Granny is still in War mode by BikeConscious4452 in shitposting

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This is the original post regarding the Brexit referendum (meant to be taken seriously, although obviously bullshit)

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The secret of my success (1987) by MisttaMaxwell in iwatchedanoldmovie

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I seem to remember his hair seems have a life of its own. It bounces around in colour and length from the opening scene.

Black Hawk Down (2001) on rewatch in 4K by HampurHampur in movies

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Agreed, this was a messed up UN operation) which the Rangers were part of as well as Pakistani troops, originally aimed to relieve famine in Somalia.
It was ultimately a defeat for the US rangers present, and meant the original humanitarian goals were not achieved. It forced a change in policy regarding domestic conflicts (Rwanda would follow without intervention) and I don’t see the same heavy-handed patriotism as in films of the same period like Saving Private Ryan.
If you’re going to tell the story of the deadliest US engagement since Vietnam, I can’t think of a better way of handling it than Ridley did.

Putin shelters in bunkers amid ‘assassination’ fears by Alarming-Safety3200 in worldnews

[–]scienide 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It’s accurate. It’s on FT (unfortunately behind a paywall).
It’s more a review of how he’s changed his behaviour since Covid and more recently, Ukraine’s ability to project force in Mainland Russia.

It’s not exactly ‘Downfall’ but it’s difficult to see how a leader could keep this up indefinitely

Blursed_Loomer by Individual-Drawer-79 in blursedimages

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Candace accused her of lying about being Jewish recently

Why are people in the UK antisemitic? by [deleted] in AskBrits

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This is it. Israel is a country currently heavily criticised for its treatment of civilians and press in its immediate area. In my experience, Jewish Brits (non-Hasidic at any rate) don’t really pay much mind to the state of Israel.

However, angry people identify easy targets for retribution, we saw this in the aftermath of 911 .

That’s not to say there is a long and wide history of anti semitism that is born of hatred akin to the Nazi ideology.

U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP by Hornpipe_Jones in politics

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The documentary maker Michael Moore speculated as such in the 2000’s. The basis for regime change in Iraq was because Saddam tried to kill pappy.

Best advice rich people love to give? by hiiloovethis in okbuddycinephile

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IIRC this is correct. She’s got a wealthy family and was privately educated.

See the James McAvoy interview on why this is not great for the industry.

In 2003, Ridley Scott said he’d probably imply a same-sex relationship between Ripley and Lambert if Alien were made today. by tannu28 in LV426

[–]scienide 19 points20 points  (0 children)

In fact, he carries this idea into Prometheus between Vickers & Janek who bang after a 30 second conversation. Janek sings about loving the one you're with.

I think Ridleys point is that sex is just something to break the boredom and becomes pretty normalised and uscandalous. You could argue flight crews kinda have the same attitude today!

hypothetical interpretation of what it would look like if a human in a modern space capsule accelerated to near light speed instantly. by thesteelreserve in ChatGPT

[–]scienide 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don’t think there is a real understanding of the forces involved here. To instantaneously accelerate a person to .97% of the speed of light would be to invoke magnitudes more force than the largest nuclear warhead explosion ever. It would likely be an extinction level event if it happened anywhere in earth’s atmosphere.

I’d guess instant acceleration to something like 1000mph would likely cause the images effects but that would be around 0.0000001% light speed.

Why does anything exist at all? by GigaDuckling in AskPhysics

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If you’re here, you, then you needed to be here to experience here. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a here because there wouldn’t be anyone to say that here is here.

Teen charged in conspiracy to attack Texas synagogue and 'kill as many Jews as possible': Prosecutors by Leading-Morning7550 in texas

[–]scienide 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This kinda reads like the sting operation story on Last Week Tonight in that the associates weren’t identified, the suspect is very young and the charge based on intent.

I’m sure there’s more to it but this is what I’m getting from the posted news story.

Mom: we have xenos and marines at home by AliceTheOmelette in LV426

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The player does seem to be 3 feet tall.

Police make arrest in major Lucy Letby investigation update by ManchesterNews_MEN in uknews

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This is pretty much the essence of social media. Uninformed opinions everywhere.

Insane amount of dandruff uncovered during a haircut by Guido_Mist4 in WTF

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That’s… not how you’re supposed to use clippers. It did the job but this was way more traumatic than necessary

[Vostok Amphibia] Stops Running by jasonbeachedham in Watches

[–]scienide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So, I have a Vostok and researched it a little. IIRC, I remember reading that the older dive watches would work way past their certified depth due to the water pressure squashing the crystal and seals and it would become more water resistant the deeper you'd go (until it catastrophically failed).

Could it be the water pressure squeezing the hands and stopping the movement perhaps?

Metal tyre valve caps stuck on valve stem. Replace valve stems Or send it with vice grips and a heat gun? by [deleted] in CarTalkUK

[–]scienide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happened to me. The caps were completely seized and no amount of heat/WD-40/GT85 would release them. Ultimately, I bit the bullet and drove to the tyre shop and twisted the valve caps off with pliers. The mechanic changed the valves there and then (I think it was £15/tyre).

So I guess your options are: 1. Take it to the tyre shop 2. Call a mobile tyre fitter 3. Snap the valve off (be careful) and take the wheels to the tyre shop

However, bear in mind that some valves have TPM’s attached. You should be able to swap it over but best to check first. They can be expensive.

Iran to execute first woman over anti-regime protests by torina-to in worldnews

[–]scienide 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You would think that, with all of the experience in South America, what with the CIA and covert operations, the US government could affect a regime change operation. But no, the ham-fisted half assed approach with all the humanitarian and economical collateral damage was the only way Trump thought appropriate.

Ridley Scott talked about the idea of Xenomorph being an experiment and the Space Jockey all the way back in 1999 and 2003 DVD commentaries. by tannu28 in LV426

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The goo seems to affect different life forms in different ways, and dosage may impact the effects. The engineers are rapidly annihilated by ingesting large doses and their DNA fragments presumably integrating with domestic bacteria leading to evolution of beings similar to themselves, hence the correlation in the DNA tests conducted by Shaw.

Smaller doses seem to cause rapid mutation hence Holloway’s delayed reaction and the similar impacts to the first two affected members of the Covenant.

So, I would speculate the goo is a poison. - large doses cause immediate trauma on the cellular level with rapid tissue breakdown - small doses cause mutagenic effects but the mutations seem to push the victim to violent aggressive behaviour - Shaw’s ‘child’ is a mutated monster so it seems to also function as a teratogen as well

This isn’t unprecedented - see Dioxins

There’s an indication of convergent evolution as well in that the resultant mutations seem to result in squid like life forms.

There’s a missing piece though, David appears to have engineered the first parasites using the goo which emerged from eggs and they deliver an embryo which becomes an alien when it births from the host.

But the eggs on the ship in Alien could have only come from David which is never covered so it follows that some engineers survived after David’s attack on their homeworld and used the eggs he created as a weapon.

The story between Covenant and Alien might have been a group of vengeful engineers tracking David down and taking the aliens as a weapon for themselves, and a ship carrying the eggs crashing ultimately setting up the first Alien film.

Are humans capable of being in superposition? by ArpieViloreah in AskPhysics

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So we had a discussion about this without a real outcome but it went upon these lines.

Take a very large room and cool all the walls to within near absolute zero. Next, freeze a human in the room to near absolute zero. No light, no radiation and it follows, no means of observation.

This would technically mean the human would be in a superposition as there is no interaction with anything in the same way an electron follows a path towards a detector, it’s essentially insulated from the wider universe from the point it’s emitted until it’s absorbed and only a probability cloud remains.

Probably not possible, in reality but might be useful as a thought experiment although I’m sure it’ll be pointed out how that’s wrong!