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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago

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"

[–] choab@discuss.online 9 points 6 hours ago

This is the woke DEI future that the globalists want

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 7 points 3 hours ago

Everyone that has ingested it has eventually died

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Dihydrogen Monoxide

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

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago
[–] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

*frogs naturally turn gay its a plot point Jurassic Park

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 16 hours 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!

[–] psud@aussie.zone 22 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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‽

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

Join ADHMO brother. There is 12 steps.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 17 points 15 hours ago

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

You're thinking of quartz.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 13 points 16 hours 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!?).

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Nanobots‽

Sorcery‽

interrobang :)

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago
  • Nanobots?
  • Sorcery?
  • Hotel?
  • Trivago
[–] Mighty_Appititey@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] spechter@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

I didn't even catch that one

[–] rasbora@lemm.ee 132 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Recent studies found this chemical in all of the human samples that were examined, implying widespread contamination of people's bodies. We are in deep water, folks.

[–] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Worryingly, examination of those recently deceased has found high levels of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies, leading scientists to ponder whether every person who knowingly or unknowingly consumes this chemical will actually one day die.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 26 points 22 hours ago

I've heard that it's so addictive that people who stop using it will die from withdrawal in a matter of days.

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not unless there's a whole bunch of it, we're not. Although dyhydrogen monoxide does make up about 60 of a human, so for any individual person, you're correct.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

DHMO can cut a person into 60 pieces is what I take away from that statement, and that's yet another reason to keep this dangerous chemical under very strict lock and key. Won't someone think of the children?

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Cut my life Into pieces...

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 points 16 hours 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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] tfed@infosec.exchange 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

@fossilesque with Hydric Acid it may produce blistering vapors :blobcatterrified: when exposed to temperatures of >100° C