Good morning.
Last night at 8:51pm Mountain Time, the Valar Atomics Nuclear Operations team brought Ward 250 to 10kW thermal output. We held this power level throughout the night.
This is another historic milestone from the Valar team, marking first nuclear power by a startup.
Fast enough to consider "speed of light" as a bottleneck.
For each clock cycle of a modern CPU, the signal travel just 3-6 cm. Keeping timing in sync became such a problem that designers need to organize clock sources in a H-tree pattern on the die, just to make sure the physical trace length is the same everywhere.
I know what you’re thinking. The biggest majority in a generation. A historic landslide, a singular mandate, zero organised opposition. How is it even possible for me to fuck this up?
Refill your popcorn. You’ll love this next part.
The home of Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen was raided by masked police forces after he published his 'two favourite numbers', a 10 digit and a 8 digit number, spelled out in letters; it were the social security and phone number of Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, who wants to ban encryption (CSA) and introduce mass surveillance.
"Rules for thee, but not for me..."
“Sir -46 percent is already a historical low! But I think if we just play our cards right we mi-“
“Kill the endangered ponies."
"W-what?"
"Ban social media for everyone under 16."
"B-but sir!"
"Abolish life sentences for murderers and give all of them lighter sentences."
“S-sir… you cannot possibly go any lower! Please stop.”
“Legalize incest.”
“SIR!”
“I quit.”