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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:

  On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

  He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but a mystery mushroom would likely have much quicker-acting effects and it would be glorious to watch a bunch of these goobers keep over or absolutely trip balls on live television.

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    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t the amanita mushroom one of the most deadly, and its unique symptom is that you (seem to) recover after a day or two?

      …

      THEN the second unique symptom hits and you get to open up the abdominal cavity and pour out the remains of the liver.

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      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are hundreds if not thousands of amanita’s, they do host some of the most deadly species including the death cap and destroying Angels which is what you are referring to, and yes you will get sick well after the fact, feel a little bit better and then crash hard as your liver is liquefied. I think it takes about 2 days for an excruciating death things can be done to save you, including milk thistle extract and other plants which protect the liver, most important would be purging the mushroom if caught in time, and or eating charcoal to soak up the toxins so they’re not absorbed, but hospitals have some other stuff they can do.

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      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolute nightmare fuel. 💀

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  • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh that reminds me of when Patrick Moore said he’d drink roundup then absolutely refused to do that when called on it.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess you’re forgetting the time Elon Musk smashed his cybertruck window while demonstrating how indestructible it is?

  Or the time that guy who was told his submarine design was stupid because fibreglass is strong under tension but still took it down to the bottom of the Atlantic multiple times until it crushed him along with some idiots that must have thought it was fine because it had been down and back before?

  Didn’t some politicians drink Flint water to try to “prove” it was safe?

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  • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A chemist who drank a gasoline additive to prove it was safe knowing it wasn’t

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• WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Humans kinda are the trippy mushrooms they ate causing them to hallucinate.

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