Steve Skutnik

Nuclear researcher, recovering academic. Nuclear fuel cycles, safeguards, and radwaste management.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

::wipes away a tear::

This... this may be the most beautiful analogy for thermal fission I've ever read. @ZachWeiner @FuSchmu

https://t.co/Iosgrkqpuu

[Ruth Graham @publicroad]

The Onion called it yesterday.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@arclight Someone explain to me why this isn’t immediate cause for termination.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@TheDoctorRAB Someone who doesn't know how to use the "zip" function, apparently...

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

Useful advice for both childand velociraptors

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@ZachWeiner In essence, the ethos of the United Federation of Planets.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@ZachWeiner I think the term "eudaimonia" is what best captures that, which is the realization of a person's full human potential.

Honest disclosure: The best articulation I ever heard of this came from Sid Meier's "Alpha Centauri"

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

2-5 km below-ground is hardly anyone's idea of "not-so-deep."

[Edwin Lyman @NucSafetyUCS]

So if it weren't bad enough that industry wants to build "advanced" #nuclear reactors in densely populated urban areas, now it is studying how to bury their nuclear wastes in not-so-deep boreholes right on site--turning cities into permanent dumps. https://t.co/NWeCp7ZEaV

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@daoist @mattcnewcomb @deathweasel (I admit I had to actually look up the acronym.)

With respect to the latter, I'm not sure how anyone is lead to any other conclusion. (Where I'm guessing the problem lies is in the unstated premise, "...and that's totally okay.")

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@daoist @mattcnewcomb @deathweasel No, I agree there, and I think efforts like Project Zero are laudable in the very specific, concrete policy steps they recommend, many of which focus on police accountability and de-escalation.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

@mattcnewcomb @deathweasel I think it's fairly obvious from the context that, "Police brutality is an overarching problem that transcends race" even as it is simultaneously true "Police brutality disproportionately affects the black community."

Police accountability is clearly the overarching issue.

[Matthew Feeney @M_feeney]

It's times like these when I wish more people knew about the father of modern policing Robert Peel and his Peelian Principles of good policing.

As true today as they were in 1829. #protest2020.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

There's a reason I prefer to keep a low profile on this one, and it comes down to this: my (virtue-signalling) opinion isn't what is needed or matters right now.

And the same goes for every other (unrelated) organization proclaiming that racism is bad.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

Am I just retrograde for thinking that maybe organizations without a direct stake or standing in a heated current matter should just sit this one out rather than insisting upon inserting themselves into it?

Maybe I just don't get it.

[Steve Skutnik @sskutnik]

But that's just the problem: all of these bland denunciations of racism from people and organizations utterly disconnected to the issue signaling their virtuous compassion paper over some of the deeper, more contentious issues - as if racism is the only problem, here. (It's not.)

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

Reforming qualified immunity should be pretty easy. Just get rid of the “established law” prong. If it’s illegal , it’s illegal, and the government official is liable. No more requirement that a previous court has already ruled on a similar fact pattern.

[Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 @ManDaveJobGood]

Guess they were right: cops are infiltraring the protests as agitators

[Isaac Orr @TheFrackingGuy]

Some people learn about the importance of dispatchability the hard way. But, this is when you get when you argue nuclear plants should be shut down.