edit: after 20 comments, i’m adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:

This is about how surprisingly cheap it is (eg $15,000) to buy a complete production line to be able to manufacture batteries with a layer of nearly-undetectable explosives inside of them, which can be triggered by off-the-shelf devices with only their firmware modified.

screenshot of paragraph from the article saying "The process to build such batteries is well understood and documented. Here is an excerpt from one vendor’s site promising to sell the equipment to build batteries in limited quantities (tens-to-hundreds per batch) for as little as $15,000:" followed by a screenshot of "Flow-chart of Pouch Cell Lab-scale Fabrication" showing a 20 step process

  • @[email protected]English
    88•2 months ago

    Jfc Christ Lemmy.

    Every single comment misunderstanding the point. The batteries are exploding because there’s explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries. They explode because they are partially made with explosives. Please don’t “well actually” this.

    No this is not a description of something Israel did, it’s a hypothetical way to do a similar attack to show how within reach of idiot terrorists it is.

    Raising the idea of doing this so everyone is thinking about it is extremely bad for us all. Thanks Israel.

    • @db2English
      28•2 months ago

      Please don’t well actually this.

      Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

    • @[email protected]English
      16•2 months ago

      No, it doesn’t. The battery itself is not the source of the explosion, it’s the explosive hidden inside it.

      A regular battery cannot be made to explode in this way.

    • @TikiporchEnglish
      15•2 months ago

      I think there may be a couple edits needed in your comment. Reread slowly and get back to us.

    • femtechEnglish
      11•2 months ago

      That does not make them exploding batteries, it had explosives in them. A suicide bomber is not an explosive human.

      • @eatthecakeEnglish
        13•2 months ago

        A suicide bomber is not an explosive human but they are an exploding human.

      • @ripcordEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        They’re batteries. And they are explosive because of the explosives in them. They are discrete things that are explosives.

        You’re trying to make a weird, un-useful, pedantic distinction here.

        Comment you replied to was making a far more useful correction, because people did not read the article.

        • femtechEnglish
          -1•2 months ago

          It’s a needed distinction because the Israeli committed more war crimes with what they did.

    • @NeoNachtwaechterEnglish
      10•2 months ago

      Jfc Christ Lemmy.Every single comment misunderstanding the point.

      Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL

      The batteries are exploding because there’s explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries.

      And when you put the same explosives inside a barbie doll and make it go off, then it wasn’t an exploding barbie doll. Or was it? ;-)

      • @CocodapufEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        Fun fact, a group of pedants is called a flem. To use it in a sentence: “the party was ruined by a flem of pedants”.

      • Irremarkable
        1•2 months ago

        I would say that’s an accurate description for a barbie doll that explodes personally.