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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's an extremely addictive chemical as well. You'll feel withdrawal symptoms after mere hours and going without for multiple days results in death!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I felt I needed more than 1L of DHMO after breakfast, I have been a habitual user for pretty much my whole life

It's there hope for me‽

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm sorry. You only have years to live.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It depends, I have known people die just a few days or hours after drinking it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

If too much gets into your lungs it's lethal.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the kind of ground breaking studies that keeps S.H.I.T. a top tier institute

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I didn't even catch that one

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

This is the woke DEI future that the globalists want

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I heard somewhere that if you breath this stuff in its liquid form, you can die!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Everyone that has ingested it has eventually died

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Someone told me if you apply a little heat it just disappears! Leaves zero trace. What kind of freak invents this stuff

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Dihydrogen Monoxide

What is this woke liberal commie trash. Are you trying to summon a demon? Speak American!

[–] leftzero 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oxidane, hydric acid, hydroxylic acid, hydrohydroxic acid, hydroxic acid, hydroxoic acid, hydrol, μ-Oxidodihydrogen, oxygen dihydride, hydrogen hydroxide, aqua, neutral liquid... 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

“Universal” Ha! Knew it you commie!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Finally, someone let me out of my cage. Time for me is nothing cuz I’m counting no age.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think in America it's usually called hydric acid! 😨

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My God... They look just like flakes of frozen water!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

You can't freeze water. Water is a liquid, frozen things are solid.

You're thinking of quartz.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I'm sure like 99.9% of us here get the joke, but the meme says water turns into ice when it freezes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Send this to Fox News! The MAGATs need to know about this substance. It would be amazing to hear a MAGA politician comment on the dangers of this substance and vow to eradicate it.

"Everyone exposed to this molecular structure dies, there are no exceptions"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It can also hold a plethora of other chemicals that make it highly conductive (nanobots!?) and even in its most pure form it contains acidic as well as basic components (sorcery!?).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nanobots‽

Sorcery‽

interrobang :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's a fun symbol with a fun name but I'm not a fan because it removes the nuance of which symbol you put first. I use "!?" for exclamations where the speaker can hardly believe what they're saying themselves and "?!" for rhetorical or emotional questions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
  • Nanobots?
  • Sorcery?
  • Hotel?
  • Trivago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Do you think it's conspiracy theories that turn people gay and they're just trying to justify it so they can feel comfortable with their sexualities?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This substance is a key ingredient in some energy drinks. All humans who have consumed these energy drinks develop a dependency to it, and have withdrawal symptoms up to and including death.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

*frogs naturally turn gay its a plot point Jurassic Park

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It blows my mind that anyone thinks that dihydrogen monoxide thing is funny. I’m against chemophobia or whatever it’s called, but the dumber person plays the trick.

Edit: this subreddit apparently has the combined intellectual capacity of one MAGA Republican’s left pinky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's not supposed to be funny.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not meant to genuinely trick people into thinking that water is bad, that's obviously ridiculous even for the dumbest of people.

It's meant to be explained afterwards for those who got genuinely caught. Experiencing a fear of some dangerous chemical only to discover it's simply water is an illustrative example of how people misunderstand chemistry and chemical industry, and for some it might be eye-opening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t understand why idiots cannot admit that this is supposed to be an amusing exercise. It always has been and it has always been about superiority. Unearned superiority by worthless STEMbag dumbfucks who should be strapped into a rocket and fired directly into the sun.

Tricking your moral and intellectual superiors into thinking that a scary chemical is out there just to then reveal that it’s actually water is intellectual idiocy of the highest order. If bottom of the barrel worthless dumbfucks want to combat chemophobia, all you have to do is engage in education.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Let me be clear: I myself am not a big fan of "mock people and then pretend it's about teaching them". This is just being a scumbag.

But this is not meant to be that, or if it's used by someone in this capacity, it's a very poor laughing matter indeed.

It is good, however, as a conversation starter to bridge the gap. Meant not as mockery, but as an illustrative example to explain how we shouldn't be afraid of "scary words chemists say".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Very intelligent people can like childish fart jokes and dad jokes. It has nothing to do with their intelligence; people just have opinions on humor. I don't like scatological jokes, but I don't try to define someone's intelligence with it. That would be extremely stupid, as they are not related.

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