(Erika3sis’ personal commentary)
Every time something particularly :motherfuck-america: happens, I consider renouncing my citizenship. I doubt I will, because the process seems complicated, and keeping Seppolandic citizenship does still confer some potential benefits, but the thought still crosses my mind regularly. So when there’s been a supposed bomb attack at Seppoland’s embassy, I think, “Jeez, I could’ve been there! Imagine getting hurt or worse by an attack presumably in retribution for Iran, while you’re there to renounce your citizenship also in retribution for Iran!” – But, you know, we’re caught in the middle of Cruel History and there isn’t really much we can do about it: when a country is being indiscriminately bombed you can expect retribution for that bombing to be at times equally indiscriminate, though in this case the explosion happening while no-one was at the location was possibly intentional. For all we know right now this could’ve even been a false flag; the Norwegian police emphasizes that the perpetrator, motivations, and even method of this attack are all unknown, but they seem to be assuming it’s Iran-related.
NRK’s article goes more in-depth about this incident; I might translate it later.
K
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife.[10] Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of exposure. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with anions to form salts). In nature, potassium occurs only in ionic salts. Elemental potassium reacts vigorously with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite hydrogen emitted in the reaction, and burning with a lilac-colored flame. It is found dissolved in seawater (which is 0.04% potassium by weight),[11][12] and occurs in many minerals such as orthoclase, a common constituent of granites and other igneous rocks.[13]