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Varkk posted:Pretty sure after that the Allies realised the importance of using code names that didn't match anything to do with the project. They didn't. It took decades before the US intelligence community switched to random operation names after a bunch where the people picking names clearly picked things related to what the operation was about.
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Aug 18, 2019 14:23
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Log082 posted:if it worked that way, PhD students would be lining up to injure themselves in new and creative ways Have you never met a PhD student? They're constantly finding new and creative ways to injure themselves. I know I did.
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Toys For rear end Bum posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiIUhcQmx-0 Wish my eyes had been burned out after reading the comments.
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ExecuDork posted:Have you never met a PhD student? They're constantly finding new and creative ways to injure themselves. I know I did. Sounds like grad school, alright. And also some of my former students as a divemaster  e: courtesy the schadenfreude thread: Snowglobe of Doom posted:Crossbracing? Nah, she'll be right ... Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Aug 18, 2019 15:47
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Grundulum posted:And 50-70 years later forgot it with “Operation Desert Storm”, “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, and “Operation Enduring Freedom”. (Though the cynic in me argues that these names actually did have nothing to do with their factual outcomes. those are the code names you choose when you want everyone to know what you're doing (or in the latter two, when you want the cable news to lie about what you're doing)
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FuturePastNow posted:those are the code names you choose when you want everyone to know what you're doing (or in the latter two, when you want the cable news to lie about what you're doing) quote:“Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code-words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as ’Triumphant,’ or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as... ‘Massacre,’” Churchill wrote.
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Aug 18, 2019 16:05
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FuturePastNow posted:those are the code names you choose when you want everyone to know what you're doing (or in the latter two, when you want the cable news to lie about what you're doing) Yeah, no one actually cared about the code names for those because they were things the US straight up told everyone we were going to do. The code names were strictly for PR purposes.
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Aug 18, 2019 16:17
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Operation Anime Pillow
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Cojawfee posted:They didn't. It took decades before the US intelligence community switched to random operation names after a bunch where the people picking names clearly picked things related to what the operation was about. That's just because the US is stupid. The British immediately absorbed the Wotan lesson and all of their Cold war projects were a random color plus a random word, like Blue Peacock (nuclear land mine) or Orange Harvest (radar warning system).
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Aug 18, 2019 16:43
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You can be clever without being too obvious. The deception plan around Operation Overlord was called Operation Bodyguard, from a comment made by Churchill at Tehran, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
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other people posted:Operation Anime Pillow No the idea is to make the code name NOT explicitly describe the project
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Aug 18, 2019 17:41
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Sagebrush posted:Shot in the face with a 76 GeV proton beam and the Russian government denied him a disability pension To be fair, that's about a 0.2/10 on the "hosed up poo poo that happened to people working around radiation in the USSR" scale. Come back to the disability office when you and your friend drink tritiated water or dump all your leftover PUREX goo down a floor drain
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Aug 18, 2019 19:37
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Cojawfee posted:What the hell is the smell of "old dirt"? Sorry your sense of smell doesn't work.
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Aug 18, 2019 19:39
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Sagebrush posted:That's just because the US is stupid. The British immediately absorbed the Wotan lesson and all of their Cold war projects were a random color plus a random word, like Blue Peacock (nuclear land mine) Still too easy that figure out that one. Blue like Cherenkov radiation so it involves nuclear stuff. Peacock means there’s a bird involved so probably a chicken. So logically it would be some sort of chicken-heated nuclear weapon. Which it was.
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hey similar to SWIFT truckers do people driving for A. Duie Pyle ever get tired of calling their company lovely? Because that's what a dewy pile sounds like.Sagebrush posted:That's just because the US is stupid. The British immediately absorbed the Wotan lesson and all of their Cold war projects were a random color plus a random word, like Blue Peacock (nuclear land mine) or Orange Harvest (radar warning system). So you're saying Blue Harvest is a nuclear warning system?  What was Lucas trying to tell us?!
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Aug 18, 2019 20:05
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Orange Peacock, the land mine that sterilizes everyone walking over it
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Aug 18, 2019 22:20
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Some homegrown from the Sly Fox bar in Orlando:
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chitoryu12 posted:Some homegrown from the Sly Fox bar in Orlando: I'm the rainbow Monstera sticker?
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Is it really "possible" if the possibility is 100%?
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Aug 19, 2019 00:08
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Oh hey, I get to contribute something from my home:  I have been using this extension cord for 10 years. In my house. Sometimes with heavy-duty power tools, sometimes under my bed (not both scenarios at the same time). What really pisses me off is that I have always regarded it as a very safe and durable one as it uses very heavy cable and I am pretty sure I orginally stole it from the machine maintenance section of a previous employer, so I knew it had been put together by an electrically-qualified machine engineer.
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Aug 19, 2019 00:21
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Is that supposed to be a fuse?
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Aug 19, 2019 00:28
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Eh your fuse box will trip before you could overload it anyway. Unless of course it is also full of the same thing....
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Shut up Meg posted:it had been put together by an electrically-qualified machine engineer. Cojawfee posted:Is that supposed to be a fuse?
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Shut up Meg posted:Oh hey, I get to contribute something from my home: Posting the obligatory fuse chart 
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Bad Munki posted:Everything is a fuse if you put enough current through it. 
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Aug 19, 2019 00:34
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Cojawfee posted:Is that supposed to be a fuse? It's thin tin foil wrapped around a fuse. Not even good tin foil. Like the stuff wrapped around a roll of candies with a paper wrapper over it.
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Aug 19, 2019 00:39
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Shut up Meg posted:It's thin tin foil wrapped around a fuse.
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Lurking Haro posted:Posting the obligatory fuse chart That 130-ampere size is really difficult to find anymore. They’re never in stock.
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Phanatic posted:That 130-ampere size is really difficult to find anymore. They’re never in stock. Head to the middle east.
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Aug 19, 2019 04:51
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 I like my outlets like I like my catfish - blackened.
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Dannywilson posted:Head to the middle east. I always thought that was a bottle opener, maybe a small novelty one, until I had a can of Pepsi in Jordan that used it. Whyyyy. Shut up Meg posted:Oh hey, I get to contribute something from my home:
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Dannywilson posted:Head to the middle east.
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zedprime posted:Well duh, if you use the good tin foil it won't blow at an appropriate level of amps. mobby_6kl posted:I don't know what you're complaining about, seems like it was modded for higher durability for you. Hedenius posted:Or China. Why is that by the way? Did they just pick up a bunch of machinery on the cheap when the US and Europe switched to stay-tab?
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That Russian definitely-not-nuclear explosion was totally on the level.quote:Two days after the explosion of a suspected nuclear-powered cruise missile undergoing testing on Aug. 8, two monitoring stations nearest the site of the accident stopped transmitting data, Just a coincidence.
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SelenicMartian posted:That Russian definitely-not-nuclear explosion was totally on the level. Of course it's not a nuclear explosion, just a containment failure. Don't worry about those fission products, the Russians have experience with them.
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Not great; not terrible.
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