[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The rain would quickly render it useless as an explosive, and if it was inside a container the metal would shield it

and even then, ammonium nitrate is just an oxidiser, (in layman's terms, it makes already flammable stuff burn faster when ignited, so fast that in some cases it detonates), and without fuel it can't do anything on it's own

Ammonium nitrate isn't dangerous.

It's not gunpowder, it's not rocket propellant, it's not liquified natural gas

you need extreme heat and fuel to make it detonate, in the Beirut case that was given by nearby stored fireworks, but otherwise it's pretty safe to use, you can blast it with a blowtorch and it doesn't even burn

The misconception of it being explosive comes from the fact that people buy it as fertilizer and then use it to make bombs by mixing it with fuel and other primary and secondary explosives (or just to have some fun with homemade gunpowder), and even then, usually you use potassium nitrate, a derivative of ammonium nitrate, because the ammonium nitrate is just so goddamn hard to detonate

Now, should they accept the ship? I don't know, as far as I know Russia's regulations might as well allow storage of ammonium nitrate inside the ship's fuel tanks, but some simple checks would mitigate 99.99999% of risks.

That said, it's still Russia and we shouldn't be giving it money anyways, but I'm not gonna get into politics here

meanwhile Japan having hanging as their only method for death penalty

potassium chloride is just sodium-free salt, I can get it at my supermarket, the issue is getting the other 2 drugs for the cocktail

the 3d printing part is only aesthetical, people have been taking their lifes by just using a bag or whatever else can contain the nitrogen from a tank

21 dollars shipping ._.

ok slightly unrelated but the satellite pictures have an insane resolution for having been taken from, you know, space

The pics

Just imagine what the government has if that's what's available commercially to the public

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 1 month ago

joke answer: murica

actual answer: extract lidocane from anal lube and then use it to numb the area, also practice on some pig jaws while using a mirror as you would for the real thing

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 1 month ago

https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

TL:DR cloudflare made a new recaptcha which does some complex math and other stuff on your browser, which done once has no noticable effect but if someone were to scrape websites at an absurd speed it slows everything down significantly.

this is not only cool because you don't have to manually solve the captcha, but also because it allows for low-speed scraping to be feasible, with tools like flaresolverr

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 1 month ago

if you don't mind if having to buy a new screw, there are specialized stripped screw extractor bits for drills where one end makes a hole and the other grips the screw and takes it out, they can be bought on aliexpress for dirt cheap

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 108 points 10 months ago

"My dishwasher is on the internet!" - "Why is on the internet?" - "To download software updates!" - "Why does it need software updates?" - "To fix security vulnerabilities!" - "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?" -"Because it's on the internet!"

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