the implosion mechanism to initiate the chain reaction compressed it to about half the volume.

Y'know, I've done a lot of "hobby research" into nuclear weapons, but never really did the math on the degree to which the pit was compressed. Just on an intuitive level, it's already a bit difficult to fathom solids compressing, but not unreasonable to imagine. However, in my head it was like, a couple percent at most. Forcing a solid ball of insanely dense metal into a space half of what it originally was just blows my mind even more.

But you can only sell if someone is buying, and the moment you list that huge skyscraper on the market and find out that the only offers you're getting are 1/10 the asking price, suddenly the other massive commercial buildings you have on your balance sheets (and those of all your rich buddies) suddenly drop 90% in value, and it's revealed the emperor has no clothes

Accidentally screenshotting your bank acct and routing number is the only one I can really think of.

Well, if America is no longer a superpower, then Putin and all his oligarchs buddies are planning on sweeping up the spoils of its ruin for themselves.

It's almost always whatever you you threw out last week though.

Ah, I guess I meant that you're getting 2 of the 3 phases, which is 208V phase-to-phase, or 120V phase to neutral.

Residential service is a single split 240v phase off of a 480V 3-phase line, while something like an apartment is 2 phase 208Y, with a single phase is 120V.

By far one of my favorite bumper stickers

Getting rid of Title IX protections is going to make surviving pretty fucking hard if you wind up with a bigoted manager who decides to fire you... Or just companies decide they don't want to hire trans people at all.