My understanding is it depends on if there’s a certain level of creativity that went into elements of the design, versus being comprised only of plain geometric shapes, etc.
Again, there’s uninformed, and there’s thinking the medical device you stole from the hospital could contain gunpowder. For me that crosses a line from simply not knowing any better to just not logically thinking something through at all. Common sense should tell you gunpowder isn’t at the hospital, unless you’re cauterizing wounds on the battlefield.
And I’m sure many people involved or who were exposed during this asked similar “how did this ever happen” questions at the time.
There are four main men involved, two with the name Alves…
Robert dos Santos Alves (#1), who originally stole the equipment from the hospital with his friend Wagner Mota Pereira, disassembled it and opened the container, first freed glowing material and tried to burn what he thought could be gunpowder. Then sold it to the first scrapyard.
Devair Alves Ferreira (#2), the owner of the scrapyard, who bought it as scrap from Alves #1, then noticed it was glowing and took it home and invited people over to look at it, before selling it to a different scrapyard, after two people already freed material from it.
plus man #3, a friend of the first scrapyard owner (identified as "EF1" in the IAEA report), the second to free glowing grains after the original guy, who passed them around to friends and family, and infected his wife Maria, who was the only one with any common sense when she realized everyone was getting sick, then reclaimed the thing from the second scrapyard and took it to authorities.
plus man #4, Ivo, the first scrapyard owner’s brother, who also freed glowing grains and took them and spread them on his floor, having no idea what it was, where it contaminated his daughter and her food.
So my first comment was only referencing the original Alves #1 with no daughter, and my reply references both him in the first part, and the 4th guy with a daughter in the second part.
Seriously, there’s not knowing about radiation and not thinking something is dangerous because it didn’t ignite with a flame, and then there’s thinking something salvaged from a hospital might contain gunpowder. These are two completely different levels of ignorance or perceived lack of privilege.
There’s also spreading cool glowing stuff across the floor of your home without having the first damn clue what it is. That is monumentally dumb.
On September 16, Alves punctured the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.
Because, naturally, gunpowder is something you’d expect to find in medical equipment.
Most people on Threads aren’t pro-corporate, they don’t actually give a shit about that. They’re just too confused by the decentralized model to be on Mastodon, couldn’t get an invite to Bluesky, and wanted somewhere to be other than Twitter.
Being connected to it all via Threads could eventually help them get enough understanding to migrate to a different instance.
You can click the three dots at the top and select “Select Text” to see the image urls, copy and paste them into a browser and download that way, if nothing else.
On iOS, after tapping an individual image to view it, long pressing on it shows a popup menu to download. Not sure if it’s the same on Android or not.
It’s because they stare at the wall and ceiling at things that aren’t there and such, making you question your sanity.
It’s fine.