• Kairos
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    1010 hours ago

    Did they like… have him pose for a picture?

  • @quixotic120
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    6915 hours ago

    Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”

    maybe not so much

    • @finitebanjo
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      12 hours ago

      This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 hours ago

        Have you never played a Yakuza game? They blow GTA out of the water in terms of ridiculousness.

  • @PainInTheAES
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    3916 hours ago

    Didn’t realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?

  • Sixty
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    Least shocking thing I’ve ever heard, we’ve been scared of Russia loosey goosey rotting nuclear security forever.

    Edit: estimated remaining 20,400 Yakuza members is more than I expected.

  • @solrize
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    Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn’t say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.

    Why is this on /nottheonion?

    • @finitebanjo
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      57 hours ago

      The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.

      • @solrize
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        56 hours ago

        I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That’s potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.

        • @finitebanjo
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          TBH I disagree, I think the Heroine and Meth are worse. I could elaborate but I feel like it would take a while.

    • @[email protected]
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      2516 hours ago

      There’s only a few places in the world you can get plutonium, none of them easy to access or extract.

      There’s gotta be more to this story that’s probably super classified.

    • @maniacalmanicmania
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      Why is this on /nottheonion?

      Because the title made me think of The Onion.

      * Replying from my LW alt as there is still some federation lag between LW and the instance I posted from.

  • @aeronmelon
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    1416 hours ago

    Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?