• TommySoda@lemmy.world
    19·
    15 days ago

    And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      7·
      15 days ago

      Don’t worry, there will be a company popping up tied to some Republicunts who’ll do the testing for “cheap”.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        4·
        15 days ago

        doG help us all:

        the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.

        One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

        He really is hellbent on literally destroying America for money.

        However

        As the FT reports, we won’t know for certain until December 31

        So I hope this makes the rounds and steps are taken against it soon.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.