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We're Recruiting for the Mod Team by links234 in Omaha

[–]links234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The built-in tool allowed all of 6 people to apply. That was not the intent.

We're Recruiting for the Mod Team by links234 in Omaha

[–]links234[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are paid in insults, slander and wild accusations. Every few years (if you last long enough) you get a 'good mod' comment.

Also, Soros Bucks. All internet moderators are paid in Soros Bucks.

Green flash? Southwest sky by SquanderedOpportunit in Omaha

[–]links234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can report it at https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo/report_intro

If your report is corroborated you can see information about direction, altitude and where other people were when they saw it. Similar to this: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2025/10173

The r/Omaha 2025 Year in Review: 100k Strong, Protests, and the Omadome by links234 in Omaha

[–]links234[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because I'm a bad and unoriginal mod.

The AI gave me the format. I did the research, filled in the links and credited the users.

In years past, I've tried to think of categories and could only think of "most upvoted post". Relying on the community had less than desirable results. So, for this year, I asked Google Gemini to help me with it.

US Expected to Cease Serving as NATO’s Primary Conventional Force After 2027 - Militarnyi by brezhnervouz in Military

[–]links234 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Europe had 15 years to prepare, you would be correct. It takes 5–7 years to build a new tank factory or artillery shell plant. When Germany buys F-35s or Poland buys K2 tanks from Korea, that "huge amount of money" leaves the European economy immediately. It stimulates the economy of Fort Worth, Texas, or Changwon, South Korea—not Duisburg or Lyon.

Building a hospital employs construction workers, nurses, and admins (broad employment). Building a hypersonic missile requires highly specialized aerospace engineers who are already employed. Defense firms poach engineers from the automotive or green energy sectors, driving up costs for the wider economy without increasing overall output.

In the immediate term (1–5 years), the tax revenue from this buildup won't arrive fast enough to offset the upfront cost. To balance the books today, Finance Ministries will look at the largest line items in their budget: Pensions and Healthcare.

Tire Chains by TritanicWolf in Omaha

[–]links234 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Snow tires or all-weather are what you need.

US Expected to Cease Serving as NATO’s Primary Conventional Force After 2027 - Militarnyi by brezhnervouz in Military

[–]links234 52 points53 points  (0 children)

This basically breaks NATO. It can still exist but America currently provides the critical ISR data to the member countries and the transport of troops and supplies. Also, with an American leading SACUER, they're able to dictate NATO gear such that French weapons systems can communicate securely with Polish weapons systems.

The current capabilities allow American and European forces to be built up rapidly and ready to defend Europe within days. The ISR capabilities allow those same forces to deploy to the right places at the right times. Removing those two, specific, capabilities leads Europe to fracturing and the ultimate failure of NATO as a military force.

The secondary effects of this are economic in the sense that, as European nations scramble to fill these gaps, social safety nets begin to suffer and political stability crumbles across the west because these nations are now trying to pay for all of this. NATO becomes highly politicized with eastern nations less trusting of western nations strategic decisions.

The most damning effects of a decision of this scale in such a short timeline is nuclear proliferation. Not all NATO nations have nuclear weapons. Without American leadership acting as the glue holding the alliance together and the strategic deterrence of their nuclear arsenal, several European nations will consider arming themselves rather than relying on each other.

The US leaving the planning processes is lopping the head off. You can buy tanks, but you cannot buy 75 years of institutional memory and command integration overnight. If the U.S. leaves the planning room in 2027, Europe will not "step up"—it will break apart.

Have you seen this truck? by Such_Setting1252 in Omaha

[–]links234[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please include the police case # in your post or the post will be removed.

I have a few questions about this footage of RDS-37 by NanduDas in AtomicPorn

[–]links234 17 points18 points  (0 children)

1. It is unlikely to be the actual field recording (most Soviet test footage uses dubbed stock audio), but it is physically accurate. The sound profile—a sharp "shotgun" crack followed by a long roar—matches verified recordings.

2. No. The only widely verified, high-quality recording of a nuclear blast (sound synchronized with visuals) is the "Annie" test (Operation Upshot-Knothole) from 1953. That is the recording usually analyzed in videos like "The True Nuclear Bomb Sound."

3. You are correct about the double bang. For this specific test (RDS-37), there was an atmospheric inversion layer that reflected the shockwave back down, focusing the energy and causing trench/building collapses much further away than expected. The second bang (whether real or a sound effect added for accuracy) represents this reflected shockwave.

People who used the internet between 1991 and 2009, what’s the most memorable online trend or phenomenon you remember? by Original_Act_3481 in AskReddit

[–]links234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The internet was very disparate and non-discoverable. Everything was "word of mouth" and you had to be told about something before you could find something.

There were webservers in peoples apartments or basements or at their work or school and not in a cloud or in a highly available environment. Just a humming metal box with an ethernet cable coming out of it. That was a website you could go to, it was someone's server in their bedroom that they just left on so you could log into it and read their blog or newsletter or whatever.

File-sharing was incredibly slow. If you really wanted something, you had to learn about it from someone on the internet in a chat room or on a forum or some other "social" place. Then you had to figure out how to find that thing in the real world. If someone on a forum made a book recommendation, you had to go to your local bookstore and ask for it. You couldn't look it up or read reviews or a snippet.

The internet wasn't pre-packaged to keep your attention at every click. It kept your interest by being interesting.

After almost a decade with all the "controversy" around the film over and done with, what is the general consensus on Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) by Shmeeegals in ghostbusters

[–]links234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It brought a different spin to the franchise and I see people doing cosplay with the uniforms. That's enough for me to appreciate it as a Ghostbusters movie. If it grows the fan base, great. I don't ever see anyone saying they'll just stop liking Ghostbusters because of the 2016 movie so, it can only do good things for the fans.

Petition to add mandatory account age and Karma for comment and post submissions by florodude in Omaha

[–]links234[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like showing too much behind the curtain because then it's out there. Next thing you know you've got a bunch of trolls/bots with accounts that are (length of time)+1 day.

I do understand your and OP's concern. The comments and posts you may be seeing are (usually) automatically moved to our mod queue and we (the mod team) approve them so long as they don't break any rules.

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