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    In unrelated news 2,725 Russians died in a bizarre radioactive tea poisoning incident. The poison would have been fatal had the fall from the open windows not happened.

    Just terrible. Complete mystery.

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      Mystery? What mystery? Polonium keeps the samovar hot, everyone knows this. They were energy conscious patriots trying something new so the boys on the frontline could keep themselves warm using the wood and coal that otherwise would have burnt to warm their tea. Patriarch bless these fine folks who died in the pursuit of keeping our selfless heroes cozy in the trenches.

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          polonium would be actually a decent choice, if you picked some heavy beta or gamma emiter you’d get massive amounts of water radiolysis which means that over time tea would be bleached out and you end up with water again. another good isotope would be plutonium 238

          and samovar probably needs to be made out of tungsten or kept in reinforced concrete vault to keep radiation in and not out

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              the heat comes from alpha decay, not from spontaneous fission. if that was the case, you’d have massive neutron flux to deal with, but it’s only alphas which are very easy to stop, like with polonium

              just add high temperature heat pipes. tea doubles as shielding

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        I don’t think the Russians have much say in whether they end up in Ukraine. The alternative to refusing is probably worse overall.

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            And over half the planet eventually agreed to join the Bretton Woods system, ushering in an unprecedented period of peace compared to what was essentially nonstop warfare

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    I like that those numbers coincidentally add up to 100