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their kingdom can be unplugged
Not once they have private armies of killer robots.
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
If they have marching armies of weaponized death machines they will also definitely have unlicensed nuclear reactors.
And their workers outfitted with kill switches. Probably their stupid phones first, later collars that can deliver paid or death remotely. Dark shit.
We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.
If you get banned from their services and you can't access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.
Remember when we denounced China for setting that up 15 years ago?
Butlerian jihad when?
Destroying just one satellite will cause the debris to take all of them out. Someone will do this eventually :(
We aren't at kessler cascade levels of orbital clutter yet.
"Hold my ketamine"
While true now, with the introduction of micro reactors, we might truely be fucked
These clowns can't operate this shit safely. They will mini melt down and scapegoat others then do it again.
The regulators have been relegated to bootlicking. There is no one making them do it safely, only their own judgement (shudders.)
We are truly fucked though, and this nuclear bs is part of it.
I'm out of the loop, what's this nuclear bs about?
Data centers have paid off the government to do a bunch of nuclear mini reactors, the administration naturally cannibalized the Nuclear regulatory commission already, Some are opening old ones, like the infamamous three mile island that melted down, but others are doing the mini thing.
I was looking for the guardian article I just read like a week ago and the enshitified search engines aren't producing it, they aren't even trying to find what we ask. These guys are trustworthy though, and will explain the process at least.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2506_FSW_GoingNuclear.pdf
Nuclear is actually one of the safest forms of power, with the corollary that competency is the norm in the industry. I spent years in the Naval Nuclear program and they have not had an uncontrolled release of radioactive contamination to the public in the 80 year history of the program.
Three Mile Island killed nobody, and the reactor they are restarting had been operating up until 2015.
While I am less than pleased that it's basically all going to Microdick's AI centers, it's important not to lump nuclear power in by guilt by association.
We are either headed to Cyberpunk or Fallout, but without the cool shit!