It definitely *was* a good idea though

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Such a good idea it gives me an idea for an award.

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  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll call it the Me Prize

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    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait, if you’re me then who am I?

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But no mathematics.

      It has absolutely nothing to do with my wifes extramarital affairs. Nothing at all.

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Someone give me some context

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  • Dieterlan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alfred 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

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    • bogdugg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to

      Looked it up:

      Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as “dynamite”.

      Diatomaceous earth consists of the fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled microalgae.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prize

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

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• Addition1291@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For a fun prank, pour out a small drop of Nitroglycerin and smack it with a hammer to scare your friends. :^)

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  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, a fun little joke I can do with the nitroglycerin I definitely don’t have because that would probably be illegal

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    • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just develop a heart condition and they’ll straight up give it to you. Easy peasy.

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  • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For a really fun prank, coerce your friends into driving truckfuls of nitroglycerin hundreds of miles down a dodgy road through the jungle.

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    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This triggered a lost memory of watching bootleg MacGyver with some friends while getting blackout drunk celebrating Estonian reindependence after the soviet occupation collapsed. It was in German (None of us spoke German) and he was also doing something with some nitroglycerin on a truck.

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• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He was known as the “Merchant of Death” because even after he accidentally revolutionized warfare he kept profiting off of it for the rest of his life.

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• outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess you could say it was a *smashing success *

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