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We’re in the “The Beautiful Ones” part of the collapse of our little mouse utopia.
Gold is inert, so it should not have done much, I think.
Can a scientist please chime in on this?
Paracelsus has famously claimed, the dose makes the poison. His point is basically, everything is potentially a poison. One can possibly get Oxygen or water poisoning even though both substances are vital for our survival.
if its ionic form, or its in salt form it can somewhat poisonous, also gold jewelry is often contaminated or combined with other metals lead, nickel, copper, etc. elemental gold is inert though.
I really want to know what "science" he was banking on here. Like, how does this injection work, according to him? I assume he chose gold (as opposed to lead or tin) because he has gawdy Trumpesque notions of success and opulence, but what the fuck does injecting it do (again, according to him)? 🤔
trying to be a greek god with thier gold ichior blood.
From the article it sounds like he has a friend who genuinely believes that he was gaining superhuman powers too. So... clocks ticking on that guy now.
He's going to be a strong contender for this year's Darwin Award!
It's always the second half of the year that the nominations come in and then by October it's like the where we're you at the beginning of the year people.
My favorite darwin is the guy who went alcohooool alcohooooool and drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol.
I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it's a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.
He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.
its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.
bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.
There's some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.
I see you out there thumbmaxxing
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They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit
“Up until his passing, he was discovering that he had achieved some superhuman abilities, and it’s no joke; he actually did achieve some superhuman abilities,” he said. “He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”
Another looksmaxxing influencer, Androgenic, offered additional claims during a livestream, saying Murphy became increasingly focused on gold.
“He started to get this fixation on gold. He started to believe that gold was some gatekept mineral by the higher-ups that basically gives you special powers if you ingest it,” he said. According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.
Just so we are all clear, the trans community super duper does not claim him. Wish the political right would focus more on this sort of self abuse instead of the verified science supporting medical transition.
Uhh, why would they target white men? You know what it is.
Police in Thailand were reportedly called to the rental property where Murphy had been staying after receiving complaints about a man screaming inside. Officers allegedly found him in an “agitated” state.
uhh you think? Agitated state, fuckin bet. What the hell that must of that felt like?? The agony, like how the hell would thd body even respond? would your blood congeal? the fuck, this some shit out of a horror film.
That's what I'm wondering.
As far as I know gold is chemically inert. All its valence electrons are paired up. It shouldn't bind or chemically interact with anything. I know it's safe to put on food. (Expensive food)
The article says he was trying other things also, and the cause if death is unknown yet. I have doubts it was the gold.
Gold is not chemically inert. It a larger atom that slightly adheres to other metals with metallic bonds but tends to not form stable ionic bonds. Its also a common catalyst for a variety of reactions.
Your digestive system takes in solids and processes them but it has a size limit on absorbed particles. Powdered gold, even if mixed into a liquid is going to be more dangerous in the blood stream because large clumps that wouldn't make it through the digestive might be present. That could result in blood clots or other problems.
His body was found at the bottom of a lake, though. It could be something other than drowning or foul play, but that’s unlikely.
Though I imagine his body would not have reacted well to it long term, either.
Did this toolbag think he was an Allomancer or Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson's works are too dangerous! BAN SANDERSON NOVELS!
/s just in case...
A Feruchemist more likely? Guess the metalmind was empty, or he taped it too much to fast.
Deathmaxxing!
So either he always had some mental health issues, or the lack of nutrition he did to keep the body he had lead himself to make very bad decisions because his brain couldnt process correctly anymore.
he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.
I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
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If House is anything to go by, that's going to have more or less the same effect as injecting oneself with lead.
Utter idiocy, regardless.
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