r/whenthe • u/DreadDiana • 11h ago
BRB, destroying the few grams of Californium on Earth
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u/Alreadsyuse I want Stay Gold and Dream Journey to give me double naizuri 11h ago
People born in 2001
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u/Alreadsyuse I want Stay Gold and Dream Journey to give me double naizuri 11h ago edited 11h ago
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u/SmokJozef 10h ago
we're actually supermen, we just dont know it because all the nitrogen suppresses our powers
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u/Grndslap 10h ago
They actually didn’t say what type of kryptonite it would act like. It could turn your powers off, kill you, change your sex, or turn you evil for all we know
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u/Mundane_History_7306 10h ago
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u/Sorndir 9h ago
So pink kryptonite then
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u/Mundane_History_7306 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZuR6KIdhzwb28
“Yeah this one it made me suck off a gay frog”19
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u/Polenball 8h ago
To an extremely minor degree, this is unironically true! Nitrogen is a very mild intoxicant. You only notice the effects at high pressures, but we're actually always slightly intoxicated by atmospheric nitrogen and we're just used to it.
Some researchers did a study where people did reaction time tests in the normal atmosphere and in a mixture where all the nitrogen was replaced by helium (which has no noted intoxicating effects at any pressure). People had a statistically significant 9.3% decrease in reaction time the helium-oxygen mixture, regardless of which order the tests were carried out in. Effectively, we're always being very slightly sedated.
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u/autumn_dances 7h ago
so what you're saying is that if one wants to be a top e-sports player, they have to have a pressurized room that's continuously pumped with a helium-oxygen breathing mixture? brb calling the local contractor
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u/guto8797 3h ago
Man, hearing racial slurs with the helium pitch through voice chat would be a new experience.
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u/G-man1816 6h ago
Wait so if I'm in a helium-oxygen mixture I'll finally have the reaction time to shoot that stupid guy peeking that corner in CS?
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u/Fanatic_Atheist 10h ago
2006 would be carbon skull emoji
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u/Mushroom38294 10h ago
You think you have it bad? Try being a carbon-based lifeform weak to fucking carbon
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u/HolyElephantMG 8h ago
2000s are pretty much all screwed. To add on though. 2008 is oxygen, so RIP to them as well. It’s ironic, the thing that we need to live is also what kills you.
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u/Thomas_314 Undertale fans whenthe skeleton gives you a bad time: 10h ago
Present in every single plant I'm sure
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u/FantasmaNaranja You should goon to freedom. 10h ago
present in 70% of the air
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u/DreadDiana 11h ago
So many early 2000s folks dying from shit that is a core part of their biology.
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u/PolimerT 10h ago
As a humble 2005 person i guess im on the safer side.
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u/Cultural_Season_3048 8h ago
If I was born in 05 I would be super vulnerable, since I work with borosilicate glass.
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u/crispyspicynuggets 10h ago
being born in 2002 and having to get rid of balloons and mri machines:
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u/Ikkota_Rattus Gay indieslop consumer 10h ago
Also going in the sun will kill you, can you imagine?
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u/Zelda57 10h ago
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u/Vincent394 Say it'll make you insane, and I'm bending the truth, you're to— 7h ago
Jokes on you I'm into salt
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u/Aestronom Idiotic Femboy 4h ago
2006 kids after trying to exist (they are made of posion apparently)
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u/davidarblack 11h ago
98 - Californium.... It's radioactive so.... Nothing changed???
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u/Kajetus06 11h ago
And insanely difficult to create
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u/Red580 10h ago
Getting periodic cramps when walking outside the Large Hadron Collider.
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u/UX1Z 7h ago
In general the late 90s are set. Berkelium (97) may as well functionally not exist at all. There's about 10 grams of Californium, there's less than a single gram of 97.
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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 6h ago edited 4h ago
I'm 89, actinium, it's so rare that the amount extracted in the world, is about the same size as a grain of sand.
It's also very radioactive.
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u/TheQuestionMaster8 9h ago
Even a microscopic amount of the most common isotope Californium-252 would be capable of killing a human
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u/HubrisOfApollo 10h ago
stay the hell away from smoke detectors
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u/davidarblack 10h ago
That's americium, Californium is only made in labs and is highly unstable
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u/TheQuestionMaster8 9h ago
Californium is the heaviest element which currently has practical applications, but it is for niche uses such as nuclear reactor start-up, to detect underground water and other applications which require a portable fast neutron source.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum 7h ago
97 is the synthetic element Berkelium and only a gram has ever been made in history as its only use is for the scientific research of "hey we made an element"
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u/ToastyTheDragon 7h ago
Hell yeah 😎
Hey.. wanna go flying and being invincible and laughing at all the people born post 2000 together? 👉👈
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u/Wboy2006 Why are we shitposting? Are we stupid? 11h ago
Carbon...
Fuck
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u/Kajetus06 11h ago
Considering its literally inside you
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u/XoriVinmor 10h ago
Carbon is one of the elements that's so much of you it just is you. You are your own kryptonite.
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u/Kinosa07 8h ago
Dude that'd make a fire comic concept, following the daily life of a crippled superhero allergic to themselves
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u/emo_boy_fucker 7h ago
The story ends when it reaches present day and its just a gravestone and the whole story has just been a flashback
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u/ingrimsch95 11h ago
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u/OrbusIsCool 11h ago
Doth the teachings of young Sheldon's smoke detector experiments not weigh on thine conscience?
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u/wookiee-nutsack I trap ants in my foreskin and start pissing 9h ago
Donald Trump neg diffs you
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u/Faust_the_Faustinian 9h ago
The idea that he's someone's Lex Luthor is insanely funny.
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u/bulettee 10h ago
Pretty sure most firealarms (both in and outside the US) contain americium
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u/Jazz6701 life’s least favourite loser 11h ago
oh boy im 08 lets see what I go-
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u/Rob-o-huhh 11h ago
Fucking oxygen
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u/Deathstroke0305 11h ago
Ingot nitrogen which makes up more fo the atmosphere. So I just die immediately or build.up that sweet sweet kryptonite resistance.
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u/Rob-o-huhh 11h ago
Yeah, but at least you can wear a scuba suit and breathe oxygen+helium mixture, while the oxygen is needed to fucking live
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u/Massive-Word-7327 9h ago
Nitrogen is also needed as every amino acid has nitrogen.
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u/liamhvet 11h ago
This is a psyop to get people to say their ages
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u/Prcrstntr 2h ago
A couple years ago now I think, I gave chatGPT my reddit username and told it to find out my real name. With some mild guiding and cross-platform data doxxing, it did, despite my own poisoned data on here.
It's already easy for AI to identify you. Xth letter of your name, Name and date of birth only makes it trivial.
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u/steelscaled 11h ago
Never have I seen people baited to give away their birth year so easily.
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u/Alreadsyuse I want Stay Gold and Dream Journey to give me double naizuri 11h ago
Ikr? Look at all the dumbasses telling people their birth year is 1007 lmao
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u/DreadDiana 11h ago
The Hellsing Organisation is having a field day
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u/you_not_a_werid_dude john lobotomy 8h ago
Hey kids wanna see a dead body
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u/ZakriiYT 7h ago
Suddenly I feel like going for a very enthusiastic walk
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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 6h ago
Find homicidal vampire priests in your woods tonight!
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u/KillLaKaiju When will NieR ever achieve a piss drop's worth of happiness? 6h ago
The Catholics are crusading...
...while the Nazis are invading.
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u/BigBoyBill1477 dm me unnerving images 10h ago
I, too, was born one thousand years ago. Perhaps more.
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u/Zero_Zeta_ 10h ago
I am a relic of the last millennium. I have seen things people from this age wouldn't believe.
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u/Quaytsar 5h ago
Sure you were, BigBoyBill1477. Little 549 year old acting like he's a millennial 🙄
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u/Pyrotyrano Average dinosaur fan 10h ago
Plot twist: Op is harvesting people’s data. Why? Idk go ask him.
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u/NOGUSEK 9h ago
Its only the birth year And you act like you now every single detail about me
Like wow you know i was born in a selection of 365 days i dont care
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u/flightguy07 6h ago
Sure. Issue is that the same account people comment on this post from may also have commented on those "the first three letters of your first name, the last 3 letters of your last name and the suffix -ere make your fantasy name!" posts, and maybe mentioned their star sign in another, follow some subreddits for their home city, have mentioned their gender, maybe their race, etc. A dedicated individual with a couple hours, or increasingly, an AI, could very easily collate tens of thousands of comments from across a few years and likely figure out a great deal about a person. The best policy is to be very, very careful about any personal information you post, anywhere.
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u/ProfessorZhu 9h ago
Many people include the last two digits of their birth year into their passwords. The chances that OP or anyone would be able to get anything useful out of this thread is almost nill so I wouldn't worry. But social hacking is one of the best ways to get access to stuff you shouldn't have access to
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u/Significant_Ad_1626 7h ago
Also, the data can always be scavenged among several post. With that said, even more info about you could be public and that doesn't mean a problem if you are aware of it.
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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz 9h ago
This is as dumb as those Facebook posts where "your Harry Potter name is your mother's maiden name, the street you grew up on, and your first pet's name"
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u/AutisticFaygo Rhombus Company 10h ago
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u/endergamer2007m purpl 11h ago
I have '07
Nitrogen.... the most abundant element in the atmosphere
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u/Pitiful-Election-438 8h ago
I dont think there's any surviving this one cause if oxygen was more concentrated thatd also be fatal
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u/smallerpuppyboi 11h ago
Boron. Not sure how common that is but I should be decently safe.
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u/jmanharris 10h ago
Commonly used in the production of semiconductors, so its present in most electronics. Used in many common detergents. Also used in some industrial insecticides specifically because it isn't toxic to mammals.
Unless you get something that doesn't exist in nature you're pretty much living on borrowed time.
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u/ggtpme 10h ago
Isn't Boron like super common in every day appliances? If your house is insulated with fiberglass insulation it'll contain a bit of it. In it's pure elemental form probably not but boron is essentially in a lot of things
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u/agentpea07 8h ago
But there's only used in small amounts, covered in layers of metal and plastic. Would that still affect you?
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u/Ylteicc_ 10h ago
Beryllium. I'm mostly fine.
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u/Dimensionalanxiety 10h ago
Beryllium kills you slowly in an incurable way to begin with. You remain neutral.
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u/TheSoulborgZeus [REDACTED] 5h ago
out of all the post-2000 elements this one is the safest to be allergic to
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u/Robert_Oppenheimer2 Da bomb 11h ago
Lithium
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u/OneRedEyeDevI 10h ago
lmao Imagine getting no-diffed by a phone battery
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u/Robert_Oppenheimer2 Da bomb 10h ago
The battery is usually covered up, does that protect me?
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u/DW_Hydro 10h ago
I think it doesn't, some versions of Superman can be affected by Kryptonite even without touching it.
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u/riceandbeanburrito 8h ago
Yeah, vicinity usually works against super man when it comes to kryptonite. Although is it because it's radioactive and giving off rays?
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u/uvero how it feels to spread OP's ashes 🐬🌈 10h ago
Late 90s kids feeling pretty good about themselves
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u/AdamtheOmniballer 7h ago
“You’re weak to plutonium? No shit, everyone is weak to plutonium, dumbass!”
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u/hornybisexual20 10h ago
2006….every organic life form on earth is based on carbon. Do I just…do I just slowly die?
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u/Extrions_le_Dumbass 10h ago
I mean you already are slowly dying it just takes couple years
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u/BWEzu 9h ago
Oh nooooo... My kryptonite would be uranium... What ever shall I do?
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u/Femboy_pfp 11h ago
Born in 02, I'm practically invincible
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u/Rob-o-huhh 10h ago
Unless someone pops a helium balloon in your face
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u/Nyctfall 10h ago
Funniest weakness ever.
Balloon: *floats nearby*
Hero: Nooooooooo! My powers are gone!
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u/FEMFATAL_451 11h ago
Fluorine… that’s not too bad right?
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u/chickensause123 10h ago
They put that shit in tapwater bro. Your fucked six ways from Sunday.
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u/NewDealChief My Racist Ass Could Not Be Barack Obama 💀 11h ago
Wtf is Boron?
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u/NewDealChief My Racist Ass Could Not Be Barack Obama 💀 11h ago
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u/LordRT27 10h ago
No clue how prevelent lithium is, so can't really say how screwed I am, but at least it is a solid at room temperature.
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u/Stunning-Original802 10h ago
Household batteries. So, your phone and any AAA batteries.
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u/Spookki 10h ago
Untill 00 is the absence lf matter, meaning that your weakness is the spaces between particles.
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u/AmazingFootballMan2 11h ago
What the heck is a Fluorine?
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u/DreadDiana 11h ago edited 10h ago
Highly corrosive
noble gashalogen which reacts with almost everything.33
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u/Rob-o-huhh 10h ago
Noble gas means not reactive. And fluorine is a halogen, so you're wrong two times in one sentence.
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u/TheRealEbonyAndIvory 11h ago
Lithium is a rare enough element in daily life (it is fairly common in and of itself). I mean what even uses that? Rockets? If I am functionally a kriptonian I can go to space whenever
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u/DreadDiana 11h ago
Batteries. Lithium ion batteries.
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u/TheRealEbonyAndIvory 11h ago
You know I knew I remembered it was in a household object but didn't remember which
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u/starryeyedshooter 10h ago
Pour one out for the 2026 babies, their kryptonite is iron. Unfortunate. 🫗
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u/ScoutDarkSmash 10h ago
Ah yes. Lithium. As if that wasnt already dangerous if it catches fire
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u/Sekhmet-CustosAurora 10h ago
'04 babies are chilling. Beryllium is everyone's kryptonite.
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u/ShadyMan_BooRadley 9h ago
Einsteinium was quite the funny coincidence, also a bonus anyone trying to get their hands on it has to find a way to contend with a ton of radiation lol
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u/transkeith the kris goons theory is real 10h ago
tf do you mean people born after 2005 are active on reddit
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u/Training-Piglet4982 11h ago
Titanium?
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u/BusterB2005 white 10h ago
05: Boron
Well shit guess I can never eat certain fruits and nuts again. As someone who doesn’t actually have a peanut allergy, I’d almost rather get Hydrogen and just die instantly than live without peanut butter















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