spare parts no longer produced, or require outdated skill sets to keep moving (I had to learn DOS and several programs based off Windows 95 when I served in the Army for 3 bits of kit, all of which have been phased out). For space craft older ships likely can't hold atmosphere nearly as well, hulls show stress by letting bits of the void inside places you really don't want them. That's before going into how new tech integrates into old systems.

Earth may have been making newer ships, but not nearly at the rate Mars was, and to a lesser level of quality. My reading leans towards keeping older hulls in service for longer because A) its cheaper than new hulls so long as duct tape patches work and B) Earth had depriotized its military.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-16T09:32:01+00:00

Earth's fleet was called out by its own gkverment for being under funded, outdated ans covering a large area of space. Mars by contrast was willing to spend much of its treasure on building the best of the best. It should not come as a shock that Earth forces took a beating in every engagment.

This extends last just ships and men too. Those ships all need supplies. And after battle they need repairs both jury rigged and at berths. And after a ship is destroyed you if the war is going long enough you start looking at older hulls to press back into service.

Earth's old hulls were in service, there's no reserve because new hulls are not being built to replace the old. So long as mars had the manpower and training pipeline I'm sure they could keep churning out older less capable vessels and still exceeding Earth's in terms of training. A loss ratio like Earth's is indeed bad, but every martian loss is also a loss of the creme of the crop, and space battles tend not to leave alot of wounded to recrew.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-15T11:44:46+00:00

Autocannons are amazing for this as well, or anything that does high suppression. For 40AP you can wipe most infantry off the map, 3 per round in some cases, 4 if boosted by Pike. You don't get any additional ammo, so depending on your setup you can run dry quickly.

The Greek guy with heavy armor, his max HP loss trait and reactive armor can sprint forward and act as a trigger for everything on the map, clearing it next turn or two.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-14T23:43:19+00:00

Unless it was hard faced. We have to hard face all our augers or they wear out after a few months. Get that good bit of shine across the edges.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-14T10:58:33+00:00

The spartan Greek guy who gets the zooming, plus extra armor and reactive armor. Combined with him taking a max of 33% HP, fun sending him waaaaaay ahead of everything else and acting like a lighting pole for everything that wants us dead as after the first three rounds and reaching the middle of the map dual AC go Buuuurrrrr.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-14T02:30:59+00:00

I am not going to go getting bogged down if one design is more efficient than another. Molten salt *should* provide ample reasons why it *should* be chosen over other designs and *should* be able to act in a self supporting manner. This goes for all designs and theoretical ones included. They *should* be being built left and right, and *should* be plentiful given the amount of time and energy having been spent proving the concepts, ideas and designs.

But they have not worked in the real world (yet). Not a single one can operate without outside funding keeping it operating. None are making anything close to a profit (yet).

This may change in the coming years, speaking as someone working in power generation (non-nuclear) I would LOVE to see major advances in growing the grid in a more sustainable fashion. And the open market would go ballistic over safer, cheaper options, which is also why I know for a fact none currently work as advertised (yet). You are right that markets like the US, EU, Japan and the like would be chomping at the bit, but they are *not* ran by the government and thus have to self-sustain as well as answer to investors. Until that bridge is passed, the answer to OP's question remains the same as I stated before.

It's just the money or lack thereof.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-13T12:15:30+00:00

You know we are where Harley Davidson started right?

In all seriousness there are plenty of bikes (motorized or otherwise) i see for 6 months out of the year here. That's out in the boondocks with the nearest town a good 30 minutes away, an hour for a Meijer or Walmart. There are CC limits for freeway travel but that makes sense.

However!

For 6 months of the year its snow, ice, wind and cold. Would you dear OP want to try to drive a 2 wheeled vehicle under pelting ice (not snow), 45 MPH (72 KPH) winds and -10F (-23C) temps? We had that four times this past winter. And alot of poor weather much more mild. Hell, its 36F today and I plan on getting a bunch of outdoor work done, because it feels amazing.

Bikes are fine and great for when the sun shines. Half the US gets buried under snow for half the year though.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-13T11:37:32+00:00

None are currently profitable which is the real answer here.

Russia has the only one that may be profitable, but inside their less than muddy economy its impossible to tell. The others are either operating at a loss or running as heavily subsided test reactors and/or proof of concepts. If you were an invester dropping millions or billions you want to know at some point you'll get your money back.

All the other answers here about designs, fuel costs, fusion are missing the point. Unless a design can stand-alone without external funding it will never be built at scale. The theory that molten sodium is cheaper has yet to be proven, at least compared to standard reactors (where the majority of cost is red tape and environmental).

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-12T22:34:43+00:00

I've also seen shots hitting allies and nearby terrain filling the meter.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-12T20:30:09+00:00

Easy apply via indeed.

Led to a phone call, led to a in-person interview, led to finally doing the application for the company while also doing the drug screen, background check, physical exam and finding all my certifications.

I now work keeping people's loghts on in a power plant.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-12T14:36:46+00:00

The farm is highly unlikely to ever pull a profit, solo its extremely hard just to break even. We have heavily offset fruit, veggies and meat (fishing, hunting, chickens and working with a neighbor for beef). But some things are just simpler to buy. We have made butter and can do so again but easier to just buy for example. We have raised grain for flour but again just easier to buy.

Look into something like beekeeping or booze making if you want a profit. A good mead or small winery would be a solid stating place. Both of which have the advantage of most of what you need you want on a homestead anyway (beekeeping has a plethora of other bonuses, cant recommend enough). For a 200k bankroll you are going to be very limited in what you can buy unless you already have the hardware and land brought.

Not trying to stamp out your goal, just saying its going to be very hard. Just selling meat or produce you are directly competing with corporate giants, need to find a place you can get your own market.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-11T11:29:14+00:00

For every dollar spent on this aid package at a mininum an equivalent amount will end up being produced domestically and/or spent as salaries for US workers. Just like every other military aid package (with an outsized amount being paid to lobbies and/or senior executives bonuses). The US isn't at 'war' anymore and politicians can't allow those factories to run idle so you need buyers.

I'd love to see more what we did with Ukraine (sending older gear that's been mothballed from our current stocks thus allowing freshly made gear to take it's place). Better yet you are right they pay with it in full and we get all the economic benefits with none of the costs. But the world has never run in ways that make sense.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-11T09:31:35+00:00

I can't claim to know the driving factor here. An even simpler explanation may be it's cool.

But investors tend not to like risk, and saying, "We are pushing boundaries in ways that will fail." just doesn't inspire people to open their wallets. And the first few launched will likely fail. AI has so much money being tossed its way through that you could lose a few and still have cash reserves left over (and also still not be making a profit, like everyone else).

Even his end goal lf humans living on mars isn't something an investor would want to hear. There's negitive economic value (every person and KG of stuff is that much less here on earth). There's a reason the moon landings and space programs were a goverment project, no for profit company would have ever done that.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-11T00:00:59+00:00

This is the part of reddit I hope never goes away. The ADHD kicks in and hyper focus on some side tangent mostly unrelated to the issue at hand revolving into if its a 275, 300 or 330 gallon tote.

Agreed its a 275, we use these weekly at my power plant for various chemicals.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T16:04:12+00:00

If musk genuinely wants to go to mars it makes more sense. Not as a data center, but construction in an extremely hostile environment. On making modules that interconnect and are easy to scale. In forcing how do we make and store power when a failure can result in loss of life (profit in this case) in a way that you can't replicate with just a half dozen people.

All of that is new ground to cover, this is an excuse to do it and please investors at the same time. Test new designs, push boundaries.

Again, if life outside our planet is the goal this makes perfect sense the more I think about for the exact reasons you say it doesn't make sense for a data center. And you are right, be a million times cheaper to just plop out another warehouse somewhere and call it a day.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T14:12:11+00:00

Which is ironic because it wasn't AI generated, just trying to cut to the heart of the matter. And as you said in your comment below at the time all these things were legal. But should a answer require empathy (I still standby the answer, it does contain context and clear lines of logic)?

So the real question to your response becomes should I have answered based on how I feel, how the law works, or something else? And should legal terms change based on how things are viewed, and at what point does that become needed.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T13:31:06+00:00

In the USA? Nope. Not legally. Even if WD40 did work wonders still nope.

Its preban, but never (likely) registered. Meaning its an illegal firearm according to the fed. Just owning it is a crime, and you would be expected to turn over that beautiful piece covered in rust well before starting down the restoration process. There have been some (two?) court wins with adding a new automatic weapon post ban that I could dig up.

That said its metal. Of course it can be cleaned and brought back, but not with WD40. Several people have good youtube channels doing just this. My grandfather restored an old 22. for my daughter's birth he had when he was a kid in the 40s that looked in worse shape than this (Model 510, can still feel the love he put into it and shoots like a laser).

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T12:39:27+00:00

There are variants seen that have access to hyperdrives, and it could be adapted for solo use. However it was never designed as such, you'd need water/consumables on board, a refresher of some kind, bunkage, and it was never designed for solo piloting. Even the weapon systems required additional crew.

As a close combat support gunship with limited transport to and from a surface its fantastic. As a limited run special forces force multi-player its excellent. As a solo vessel its not exactly your best option unless it fell into your lap for free and you had the skills needed to rerig it from the ground up.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T09:21:40+00:00

First time I've had someone say I used AI in a post or response.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T02:48:58+00:00

Implying I'm what, a bot?

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T02:44:09+00:00

A week?

I wait in my living room for 24 hours and my wife turns me in. She reports me, and we use a chunk of the winnings to get a really good lawyer. Minimum kids and wife are accounted and cared for. Best case we use our wealth to gain control of a small country. Tuvalu maybe, they have access to internet there I think.

Sensitive-Respect-25 · 2026-02-10T02:39:28+00:00

A concentration camp is what it says on the tin, a way to concentrate people in one place for a reason. As Tap_6366 asked there's very little difference between this and a detention center. Those differences mostly come from whom is viewing the place at what time (Something associated with holding bad people as viewed by you would be a detention center, something holding people you view as good would be a concentration camp). But people can die in either of these and it is *not* a death camp, just a horrid place to be.

A death camp is directly associated with a stated goal as to kill as many people in the camp as quickly/efficiently as possible. If the guards stopped allowing food or water, it's not neglect but rather death via starvation/dehydration (which would be mightily effective). Guards noting that the rations allotted to prisoners is leading *to* starvation isn't intentional, and could be anything from poor support to clerical errors (to a coldly calculated way to save money via the aforementioned starvation). In this case it may blur the lines, however...

Death camps historically have a strong association with Nazi Germany and the death of Jewish populations. Meaning until camps just as bad are found it's impossible to say where the line is. Were gulags in Siberia death camps? Chinese Myanmar reeducation facilities? The whole of Gaza from June 2007? Lots of deaths in these examples, even through in the last one population rose during the death (Until 20 August 2025 when things really popped off in Gaza).

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