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[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

Now you are starting to understand. Fallout was a documentary.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I think you mean prophecy. Documentaries are for past events.

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

It's a joke implying that the fictional video game known as Fallout so accurately depicts modern life, that one wouldn't be remissed for mistaking video game footage and lore for real life events.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

And the joke would have worked when they used the word prophecy instead of documentary.

[-] Brownie@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Prediction maybe? Or timetraveller made documentary

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 39 points 6 days ago

I’m okay with providing plutonium rods to Palmer Luckey, on the condition that he shoves them up his ass using sriracha as lube.

[-] possumparty 8 points 6 days ago

sriracha is too kind, use Hellfire Double Doomed at 4.5 million SHU or Pure Evil at 13 million.

[-] Megumin@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

No link, just a screenshot? C'mon OP.

[-] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago
[-] Megumin@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Thank you for the link, fuck OP and the originator of the tweet for trying to spin this as a bad thing. America needs more nuclear power plants and this seems like a wonderful way to reuse nuclear waste.

[-] joshcodes@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago

Solar is cheaper, requires a sponge and detergent for maintenance, and has an approximately zero percent chance of blowing everything around it into a radioactive hell. You build it and it sits in a field. Far less susceptible to incompetence or systemic failure.

It also takes like a decade to build a nuclear plant. Over a decade you could produce shit loads of energy off solar. Wind too if you want to go crazy but y'all would see one ai gen video of a bald eagle getting killed by a turbine and call them communist or something.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ignoring how utterly disingenuous you are being about maintenance for solar, this is always such a stupid stance against nuclear. Solar is cheaper cause we spent decades bringing the costs down. Plants only take decades in shithole countries like America because the amount of NIMBY nonsense that takes place.

France is roughly two thirds nuclear disasters. They're still actively building them. And how many nuclear disasters have you heard about from them?

Also reactors don't blow everything to radioactive hell. You're being an idiot.

I do want to see more videos of bald eagles getting killed by turbines. I'd like to be able to shout 'COMMUNIST!’ MORE.

[-] FedX@quokk.au 22 points 5 days ago

This isn't exactly new. And it didn't end well in the past either. After the completion of the Manhattan Project, a number of private entities begun building plutonium weapons. Notably, Rockwell International (yes, that Rockwell), ran a site outside of Denver called Rocky Flats. Ended up being one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. Plutonium will catch on fire, so there were a number of plutonium fires at the plant, but that wasn't the worst of it. Their disposal and treatment techniques were woefully inadequacy, and untold amounts of plutonium leaked into the environment. The EPA, CDPH, and DOE all knew about the process and did nothing. The FBI had to step in and raid the plant, and even still, it ran for years during court proceedings. Rather conveniently, those court documents were sealed, and later lost.

What is new here is the fact that the Trump administration already plays fast and lose with the rules. Moreover, random tech billionaires have no right so much as looking at the most dangerous substance in the world, weapons grade plutonium. So to say this will end poorly would be the understatement of the century.

P.S. Highly recommend reading up on the history of the DOE. The story of Rocky Flats, the national labs, and nuclear weapons program is so much longer and wilder than what I could put here.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 5 days ago

What legitimate purpose does a tech billionaire even have for wanting weapons grade plutonium?

What possible use could they have for it besides building a bomb with it?

[-] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 points 5 days ago

Thèse Guy are preparing bunker, with robots as personal and guards. Why would they want a way to start the apocalypse, I wonder ? (Their is a game about the extreme greedy people go )

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

are you familiar with Atomwaffen SS?

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Selling to Iran and North Korea for profit? I mean, who else is paying, and why would billionaires want it if not for profit?

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Who famously love lobbying for a paucity of regulation.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Immigration is a regulation, though

[-] bratwurstest@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

That's why discussing any type of policy without discussing the related power dynamics is foolish.

[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

It would be incredibly foolish to let people know what I actually want!

[-] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 days ago

the guys from pawn stars are getting nukes? ffs

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

May they all die of radiation poisoning.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"The MSDS was posted"

[-] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Can’t wait to see what they get up to after they rig things so if their heartbeat stops a nuke goes off.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There'd be kalshi bets on which city gets it this time.

[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Here's hoping they start dating in double digits and fuck the wrong sixteen year old.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago

As long as they're asking themselves "Are we the baddies?" Because self-awareness is the most important thing 😄

[-] Squirrelanna 1 points 5 days ago

Well you see they did ask themselves and said, "Eh, probably? But look at all this cash."

[-] sudo@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Is gremlin supposed to be Palmer Lucky?

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Then there’ll be warehouses full of discount Herman Miller chairs and warheads.

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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