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Bewaretheicespiders t1_irwbiej wrote

Government-led, a quarter of a billion dollar just for the initial design... timelines that span generations... its hard not to think this is pork.

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VitaminPb t1_irwdbxe wrote

A quarter of a billion for a fusion design would be cheap. But yeah, this is just a press release of an announcement of a thought to begin thinking hard about it.

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ledow t1_irwe7er wrote

Hell, you can cream off 20% from things that don't even exist yet, in fact it's easier to because then there's no "But where is this thing you promised?" element to it later on.

And if you can do that for generations, that's a lot of bunce.

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Abominom t1_irx11ox wrote

Pork pie (lie)? or pork barrell (bribe voters)?

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cjeam t1_is0j4ha wrote

It’s the Tory party, so yes.

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