• @mecfs
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    725 months ago

    That 0.5 second moment where I read the title before realising it is the onion 😳😳

    • @ConstipatedWatson
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      275 months ago

      Aren’t these 0.5 seconds the moments we live for?

      • OsaErisXero
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        155 months ago

        There was just an NCD post about the Mormon Industrial Complex yesterday, so in this specific case, no.

        • @brucethemoose
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          115 months ago

          Heh, that makes me think of the LDSS Nauvoo

          • sp3ctr4l
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            24 months ago

            At the rate the world is going, I would not be very surprised if in less than a decade the Mormons just actually did have their own nuclear weapons program.

            Hell I would not be surprised if they currently, secretly own a decommissioned ICBM silo for ‘emergency preparedness’ (read: survival bunker for their most elite elects) reasons.

        • Troy
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          45 months ago

          Magic underwear and spaceships. Let’s fucking go eh.

  • pancakes
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    385 months ago

    This is one of those “Oh that’s so crazy. That would never happen in the real world.”

    And then ten years later some American court rules that their right to bear arms and “one nation under god” extends to nuclear warheads.

    • CaptainBasculin
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      Existence of a privately owned nuke is a security hazard of all sorts, no country would accept this.

      Though illegal means exist, and I heavily think there’s a billionaire out there that has a nuke in one of their displays for lols through it.

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        The goal is for the government to own a nuke, and for a corporation to own the government.

        Check and check.

  • @ceenote
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    185 months ago

    God: Makes everyone keep waiting for Armageddon.

    American Evangelicals: I’ll do it myself.

    • Match!!
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      15 months ago

      When they switch over from “God works in mysterious ways” to “God works through us”

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    In the mid 90s the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult were producing chemical weapons which were used in a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Prior to the attack Aum briefly owned a million acre cattle ranch in Australia where they tested sarin and may have tried to mine uranium ore.

    Several nuclear powers are run by autocratic theocracies/cults and the US could be heading in that direction.

    • @xenoclast
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      15 months ago

      Pretty soon it will be

  • @CentauriBeau
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    85 months ago

    That was the most horrifying thing I’ve ever read before realizing it was the onion.

  • ✺roguetrick✺
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    50 kiloton thermonuclear? That’s a fizzle folks. They don’t know how to handle their plutonium. Fake news. It was just a simple fission bomb with some wasted fusion fuel.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      How long to till? Well, it depends how long your field is, and whether you’re using all of it.

      Wait. Did you mean “till as in plough” or “till as in a cash-drawer?” Both are accurate. It’s not the boat-steerer, as that’s a till-er.

  • @Tronn4
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    15 months ago

    Jonestown Fallout