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Let's not forget the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Used as an industrial solvent, its vapours can cause severe burns, yet they put it in food.
by pdpi 4y ago
Let's not forget the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Used as an industrial solvent, its vapours can cause severe burns, yet they put it in food.
- iso1631 4y agoLook at everyone who has committed a murder - you'll find they've consumed dihydrogen monoxide all their lives. Now look at those who have never consumed dihydrogen monoxide -- they haven't killed anyone.
- goldenkey 4y agoI can only cringe so hard from these watered-down jokes. Please, for the life of us, stop!
- not2b 4y agoI first started seeing the "dihydrogen monoxide" or "DHMO" memes a couple of decades ago when there were serious concerns about DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide), a solvent that can carry drugs through the skin, which apparently has some medical use but can be risky. It's a by-product of paper making.
- Scarblac 4y agoA so-called "enabling component" of acid rain, and found in all polluted waterways in the world. That said, nowadays I don't consider these jokes so funny anymore, people really believe similar stuff these days and post-truth bs is used to gain real power by people without shame.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoThis. I stopped trying to be smart-ass with such jokes because when you read things people believe in, it is disheartening. I am not even thinking about religion or homeopathy, but even benign things they read on Internet and apply to their everyday life. Nobody (exceptions exist) checks them before adding them into their routine. It is enough that Aunt Mary said that (she is an engineer after all), or your typical celebrities gazette added it to their "Did You Know That...?" section.
- t_mann 4y agoDihydrogen monoxide is actually a cooling agent for nuclear power plants. It's lethal at high doses, with hundreds of thousands of fatal accidents per year, and yet they put it into our food because it's cheap.