Let’s do none of these kids. This message brought to you by the number “don’t be a fucking stupid” and the CIA. Remember kids, I can’t start foreign wars for oil if I don’t have soldiers!
I was so dehydrated yesterday that I felt like I drank 8L of water. I know it was closer to 2 but god damn it was so good I had to stop myself to breathe half way through.
Be careful doing that. It takes a fair bit of water, but Water Intoxication is a real thing. It can make you quite ill and even be fatal.
Drinking too much water dilutes your blood and decreases the electrolytes in your body, especially sodium (hyponatremia). As a result, water moves into your body’s cells and causes them to swell. When you get too much water in your brain cells, it increases pressure on your brain and affects how it works. This leads to changes in your awareness, movement and behavior (altered mental status). Water intoxication is also potentially fatal.
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The amount of water that causes overhydration varies. It’s important to understand how your body uses water to know how much is too much for you. Your body removes excess water through your pee. In a day, this equals about 32 to 64 ounces (about 1 to 2 liters). In some people, water intoxication symptoms can develop after drinking about a gallon (3 to 4 liters) of water over an hour or two.
Fun fact: acetone is not even that toxic. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t hurt much more than ethanol.
Remember kids, everything in moderation. You wouldn’t drink 8l of anything
Edit: if you think of drinking acetone based only on my comment, try drinking bleach first! I’m pretty sure it’ll fuck you much more than ethanol.
Let’s do none of these kids. This message brought to you by the number “don’t be a fucking stupid” and the CIA. Remember kids, I can’t start foreign wars for oil if I don’t have soldiers!
Remember kids, CIA doesn’t want you to drink acetone!
Wait… ok this may have backfired on me
The FDA does though.
LD50 is 5,800 mg/kg
I’m kind of surprised it’s that high.
That means the average adult male could have about ~24fl oz/0.74L of acetone and only die half the time
Just dilute it a bit and you got yourself a new drink
Acetone is weird, it’s produced in our bodies and processed with normal metabolic processes. But 5+g/kg still seems like a lot!
“The dose makes the poison.” Paracelsus
His real name was Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim.
No one names their kids like this any more, now it’s all Jayden, Jaiden, J-day, …
Bit of a shame really. With a name like that the kid gets a lot of choices for nick names.
It’s so volatile by the time it warms up it all comes out as gas.
I was so dehydrated yesterday that I felt like I drank 8L of water. I know it was closer to 2 but god damn it was so good I had to stop myself to breathe half way through.
Be careful doing that. It takes a fair bit of water, but Water Intoxication is a real thing. It can make you quite ill and even be fatal.
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It’s extremely unlikely unless you’re doing extreme things like running a marathon or forcing yourself to drink way beyond how thirsty you feel.
I once sterilized a worm-infested flower pot with it. They die at once when touched by a drop of acetone. The plant came out ok.