Because you didn’t mention any photos? You just said you found a piece of tritinite, not that you found photos and stories of her involvement.

Sorry, not trying to “cast shade”. Just trying to clarify they tritinite by itself isn’t exceptionally rare nor did it require involvement in the Manhattan Project to acquire. You can buy pieces of it online from places like United Nuclear.

They got rid of that gif on their front page that had the guy with the rapidly moving eyebrows asking if you were looking for any uranium. That was the best

I think it's pertinent information to know. I found their comment interesting.

Well, the details are at least somewhat impeached by the fact that she got the date wrong (or you did, in your comment). There was no Trinitite to be had at Los Alamos until 1945.

Could easily be a reference to when Roosevelt formally authorizes the atomic bomb project in January 1942 or her related involvement etc.

Honestly commemorating the projects start date make the story more believable in my mind not less.

I found a couple of cool rocks...

I dunno people's incredulousness as of late on the most mundane of things makes them look kinda like they're missing something

I think there has been some misunderstanding here, most people read "she apparently was involved in the manhattan project somehow" as "based on the fact that she had this, I think she must have been involved in the Manhattan project as there is no other way that she would have it" whereas what you meant was "I know from other sources that she was involved in the Manhattan project"

> Why are Americans always so quick to cast shade?

Not sure it’s an American thing, but it’s definitely a thing here in HN, a lot of times it’s not that bad, but it does feel crappy

I left the continent to get away from that shit.

It's tiring as hell

I don't understand what happened in this thread that is so bad, you told a story and gave (what seemed like, because of the "apparently") a guess as to what happened and someone else offered another possible explanation that you might not have known?

I guess I'm in the wrong place to try to explain to anyone involved why being a know-it-all is insufferable

I thought it was useful and interesting information? You don't have to feel attacked by it

I reserve the right to find it to be a very annoying behaviour that has cropped up in recent years, especially with people who spend way too much time on the internet, and I think I got enough upvotes to know that there's others who at least silently agree

I don’t understand why anyone would upvote your comments (past the first one), they don’t add anything to the discussion

If you find having a discussion annoying, then as you said you’re probably on the wrong website

They clearly agree that it's irritating nonsense to immediately disparage someone relating an anecdote, something you have now admitted that you have a problem grasping

You left the continent to escape americans but still use our social media? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Show me an equivalent to this in other languages and I'll go spend my time there instead

You make less sense the more you comment…

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Oh, they are just trying be "factually helpful"

I didn't think above was shade, but I'm only Canadian :(

not only was he not casting shade, commenter actually added information to the conversation.