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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

A lot of human survival is based on heuristics, if you can tell there's a corpse in something, you probably shouldn't drink or eat it... As a general rule of thumb

And this is why it's dangerous to drink ocean-water.

Also why you should drink lots of that delicious peepee pool-water

ETA: If you're having dinner with someone who dies in the middle of eating their food, you can safely finish their food, drink, and poisoned soup as long as they didn't die face-down in it.

This PSA brought to you by the Society of Selective Listeners

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

my body is a machine that turns piss into piss

[–] haerrii 18 points 4 months ago

That's what's literally happening in your kidneys. Your primary urine is low concentrated, and gets converted into high concentrated secondary urine through several fun biophysicochemical reactions. Boring piss gets to be exciting piss. Wohoo?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 4 months ago

Ultra Urea Man! Not the superhero we wanted, but the superhero we needed

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The salt an ocean water will make you sick long before you get sick from decay-based pathogens. Takes about 100 g of salt to kill somebody...

And the chlorine and pool water will probably make you feel poorly as well.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

You sound like my doctor. Quit ruining my food and gimme my blood-pressure medication!

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And this is why it’s dangerous to drink ocean-water.

i thought this was because it was salt water?

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's what Big Pepper wants you to think

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so what does pepper water do then? Heal me?

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It takes small bills from your wallet and changes your Netflix password

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You need sugar-water to counter it.
This comment is sponsored by The Coca Cola Company.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

how much sugar salt water is needed before my kidney explodes?

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You need to aim at hyperglycemia and diabetic shock so you don't need to worry about your kidneys alone.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

oh, yeah true i could do that also. Or i could just bomb my kidneys.