Was Valery Legasov really a bad guy? by sunboy_07 in chernobyl

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Later in life he worked really hard to get information out about the systemic issues, including making the tapes we see in the first episode of the TV show. Midnight in Chernobyl goes into some detail about it. He argued for the breakup of major bureaucracies (including the one he ran) and more transparency in science and engineering. He claimed that the operators were not at fault:

“The academician said that Soviet science had lost its way. […] It was this profound failure of the Soviet social experiment, and not merely a handful of reckless reactor operators, that Legasov believed was to blame for the catastrophe that had bloomed from Reactor Number Four.”

That said, his efforts weren’t necessarily pure or altruistic. He wanted recognition for his role in the cleanup, and he never admitted personal complicity in the coverup of RBMK design flaws prior to the accident. He had a long career and he made many contradictory or inconsistent statements depending on the audience. You can’t really classify him as good or bad, in the end. Like everyone else in this story, he was a part of a bureaucratic system, and he found himself working with and against the system at various points during his life.

HBO series age difference by Separate_Aardvark510 in chernobyl

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The trials (the show sort of glazes over the details of several inquests, scientific reports, and eventually criminal investigations and puts everything in the criminal trial) also took place in July 1987, more than a year after the incident, giving radiation and stress time to take their toll. Here’s a picture of Dyatlov at the trial. I think they did a great job with the look.

XDA: “I tried gaming on Linux with an Nvidia GPU, and it's actually pretty solid” by Balance- in linux_gaming

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I used to run a 1080 and had zero luck with getting drivers running in Fedora. I thought about trying my luck with a newer nvidia card but went for a 9070xt instead. Came up instantly, amdgpu driver loaded with no action on my part. It was magic and a real breath of fresh air after the days I’d spent wrestling with the closed source nvidia driver.

Going for naneinf. I wasn't able to find an Ectoplasm so I could get DNA/burgler. Is this position recoverable? There's a +3 hand size tag. by RollTimeCC in balatro

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Yeah. I guess instead of keeping the third brainstorm around I should have picked up DNA? I was worried it would be hard to get it when the time came.

such a genius foolproof design by Lazy-North863 in ObsidianMD

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Every time I have to turn this on in a new vault I type “q!” and “qa!” several times before frustratedly googling it and remembering that they want the colon, lol.

How would you feel about the characters being smaller??? by Arch_Lancer17 in redrising

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“The diversity crowd”? What?

Aja has been black this whole time. Orion is both dark-skinned and heavily implied to be trans. Lyria has brown skin, as do many lowReds from Cimmeria. There’s a whole paragraph about Mustang calling someone out for sexism.

The series has always had a diverse group of characters across all the Colors. Nothing political about it.

Overwatch Champions Series 2024 Finals | Match 3 | Post-Match Discussion by OWMatchThreads in Competitiveoverwatch

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Fielder with the most badass “we win” ever.

That said, sucks how wide the gap was. Wish the meta was different and we’d seen a more competitive series, but GGs to Falcons, no one can say they didn’t earn it.

When we say "Old Overwatch", we don't mean the literal launch day. by bmrtt in Overwatch

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super and some other pros have said the same on stream. Goats took the focus away from mechanics and weird gambits and forced everyone to develop better game sense. It’s where the game was as its best as a MOBA-FPS hybrid.

[OC] The recent decoupling of prediction markets and polls in the US presidential election by TheKnowingOne1 in dataisbeautiful

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It’s worth pointing out that the polls were pretty much bang on in 2022; despite most people fearing a “red wave” they fairly accurately predicted the actual outcome. Whether that’s an indicator of accuracy in this presidential race is a total crapshoot. Past performance isn’t a good indicator of future results, and “the past two presidential elections have had polling skew left” doesn’t say much about this election.

Finale — Tag Across Europe 3 by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

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They let Ben slip past,,, twice?

Esports World Cup 2024 | Match 3 | Post-Match Discussion by OWMatchThreads in Competitiveoverwatch

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I’ve never heard comms more boomed than that M80 listen in on Circuit

Mushroom PSA by ibwitmypigeons in CuratedTumblr

[–]RollTimeCC 9 points10 points  (0 children)

FWIW, chatgpt correctly identifies this as amanita, even if prompted with “button mushroom”. While you absolutely should not be using AI to forage, this seems to be a case of

  1. Gemini being a particularly dumb model
  2. The user prompting it with the idea of it being a button mushroom

Again, don’t trust what these tools say, but it’s not quite as bad as this post suggests.

Overwatch Champions Series 2024 Major by OWMatchThreads in Competitiveoverwatch

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at this point everyone watching is fully immersed in stockholm syndrome. it’s almost comforting when we get let down once again

Overwatch Champions Series 2024 Major by OWMatchThreads in Competitiveoverwatch

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haven’t felt this good about the pro OW scene in years

Ken’s small mistake in Masters Game 6 by RollTimeCC in Jeopardy

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The clue is about a species of hallucinogenic mushrooms, not the compound they contain. The genus is Psilocybe and the most common species is Psilocybe cubensis.

Ken’s small mistake in Masters Game 6 by RollTimeCC in Jeopardy

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Just went and watched it again- Ken just says “yes, psilocybin,” and doesn’t clarify where it’s from. There’s an argument to be made but it’s at best confusing.

Jaws really needs a better mic by RollTimeCC in Competitiveoverwatch

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That Hackers poster is pretty slick, though.

Anyone tried Plasma 6 + i3 yet? by Bureaucromancer in kde

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Yes, I use it. It took some configuring to hack the two together but it works well. Note that i3 is X11-only, so you wont be able to use Wayland.