It’s not confirmed publicly, but Sweden likely ended their nuclear weapons program in the 60s or 70s after pressure from the US. They finally decommissioned Ågestaverket in 2020, though they kept the facility open until then, presumably as a fallback option. Sweden has uranium deposits, so it would have been possible to build nuclear weapons during the Cold War if needed.

Now with NATO membership, they have instead imported American nuclear weapons to keep on Swedish soil. Not sure what will happen with their Swedish-American SOFA with Trump, it’s possible that Sweden will fall back on British and French nukes.

But yeah, I mentioned Ågestaverket, since its an example of a civilian reactor that was used for nuclear weapons, something that Ukraine could potentially do as well if the decision came to proliferate.

game mechanics aren’t patentable?

boys and men / girls and women sounds right to me

Good detail in that article. With regard to plutonium, Sweden had a plutonium breeding reactor disguised as a civilian power plant called Ågestaverket. I think that Ukraine would be able to use an existing reactor for this, or retrofit it. But yeah, any Ukrainian nuclear program would obviously become a huge target by the Russian military, and potentially other nuclear states. Ideally these installations would be underground like Ågestaverket was. Even more ideal would be military guarantees from NATO.

or just let them join nato instead of proliferating?

It would take them only a few months. Ukraine is filled with Soviet nuclear technology and Soviet nuclear engineers. They have nuclear reactors. Ukraine is richer than North Korea, and they have their own uranium mines. North Korea spent a couple billion on their nukes, but Ukraine’s military budget is $82B a year, so they could easily surpass North Korea.

Geopolitics experts agree that Ukraine could build a nuke if they wanted to. The issue is that the west definitely would not want to see a world where countries threatened by Russia turn to nuclear proliferation.

Here’s a video from a Danish military analyst talking about the decisions that have to be made on how to secure Ukraine after the war:

https://youtu.be/aTiunvocl5c

It’s important to note, Ukraine is willing to freeze the front line now in return for security guarantees. But If the US or the EU don’t step up to end the war soon, Ukrainian nuclear engineers will.

The USSR blurred the line. There was decentralized industry and multiculturalism, but also Russian supremacy, genocide, and military conquest.

There was very much the threat of violence in 1990 and 1991, even if the original USSR framework was very liberal. Not to mention the USSR-led coups in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

It’s also important to note that the Russian SFSR itself was an empire ruled from Moscow before the revolution. That did not change much after the revolution.

https://youtu.be/tVRUBs3T4ic

Yeah most Americans think that democracy/liberalism is just the natural state of the world and doesn’t need any effort to maintain. That is very much not the case in Russia.

Directives are the closest thing the EU has to laws. But that’s true, the description and implementation of Article 22 has been fairly loose.

In Sweden the article has been interpreted as mandatory food waste bins, and bans on in-sink food disposals, but it’s possible that other countries have different interpretations.

Article 22

Bio-waste

Member States shall take measures, as appropriate, and in accordance with Articles 4 and 13, to encourage:

(a)

the separate collection of bio-waste with a view to the composting and digestion of bio-waste;

(b)

the treatment of bio-waste in a way that fulfils a high level of environmental protection;

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the use of environmentally safe materials produced from bio-waste.

The Commission shall carry out an assessment on the management of bio-waste with a view to submitting a proposal if appropriate. The assessment shall examine the opportunity of setting minimum requirements for bio-waste management and quality criteria for compost and digestate from bio-waste, in order to guarantee a high level of protection for human health and the environment.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32008L0098

In the EU it is mandatory to sort your food into separate food trash.

Seems to be working now, but it was telling me to login with a Google account and refusing to play.

Eh, they’ve thought of that.

Openshift uses immutable os images and can install over PXE. You can even automate deployment using ipmi/idrac, though that was really buggy when I tried it in 2022.

Would Hong Kong be considered an example of georgism? All land has a 3% value tax.

https://theconversation.com/raising-revenue-from-land-what-african-cities-might-learn-from-hong-kongs-unique-land-lease-system-235327

I have run plenty of clusters on bare metal, both Openshift and vanilla. No VMs are needed.

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Trailer is unwatchable without a login

Humans know to drive more carefully in low visibility, and/or to take actions to improve visibility. Muskboxes don’t.

Look at Openshift if you’re looking for immutable, production ready Linux infrastructure. Containers are quickly replacing VMs.

Should work well for that!

If you use cloudflare for dns only and turn cloudflare proxying off, none of your data or traffic goes to cloudflare’s servers. They just act as your dns server, telling your devices what IP to go to.