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 [none/use name]
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    15 days ago

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

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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        14 days 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.

        • bubbalu [they/them]OP
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          14 days 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 [he/him, any]
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            13 days 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 [none/use name]
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      14 days 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 [She/They]
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    15 days ago

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

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      14 days 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(?)

  • 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 [he/him]
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      14 days 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 [he/him]
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    14 days ago

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

  • @xia
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    13 days ago

    Extra spicy cinnamon.