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Vi så Mystic River her til aften. Formidabel film, der gør én vred og ked af det over de uretfærdigheder der kan forekomme ude i verden. Der er så mange psykologiske lag i denne film og mysteriet og dramaet er pisse godt skruet sammen.

Men - og her kommer jeg nok lige til at afsløre en meget grim side af mig selv - jeg begik den fejl at tjekke Letterboxd og se hvad folket havde skrevet derinde og hold nu kæft hvor er der mange, der tror at filmen handler om at det er okay at slå et uskyldigt menneske ihjel hvis man er macho.

Nogle gange burde film virkelig have en slags PG rating for folk der er for dumme til at forstå historiefortælling, der er mere kompliceret end den gennemsnitlige Marvel film.

Undskyld, men man bliver jo helt harm når man ser det ene review efter det andet pisse op og ned ad Clint Eastwood og insinuere at manden mangler empati og medmenneskelighed.

Sguda ikke hans skyld at du er for dum til at forstå subtekst og at ord der bliver sagt af én karakter ikke afspejler den endegyldige morale før tæppefald.

Og nej, den der finger gun til sidst var ikke et udtryk for at de to gutter var bros og buddy-buddy. Hold da kæft, jeg er så målløs.

Jeg magter seriøst ikke dette niveau af idioti, omfg.

From Wikipedia:

Cecil Houston, the manager of the KSC office of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, set up a three-way conference call with Morton Thiokol in Utah and the KSC in Florida on the evening of January 27 to discuss the safety of the launch.

Morton Thiokol engineers expressed their concerns about the effect of low temperatures on the resilience of the rubber O-rings. As the colder temperatures lowered the elasticity of the rubber O-rings, the engineers feared that the O-rings would not be extruded to form a seal at the time of launch. The engineers argued that they did not have enough data to determine whether the O-rings would seal at temperatures colder than 53 °F (12 °C), the coldest launch of the Space Shuttle to date.  During this discussion, Lawrence Mulloy, the NASA SRB project manager, said that he did not accept the analysis behind this decision, and demanded to know if Morton Thiokol expected him to wait until April for warmer temperatures.  Morton Thiokol employees Robert Lund, the Vice President of Engineering, and Joe Kilminster, the Vice President of the Space Booster Programs, recommended against launching until the temperature was above 53 °F (12 °C).

When the teleconference prepared to hold a recess to allow for private discussion amongst Morton Thiokol management, Allan J. McDonald, Morton Thiokol's Director of the Space Shuttle SRM Project who was sitting at the KSC end of the call,  reminded his colleagues in Utah to examine the interaction between delays in the primary O-rings sealing relative to the ability of the secondary O-rings to provide redundant backup, believing this would add enough to the engineering analysis to get Mulloy to stop accusing the engineers of using inconclusive evidence to try and delay the launch.  When the call resumed, Morton Thiokol leadership had changed their opinion and stated that the evidence presented on the failure of the O-rings was inconclusive and that there was a substantial margin in the event of a failure or erosion. They stated that their decision was to proceed with the launch.

When McDonald told Mulloy that, as the onsite representative at KSC he would not sign off on the decision, Mulloy demanded that Morton Thiokol provide a signed recommendation to launch; Kilminster confirmed that he would sign it and fax it from Utah immediately, and the teleconference ended.  Mulloy called Arnold Aldrich, the NASA Mission Management Team Leader, to discuss the launch decision and weather concerns, but did not mention the O-ring discussion; the two agreed to proceed with the launch.

Dunno about you, but it sounds a lot like NASA, especially Lawrence Mulloy, practically twisted Morton Thiokol's arms until one of them (Joe Kilminster) relented and signed off on the launch. Mulloy even lied by omission at the end there to get his way. I wonder how he could sleep at night after this stunt.

The issue was that they knew there were issues with the shuttle and had been warned by several engineers about launching in the cold weather they were having at the time, but NASA ignored them and sent the Challenger on its way anyways. It's been awhile so I forget the details of exactly what it was that was wrong, but I think it ~~was the metal in some screws~~ that wasn't able to deal with the differences in temperatures and the engineers said shit would go wrong if they didn't replace them and nobody listened. It was a very preventable disaster that only happened due to laziness and impatience on NASA's part.

• it was the rubber in the O-ring seals that couldn't handle the differences in temperature.

Yeah, I think you are. Good that you see it yourself.

I didn't! Would have thought Muhammed/Mohammad/etc would be the most common one. Mostly because I feel like almost every Arab man I meet is named some version of Muhammed. :D

Could be that Ahmed is just his father's name as Arabs tend to give their kids the middle names of the fathers before them. It can sometimes create very, very, very, VERY long names if the chain isn't broken. Have heard of cases where the man had like 50 middle names. It is kind of crazy.

Of course, that doesn't explain why he would decide to not have his last name on the certificate if it really is his, but this could be an explanation for the name.

Just me not catching my phone autocorrecting cars to Cara for some reason. I'll fix it, 2 sec.

The mere thought of my boyfriend having to bike 90km to work on the highway is equal parts funny and terrifying, lol.

You got it from both sides, you poor thing haha.

I think it is so funny that people seem to forget that Gen X set the stage for internet culture when most millennials were teens and preteens.

Absolutely love that millennials are once again taking all the blame for actions that the whiny generation also partook in and indeed cultivated with glee before behavioral regulations online became a thing. When that happened, millennials were also being blamed for being too soft.

We rarely eat red meat in our household, but we do have a car. They fucked our local public transportation system so badly we ended up not having a choice 🤷‍♀️

Just came from another discussion about cars killing the same number of people as guns do in Chicago, so by that logic: cars are good for the environment too.