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The Hamas attack that left Israeli-Canadian Netta Epstein dead was chronicled in his phone messages with his mother.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

PSA: Don't throw yourself on grenades. Lay flat on the ground with your legs facing the grenade.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Genuinely asking, how is that any better? And really, if you were trying to stop fragmentation from killing other people in a room wouldn't your actual core do a better job of that then your legs?

[–] SandroHc 21 points 1 year ago

Different advice for different goals. If your goal is to survive, you want your vitals to be protected. If you want others to survive, might as well use your muscle and fat to absorb some of the kinetic energy.

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