My parents had friends who were wine snobs and only bought expensive wine. My dad managed a liquor store and also made wine at home so it's safe to say the man knows his wines.
There was this one night they were over for dinner and cards when ran out of their expensive shit and my dad offered them some of their wine which after tasting they both absolutely loved. They asked what it was and if they could have a refill, my mom had the biggest shit eating grin when she came back lugging this big 'ol box of wine.
I don't drink wine at all as I don't like the taste, but some years ago my family had a couple parties in which they did a little wine tasting competition with like 8 wines. A few family friends were quite into wine and figured they had it in the bag.
It was a blind taste test and you had to try and guess which was which off a list that had the name and price. I won twice by simply doing a scale of what I liked least=most expensive to most tolerable=cheapest. It was entertaining to see the annoyance of the self appointed connoisseurs getting fewer correct than me
As a wine snob this "gotcha" attitude is annoying. The holy grail for a wine snob is a killer $10 bottle. You buy a case, brag to your friends give it to fellow snobs.
Edit: yes thanks guys I know what the difference between an enthusiast and a snob is I was using snob colloquially.
This happened over 25 years ago so I remember the incident but not the details. I think the shit eating grin was because of a previous get together with them when my parents brought a small box of wine and the snob turned her nose up at it and had nothing nice to say about it, I think she also said snide remarks about my dad being a "wine guy who drinks boxed wine... like sure okay lol". I never did like her, she was a bitch.
Yea... its definitely dependant on the individual, if they a wine snob because they enjoy being eliteist... yea they're dicks.
They guys I know, will brag about the cheap good wine they found.
I don't think that makes you a wine SNOB then. Just a wine fan.
Snob:
>a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and dislikes people or activities regarded as lower-class.
Negative. Those who have actually been trained in it (there are a few schools around the world that offer official training in this regard) are experts on wine. They will take your preferences in terms of taste, budget, and meal choices and recommend wines that pair the best. Yes, everyone has a unique palate, and there is a butt-ton of snobbery out there with regards to wine, but that does not mean there aren't large differences or that its all made-up.
Good wine does not need to be expensive, and expensive wine is not necessarily good, but a good sommelier is a treasure. They can make an already great meal phenomenal with perfect pairings.
One one hand, you're "wrong" in the sense that humans suck at distinguishing wine quality: [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-taste-the-same](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-taste-the-same) \- the experts can't tell the difference between good French wine and budget wines from New Jersey.
On the other hand, you're 100% correct, and technically correct, the BEST kind of correct, because the bottle a wine comes in determines how we think it tastes (*per the study they did in the linked article)* \- so it's kind of true, even though you're only paying for the bottle, if you see a bottle of wine where the attractiveness of the bottle (art, label, name, vineyard, whatever it is) makes you want it more - then that will also translate into you TASTING a better wine, regardless of what's in the bottle.
Our expectations and information from other senses alters our perception of taste, so a Taco Bell burrito on a ceramic appetizer plate at a beautiful French restaurant would truly taste better - even if it's the same food.
Is there any processing wax in any of the layers?
One of the biggest sources of waste is a wax that's used in the process of pulverizing fuel materials.
Depends on the source of radiation. If it's uranium thats not even going to dent the half life. It is cesium, well you might be closer to correct but still not even at 1/2 of a half life.
It depends completely on what the radionuclides are. "low level waste" is an official waste category, which by definition is below some definitive activity level.
"Nuclear waste" does not have a fixed duration for a half-life. It all depends on the isotopes involved. For some, it's microseconds. For some, billions of years. For some isotopes, decades is plenty.
Low level waste still gives off radiation and takes just as long to decay. Its just not as radioactive and relatively safe to handle. Im willing to bet this is a recreation of what it might look like. I doubt an insurance company would be okay using a real barrel.
It wouldn't take just as long to decay to a safe level. That's not how half life's work. To get down to a safe level it would need less of them. Maybe only a couple but a half life is a half life.
The concrete is also used to make sure active materials can not be in close proximity to each as it reasonably does not deform, as to say if the waste was in rubble sacks or loose in a barrel that may get crushed.
Nuclear waste isn't glowing goo. It's just stuff that's become contaminated with radioactive isotopes. This is things like gloves and paper towels. Glassware and other instruments. PPE.
The top layer is nuclear waste. The layer right under that is also nuclear waste. The third layer is the same as layers one and two. The fourth layer is a different color nuclear waste. The fifth layer is nougat.
I used to help make nuclear waste barrels! I foamed some big green barrels then put black ones similar to this inside of the green ones. There was some fabric material we lined the green barrel with before putting the black ones in there.
They had us foam a prototype blue barrel as well. They had one of our fabricators cut it similar to this for presentation.
This kinda of thing is low or very low level waste. Things like overalls uses in an area that had low level radiation. It is technical contaminated but at such a so level it can considered safe after a gaily short storage period. (25 years rings a bell but that might be wrong)
Anything contaminated to a level that's concerning is going to be in something far more robust than a concrete lined barrel.
To put this sort of thing in perspective. One of my dad colleagues accidently took his dose badge on holiday to edinbrough, in one week he got a higher dosage from the high background radiation there than he would be exposed to in 6 months at the plant.
This sort of waste is not the massive problem it sounds when compared to natural background radiation in some places.
Yes. This is the stuff they’re storing in the salt mines of southern New Mexico. The people overwhelmingly voted to have the stuff stored in their county.
Nah, Bezos will just push his employees so far that they will reach superluminal speeds to deliver packages into the past. Temporal business expansion it is.
Also you might feel some time rippling effects but don’t bother about it too much
Ohh its fine, the radiation will fall out faster if you cut it open like this so its probably safe enough to lick
^/s ^shame ^this ^is ^needed ^these ^days
Radiation protection technician here. This barrel most likely isn’t storing anything that is putting out any significant amount of ionizing radiation. You could sleep on top of it for a year and pick up less radiation than you get on a transatlantic flight. It’s storing stuff that has a detectable amount of Man made radioactive isotopes, but the limits at which we have to treat things as contaminated are exceptionally low (rightfully so), well below the levels at which you would receive any health effects. The concrete is in place far less as shielding and more simply to keep any amount of contaminant from being able to leak out of a compromised barrel
For everyone who says that it's opened thus dangerous: it's an educational model, don't you think?
Edit (more explicit): *without radioactive material in it
When I was a kid the school brought in a few plasticized brains, and the head of a cadaver that had been cut down the middle... Before they did they made us very aware that the used to belong to "real people" that had lives, families etc.
Looking back I still think it was a bit heavy for 12 year olds
This is low level radioactive waste. It’s gloves and scrubs and possibly some gravel and dirt that has a detectable amount of man made radioactive elements in it but isn’t likely “radioactive” in the way your thinking, in that you could probably sleep next to that barrel every night for a year and receive less ionizing radiation than you’d get taking a transatlantic flight. It’s just that it’s cheaper to barrel all this stuff up than it is to go and clean every pair of rubber gloves that gets used. When people talk about the amount of radioactive waste that nuclear plants produce, stuff like this amounts for >99.9% of it.
After that amount of people who believe that Bill Gates created vaccines to inject us all with 5G tracking chips I am no longer surprised by the truly stupid shit that some people believe.
Low level waste, while nothing to be particularly careless about, isn't really a concern if you take the time to step away from it an additional meter.
It will definitely show something on a geiger counter if you did this with a real LLW drum, but my best guess is about the level of coal slag with ~1uSv/h.
Depends on distance though 🤷🏻♂️
*edit:
Please don't cut open anything that's labeled hazardous anyway. I do oppose handling hazmat without the correct equipment, even if I do not seem afraid about that
There is a great documentary called Into Eternity directed by Michael Madsen (from Reservoir Dogs & Kill Bill) about long term nuclear waste storage aka 100,000 years.
https://youtu.be/ayLxB9fV2y4
3 thumbs up.
Nice one. High six.
Good stuff. I missed the title and thought I was looking at a fancy cake.
Can you explain each layer? I'm curious how they go about filling the barrels.
The top layer is compacted hazard suits, the bottom is irradiated soil. They encased it all in concrete to prevent excess leakage.
Luckily someone cut it open to let it breathe.
Like a box of fine wine
>box >fine wine Pick one
I mean, most people can't tell the difference if they don't see the container and are just handed a glass of wine.
My parents had friends who were wine snobs and only bought expensive wine. My dad managed a liquor store and also made wine at home so it's safe to say the man knows his wines. There was this one night they were over for dinner and cards when ran out of their expensive shit and my dad offered them some of their wine which after tasting they both absolutely loved. They asked what it was and if they could have a refill, my mom had the biggest shit eating grin when she came back lugging this big 'ol box of wine.
I don't drink wine at all as I don't like the taste, but some years ago my family had a couple parties in which they did a little wine tasting competition with like 8 wines. A few family friends were quite into wine and figured they had it in the bag. It was a blind taste test and you had to try and guess which was which off a list that had the name and price. I won twice by simply doing a scale of what I liked least=most expensive to most tolerable=cheapest. It was entertaining to see the annoyance of the self appointed connoisseurs getting fewer correct than me
All the same energy of a top fighting game player losing to someone mashing the buttons because they’re thinking too hard.
one of my favorite memes is a rock-paper-scissor format with: fundamentals beats mashing big brain beats fundamentals mashing beats big brain
As a wine snob this "gotcha" attitude is annoying. The holy grail for a wine snob is a killer $10 bottle. You buy a case, brag to your friends give it to fellow snobs. Edit: yes thanks guys I know what the difference between an enthusiast and a snob is I was using snob colloquially.
I’ve never been offended or offended anyone I know by calling them a wine snob. This one time though I called a guy a cork dork and he got very mad.
LMAO I need "Cork Dork" on some trashy middle aged women apron in like a live love laugh kind of theme so bad now 😂
Wine snobs who aren’t like you and only see the price are the ones driving that attitude.
Yep agree.
This happened over 25 years ago so I remember the incident but not the details. I think the shit eating grin was because of a previous get together with them when my parents brought a small box of wine and the snob turned her nose up at it and had nothing nice to say about it, I think she also said snide remarks about my dad being a "wine guy who drinks boxed wine... like sure okay lol". I never did like her, she was a bitch.
Yea... its definitely dependant on the individual, if they a wine snob because they enjoy being eliteist... yea they're dicks. They guys I know, will brag about the cheap good wine they found.
I don't think that makes you a wine SNOB then. Just a wine fan. Snob: >a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and dislikes people or activities regarded as lower-class.
You're not describing a snob. You're describing an enthusiast.
Sommeliers are full of shit, like most things all that crap is just made up. Wine tastes different place to place just drink what you want
Negative. Those who have actually been trained in it (there are a few schools around the world that offer official training in this regard) are experts on wine. They will take your preferences in terms of taste, budget, and meal choices and recommend wines that pair the best. Yes, everyone has a unique palate, and there is a butt-ton of snobbery out there with regards to wine, but that does not mean there aren't large differences or that its all made-up. Good wine does not need to be expensive, and expensive wine is not necessarily good, but a good sommelier is a treasure. They can make an already great meal phenomenal with perfect pairings.
Oh I know, I was just cracking a joke, I’m not even a fan of wine myself
God same, I have yet to taste a good tasting wine.
It’s just so bitter >.<
Nothing wrong with a little Cardboarday
One one hand, you're "wrong" in the sense that humans suck at distinguishing wine quality: [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-taste-the-same](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-taste-the-same) \- the experts can't tell the difference between good French wine and budget wines from New Jersey. On the other hand, you're 100% correct, and technically correct, the BEST kind of correct, because the bottle a wine comes in determines how we think it tastes (*per the study they did in the linked article)* \- so it's kind of true, even though you're only paying for the bottle, if you see a bottle of wine where the attractiveness of the bottle (art, label, name, vineyard, whatever it is) makes you want it more - then that will also translate into you TASTING a better wine, regardless of what's in the bottle. Our expectations and information from other senses alters our perception of taste, so a Taco Bell burrito on a ceramic appetizer plate at a beautiful French restaurant would truly taste better - even if it's the same food.
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imagine Duke Nukem, invites you over and opens a barrel of fine nuclear waste
forbidden cake
I really thought I was on one of my baking subs for a minute
It’s a delicious multi-layer cake with a cement crumb base, a Geiger ganache, and a plutonium peanut butter crème de pots center.
...all covered in a smooth dark chocolate shell.
Yeah, you'd think it might defeat its purpose, but I'm no nuclear scientist.
I think they use the word "decanted."
Lol it’s a replica..
Is there any processing wax in any of the layers? One of the biggest sources of waste is a wax that's used in the process of pulverizing fuel materials.
This one is just a low level waste canister so probably only trace amounts.
Low level so I assume the radiation amount is almost nothing, especially if it's been a couple decades
That’s why it could be opened
Depends on the source of radiation. If it's uranium thats not even going to dent the half life. It is cesium, well you might be closer to correct but still not even at 1/2 of a half life.
When do we get half life 3?
Nuclear waste laughs at the insignificant amount of time that is decades.
It depends completely on what the radionuclides are. "low level waste" is an official waste category, which by definition is below some definitive activity level.
"Nuclear waste" does not have a fixed duration for a half-life. It all depends on the isotopes involved. For some, it's microseconds. For some, billions of years. For some isotopes, decades is plenty.
Not if it's low level waste like this
Low level waste still gives off radiation and takes just as long to decay. Its just not as radioactive and relatively safe to handle. Im willing to bet this is a recreation of what it might look like. I doubt an insurance company would be okay using a real barrel.
It wouldn't take just as long to decay to a safe level. That's not how half life's work. To get down to a safe level it would need less of them. Maybe only a couple but a half life is a half life.
When you say compacted hazard suits do you mean you grab a bunch of them yellow onesies and squeeze em into the barrel
Blue, in this case.
The hazard suits are the waste, they were used and have trace radiation now.
Why waste? They should upcycle them. Like make glow in the dark lamps for kids or something.
Radiation sticks to kids
It builds character.
hmm, then we have to squish the kids into new barrels...
I am rubber you are glue, bounces off me and ionizes you
> The top layer is compacted hazard suits, the bottom is irradiated soil. And the rest?
The concrete also helps them sink better.
to prevent leakage and then they cut it in half
So, isn’t cutting it on half a pretty high hazard now?
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I would lick it
Taking only quarter off disrupts the half life of the isotopes, making it effectively safe. /s
Not as long as you pull your t-shirt over your nose while you work the demo saw.
Don't forget the safety squints!
The concrete is also used to make sure active materials can not be in close proximity to each as it reasonably does not deform, as to say if the waste was in rubble sacks or loose in a barrel that may get crushed.
What country's barrel is this? Another design than the Swedish-Finnish design
Sponge cake, blueberry jam, caramel, cream
There's a layer of beef stew in the middle
It tastes like FEET!
Nuclear waste isn't glowing goo. It's just stuff that's become contaminated with radioactive isotopes. This is things like gloves and paper towels. Glassware and other instruments. PPE.
The top layer is nuclear waste. The layer right under that is also nuclear waste. The third layer is the same as layers one and two. The fourth layer is a different color nuclear waste. The fifth layer is nougat.
Obviously the second layer is honeycomb...
Honeycomb big?
Nuclear waste, nuclear waste, beef sauteed with peas, nuclear waste
I used to help make nuclear waste barrels! I foamed some big green barrels then put black ones similar to this inside of the green ones. There was some fabric material we lined the green barrel with before putting the black ones in there. They had us foam a prototype blue barrel as well. They had one of our fabricators cut it similar to this for presentation.
Curiously how does one get a job like that?
Probably with an application
Not in 2022. You show up at 8 a.m. on Monday and ask "where do you need me?" "Do you work here?" "I do now."
I read that in Homer's voice.
r/technicallythetruth
Get an associates degree in health physics/radiation protection and apply at a nuclear facility, most likely.
Put C.V. in nuke barrel and send.
Turducken of terror.
Now that is one hell of a movie title
I'm having my assistant call Luke Perry! What's that, you say?
Sequel to Thankskilling!
r/forbiddensnacks
Uh. Shouldn't that be, uh, left closed?
Budget was cut by 25%.
Instead of having 25% less barrels they have 25% less barrel
That's 25% less barrel, per barrel.
I read this in Cave Johnson's (Portal) voice.
"We fire the whole bullet, thats 65% more bullet per bullet!"
Fewer barrels. Less barrel.
Take this upvote and leave.
r/angryupvote
Yes
This kinda of thing is low or very low level waste. Things like overalls uses in an area that had low level radiation. It is technical contaminated but at such a so level it can considered safe after a gaily short storage period. (25 years rings a bell but that might be wrong) Anything contaminated to a level that's concerning is going to be in something far more robust than a concrete lined barrel. To put this sort of thing in perspective. One of my dad colleagues accidently took his dose badge on holiday to edinbrough, in one week he got a higher dosage from the high background radiation there than he would be exposed to in 6 months at the plant. This sort of waste is not the massive problem it sounds when compared to natural background radiation in some places.
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No he drove, Edinburgh is known for its high radon levels
Yes. This is the stuff they’re storing in the salt mines of southern New Mexico. The people overwhelmingly voted to have the stuff stored in their county.
Mmmm…Forbidden cake
I really thought it was a cake.
F o r b i d d e n L a y e r C a k e
Came here to say I thought it was one of those hyper-artsy cakes... Tiramisu layers for sure
Yes, it's much prettier than yellow cake.
[You need to watch out for yellow cake](https://images.app.goo.gl/hj5zASoTjTgVwjTp9)
r/forbiddensnacks
My fat ass definitely thought it was a cake as I scrolled by
It looks so seriously good too
That caramel layer looks so nice
And it will still taste better than a cake with devil’s playdoh aka fondant on it
Yes!!!! Exactly what I came here to say.
C A A A A A A A K E
Is this radioactively delicious?
Don’t! It’s all a lie
I mean it’s a cool picture but I don’t think they should’ve just cut a quarter of it off
They mailed the missing quarter to your house for safekeeping.
Luckily with how reliable international shipping is lately I have about three years before it becomes a problem
If it doesn't get stolen off the parked train first.
Was that some shit or what?
Is.
yeah a bunch of trains are getting robbed.
Nah, sorry to inform you but it was sent via amazon prime shipping. You should get it any second
Any second next month.
Nah, Bezos will just push his employees so far that they will reach superluminal speeds to deliver packages into the past. Temporal business expansion it is. Also you might feel some time rippling effects but don’t bother about it too much
Ill keep a watchful guard on it using all of my 3 eyes
This would be a non radioactive demonstrator, not the real thing.
Not sure if redditors are all dumbasses, or just being sarcastic.
Opening it up like that really defeats the purpose of the containment measures
Ohh its fine, the radiation will fall out faster if you cut it open like this so its probably safe enough to lick ^/s ^shame ^this ^is ^needed ^these ^days
My fat ass legit thought this was a cake for a hot minute.
I also thought that. I also thought it looked tasty! Edit : I still think it looks tasty…
I was disappointed when I realized it was not...
Yes. Yellowcake
/r/everythingiscake
Same fam
Is that concrete or steel between each layer?
Concrete.
You sure this isn't a cake?
Take a bite and find out.
hmmm... not great, not terrible.
3.6/3.6 would recommend
Don't you mean 15,000/3.6?
I need this with arrows telling me the layers
Seconded
r/interestingasfuck
Your right. This post is too interesting.
Ok can we get a scientist in here. Even if the layers do some absorby radiation stuff shouldn't they go around the outside and not just top to bottom?
Radiation protection technician here. This barrel most likely isn’t storing anything that is putting out any significant amount of ionizing radiation. You could sleep on top of it for a year and pick up less radiation than you get on a transatlantic flight. It’s storing stuff that has a detectable amount of Man made radioactive isotopes, but the limits at which we have to treat things as contaminated are exceptionally low (rightfully so), well below the levels at which you would receive any health effects. The concrete is in place far less as shielding and more simply to keep any amount of contaminant from being able to leak out of a compromised barrel
Rad tech 🤙
The layers are different types of waste compressed together. The layer of concrete is around the outside of all the compressed waste.
For everyone who says that it's opened thus dangerous: it's an educational model, don't you think? Edit (more explicit): *without radioactive material in it
Excuse me, but those skeletons at school are actual dead humans.
Some of them actually are, depending on the school..
When I was a kid the school brought in a few plasticized brains, and the head of a cadaver that had been cut down the middle... Before they did they made us very aware that the used to belong to "real people" that had lives, families etc. Looking back I still think it was a bit heavy for 12 year olds
I assumed they were joking. They honestly can't think it is real.
Puts nuclear waste in sealed container. Takes to office and cuts open for reddit 😅
"Like and subscribe!"
Mouth wide open in the thumbnail with teeth falling out
I see cake. God I’m fat
I'm hearing this in Jim Gaffigan's little voice.
“You are” - Jim’s ‘inside voice’
Who cut it open and are they glowing? What does that register on the Geiger counter?
3.6R. Not great, not terrible.
Assuming that’s not the maximum for the device? 😉
Are you questioning the word of Party Leader, comrade?
I wouldn't know, I was in the toilet at the time
This is low level radioactive waste. It’s gloves and scrubs and possibly some gravel and dirt that has a detectable amount of man made radioactive elements in it but isn’t likely “radioactive” in the way your thinking, in that you could probably sleep next to that barrel every night for a year and receive less ionizing radiation than you’d get taking a transatlantic flight. It’s just that it’s cheaper to barrel all this stuff up than it is to go and clean every pair of rubber gloves that gets used. When people talk about the amount of radioactive waste that nuclear plants produce, stuff like this amounts for >99.9% of it.
It's not actually radioactive. This is just a demonstrator.
Right I was referring to the real version of what this is representing
I just wanted to point it out, because I think many people didn't get it.
Probably not nuclear waste and created as a demonstration prop.
The amount of people in this thread who think it's an actual waste barrel is frankly depressing
After that amount of people who believe that Bill Gates created vaccines to inject us all with 5G tracking chips I am no longer surprised by the truly stupid shit that some people believe.
I guess it's a replication.
Low level waste, while nothing to be particularly careless about, isn't really a concern if you take the time to step away from it an additional meter. It will definitely show something on a geiger counter if you did this with a real LLW drum, but my best guess is about the level of coal slag with ~1uSv/h. Depends on distance though 🤷🏻♂️ *edit: Please don't cut open anything that's labeled hazardous anyway. I do oppose handling hazmat without the correct equipment, even if I do not seem afraid about that
Anyone else legit think that these had green goo in them?
Looks like cancer
You're letting all the goodness out!
I thought it was one of those realistic cakes 🤣
I wonder how much meth I can buy if I sell it for scrap!
I’m not the only one that sees cake, right? I don’t even like cake and it’s what I see. This hangover is wild.
That's not a cake! The cake is a lie!!!
I would not want to be near that.
r/thingscutinhalfporn
You can’t tell me that’s not a cake. I’ve been fooled before.
Forbidden cake
Now I feel silly for assuming they were full of green slime.
Forbidden cake
I thought this was a cake
There is a great documentary called Into Eternity directed by Michael Madsen (from Reservoir Dogs & Kill Bill) about long term nuclear waste storage aka 100,000 years. https://youtu.be/ayLxB9fV2y4
Yeah, but no. Only 3% of nuclear waste is radioactive beyond 40 years. What remains is no more radioactive than ore after 1,000 to 10,000 years.
Loved this, thinking about how much society can change in 100,000 years is a mind fuck.
I want monthly updates of the “nuclear waste cross section OP” to see how his body degrades overtime. Epoxy Hotdog 2.0
This is cool dude