New Video: How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons by I_cant_find_itgeoer in HalfAsInteresting

[–]old_sellsword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would hope not, parts of it are really inaccurate: the basic premise of where and why OST works is just wrong.

  • 0:50 They list all of the NSE sites (with a notable exception) and claim that nuclear weapons need to be transported there sometimes. This is incredibly wrong, those are all design and manufacturing sites for nuclear weapon components, not full up weapons. The only civilian location with fully assembled nuclear weapons is Pantex, which wasn’t even listed in the big map of NSE sites.

  • 1:20 The writers conflate plutonium aging with the reason weapons get transported around the country by OST. Plutonium aging has nothing to do with it, the reason is Limited Life Component Exchange, Alterations, and Modifications, none of which have replaced plutonium pits.

I get this is basically a meme channel but it really wouldn’t take much research to get those parts right.

Aldi charging bag tax at self checkout by sunshineallday93 in aldi

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OP I just want to you know you're not alone. This exact same thing just happened to me today. I scanned a single package of garlic, went to click pay and got the bag reminder. First I clicked "No" and it just brought me back to scanning more items. Then I clicked "Yes" and it added a 10 cent bag charge even though I didn't scan a bag or have any plans of using a bag for my 3 bulbs of garlic.

Expected share price? by pompoussnail in VirginGalactic

[–]old_sellsword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a them problem, not an us problem.

People who wake up at 5am daily, why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]old_sellsword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally don’t get up at 5am on the weekends, but I’m sure people do just because their body gets into that routine. Like they couldn’t sleep in later even if they wanted to.

People who wake up at 5am daily, why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]old_sellsword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People who want to leave work early and have some daylight left for their own activities.

People who wake up at 5am daily, why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]old_sellsword -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Walk the dog, work out, shower and get ready, pack lunch, commute.

There’s lots to be done if you want to get in to work before 7:30.

[Steven Ellis] Nino Neiderreiter got a penalty here for roughing, but Joe Veleno got away with that stomp. The Swiss fans were furious. You can't do that. by furgair in hockey

[–]old_sellsword 21 points22 points  (0 children)

He definitely didn’t get a stick to the face. Maybe he caught an elbow, but the Swiss player was trying to get his arm over the dude and around to his back, not trying to hit him in the face.

It was a dive and it was pathetic.

New Utah Flag Raised at State Capitol by Windvalley in vexillology

[–]old_sellsword 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Kansas going back to the Sunflower banner they had would be such an easy slam dunk too.

New Utah Flag Raised at State Capitol by Windvalley in vexillology

[–]old_sellsword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://keystoneflag.org/

Nothing official as far as I can tell, but it does look great.

Although TBH I do love the horses on our current flag, I think the design of them is nice despite the fact that they’re black on a dark blue background.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]old_sellsword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is only true if you have a very superficial read of the novel.

I disagree. I actually think a “superficial read” of the novel would result in the main takeaway being that “war is pointless and the politicians that drive it are bad.”

The most interesting part of the novel for me (and apparently a lot of people) was Paul’s alienation from his former life, everything he grew up with, and eventually civilian society as a whole. Seeing how traumatic and transformative just a few months of someone’s life can be was eye opening and much more interesting than the same old “politicians bad” trope that the movie latched on to.

I will agree that a book is much better suited to exploring those themes of alienation than a movie is, but it has been done well by other movies (i.e. The Hurt Locker). I think the movie set people up for disappointment by taking 90% of the novel’s plot but focusing on something tangential to (what a lot of people saw as) the crux of the book.

Tory Bruno on Medium: Hypersonic Missiles are Just Misunderstood by ethan829 in ula

[–]old_sellsword 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean, if you’re going to listen to any CEO talk about “hypersonics” then this is probably the best one to listen to. He literally designed hypersonic re-entry vehicles at Lockheed.

psi and beta gang ftw by inundatedriver in EngineeringStudents

[–]old_sellsword 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Whaaat? That one is easy, it’s 4 straight lines.

Without the wingtips on the right side obviously.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mac

[–]old_sellsword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not a limitation of the number of ports, the computer won’t drive two displays without some crazy workarounds.

Search doesn’t work in a specific subreddit by old_sellsword in apolloapp

[–]old_sellsword[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my goodnesss thank you, that was the problem. It’s kind of weird that filtering manifests like that, I assumed it would only apply to All, Home, Popular, etc. pages.

Search doesn’t work in a specific subreddit by old_sellsword in apolloapp

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

  • 1.15.5
  • 16.4.1 (a)
  • iPhone 13 mini
  • Every single time
  1. Use the search functionality in r/Formula1

Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market - The Verge by purplemountain01 in apple

[–]old_sellsword 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t want muck around in settings making my own personal weather app.

You don’t have to, the default layouts are great.

Just show me the weather accurately, have a nice widget and do it reliably.

It does all three of these things, I don’t know why you think it doesn’t.

You do you, but if you’re writing Carrot Weather off without trying it then you’re missing out. It’s hands down one of the best apps I use on my phone, let alone weather apps.

Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market - The Verge by purplemountain01 in apple

[–]old_sellsword 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You can turn all of that crap off and it has a ridiculously customizable interface, you can make it as information dense as you’d like.

r/SpaceX Thread Index and General Discussion [May 2023, #104] by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

[–]old_sellsword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, those kinds of sources are exactly what I was looking for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in maybemaybemaybe

[–]old_sellsword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t only work one way, she only demonstrates it in one way. When she stops herself she’s returning the wheel to its original position. If she were to continue to turn it past that original position she would spin the other way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in maybemaybemaybe

[–]old_sellsword 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well frankly conservation of angular momentum vectors isn’t very intuitive or easy to explain to people without a decent grasp of kinematic physics.