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Dieterlan@lemmy.world 6 months agoAlfred Nobel invented dynamite, for mining, by doing what the meme says (I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to, but it makes the nitro not go boom, when it really wants to boom). After seeing what it was eventually used for (bombs. Lots and lots of bombs) he regretted ever making it. He set up the Nobel Peace Prize as a result, to try and even the scales a bit, so to speak
bogdugg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Looked it up:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prize
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ooh. Diatomaceous earth is also the best safest healthiest most humane method of fending off bed bugs.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m all for being humane but I would stab a bed bug with a pin and yell “die, fucker”. Same goes for mosquitos, ticks and fleas.
Isn’t diotemacious earth cancer causing if you breath it in?
Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Most shit will cause lung cancer if you make it into a powder and inhale enough of it.
sandalbucket@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fortunately, diacontagious (or however you spell it) earth is not very “humane”. It cuts their wax layer as they crawl through it, leaving just enough of a gap that they can’t contain moisture, and they dehydrate / mummify to death.
This fun fact brought me much comfort while I lied in bed, slapping every itch and wincing at every breeze.
Quereller@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Not when you mix it with nitroglycerin.