There's no evidence that it wasn't one of those Iranian generic Tomahawk™ missiles!
When Germany last cooked 150 civilians we also investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong (could happen to anyone, really), but at least some minister had the decency to retire afterwards.
TFA is not about ordinary bromine, but about semiconductor-grade pure bromine, which is very expensive and difficult to produce, so there are very few producers and apparently none in USA.
Nobody will ever run out of bromine or of silicon. But if the very few purification plants for silicon or for bromine were destroyed today, the semiconductor manufacturing would be suspended for a few years, until other purification plants would be built.
Your USGS article does not say a single word about semiconductor-grade pure bromine, so it is irrelevant for this discussion.
The dose makes the poison. Paracelsus knew that 500 years ago already! Meanwhile in 2026 The Guardian publishes such articles every day (microplastics detected somewhere in irrelevant amounts, also water is wet).
The problem is we don't know what "irrelevant amounts" means, which is especially concerning because:
1. Microplastics are pervasive and would be very hard to remediate
2. They seem to bioaccumulate over years, and potentially even transmit intergenerationally
3. We have mechanistic evidence of them interfering with some rather critical biological processes, but processes that would yield chronic issues rather than acute ones
All of this makes it both very important and very difficult to understand the relationship between dosages and possible health effects.
You know what would be even bigger? Building perfectly safe and fine AP 1000s that already exist many times today and can be built whenever you want to.
True but additional context: Wikipedia says that two came online in 2023 and 2024, and two more are partially constructed, seeking additional funding to continue. Lots more internationally.
There's no border wall, just a typical bike road next to a small fence. So no, unless Poland is planning to blow up their own civilians, they won't mine their own country lol.
My wife’s part of the Family has a house with view of the border to Belarusia. It used to be a small fence just in front of a wood, but that’s long past. It’s truly a wall now.
Given the "nature" of 4chan (only a few hundred posts and a few thousand comments at a time, the vast majority of it shitposts and spam), it just can't do that. The imageboard format and limits basically prevent any scaling and mainstream success. If you follow any of the general threads in pol or sp for a while, you'll spot the same few people all the time, it's a tiny community of active users.
I think the logic is Pol didn't need to reach the masses, the masses only consume content they don't create it. You only need to radicalize the few people who then go on to be the 1% of people commenting and posting.
There's an old joke that 9gag* only reposts stuff from Reddit and Reddit only reposts stuff from 4chan and 4chan is the origin of all meme culture. This joke was widespread enough to reach myself and my friend group back in the day, even though none of used 4chan or Reddit.
If you radicalise the 0.01% of people who are prolific meme creators, you radicalise the masses.
When Germany last cooked 150 civilians we also investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong (could happen to anyone, really), but at least some minister had the decency to retire afterwards.
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