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I mod a worryingly growing list of communities. Ask away if you have any questions or issues with any of the communities.

I also run the hobby and nerd interest website scratch-that.org.

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Caravan Of Courage?

Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)

Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....

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An electrical circuit must be completed to function. Some telegraph designs used only one wire, and used the earth as the return to complete the signal.

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A simple model for a telegraph line is seen in the diagram below. A basic telegraph setup may use one wire on poles with glass insulators attached to the pole. All electrical circuits must have an outgoing path and an incoming path to the power source (e.g. a battery). The circuit is considered complete because the current can flow from the negative (-) terminal of the battery to the positive (+) terminal. The current loop is completed to the battery through the Earth (Yes, the Earth is a good conductor because the cross-section of such a conductor is enormous).

The comment was asking if that’s what is happening, since there appears to only be a single wire. I am not an expert on WW1 field telephones, but I do believe a phone can work on the same wire setup as the telegraph. It is a plausible question.

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Looks like paper shells loaded with lots of shot were the default ammunition.

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I’m going to guess that chamber pressure would be quite low. It seems no more dangerous than firing a normal shotgun really.

"Quaker guns" at Manassas Junction March 1862. (lemmy.world)

A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The...

Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)

The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....

US anti-armor grenade packed inside a foam football, 1973 (lemmy.world)

“Since a regulation-size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....

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Unfortunately, not compatible with a shaped charge.

Squashhead, maybe, but squashheads need a lot of rotation to work well and I don’t think even a two time touchdown in one game high school quarterback has enough of a throwing arm for them.

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Well, this football thing is terrible for a lot of reasons, but the fragmentation radius of a shaped charge munition that is not designed to make secondary frag is actually very low. (Many munitions will intentionally tack some frag on because usually there’s no reason not to, but it’s easy to design a munition excluding extra frag) At that point the blast radius becomes the main factor, which again is relatively low.

Throwing this thing at a tank or armored vehicle is unlikely to make it instantly catastrophically explode. Even the later MPIM munitions, which were almost certainly better explosively designed were only really expected to score mobility kills consistently.

The bigger question is: Do you feel comfortable getting within throwing distance of a vehicle with at least one machinegun on it to toss this thing that will probably just make the crew angry at you?

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Ok, I will read more thanks. I already found a loosely sourced article here..

I suppose I had overlooked what should have been obvious, especially since I already mentioned MPIM (Multi-Purpose Individual Munition program, a program in the 1980s looking for ways to launch munitions without backblast), but the football grenade appears to have been spawned from looking for a way for soldiers in urban areas to attack armor from inside buildings and to reduce how visible they were during attack. I’d still rather have a way to launch it though (PIAT gang 4 life).

Looks like possibly only one was made, so I guess not a super successful program, but I’m genuinely interested to see if there’s any more deep lore on it.

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I almost feel like you’re describing the Trill or the Tokra regarding willing assimilation.

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Here’s your Getty Images source.

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He’s just trying to protect his culture from a bunch of son worshipping weirdos.

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No poweruser, no moderator, can hold an imprisoned meme source by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for memes. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The online polls learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

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DS9 is much tonally darker. It still feels fairly modern in presentation. The show pushes and prods at the utopian Star Trek ideals. There is character growth among the main characters, and overarching stories especially in the last few seasons.

It’s not fully grimdark, and has some of the best interactions and humor in Trek, but the setting is a post-military occupation planet. It doesn’t handwave away the lingering issues.

The cast and characters are great. Easily the best reoccurring show villains in DS9.

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The cheese had very little character development compared to Jake.

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Even the movie being en media res is a retcon.

A New Hope was not called “Episode 4” until its re-release in 1981. Before then it was released and packaged as a stand alone story.

[DISCUSSION] What director(s) do you think have the best filmography?

I was checking out the new season of Fargo, which made me want to rewatch the 1996 movie and I got to thinking, the Coen Brothers have a fantastic filmography. They have way more hits than misses and they make some of the most interesting movies out there. No Country for Old Men is probably one of my favorites of all time. So...

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Not as voluminous as other directors, but Guillermo del Toro is fantastic at realizing movies with dark fantasy elements, giving them equal measures of humor and earnestness to keep audiences invested in the story.

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Oh hey it’s Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes.

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Mad About Me came out in 15 BBY, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They’ve been compared to Max Rebo, but I think Figrin has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

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T’Pol is only interested in eating wall insulation.

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I don’t design or implement features, but sure on a user end I’m sure there are many possibilities for fine tuning. I understand the desire to make a feed act just a certain way, I had used Apollo for Reddit and heavily taken advantage of its filter and organization features.

I don’t think that level of streamlining should be the default on the federation level, as OP mused by merging the communities themselves. The existence of duplicate communities is a feature of federation.

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The redundancy is somewhat the point. While one instance may have a dominant version of a community which is visited by people of numerous instances, other instances having local versions promotes decentralization, and helps smaller instance form their own culture.

The decentralization is good because it ensures a single power mod, cabal of mods, or crooked admin situation can not unilaterally ruin everything. Users can just jump ship to a different community that is run by different admins and mods.

Smaller instances having spaces where their own memes and in-jokes is good to create a culture for that instance to help give some different flavor and helps that specific instance grow. This feeds into supporting the variety of smaller communities on that instance, allowing them a chance at traction rather than existing in a void.

If you want both communities, just subscribe to them both and let them appear on your feed.

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