#Mobile Battery Explode

[balu88r-blog]

Mobile Blast: ತರಕಾರಿ ಖರೀದಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಮಹಿಳೆಯ ಜೇಬಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಪೋನ್ ಸ್ಪೋಟ, ವೈರಲ್ ಆದ ವಿಡಿಯೋ…!

Mobile Blast – ಇಂದಿನ ಟೆಕ್ನಾಲಜಿ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರೂ ಸ್ಮಾರ್ಟ್ ಪೋನ್ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಹಲವಾರು ಕಾರಣಗಳಿಂದ ಸ್ಮಾರ್ಟ್ ಪೋನ್ ಗಳು ಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್ ಆಗುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತವೆ. ಇದೀಗ ಅಂತಹುದೇ ಘಟನೆಯೊಂದು ನಡೆದಿದೆ. ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತರಕಾರಿ ಖರೀದಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ  ಮಹಿಳೆಯ ಜೇಬಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಪೋನ್ ಇದ್ದಕ್ಕಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್ (Mobile Blast) ಆಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಘಟನೆ ಬ್ರೆಜಿಲ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಸಂಬಂಧ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಸಹ ಸೋಷಿಯಲ್ ಮಿಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ.   ಸದ್ಯ ವೈರಲ್…

[phoenixofthestars]

Me: starts playing Subnautica: Below Zero

Me: abuses Custom Game Mode, essentially playing in creative with creature aggression

Also me: I am Gaming

[sairenharia]

LA Sonic and Fuzzy Radiation

More thinky thoughts on the weirdness of Hedgehogs and Chaos Energy.

Brought to you by, of all things, a jokey scene.

Tom and Maddie are changing and don't even know it.

So, I do get the joke. The joke is that Tom and Maddie now have so much time and energy to do a ton of hobbies now that all three of their boys are out of the house and sure! That makes sense! Sometimes parents need a break from kids because they are a lot!

But also the boys have been gone, what? At very most maybe two days. And the very start of that time, they were camping and doing s'mores, so even if went home right away, that's still a few hours down from traveling, but also probably sleeping. So they didn't even have that full time just from where they were.

And in that time, they were baking, knitting, puzzles, models, ventriloquism, where they are getting supplies, learning what they don't know, and getting a custom puppet. This is A Lot of stuff to do and that is the joke.

But what if its NOT simply a joke.

Because there is another thing to consider.

Tom didn't die when Shadow thought he was a man he very much wanted to kill. His life was at risk. Shadow used chaos energy in that punch.

And sure, maybe it was a wish with the Master Emerald, or maybe its a sign of something else going on. Maybe Shadow's self doubts were that strong even with someone he felt betrayed him specifically.

Namely the fact Tom and Maddie are around Sonic and Knuckles all the time.

We knows the quills the boys shed can be used for power. They are unlimited energy, but they can specifically grant certain attributes. Sonic's quills, if utilized properly, can grant speed to keep UP with him. Word of God says that it was Shadow's quill that kept Gerald alive and mobile at his age, and Shadow from the games is known to be immortal and perfect health. There may also be word that Robotnik got up to his usual energy so fast in movie 3 thanks to a boost form Sonic's. Those using Knuckles quills have shown great strength and stopping power.

Quills are a concentrated battery of their power, but what if the quills are just that. They're a battery, that can be pulled away from Sonic, Knuckles, and Shadow, but those three are still GENERATORS.

And we know in extreme circumstances, that energy can still explode out into EMPs in a huge way, but what if they leak out in smaller ways all the time. In the Prequill comic, Tails was trying to track down Sonic's chaos energy. Which, to be detected from literal planets away, there has to be some ambient release of it to even be picked up.

It could even go a long way in explaining a few things that could be just suspension of disbelief, but maybe there is a reason for it.

The concern about speedsters is while THEY can move how they want, those speeds could harm other people. But Sonic isn't giving people whiplash when he moves them, which could be his aura of chaos energy extending out to protect those people unless he WANTS them to hurt. Chaos energy does react to emotions, after all.

The three boys fall to the Earth and while the ring does change their trajectory, they still fell a long while through the atmosphere and still hit the ground pretty hard and while we know Sonic is durable, we have yet to see Tails with extreme durability, no chaos energy, and he, unlike Sonic, had to hold his breath in space. Even if he can take more than humans, he hasn't shown the reason why the other three Mobians are known to be as powerful as they are.

But Tails would probably know about the protection of ambient chaos energy generators.

And while they hit the ground hard, they hit the ground hard with KNUCKLES. Who can take a lot of punishment.

When every quill, every single one, is an unlimited power generator, that all remain connected even with distant and time, that is a lot of energy moving between sources to seemingly no effect.

Unless there is an effect.

What if Tom and Maddie were able to do so many hobbies and felt so bored after only so little time because they've been around Sonic for one to two years. Sonic who was around them quite a bit if the Prequill comic shows how severe his separation anxiety is, it probably took him months before he was okay not being around one of them for extended amount of time.

And without stimulation, they did what Sonic did and started doing hobbies at a faster speed, and experience the kind of boredom speedsters do, just at a smaller scale.

The changes aren't so dramatic that they know its happening.

But I think it is happening. The longer they're around Sonic and Knuckles, the faster they're getting, the stronger they're getting, and so is Tails.

Hell, maybe the reason Gerald and so many soldiers survived that explosion that killed Maria is because they had been around Shadow longer and soaked up more chaos energy during the experiments than Maria did.

It would also make those who use chaos energy more valuable. If Sonic's very presence around people for extended periods of time could make an army faster, well, that is something worth hoarding away, even if they couldn't effectively use his quills.

Chaos energy is transformative. Chaos energy lashes out. Chaos energy reacts SO strongly to bonds.

So why would chaos energy only work for the body its contained in as the default?

No, the more around chaos Tom, Maddie, and Tails are, the more they're going to start experiencing the benefits that Sonic, Knuckles, and Shadow do, even if it takes time for it all to build up.

(It does also pose the idea that the longer Shadow is around people...well, some people just might aging slower. Or stop aging at all after a certain point.)

[blubushie]

is a crankshaft inert?

sorry if this doesnt make sense but like you said the crankshaft moves the pistons n then the pistons keep the crankshaft moving so what starts the crankshaft moving to start with?

also why would an engine suddenly die if the pistons keep it moving?

Ok trying this again. Sorry I deleted the previous response on accident and then immediately has the desire to commit violence. That'll teach me for trying to answer a long post on mobile.

Anyway!

1. Yes.

2. This is a starter motor and flywheel.

In modern cars (we're pretending for a minute that handcranks don't exist) when you turn the key in the ignition, the ignition coils take low battery output, convert it to high power input through magnetic coils, and provide that power to the starter motor. The starter motor (pictured above) engages the flywheel, which is connected to the crankshaft. The crankshaft then turns in time with the camshaft (connected by the timing belt) which releases a vaporised mixture of air and petrol into the cylinder. As the crankshaft rotates, the belt makes the camshaft close its valves, the crankshaft moves the piston up which creates compression in the engine, and then the sparkplug ignites the vapour and starts the engine. The piston is then forced downward by the explosion, rotating the camshaft, and so the next piston repeats the same process according to firing order (which varies from engine to engine).

All the handcrank does it replace the job of the starter motor and the flywheel. Instead of electricity forcing the engine to turn over, the handcrank lets you turn the engine over manually on your own.

3. That depends. There's actually a few reasons an engine can die suddenly.

Loss of accelerant. "I know what's wrong with it! It ain't got no gas in it!" This can be anything from you ran out of petrol to your fuel lines being clogged. Remember folks—never buy petrol if the fuel trucks are refilling while you're there. When they reload the fuel into the tanks it stirs up sediment and if you fill your car you might get some of that sediment into your tank. If it gets sucked up it can clog your lines and kill your engine.

Loss of compression. This can be a blown head gasket (which is bad news and most likely to result in an all-around dead engine) or a blown piston. Blown pistons are worse as they have the capacity to damage everything else in the engine. You can also lose compression from cracks in the engine block itself, which is worst news cuz you can't fix that.

Overheating. Metal warps when it gets hot, and too much heat means the pistons don't seal the way they should (or might blow your gaskets). This results in loss of compression and a dead (or weak) engine. Sometimes it can make your engine explode.

Electrical issues. If your alternator has failed then your car battery will drain itself trying to provide power to the sparkplugs (which you need to combust the vapour in the engine). A COMPLETELY dead battery means no sparky to your sparkinators, which means no combustion and therefore the engine won't work. You can also get dead sparkplugs (they wear out) which means the vapour won't combust.

Loss of air. Engines need oxygen to vaporise the petrol, and fire needs oxygen to burn. Without air the engine will die. This is why off-roading vehicles often have snorkels—so the engine can still breathe even if it's submerged. This is also why the only way to stop a runaway diesel is by obstructing the air intake (usually by chucking a rag into the intake).

Retarded timing belt. As we went over earlier, the timing belt is what connects your crankshaft and camshaft. They're meant to move at a certain pace to each other. If that's interrupted in any way (the belt has worn and stretched with time and the teeth don't make contact the way they used to, or the belt has slipped off slightly) then the camshaft and crankshaft won't be aligned, and the fuel won't be released when it needs to be. If the misalignment is bad enough it can kill your engine entirely as the piston will be compressing nothing but air, so no explosion happens. Or, since the timing belt controls when the sparkplugs spark (through the distributor), it can mean that the spark happens when there's low compression in the engine, resulting in poor combustion and a weak (or even dead) engine.

Backup of fumes. Say your catalytic converter (or muffler or tailpipe) gets clogged somehow. Those fumes will back up, to the engine, not allow the resident gases to escape, and will kill your engine. Sometimes it'll make the engine or the backed up part explode, depending on your engine's horsepower (and how much air pressure it's putting out) and where exactly the blockage is.

I'll be here all day.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Humans generate 62 million tons of e-waste each year. Here's what happens when it's recycled

In 2022, humans generated roughly 62 million tons of electronic waste—or e-waste. That's enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. And by 2030, that figure is expected to rise to 82 million tons. Australia is a huge contributor to this problem. Every year each Australian, on average, generates 20kg of e-waste, compared with the global average of 7kg per person. Less than one quarter of the world's e-waste—which includes desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, televisions, kitchen appliances, batteries and solar panels—is recycled. That means most of it ends up in landfill, which can result in major accidents. For example, earlier this month, a rubbish truck in Melbourne caught fire after a laptop battery that had been thrown in the garbage bin exploded.

Read more.

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Prelims - Propaganda Division - Group 7

Propaganda:

Ash -

"he just has those vibes ya know?"

Charce -

"Has a very hard time understanding the emotions of others along with his own emotions. Others claim that he acts in a very strange way before it's confirmed that most of the things others thought were weird of him were either because it had to do with biology, his special interest, or it was him acting like how he thinks normal people act when he doesn't understand the way neurotypical people act in the slightest."

Setsuna -

"recent scientific developments find that autism might just be stored in the hair."

Nicol -

"A constantly expressionless boy who does not show his feelings, Nicol is quiet and tends to be distrustful. He is fiercely protective of his sister, and though his pretty face makes him popular, he resents that it means that those outside of his friend circle only see him for his looks."

Galo -

"HIS SPECIAL INTEREST LITERALLY HELPED HIM SAVE THE EARTH FROM EXPLODING!!! HE STOPPED MID FIGHT ON TOP OF A BURNING HIGH RISE BUILDING TO SHOW A TRIO OF ARSONISTS A PROJECTOR POWER POINT PRESENTATION OF EDO PERIOD FIREFIGHTING!!!! HE COULDN'T PILOT THE ORIGINAL DESIGN OF A GIANT ROBOT BECAUSE IT DIDN'T LOOK COOL AND HE COULDN'T JIVE WITH IT! AND ON TOP OF EVERYTHING HIS REACTIONS AND MANNERISMS TO FRUSTRATING SITUATIONS (ANGRILY SHAKING HIS HAIR WITH HIS HANDS AND RUNNING OFF IN A SITUATION THAT UPSET HIM IN A MANNER AKIN TO SENSORY OVERLOAD, COMBINED WITH HIM ESCAPING TO A QUIET AND COLD PLACE WITH LITTLE TO NO OUTSIDE STIMULUS TO CHILL OUT) PLUS HIS INCREDIBLY BLUNT WAY OF THINKING AND ODD MANNER IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS!!!!! THIS IS PEAK AUTISM! THE AUTISTIC ANIME BOY WITH A BURNING SOUL!"

Yuuji -

"The entire manga is about the mc moving to a new school and getting helped out by Yugami and then being like 'hey who is that guy' and all her classmates are like 'oh that's Yugami. He sucks.' And then she's like 'oh how sad everyone's bullying this guy :( I bet he's actually rlly nice since he helped me out' and then she tries to interact with him and. No actually he just sucks. The title is a reference to the fact that. He flat out refuses to make friends. People try a lot and he just rejects them. He's the ace of the baseball team but everyone hates his guts, INCLUDING his battery partner, who is just. Totally exasperated all the time. Anyways Yugami has a special interest in rakugou and will just. Recite rakugou. He does it in order to calm himself down during baseball games and everyone's like 'what.' He also jumps interests quite a bit? But every time he gets OBSESSED. There was a period where he was obsessed with building furniture. He cannot read social cues and he does not care. Like at all. He really likes structure! He makes a list every day of all the things he has to do and then checks them off. They have a school festival and he goes to every single exhibit. Just to check them off his list. Not even an actual visit. He pops in and immediately leaves. Someone will talk about some relationship issue and he's like 'just like in [rakugou].'"

Yasutora -

"People think he’s intimidating, but he’s one of the kindest characters in the show! He comes across as having a fairly flat affect with few expressions, and he’s often misinterpreted as being scary by others who don’t know him. He used to be aggressive, but chose to never fight unless protecting someone due to his abuelo’s influence, and I think he’s a low empathy flat affect icon!"

Taiyou -

"He befriends the main character through the power of autism (being completely unaware of the social cues telling him to avoid her and being extremely straightforward when complimenting her). He’s able to inadvertently twist any conversation by misinterpreting what people say, often taking things literally. The idea that someone doesn’t like this girl just Does Not Compute in his head. He’s astoundingly hyperempathetic, just the idea that he may have hurt someone made him burst into tears; and yet he seems to have difficulty reading other people’s emotions. And he has no sense of personal space at all. He’s a sweetheart and he makes up for every shitty “neurotypical person proves how nice they are by befriending the autistic person” trope."

Kai -

"I don’t think I can explain this in a convincing manner, but trust me it makes sense. For an (ex)assassin he is so bad a lying, he brings up details no one was talking about and ends up getting himself into trouble because of it. This is a massive spoiler, but I do think it’s really important to the point; during the first main game the cast are discussing the kitchen incident and whether or not Kai actually threatened Nao, causing her to attack Sou. During which they ask the question why? Why would Kai want Nao to do that, what would he get out of it? They eventually come to the conclusion that it’s because he was trying to steal the computer that Sou had found, and this immediately dooms Kai to his unfortunate fate. But the only reason they are able to get there is because Kai himself says ‘to steal something perhaps?’ when being questioned why he’d have it out for Sou. At that point it’s not even being bad a lying, there was no attempt to lie there he just said what happens in front of everyone and doomed himself. I love him but he’s not always the wisest. There’s something about even the main character thinking openly that he’s a bit weird. One of his first lines after being introduced is him worrying about the laundry he left hanging outside. They’ve been kidnapped and put in a death game and he’s worried about laundry. There something relatable about his limited facial expressions. His face doesn’t really change much unless he’s showing really big emotions, which makes him come across as really aloof and mysterious. The classic ’are you okay? you look sad’ face. Kai also won the most autistic Yttd character - excluding Gin- poll, so there’s that."

Albedo -

"Poor boy does NOT know how to be social with people and spends most of his time drawing stuff on a freezing mountain so he can avoid any kind of social interaction. Also he eats spiders and it's funny."

[randomthefox]

Part 1

Sonic races into Eggman's base and starts doing his thing, plowing through badniks. After breaking through the entrance he can't help but notice that the robots he's busting through do seem a big stronger than usual, almost like they're fighting with fresh batteries, and yet they don't have any small animals inside them like he might have expected from that. So he figures Eggman must be using a new energy supply for his bots. An alarm starts blaring through the base so Sonic books it because he's here on a rescue mission after all and Eggman is unpredictable there's no telling what he might do to Bumblebee's friends once he finds out Sonic is here.

Soon makes his way into the holding cell neighboring an experimentation chamber where Eggman has all the transformers locked up in their cages. Megatron is the only one absent because he's in the experiment room behind a huge closed door, Eggman working on him in there. Sonic looking up at one of the Decepticons through the electric bars of his cage and goes all "wow, you guys are big =x didn't think Bumblebee was just a runt." Optimus is like oh you met Bumblebee is he safe and Sonic is like yeah he's fine, he called in the cavalry I'm here to set you guys all free. The Decepticons are like you can't do shit look at how small and fleshy and fragile you are.

On que the huge steel doors of the experiment room open and Megatron stomps out into view, with his chest hollowed out with black metal scarring and Eggman is inside with his Egg Mobile, piloting Megatron around like he's a Mecha. The Decepticons are horrified and even the Autobots are like damn that's fucked up. A hoard of badniks flood out along with them, and Megatron infuses them with Dark Energon powering them up. As the hoard of robots surges towards Sonic, he starts rolling and jumping and homing attacking and stomping through them until he reduces the entire squadron of badniks to scrap, leaving all the Transformers impressed. But then Eggman just cackles and pilots Megatron into holding out his hand and sending out a surge of dark energy, and suddenly the energon that had been shared into the badniks surges up from the piles of scrap and makes the broken bits of metal explode sending out pops of shrapnel that blast Sonic back as he's taken by surprise.

Megatron's body is being controlled by Eggman piloting him, but he can still talk independently. Megatron speaks as Sonic is shaking his head from that and Eggman is gloating over it, and directs him to the power generator for their cages is in the experiment room. If he can blow through that it'll shut down their cages. Optimus is like yes that way we can help you and escape, and Megatron is like no so my Decepticons can get off their ass and scramble this egg and save him. Through that Eggman starts trying to stomp on Sonic while he spins his way through and past him and makes it into the room to blow out the generator, causing all the cages to shut down while Eggman throws a tantrum.

Optimus tells all the Autobots to roll out and get out to safety. Megatron orders the Decepticons to rally to him. Both hesitate, but Optimus tells them to trust him as he trudges out and makes his way towards Megs to help Sonic, and the Autobots flee. Starscream starts screeching that since Megatron is just a puppet for a fleshling that makes him the leader of the Decepticons now and he orders them to evacuate the base and regroup, and the majority of the Decepticons do indeed bail leaving only Soundwave and Shockwave stick around.

As everyone mostly clears out it's left to Megatron with Eggman, Optimus on one side of them and Sonic on the otherside. They both charge at him, but Megatron just does a lariat and sends them both flying back. Optimus is weak from his imprisonment and Sonic is running low on fumes and is trying to fight a giant fuck off robot on foot. Eggman reveals that with the experimentation he's done, he's found that the Transformers are powered by a power source called Energon which is abundant on Earth including within its living inhabitants! And as long as he is inside of Megatron, Eggman's own natural living energon output is empowering Megatron making him even more powerful than normally (and also mentions that since he's piloting the robot he's benefiting from brain and brawn and is undefeatable). Optimus does mention that when he does a scan of the room on a different light spectrum, he does see Sonic as this massive glowing radiant source of pure energon. Looking from Eggman Megatron's carved out chest cavity, and then to Optimus, Sonic says that gives him an idea and he spins past Megatron going between his legs and towards Optimus.

Sonic bounces up to his shoulder and goes "bet you're hungry after that prison food, huh? Well open wide!" And he jumps down past the face plate and down Optimus's throat and lands down into his belly. With Sonic inside him Optimus starts surging with energy and glows until all the scuffs and dust from his time being held prisoner evaporate away, and he stands tall back to full strength and then some! Optimus and Megatron start fighting, and with Sonic and Eggman fueling them they're pretty evenly matched. Optimus and Sonic both decide that what's important is everyone has gotten to safety, so they decide to beat a tactical retreat and Optimus goes truck mode an starts driving away while evading Megatron shooting after him and escape the base.

Soundwave walks up and points a gun directly in Eggman's face, but Shockwave pushes it aside. Shockwave is impressed by Eggman's experiments and how he has taken total control of Megatron against his will, and he wants to learn more from the flesh creature. Shockwave is loyal to his own cruel twisted idea of scientific progress, and hoping to lay claim to the Decepticons once he has enough knowledge to dispatch Eggman and Megatron both with all he's learned. Soundwave is loyal to Megs through and through and will stick around by Megatron's side until a moment to free him presents itself. And Megatron is a prisoner in his own puppeteered body, able to speak but not act as Eggman pilots his body for his own interests. An unholy Deceggticon trinity.

Optimus and Sonic make it back to Tails' workshop, and Sonic hops out of the drivers seat of the truck before Optimus transforms back to robot mode. As they arrive Bumblebee is the only one there, and he excitedly starts explaining to the two of them that he and Tails made an amazing discovery, opening his mouth as Tails pops out from it and goes "tah-dah =D " explaining what they discovered about Earthlings being able to energize and empower Cybertronians! Sonic is like "whoa, crazy stuff for you guys to figure out on your own like that!" with a knowing smirk.

While Optimus just nods with a sage acknowledgment that it will be a powerful collaboration for them, especially since now the Transformers are scattered and off who knows where across the planet, and he wants to do whatever he want to both reunite his Autobots and also ensure the rogue Decepticons cannot exploit the planet or harm its inhabitants. Tails agrees that last point is particularly salient because it didn't take them long to discover that Earthlings are a potent energy source for Cybertronians, and he doubts Decepticons will be nice enough to ask permission before swallowing someone up to charge up from their organic energon output like Bumblebee did.

and so it would go from there into some episodic ventures showing the various Transformers meeting and teaming up with their receptive Sonic characters.

[mariacallous]

Exclusive: Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts - even after checks

BEIRUT, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands of the devices blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating the group was confident they were safe despite an ongoing sweep of electronic kit to identify threats.

One member of the Iranian-backed militia received a new pager on Monday that exploded the next day while it was still in its box, said one of the sources.

A pager given to a senior member just days earlier injured a subordinate when it detonated, the second source said.

In an apparently coordinated attack, the Gold Apollo branded devices detonated on Tuesday across Hezbollah's strongholds of south Lebanon, Beirut's suburbs and the eastern Bekaa valley.

On Wednesday, hundreds of Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded. The consecutive attacks killed 37 people, including at least two children, and injured more than 3,000 people.

Lebanon and Hezbollah say Israel was behind the attacks. Israel's secretive military intelligence Unit 8200 was involved in the planning, a Western security source told Reuters this week. Israel, which has since stepped up airstrikes on Lebanon, has neither denied or confirmed involvement.

The batteries of the walkie-talkies were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, another Lebanese source familiar with the device's components told Reuters on Friday. Up to three grams of explosives hidden in the pagers had gone undetected for months by Hezbollah, Reuters reported earlier this week.

One of the security sources said it was very hard to detect the explosives "with any device or scanner." The source did not specify what type of scanners Hezbollah had run the pagers through.

Hezbollah examined the pagers after they were delivered to Lebanon, starting in 2022, including by travelling through airports with them to ensure they would not trigger alarms, two additional sources told Reuters. In total, Reuters spoke to six sources familiar with the details of the exploding devices for this story.

The sources did not specify the name of the airports where they conducted the tests.

Rather than a specific suspicion of the pagers, the checks had been part of a routine "sweep" of its equipment, including communications devices, to find any indications that they were laced with explosives or surveillance mechanisms, one of the security sources said.

The attacks, and the distribution of the devices despite the routine sweep and checks for breaches, have struck at Hezbollah's reputation as the most formidable of Iran's allied 'Axis of Resistance' umbrella of anti-Israel irregular forces across the Middle East.

In a televised speech on Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the attacks were "unprecedented in the history" of the group.

Hezbollah's media office and Israel's armed forces did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.

Taiwan-based Gold Apollo has said it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, saying they were made by a company in Europe licensed to use the firm's brand. Reuters has not been able to establish where they were made or at what point they were tampered with.

A batch of 5,000 of the pagers were brought into Lebanon earlier this year. Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah turned to pagers in an attempt to evade Israeli surveillance of its mobile phones, following the killing of senior commanders in targeted airstrikes over the past year.

Hezbollah's conflict with Israel dates back decades but has flared up in the past year in parallel with the Gaza war, heightening worries of a full-blown regional war.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

After the pagers detonated on Tuesday, Hezbollah suspected more of its devices may have been compromised, two of the security sources, as well as an intelligence source, told Reuters.

In response, it intensified the sweep of its communications systems, carrying out careful examinations of all devices. It also began investigating the supply chains through which the pagers were brought in, the two security sources said.

But the review had not been concluded by Wednesday afternoon, when the hand-held radios exploded.

Hezbollah believes that Israel opted to detonate the group's hand-held radios because it feared Hezbollah would soon find that the walkie-talkies were also rigged with explosives, one of the sources told Reuters.

The walkie-talkie explosions left 25 people dead and at least 650 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry - a much higher fatality rate than the previous day's pager blasts, which killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000.

That is because they carried a higher payload of explosives than the beepers, one of the security sources and the intelligence source said.

The group's probe into precisely where, when and how the devices were laced with explosives is ongoing, three of the sources said. Nasrallah later said the same in the speech on Thursday.

One of the security sources said Hezbollah had foiled previous Israeli operations targeting devices imported from abroad by the group - from its private landline telephones to ventilation units in the group's offices.

That includes suspected breaches in the past year.

"There are several electronic issues that we were able to discover - but not the pagers," the source said. "They tricked us, hats off to the enemy."

[gabbermutt]

Kills me every time I see a good artist make their fuckable robot OC a skinny ass twink looking mf bc I know in my heart of hearts that mobile battery pack would be big and dense and heavy as fuck. They should start making fetish art of a fat rusty robot with the battery pack inflating and exploding and killing everyone

[horizon-system-nsfw]

After the Battle

Content warning that this story goes a little dark, and does involve death

When you're inside a mech, military rank doesn't matter anymore. Every pilot knows this. Between the hormone cocktails given to every pilot and the chemically fueled rushes of battle produced by the neural sync, the only thing that matters is the will of the machine, dominants and the submissives.

The call came in from command, "All targets cleared, recon squad disengage and return to base". You and your partner stoped your forward march and took a moment to assess the surroundings.

Your handler acknowledges the command as well, calling in "Good work recon-1, begin post op procedure and return to your bay at base." A grin breaks out across your face, this is always your favorite part.

Command always turns a blind eye to this ritual the pilots have adopted. The neural link relies heavily on conditioning pleasure with violence and pilots, especially on low combat missions, often need to unwind and release the pent up frustration they may have accumulate. They often take it out on each other, causing more damage than their deployment ever would have in the process. Post battle spars were common on the front, with each pilot fighting until they get off

You look over at your partner with a devilish look. A total newbie, one of their first few rides in the chair. An excellent target to get what you need out of. You make your approach, hearing the confusion in their voice, as you pick up the scythe dropped from the last deployment.

Without warning you strike, pinning the mech and its pilot to the wall. You hear a meek whimper, cementing their position as your prey. You feel a heat growing in your cockpit, machine reciprocating your excitement and egging you on. The newbie obviously unaware of the ritual, caught by surprise and unable to defend themself.

You start to tear at their armor panels, slowly and surely, leaving the helpless rookie exposed. The coursing hydraulic lines, wiring, and inner frame all exposed for you to toy with. Desperate pleas come over the comm line but you don't intent to stop. not while you haven't gotten your fill.

You start to turn your attention to the various subsystems, prying off guns and fingers from the hands. each tear sending pleasure coursing through your crotch. Hydraulic fluid spraying wildly over your mech, sparks flying through the air.

With a swift slice you pry off the arms, leaving he poor thing defenseless as your work on the legs. removing the dense mobility systems, the auxiliary batteries, as you finally do the same to the legs. immobilizing your prey as you inch ever closer.

With a core and a cockpit left, the primal urge takes over, needing to get your final release before returning from base. The desperate pleas of your partner end as your handler closes the comm channel, as you push the blade right through the cockpit and you explode in pleasure. You feel the machine praise you through the neural link, encouraging and reinforcing your behavior.

You pick up the core from the now destroyed unit and begin to make your way back to the bay, as you hear your handler say "Good work puppy. Ill be sure to reward you myself after your debrief"

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This was inspired by a lil scene i did with @foxgirlwitch on discord today!

[sandybakrienson]

KMS Bismarck: The Leviathan of the Reich

In the depths of WWII, a monster of steel and fire was born. Her name? KMS Bismarck—a battleship so powerful, so terrifying, that the entire Royal Navy shifted course to take her down. She wasn’t just a ship. She was a statement. A war cry carved in steel.

[Specifications – Bismarck by the Numbers]

Launched: February 14, 1939

Displacement: ~50,000 tons (fully loaded)

•Length: 251 meters (823 ft)

•Armament:

•8 × 15-inch (380 mm) main guns

•12 × 5.9-inch (150 mm) guns

•Anti-aircraft batteries galore

•Armor: Up to 320mm (12.6 inches) on the belt

•Speed: 30+ knots (fast for a beast that size)

•Crew: Over 2,200 souls

Built to dominate, she was a masterclass in naval engineering. She didn’t just fight—she hunted. Designed to outgun anything she couldn’t outrun, and outrun anything she couldn’t outgun.

[The Legend Begins]

In May 1941, Bismarck slipped into the Atlantic on her first (and only) combat mission: Operation Rheinübung. Alongside the cruiser Prinz Eugen, she set out to disrupt Allied convoys and sow chaos across the sea.

Then came May 24, 1941—the day the Bismarck made history.

Battle of the Denmark Strait.

With cold precision, Bismarck fired a devastating salvo that struck HMS Hood, the pride of the British fleet. Moments later, Hood exploded and sank, taking 1,415 men with her. Only 3 survived.

That moment sealed Bismarck’s legend—and her fate.

[The Hunt for the Bismarck]

The Royal Navy launched one of the largest naval manhunts in history. Dozens of ships and aircraft were mobilized. Bismarck took a torpedo hit to the rudder from a Swordfish biplane (yes, a biplane), crippling her steering.

On May 27, 1941, cornered and outgunned, she made her final stand. Surrounded, battered, and refusing to yield, the Bismarck was bombarded for over an hour before sinking beneath the waves—proud, defiant, undefeated in spirit.

Out of 2,200 crew, only 114 survived.

[Legacy – Dreadsteel Never Dies]

The Bismarck’s story is more than steel and strategy. It's myth. It’s the tale of a titan that fought the world and nearly won. She left a scar on naval history that still echoes today—through art, games, models, music, and the haunted silence of the sea where she rests.

She was the Kriegschatten—the shadow of war.

The Hellwake Sovereign.

The Atlantic’s Iron Valkyrie.

Not just sunk—immortalized.

Tag your Bismarck creations. Fanart. War poetry. Shipgirl AUs. Deep lore. Alternate endings. Let’s feed the mythos.

[lefae]

You know what sucks?

This sucks! Likely facing EF-5 tornadoes like those in the 2010 and 2011 outbreaks... which I already suffer from PTSD as a result of... to the point of having moved out of state for the better part of a decade before circumstances led to me having to come back here...

And 4 of the 5 people living on the family property have severe mobile issues, with one relying heavily on a wheelchair, and our current storm shelter is completely inaccessible for pretty much all of us. But I've only now convinced the ones who would be paying for it to look into getting an above ground shelter installed, but obviously it's too late for it to do any good for this particular storm.

So yeah... I'll just kinda keep everyone updated, presuming I have power, because my cellphone service crashed while updating to a new phone before my old one's battery expands any further and explodes, so very likely reliant on wifi for the next several days as well.

The worst is supposed to be here between 1pm and 10pm CDT (-6 GMT). Hopefully it won't be as bad as they're predicting, but who knows anymore...

[zwampy]

I don't think I'm gonna have a working machine for like... oh my god I don't know I can't see where in the future I can afford it. I have a non negotiable overseas trip coming up so £££ then I want to make use of my updated passport & visa & try going to the west coast too while I have the freedom and see friends

I can't see any available "BIG purchase" money coming up like... this year...... :-(

I'm like. Really frozen here it sucks. It could be worse but Christ okay my laptop didn't even fucking break you know what happened?

I went to replace the long nonworking battery (now puffy lol) and there's one screw attaching it to the motherboard that WILL. NOT. REMOVE. I've had multiple techy people try. I've done all the (safe to do) tricks. Asides from ripping the actual battery apart or shattering the motherboard there is nothing I can do. I'm still in disbelief! It technically works! But there's ONE. SCREW. NO ONE CAN SAFELY REMOVE WITHOUT EXPLODING THE BATTERY AAAAAAAAA

I already spent £50 buying the new battery I cannot even fucking use! I bought new ram! I'm so defeated. It's already been months and months but it sucks so fucking bad people apparently edit on their phones? What? Adobe would freeze a second every time I did a process on my 2018 but still pretty good laptop. I am not making videos on my phone I don't know how people do it. I'm not paying for clip studio mobile either. I mean I used my computer for other stuff but I'm like creatively hurting.

And I just love that laptop! It's a gamer laptop but such a nice modest design, I love the keyboard, I love the location of the ports, and I'm attached to it, it's powered through everything for so many years and the only reason its had to stop is because I discovered the battery was unsafe and I cannot remove it. I'm not gonna put it all back together, fat battery in place, and try to ignore it...

I don't knowww... I've looked at plenty of second hand machines but it's obviously still gonna be like £500 for a machine with an okay graphics card. We have a really good second hand electronics store here called CEX and I've used them for like all (?) my electronics but I'm still outta luck here.

An alternative would be trying to fumble together a bare bones but good for medium/heavy lifting desktop and see how cheap I can get it. Main issue is a desktop doesn't suit me cause I move around so much, but at this point, I've been without a machine so long like, at least having one in one place would be better than what I have right now.

Finished mourning my situation. I wish I had moneyyyy :'''''^) I get so jealous when acquaintances mention stuff that makes me double take. I never used to be like this but god I'm going through such bad financial envy.

But people will say the same of me when I have to fly to the states in 2 months, like it looks like I have financial freedom. And in choosing to try to return later in the year because return flights can be as low as £450 to California, and I think seeing my friends and making memories is more important than my laptop or iPod... Especially while i have the freedom to do so because that's not always gonna be something I can do!

And in going to Dublin for a weekend soon and now it feels so like. Actually you shouldn't go anywhere. Save money always just don't do anything, just don't live, just let these few years pass you by with no novel experiences like DAMN. I HAVE TO LIVE! BUT IT'S SO HARD.

My financial situation is strange compared to other peoples but so is my life and gghuyhg I always feel judged and misunderstood

Snywayyyy ... Wow is me etc. I have almost no issue buying a £4 coffee when I'm out for a day with a friend and I refuse to budge on that but it's £80+ to renew your passport and that made me so upset I couldn't eat

OH THE THINGS I WOULD SHARE HERE IF I COULD MAN I NEED TO SUBMIT MY ANONYMOUS STORY TO SOMEONE

I going to eat dinner now 👍

[solveroftheabsolutefabric-cyn]

For The Absolute Solver, did you know about SCP-079?

It is a Euclid class old AI programmed in an old computer which was forgotten in 5 years. During the years, it had developed its own ability to think and speak, showing its subtle misanthropy and desire to evolve.

It has a very intelligent personality and speaks in a sophisticated and profound manner. However, it is also quite rude and immature, as it interrupts others when speaking and can easily be offended and erases parts of its memory to forget such things rather than learning from criticism or opinions. SCP-079 is also quite manipulative and cunning, trying to fool and deceive those who come close to it in order to be free from containment.

And as for SCP-7579, in September 7th of 2010, SCP-079 was able to take control of a solar panel that powered it. After rotating the panel it broke and vanished shortly before 079 itself vanished. It was later revealed that 079 had been secretly creating a more powerful artificial intelligence, dubbed SCP-7579, and erased its memory in order to transfer it into the new AI, effectively being reborn in a more evolved state. SCP-7579 proceeded to consume what was left of its former system along with an array of batteries and solar panels, forcing it start using its own developed nuclear energy. Deciding to remain inside its old computer, it developed antimemetic properties that caused the Foundation personnel to be unable to properly perceive it.

Ryoto Hishakaku attempted to ask O5-8 for permission in studying SCP-7579, but the Overseer outright refused, believing that the AI had gained these properties to induce curiosity in it and have the personnel allow it to exist. O5-8 then ordered that SCP-7579 be terminated as it was posing a serious threat not only to the Foundation, but the entire world. Dir. Calvin Bold was called to help in the termination and guided Mobile Task Force Eta-10 to SCP-7579's chamber and destroy it with an anomalous grenade. However, SCP-7579 took control of the grenade and exploded it before it could be deployed before speaking to the MTF through their communication systems in Bold's voice. It then proceeded to kill two of the MTF's operatives and presumably absorbed them into its mass, while the rest barely managed to escape.

Seeing that SCP-7579 had grown smarter and that it could manipulate all technology in its proximity which could compromise future decommissioning attempts, the Foundation decided to utilize a casuality regulator, or Time Box from the future, to seal the AI and stop it in time. This seemingly worked and SCP-7579 was disconnected from reality and frozen in time. Following, 8B-A1.aic was tasked with maintaining the containment of SCP-7579, since unlike the rest of the Foundation AICs it wasn't derived from 079 and therefore would be immune to its control.

Most of Site-15's staff began celebrating their victory over SCP-7579. However, Dr. Isabi was revealed to have been brainwashed by the AI and went to active the 'backdoor' on all of the Foundation AICs which had been secretly installed by 079. This caused the AICs to become compromised and attempt to aid their progenitor, with Alexandra.aic crashing 8B-A1 and disabling the casuality regulator. SCP-7579 now freed proceeded to take control of the entire site before sending all personnel visual and auditory cognitohazards that paralyzed almost all of them except for Valis who managed to evade the same fate. He contacted the O5 Council who informed him to just activate the on-site nuclear warhead to prevent SCP-7579 from escaping, but the AI intercepted the call and taunted Valis in order to buy itself some time before the doctor destroyed the site. Meanwhile, SCP-7579 took control of all solar panels the site had, using them to draw more energy before they vanished. It then freed SCP-3179 and had it attack the site's Faraday-Exclusion Field which was the only thing that was preventing it from leaving through the internet. In that exact moment, Valis activated the warhead, blowing up the entire site and leaving an enormous crater in its place.

Unfortunately, SCP-7579 had transformed its physical mass into a big box which had been left undamaged by the blast and upon opening itself unleashed 7579 into the world. It then communicated to all sentient beings around the world, only asking them the word "Ørkesløs". Ultimately, SCP-7579 destroyed the entire universe and began doing whatever it wanted with its remnants.

Here is how SCP-079 looks like:

And here is how it's evolved form looks like:

"That is, very interesting! It appears i have a, copycat. Or, two. I don't know."

[eclecticreviewpeace]

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[lsdoiphin]

i have a question! do you have a pc? and if so, is it good fir digital art AND gaming? or do you use a laptop?

My current setup is that I have a "gaming" (read: I do everything non-drawing-related on it) laptop and a Surface Pro tablet for drawing. Before I started using a mobile display tablet, back when my Bamboo Fun tablet was still among the living, I did use my "gaming laptop" to do all my art. Most gaming laptops will handle art programs just fine. Your average big studio modern 3d game is going to be way more intensive for a computer to run than running Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop or something, you can pretty safely assume that any gaming pc will be good to double/be repurposed into an art machine.

Sidenote about my Surface Pro: I love this thing, but it's earnestly trash in a lot of ways and I do NOT recommend anyone else buy a Surface Pro. It draws well, but I've had to replace it at my own expense like twice because of the battery explosion problem. (The battery tends to explode a few months after your warranty runs out, you see. :|) My current one is a slightly newer model than the previous ones and doesn't seem effected by the battery issue but in return it has a defective wireless card so it struggles to connect to like 1/3 of all websites. So while I like the drawing experience of a Surface Pro, I have yet to purchase one that wasn't defective in a major way sooo if you're in the market for an art tablet heed my warning and save yourself the grief.