I figure they're just
Well, you're going about it all wrong.
See, presented with that sort of situation, I'd take the whole pile of tickets, put it into Puppet and bang out an image for them in an afternoon. Are they bullshitting? Maybe. But they're gonna have to be more creative about it than trying to push the wait on me, cuz I've got my tools figured out.
Oh, you want a new VM too? Wait ten minutes and you'll get an email when the clone is done. Close ticket.
I voted against Romney because he thought horse parking was a more worthy Olympic sport than wrestling.
this board feels like it's gatekeeping properly
Why are you even posting over there, you fairweather traitor?
If you aren't willing to go completely cold turkey on reddit and walk away from everything then just don't even bother posting here.
Cautiously pessimistic. Molten sodium's notorious chemical reactivity kind of cancels out any advantages of not having to deal with a steam primary.
Also the sodium will itself be radioactive (albeit short lived), compounding the contamination of any accident that compromises the primary loop.
the US knew about the Japanese wanting to bomb Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull (SecState) and Roosevelt wanted them to do it.
US Ambassador Joseph Grew sent Hull a message that basically amounted to "WTF ARE YOU MADMEN DOING?!" (in a lot more words) after they snubbed Fumimaro Konoe's negotiation attempts. Grew realized that Hull wanted the Konoe government to fail, so they'd get Tojo who would give them the war they wanted. Grew was furious about being led on by Washington and went to Hoover with a tell-all.
A USOPC boycott would be very difficult to pull off.
Let's look back at the boycotts of the 1980's.
If an NOC decides to boycott the games, the IOC's response is that they will permit that nation's qualified athletes to compete regardless of the NOC's wishes on the matter. They do this to make it clear that the IOC is not subordinate to the NOCs. But because their NOC is not participating, they compete under the Olympic flag and anthem. Any sanctions the NOCs decide to levy against those athletes is their problem after the fact, and not the IOC's concern.
For a country with as many athletes as the US, you WOULD have people crossing the picket line to compete anyway.
A more practical gesture would be for the USOPC to deliberately CHOOSE to participate under the Olympic flag rather than the Stars & Stripes. A bunch of countries did this in 1980.