• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I was thinking that. Why is it so fucking hard for people to make bombs? You can make black powder in your kitchen out of shit you have lying around. It’s like a 11,000 year old recipy! And that’s not even getting in to how bad people are at making petrol bombs like christ’s sake you are literally filling a glass jar with gasoline how do you fail at that?

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        In fairness almost everyone in Australia knows how to make something explosive. If you didn’t fuck around with canisters of hairspray or black powder in the school field, you definitely read the third book of the “Tomorrow” series where the teen terrorists blow up an entire port with ANFO and the author describes what it looks like and how to get it from any random farm shed.

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          10 months ago

          I am very fond of the idea that white Australia is made up entirely of various sorts of delinquents. "

          Controlling ammonia nitrate fertilizer, especially after the OKC Federal Building bombing in the USA in the early 90s, has been a major obective of the US domestic counterintelligence services.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        If you want to ruin someone’s day, you can get sparkler dust, rust, and powdered aluminium to make a thermite bomb to melt through someone’s engine block that will be lit with a lighter.