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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago

Not great, not terrible

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

And I guess it wasn't profitable enough for them to keep it up because HBO stopped having this available on their streaming platform ages ago. Now you have to buy it from Amazon or Apple.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

Not great, not terrible

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 48 points 1 day ago
[–] onipa@feddit.org 22 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
[–] grittycat@lemmy.world 52 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

The general dosimeters available at Chernobyl could only read up to 3.6 Roentgen, so they took that value and said "hey, that's not a too bad a level of radiation" without realizing (or putting in their due diligence) that the true reading was over 15,000. And the head operator and architect of the disaster (dyatlov) kept using 3.6 as the proof that everything is alright and just a minor setback even though the only higher range dosimeter that was available immediately fried itself

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

I thought this was a machine from that timeline control centre thingie from Loki. That makes more sense.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Watch the show Chernobyl, it's worth it

[–] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip -1 points 16 hours ago

Historical fiction

[–] MunkyNutts@feddit.online 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I was curious too. This is my best guess,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

The reactor crew could ascertain only that the radiation levels were somewhere above 0.001 R/s (3.6 R/h), while the true levels were vastly higher in some areas.

Because of inaccurate low readings, reactor crew chief Aleksandr Akimov assumed that the reactor was intact. The evidence of pieces of graphite and reactor fuel lying around the building was ignored, and the readings of another dosimeter brought in by 04:30 were dismissed under the assumption that the new dosimeter must have been defective.

Note the name Akimov in the post.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

He's delusional, take him to the Infirmary

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice. Have you tried pressing AZ-5 for a boost? Its a blast.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

It’s like Alt-F4! Free aimbot in counter-strike 1.6

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How about a nice game of chess

[–] Nonprophet@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Chess is a strange game. For me, the only winning move, is not to play at all.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

That's a very Cheery and noble setup.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 14 hours ago

That looks like it can run the latest AAA games at 1000 fps (high settings)

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

How do you get the air to sparkle like that

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 22 hours ago

You should run a test were you temporarily disable the 4th processor core, stimulating a emergency

[–] user1234@fedinsfw.app 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the rating on the Richter scale?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I wouldn't say it's on the scale anymore no

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

If I rate it too high, there may be some fallout

[–] siravious@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Nice 5090.. buttons..