The advantages are obvious, the reactor has less than a six-month lead time, it is transportable by rail, ship, conventional trucks, and normal logistics. It fits on an ordinary slab or other small structure and can be easily installed with off-the-shelf plumbing and wiring. It is cooled with either helium or water, or the excess heat can be used for additional power generation. It has inherent safety and security and does not require full-time monitoring; it is walk-away safe. The fuel is standard 4.95% enriched uranium oxide; that must be replaced every five years at a current cost of $1.3 million. The fuel is well below weapons grade and is readily available.

Wait until Jeff Bezos puts one on a yacht….

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A temporary monument displaying the names of more than 41 million Americans who have served in the U.S. military will remain on the National Mall through Nov. 12 following an overwhelming response from visitors.

The National Military Monument, presented by the United Services Automobile Association, or USAA, opened July 28 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

USAA announced Tuesday that the National Park Service had approved a 10-week extension of the installation, which had been scheduled to close in early September.

Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.

Tim Pool brings the low-down.

ATQUE: ICE reportedly set to spend $20 million on “shock gloves” which allow non-lethal force (get ready for libs to lose their minds)

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ATQUE: Democrats Express Concern Over Increase In Gun Violence Against Active Shooters (Babylon Bee)

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The shooting was reported at 2:30 p.m. at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls.

At least three people were killed, with reports of two injured.

The shooter is among the dead.

A nearby civilian in a hat was also recorded firing back across the parking lot at the shooter.

Zero clue who this champ is or what kind of pistol he was packing.

Stuff you can get away with in a ‘gun-free zone’ get a stronger response in a Red state.

No word yet on whether the suppressed gunslinger was the one who killed the bad guy.

According to a 34-year-old local witness named Lane Koehn, the good guy with the gun helped an In-N-Out employee care for a wounded female coworker who had a gunshot wound to her chest. Koehn, who was at a red light when the shooting started, stayed with them as well until paramedics arrived.

“I hope she made it,” he said.

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To be fair, English cuisine sets a pretty low bar.

There is also a video in this series in which they try biscuits and creme gravy with sweet tea, which is also a hit.

Cornbread, however, receives a less favorable reception. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide them with hush puppies, which I suspect they would have found more appealing.

I tremble to think how they would react to grits….

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From bathtub gin to bathtub broccoli.

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They would face a country where 100 million private citizens own guns.

Not the Bee.

On Wednesday, President Trump went to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to salute four fallen soldiers who were killed in recent days by Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East.

After this, Trump flew to Georgia, where he was scheduled to speak at a high school in Marietta. The president spoke about his “Trump Accounts” for kids and promoted GOP candidates ahead of the midterms.

At one point, he honored Stephen and Shari, the parents of 25-year-old 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan, and revealed he had flown them back home to Georgia on Air Force One.

A President worth having.

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To tell the truth, most of the coastal Crust are shocked by rural America as well, although of course not in the same way.

I’d gladly trade ten Democrat Congresscritters for this young German girl.

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I can’t imagine anyone other than an American who would do this.

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I’m sorry, I just never get tired of these.

I’d like to tell then that we’ll trade ten Democrats to Britain for every one of these people they send over.

Over there they can step in all the diversity they can handle.

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When you shop on Amazon, you inevitably have to sort through a whole lot of sponsored ads and listings for products of dubious quality or from no-name brands with inexplicable names before you find what you’re looking for. Well-known and trusted brands often get buried in the noise, so unless you run a very specific search, there’s effort required to filter out what’s worth considering from what isn’t.

A new browser extension—called Knockoff—aims to handle this decluttering for you. It greys out or hides items from shady and no-name brands, making it easier to find the reputable ones.

We have the technology.

Unfortunately it’s not available (yet) for Safari. ?

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The American mainstream media have long been obsessed with the topic of homosexuality. They can’t stop writing about it, celebrating it, flaunting it, obsessing over it, and disapproving of any disapproval of it.

Except for the American conservative media. With them it’s a different cultural topic: air conditioning. They can’t stop writing about it, flaunting it, celebrating it, obsessing over it, and disapproving of any disapproval of it.

But what we don’t yet have is an Air Conditioning Pride month where we parade our air conditioners through the streets, put out posters to show our loyalty, put on Air Conditioning Pride sporting events, and bathe the exterior of the White House in streams of air conditioned air. But I expect that will come, too.

Down the rabbit hole….

This was sparked by seeing a headline attributed to the New York Times: What Would a Taylor-Travis Pre-Nup Look Like?

I thought to myself: An encyclopedia. Each of them can afford the best legal advice than money can buy, and an unabridged English dictionary is the only comparable page-count that came to mind.

As you might expect, this topic is Trending among the Great Unwashed:

Travis Kelce Reportedly Agrees to Taylor Swift’s Brutally Smart Pre (Music Times)

Taylor Swift prenup would likely include key clause (Newsweek)

Taylor Swift prenup – Does she have one with Travis Kelce? (USA Today)

Is Taylor Swift getting Travis Kelce to sign a prenup? (HELLO magazine)

Will Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Sign a Prenup Before .. (StyleCaster)

Do Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have a prenup? (Heart Radio)

Travis Kelce Has No Issue With Taylor Swift Dad’s Prenup Plan (Mandatory)

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Ironclad Prenup (RadarOnline)

Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift’s prenup details revealed (NewsBytes)

etc. etc. etc.

Not the Bee.

This might be one of the best videos on the internet right now.

Keep that focus, kid, you’ll go far.

The New Neo.

You can see the videos all over the internet: foreign visitors for the World Cup, enjoying the US – especially the food, the free refills on soda, and the friendliness.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Ayoub Baghdad has only just arrived in the US to follow his home team in the World Cup. But already he’s been stunned by one big thing – and it’s not at all related to football – the sheer size of basically everything in the States.
“Everything is big, even the Coke is big,” Baghdad says, referring to the carbonated beverage. He has found the roads, trucks, and buildings to be much larger than anything he’s used to seeing back home in Morocco.
About 75% of the 2026 Fifa World Cup matches are being played in the US with Mexico and Canada sharing the remainder. With that comes more international fans in the US keen to explore American culture, landscape and all the country’s oddities.
It’s made for viral videos on social media, with foreign football fans trying everything from Waffle House and finding a new obsession in ranch dressing to being blown away by giant supermarkets and large restaurant portions.
The preoccupation with sizes, in particular, was something many international fans remarked about when interviewed by the BBC about their reflections on visiting America.
“A place like this could ONLY exist in America and I LOVE it,” said Shaun, a vlogger from Scotland after visiting a Buc-ee’s, a convenience store, restaurant, gas station, and supermarket all wrapped in one. The popular chain, mostly found in the South, has a cult-like following in the US, with fans often posing with its Beaver mascot outside many locations.

“We Were LIED To About America…”

The Media Lied, America Was NOTHING Like We Thought

America How is this NORMAL

Brit STUNNED at “They Refused to Play the US National Anthem, So They SANG it!”

The World Cup Proves Europe Was Wrong About America

The World Cup Is Proving America Was Right

Do World Cup Tourists Love America More Than We Do?

Everything We Thought About The USA Was Wrong…

European World Cup Tourists SHOCKED After Finding Out THEY HAVE BEEN LIED To About America!

World Cup showed the REAL America

Europeans FINALLY See The REAL America!

Brits SHOCKED by Texas Football Culture

… and, from the people who don’t have the Second Amendment:

Europeans React To Can USA Survive A Full Scale INVASION! l Why It’s Impossible? (CIVILIANS in the U.S. have more guns than all of the European armies put together … including Russia.

Not the Bee.

Man, Texas REALLY knows how to do “toxic” masculinity.

The risks of rescuing those people were huge.

Yet those men didn’t hesitate. Not even for one moment.

The Register.

Imagine being paralyzed so badly that not only can’t you move your hands or feet, but you can’t speak either. For years, brain computer interfaces have presented the tantalizing promise of reading brainwaves well enough to allow a person to communicate and access a PC.

Now, a new breakthrough shows how someone can talk and even work a job while afflicted with a motion-robbing disease.

A team of scientists from the University of California, Davis, published a paper Monday detailing a years-long study of a brain computer interface (BCI) system implanted in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), which destroys motor neurons and causes loss of motor control and eventual paralysis. According to the team, their patient, Casey Harrell, has been living with BCI implants since 2023 that are still working today, giving him the ability not only to control a computer cursor with his thoughts, but also to speak.

Babylon Bee.

I like the gorilla goalie. That would add some spice.

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The YouTube channel From Down Under to Down South. I find stuff like this fascinating.

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Ordinarily I grant no weight to people who can’t tell which side of their hat is the front, but one doesn’t often find a real no-shit American reviewing common fake food; this is worth it.

(Although I must say this guy has a suspiciously high-end kitchen behind him… He does keep his knives on a magnetic strip rather than leaving them to fester in a knife block, which speaks well of him.)

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A new TD Economics report warns Canada is quietly losing highly skilled workers, entrepreneurs and STEM graduates to the United States through work visas, tech recruitment and stronger economic opportunities.

BNN Bloomberg spoke with Francis Fong, managing director at TD Economics, about how Canada’s tax structure, productivity challenges and lack of business scale are contributing to the country’s ongoing talent retention problem.

In return, Canada can have as ,many Blue state celebrities as they can stomach. I suggest Barbra Streisand to start.

Lifehacker.

Jeff Somers, in addition to being a very handy fellow, is also a distinguished science fiction author. Highly recommended.

The Other McCain.

By early 2025, Kylie Brewer had developed a fairly large following on TikTok and Instagram, with an audience of tens of thousands for her short-form feminist videos. However, her audience as a drop in the bucket compared to the “Whatever” podcast, which has 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube. On her own TikTok/IG channels, Kylie occasionally had people leave rude comments, but these people were not skilled polemicists — knowledgeable and articulate, communications professionals capable of making persuasive arguments. As mentioned previously, I’ve been unable to find an online biography of Andrew Wilson, so I don’t know anything about his educational background or career experience, but it is obvious that he is highly skilled as a debater, and Kylie Brewer was not ready to meet such an antagonist.

She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since.

What happened to Kylie Brewer highlights what’s fundamentally wrong with contemporary elite education. A native of California, she was such a promising high school student that she was admitted to Brown University. Conservative faculty are extremely rare in Ivy League institutions. Studies have shown that academia, which was always tilted toward liberalism, has shifted even more leftward in the past 25 years.

If you’ve never watched the Whatever podcast, you might find it amusing; I certainly do.

Andrew Wilson is not only a skilled debater but an entertaining fellow. Highly recommended.

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The Army successfully hit its recruiting goal for the 2026 fiscal year, more than four months ahead of its deadline.

The Army announced on Saturday that it reached its goal of signing 61,500 people for active-duty contracts. It’s the third year in a row that the Army met its recruitment goal, after falling short in 2022 and 2023. It also is the second year in a row that it beat the deadline by roughly four months; in 2025 the Army hit the milestone in the first week of June. The fiscal year closes at the end of September.

According to the Army’s release on meeting its recruitment goal, the service credited “innovative outreach, enhanced career incentives, and a focus on critical technical skills” with helping to bring in the new soldiers, although the announcement was vague on what those moves were. However the service has continued several programs created over the past few years that have helped to bring in more recruits and assist them in meeting standards for military service.

The guy at the top makes all the difference.

The Existentialist Republic, obviously a Voice of the Crust.

Full disclosure: The founders of the Federalist Society—Lee Otis, Dave McIntosh, Steve Calabresi, and Gene Meyer—are friends of mine from Yale. It’s very gratifying to learn that they have the right enemies.

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Garland Police says the suspect had crashed into two other vehicles before this all started. As you saw above, the man then tried to steal a few cars before finally being shot dead by an armed Texas man who was protecting his family.

You can thank Tatiana Starks, owner of Garland Smoke and Vape, for providing the video of those previous carjacking attempts. This happened in the parking lot of the strip mall her shop sits in. The rest was caught on surveillance cameras.

VA Viper (a Friend of the Blog)

This essentially reproduces a dish much enjoyed at the restaurant Da Gemma in Amalfi in April 2002. In Hazan’s recipe I have substituted fettuccine for spaghetti and added the beef extract to give a slightly meatier flavor. In fact, the extract can be omitted to yield an entirely vegetarian dish. An interesting discussion of the historical origins of Genovese sauce (La Genovese) is found in Naples at Table by Arthur Schwarz (1998).

I guess it’s time for dinner….

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Greater than Thomas Sowell? I think not. But he’s a strong number two.

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Moore literally took a bullet to the leg to stop a student who hoped to enact another Columbine-style mass shooting.

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A viral video circulating on X appears to show a young developer unveiling a 3D-printed proof-of-concept prototype of a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile system, or MANPADS, built for less than $100.

According to the project page on GitHub, the five-minute video showcases a “proof-of-concept prototype of a low-cost rocket launcher and guided rocket system built using consumer electronics and 3D-printed components.”

The project description says the system uses an onboard flight computer, inertial measurement hardware, and a sensor stack that includes GPS, compass, and barometric modules to determine orientation and transmit telemetry.