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@crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 months ago

This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again?

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This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again?

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@crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 months ago
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Kix cereal once offered ‘Atomic Bomb Ring’ with radioactive material as a promotion?

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  • @Etterra@discuss.online
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    0•2 months ago

    Rebrand it the Trump Ring and sell it to MAGA for $300.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    There are no claims, even not from child which ingest it. Only statistical issues.

  • @AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world
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    Thats literally what they are still doing: getting rid of the nuclear waste by passing it to the younger generations.

  • @OmgItBurns@discuss.online
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    0•2 months ago

    Anyone else think this looks like a retro-futuristic adult toy with an extra buzzy feature?

    • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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      Come here baby, I’m going to nuke your pussy

    • mathemachristian[he]
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      Get this cockring for glow-in-the-dark balls!

  • @TinFoilEmpiricist@retrolemmy.com
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    0•2 months ago

    Makes me want to play Fallout

  • davel [he/him]
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    0•2 months ago

    FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY

  • @TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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    They no longer include quality toys like these in foods :(

  • goferking (he/him)
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    At least it wasn’t in the cereal like with some of the therapeutic waters available in that time

    • @crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Don’t worry, high-fructose corn syrup and unnatural dyes came a bit later for the cereal. It is like they want us dead.

  • @IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    TIL Kix was around in 1947.

    • @atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      0•2 months ago

      Modern breakfast cereals are largely product of post WWII “innovation”. Most of them still exist in some form. One of my favorite example is Sugar Smacks which were introduced in the early 50s and were over 50% sugar.

  • @Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    0•2 months ago

    That’s rad

    • @Lawnman23@lemmy.world
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    • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]
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  • @HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    • @Bwaz@lemmy.world
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      Hey, as a kid I spent a LOT of time trying to make something explode with chemistry sets. Very disapointing.

    • @crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      🤣

  • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/127037035907?_skw=atomic+bomb+ring&itmmeta=01K1BN3MHWKXWHPCJEC46JZHJD&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1daZ%2FXALKxKo1hvRnEtLWDg6q7aw5ckQcNKPhVQiJ%2BKbSS1%2BzBSzmsWJZhs0bbTQ6I6848GcLJf9f%2FvGh5--7GFvmxieNvhmJZFGTCT5bqw01o8IPGxusCjFIFnjmFV5n3FbbA%2BewpFBQpiNmDxF1KL60oUvWCFbTG27uUTJZ3B9Rlsq4TFHpO4N%2BIRslRfkPpPUbn41sznP2lN2qoOq2POZH2v1X0wSNswRBt%2FryEWhA1ZOBVP2ebxWmyeq5OFKqV2%2FTq%2BvZNMgsKKtFzbvxtsyOwWeQDxS95ZhkGGfb1%2B9A%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR47JjvWKZg

    400 bucks, not bad

  • @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?

    • @atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        Fallout aesthetics

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed

    • @crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Promotion of war propaganda into the culture? “Mom, why am I growing a 6th finger?”

  • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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    https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/spinthariscopes/lone-ranger-atom-bomb-ring-spinthariscope.html

    Huh.

    • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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      Even while the ring’s effect was still happening, though, kids weren’t really in danger. Alpha radiation can be dangerous when ingested, but it’s also the easiest type of radiation to block — even a sheet of paper is enough, according to the National Institutes of Health.

      • @Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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        Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn’t leave in the same way that gamma could.

        • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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          the hollowpoint particle.

        • @ryannathans@aussie.zone
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          Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.

  • pachrist
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    0•2 months ago

    It’s totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.

    • @tauisgod@lemmy.world
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      More lead than at first; polonium-210 decays to lead. With a half life of 138 days, and 1947 being over 28,000 days ago, most of the original material is gone.

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