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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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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I reckon the non-existent silent majority ain't the audience here. This whole theatre is probably to keep the frontline cops all good and riled up after what must've been morale-sapping DC elections and mass march. Their return to arbitrary viciousness yesterday might be evidence
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