https://nitter.net/cagoldberglaw/status/1578121292502409216?t=vqbsnvkUgxz8BWUAzXGYuw&s=19

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Oh neat, didn't know they sold it at that purity, when I read about it as a suicide method a couple months ago I was directed towards the curing salt and told that it'd be agonizing and you might not even die because you need a good dose.

    You could argue that signal boosting this could lead to a ton more people using it as an out because even after actually looking into it I hadn't realized there were more pure forms on Amazon because I ran into the curing salt being kinda hit or miss information before going much further.

    Amazon is fucking awful, it honestly sounds like their algo picked up a bunch of stuff and ran with it leading to a macabre suicide kit bundle being created, Though it seems like they've since doubled down on it after being made aware of it which isn't surprising in the slightest. After a bit of looking around on Amazon though, I couldn't find anything resembling what the tweets describe and it's just something that people use in reef tanks or in gold refining.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Algorithms are a masterful triumph of diffusion of responsibility. They can just say with a straight face that it's not their fault because the algorithm did it.

      • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Why do some people drink bleach, slit their wrists, etc instead of something more instant like using a gun? People who are commiting suicide are not in the most healthy mental state

          • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm just speaking from my experience of having contemplated suicide methods here. Maybe other people have different thought process, idk I'm not them

        • FoolishFool [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          It also might be a subconscious thing where if you use slower methods there's still some slim chance someone might walk in on you and save you, compared with the instant death of a gun or something like that.

      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        at the risk of making a comment that might be removed by mods for being a bit too far into the "darkness"

        Painful death is one thing, but a violent death leaving a very gruesome scene for family, friends, etc to find might not be what a person wants.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Why pick this method of all methods?

        I think a lot of people use whatever they can get that they think will be reliable.

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          yeah but i'm with space_wizard

          something you’ve got to already research to use and that research tells you it’s going to be awful.