I am (still) listening to an audio-book called “Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser. It’s mainly dealing with a Titan II missile incident in the US. I know the Stanislav Petrov and Vasili Arkhipov incidents, but very little about just how badly America managed her own stockpile. I was prepared this would send a few shivers down my spine and I was not disappointed.
What I don’t like about it is that first and foremost it’s written in a way to tell a gripping story, so the juicy information is embedded in a narrative that spends too much time describing things I don’t care about. It jumps around too much, it cuts just like a movie—the overarching plot is the Titan II incident and the narrative jumps back and forth from this red thread to how the first bomb was built and tested, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, how the bombers worked, how Eisenhower saw it, how Kennedy saw it, how the safety and failsafe mechanisms were slowly developed and added, how NATO became the dumping ground for missiles that were just about as likely to blow up somewhere you didn’t want as they were to hit anywhere close to a Soviet target...
I’m not quite finished with it yet but I mainly enjoyed listening so far and learned quite a deal despite the suboptimal “story-presentation”. Also I can only recommend audio-books in general, they are really good while you have to do tedious chores that require more working with your hands than with your head.
Oh no I cocked that one up. I wanted to copy-paste this under “Meta”, as audio-books aren’t listed yet. I thought to retract this post meant to delete it entirely. Captain?
...is there a time limit before that happens? Because my button is gone now yet it wasn’t replaced by another button, it just says “Retracted” where the button was beforehand and the word is not clickable either.
I think you just need to reload the page for the ‘delete’ option to become available to your retracted comment, but that it’s only possible if it hasn’t yet been responded to. So the very fact you asked about how to delete it under your original post, meant that you no longer could.
Someone with moderator/admin rights should be able to delete it entirely—if anyone with those rights passes by here then please do so. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I wanted to copy-paste this under “Meta”, as audio-books aren’t listed yet.
Btw, that’s what the “Other Media” thread is for, not the Meta thread. I’ve inherited the ‘rules’ from my predecessors, but I’ll edit the post to try and make them a bit more clear, short and to the point, for this and all future monthly media threads...
I am (still) listening to an audio-book called “Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser. It’s mainly dealing with a Titan II missile incident in the US. I know the Stanislav Petrov and Vasili Arkhipov incidents, but very little about just how badly America managed her own stockpile. I was prepared this would send a few shivers down my spine and I was not disappointed.
What I don’t like about it is that first and foremost it’s written in a way to tell a gripping story, so the juicy information is embedded in a narrative that spends too much time describing things I don’t care about. It jumps around too much, it cuts just like a movie—the overarching plot is the Titan II incident and the narrative jumps back and forth from this red thread to how the first bomb was built and tested, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, how the bombers worked, how Eisenhower saw it, how Kennedy saw it, how the safety and failsafe mechanisms were slowly developed and added, how NATO became the dumping ground for missiles that were just about as likely to blow up somewhere you didn’t want as they were to hit anywhere close to a Soviet target...
I’m not quite finished with it yet but I mainly enjoyed listening so far and learned quite a deal despite the suboptimal “story-presentation”. Also I can only recommend audio-books in general, they are really good while you have to do tedious chores that require more working with your hands than with your head.
Oh no I cocked that one up. I wanted to copy-paste this under “Meta”, as audio-books aren’t listed yet. I thought to retract this post meant to delete it entirely. Captain?
When you retract a comment, then a deletion button appears in the retraction button’s place. So deletion is a two-step process.
...is there a time limit before that happens? Because my button is gone now yet it wasn’t replaced by another button, it just says “Retracted” where the button was beforehand and the word is not clickable either.
I think you just need to reload the page for the ‘delete’ option to become available to your retracted comment, but that it’s only possible if it hasn’t yet been responded to. So the very fact you asked about how to delete it under your original post, meant that you no longer could.
Someone with moderator/admin rights should be able to delete it entirely—if anyone with those rights passes by here then please do so. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Not sure. There may be an interaction with whether it’s been replied to.
Btw, that’s what the “Other Media” thread is for, not the Meta thread. I’ve inherited the ‘rules’ from my predecessors, but I’ll edit the post to try and make them a bit more clear, short and to the point, for this and all future monthly media threads...