Inert

having no action; doesn't do anything; a person that can't do anything

Ian Moody

Ian Moody

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TSA discovers five stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a traveler’s luggage in Alabama. A traveler was carrying five small inert cannonballs, ranging in size, that were found to have been stolen from Fort Morgan in Alabama.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tsa-discovers-five-civil-war-era-cannonballs-travelers-luggage-rcna590198

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NBC News

NBC News

@nbcnews.com

A TSA officer thought he was looking at medicine balls on his X-ray screen when a bag passing through the machine prompted an alarm sound, TSA says.

Instead, he discovered five small inert cannonballs of varying sizes, wrapped in paper towels inside the bag.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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“We live in a moment unusually burdened by its own sense of time. Many of the images that once organised our imagination of the #future—technologies, lifestyles, political horizons—now feel strangely inert.” https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/chartbook-461-polycrisis-and-nostalgia?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios

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