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Could someone try to parse why this is funny? I can't find the funny bone this is scratching right now.

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[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

The spots on the screen are from radiation hitting the CCD. The rod is radioactive and says “DROP AND RUN”

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Is it because of lead in the cinnamon?!

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

No, it's not a cinnamon stick. It's a bar of some kind of radioactive material that the photo taker has presumably mistaken for a cinnamon stick, implying they're dumb as hell (that's the joke). Honestly a miracle that they managed to write the question at all given that they seem to be illiterate when it comes to the warning label clearly printed on their "cinnamon" stick.

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

is this not photoshopped? like look how long all their fingers are? something's up there

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

it is almost certainly shopped, anything radioactive enough to fuck a modern phone ccd that bad is just actually going to have killed the person in question.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Yes. Again, that's the joke. This isn't real.

[-] courier8377@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

Prob just lens distortion

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Not high anymore. It finally processed for me that this is not actually a cinnamon stick. I thought it was supposed to be the cinnamon had some foul vibe that was manifesting that warning

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Absurdist zoomer memes have ruined us. Now all I want is an actual cinnamon stick deep fried 6 times with Ohio super imposed over it laughing. Same text.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Iirc this specific image is a fake made as a joke but does show what would happen to a CCD in the presence of a radiation source.

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

I bet it has the texture of hospital air and the taste of my grandmothers spare room closet.

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

I bet it has the texture of hospital air

Nauseating what great worldbuilding.

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Starting at 3540 Curies nearly 60 years ago, this particular sample today probably would throw off about 2 Curies

Oh that explains it. OP's rod is probably genuine, but "dead".

Edit: Or it's AI(?)

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

yea that's what i was thinking, but also uhhhh this is america woop woop

[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Jokes aside is this what they use for medical stuff? Don't remember where I heard it but iirc radioactive cobalt is used for radiation oncology or imaging. Something about it having a short half life by design and they have to be replaced often.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks like it says "Co-60" (could be 66 but I really doubt it), but nowadays Cobalt-60 isn't really used for diagnostics. Could be an old source; the half-life is around 5 years so rule-of-thumb would be 40 years to be fully depleted. Main use these days is for sterilizing materials I think.

E: wikipedia says medical sources that were used were ~2cm wide so, this looks like an old medical source.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Never found this treat in my Kellog's cereal box tbh.

[-] Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Can't wait to hear about this in a future wtyp-gang episode.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

It looks like a poop log

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Extra spicy cinnamon.

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