Something I don't understand: in recent days, Hong Kong police claim to have found two huge bombs and captured a crew red-handed practicing how to fly exploding drones around. But they let a rally go forward today with many thousands of pro-police supporters, with no bag checks
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As
@lazyyyyyyyy points out, there was another parallel universe bomb story in Hong Kong in July, with two kilos of TATP, a notoriously dangerous peroxide explosive, being seized in a "bomb lab".https://twitter.com/Lazyyyyyyy/status/1206350484291895297 …Show this thread -
For non-chemistry people, making KILOGRAM quantities of anything in a home lab on what is apparently your first try, would be enough to raise eyebrows. If that 'something' is an unstable peroxide explosive, your eyebrows climb to the top of your head and stay there.
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It's like never having cooked and then reading a recipe and successfully making ten chocolate souffles in a row, except if you screw one up it explodes your apartment.
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Here's a humorous and informative article by a working chemist about why you should talk to your roomates before synthesizing large amounts of TATP at home (and why the Hong Kong police claims are so hard to believe)https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/02/16/how-not-to-do-it-tatp …
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Security theater with Chinese characteristics
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Is there a trial scheduled for the bomb makers yet?
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According to
#HKPF the bombs are intended for use in MASSIVE rally... so that probably didn’t qualify...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The HKPF under the directions of PAP’s consultants, have been conducting numerous false flag operations to discredit the protest movement.
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Another odd thing about this all is, *if* the threat is real, as you also observed the cops(and wider gov) are treating it very lightly. But, equally, if its all just BS why sell it so badly? If the idea is to create this narrative of terrorists running wild, treat it like that
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What we got now is cops making arrests, doing a quick press conference. But, we hear nothing from HK or CN government, nor do we see a larger police presence at obvious targets. Oddly CN media has not jumped on this either, contrast that with coverage of vandalism..
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