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Cake day: August 8th, 2024
  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•A handy reference guide for you
    7·
    6 hours ago

    I was eating some chicken outside.

    A yellow jacket buzzed around.

    So I held a little teeny-tiny piece of it for it.

    Things seem to be okay; but then I felt it.

    Was it a sting or was it a bite?

    Maybe it mistook my thumb for some of the chicken—chicken is often greasy.

    It wasn’t really painful, but I decided it wore out it’s welcome, so I probably flicked it away.

    I don’t think I ever saw it again.

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    At another time, a few came through my window.

    So I put some syrup on a cap to see what will happen.

    A few more flew in.

    They drank it up—they sure seem to like syrup a lot.

    I guess after they had their fill, the flew away—“buzzed off” if you will.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Iran attacks Oracle as retribution for sacked employees
    11·
    15 hours ago

    I’d say freer than Iranian ones, then and now.

    wp:Ruhollah Khomeini#Democracy

    Khomeini also wrote that since Muslims must support a government based on Islamic law, Sharia-based government will always have more popular support in Muslim countries than any government based on elected representatives.[259]

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    As for leftists who support the ISLAMIC Republic:

    wp:Iranian Revolution#The 1981–1982 massacre

    (my bold)

    Between June 1981 and March 1982, the theocratic regime carried out the largest political massacre in Iranian history, targeting communists, socialists, social democrats, liberals, monarchists, moderate Islamists, and members of the Baha’i faith as part of the Iranian Cultural Revolution decreed by Khomeini on 14 June 1980 with the intent of “purifying” Iranian society of non-Islamic elements.[250] Between June 1981 and June 1982, Amnesty International documented 2,946 executions, with several thousand more killed in the next two years according to the anti-government guerilla People’s Mujahedin of Iran.[251] More recently, Rastyad Collective has verified the identities of more than 3,400 political dissidents who were executed between June 1981 and March 1982.[252][253] These dissidents were sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Courts during show trials in more than eighty-five cities across the country on charges of spreading “corruption on Earth” (ifsad-fi-alarz), “espionage”, “terrorism”, or “enmity against Allah” (Moharebeh).[250] Most victims of the 1981 massacre were young activists aged eleven to twenty-four. These activists were either high school students or had recently graduated from universities in Iran and abroad. During the massacre, hundreds of minors were also subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, and summary executions on ideologically motivated charges of ifsad-fi-alarz and moharebeh by the revolutionary courts.[252][250][254] In July 2024, The Special Rapporteur published a landmark UN Report on the 1981 massacre and categorised the atrocity crimes committed in 1981 and 1982 as genocide and crimes against humanity. In this report, the Rapporteur called for the establishment of an independent and international accountability mechanism.[255]

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should nuke the Strat of Hormuz
    6·
    23 hours ago

    wp:Underwater explosion#Properties of water

    (my bold)

    Effect of neutron exposure on salt water (nuclear explosions only) – most underwater blast scenarios happen in seawater, not fresh or pure water. The water itself is not much affected by neutrons but salt is strongly affected. When exposed to neutron radiation during the microsecond of active detonation of a nuclear pit, water itself does not typically “activate”, or become radioactive. The two elements in water, hydrogen and oxygen, can absorb an extra neutron, becoming deuterium and oxygen-17 respectively, both of which are stable isotopes. Even oxygen-18 is stable. Radioactive atoms can result if a hydrogen atom absorbs two neutrons, an oxygen atom absorbs three neutrons, or oxygen-16 undergoes a high energy neutron (n-p) reaction to produce a short-lived nitrogen-16. In any typical scenario, the probability of such multiple captures in significant numbers in the short time of active nuclear reactions around a bomb is very low. Salt in seawater readily absorbs neutrons into both the sodium-23 and chlorine-35 atoms, which change to radioactive isotopes. Sodium-24 has a half-life of about 15 hours, while that of chlorine-36 (which has a lower activation cross-section) is 300,000 years. The sodium is the most dangerous contaminant after the explosion because it has a short half-life.[2][self-published source?] These are generally the main radioactive contaminants in an underwater blast; others are the usual blend of irradiated minerals, coral, unused nuclear fuel, and bomb case components present in a surface blast nuclear fallout, carried in suspension or dissolved in the water. Distillation or evaporating water (clouds, humidity, and precipitation) removes radiation contamination, leaving behind the radioactive salts.

    15 hrs per half-life x 10 half-lives

    = 150 hrs

    = 6.25 days