• Flying SquidM
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    875 months ago

    There is an actual reason for this: it’s because people buy other people’s urine for drug tests. That little bottle has to be warm when you hand it over. I’m guessing in this case, it’s a high-crime area and people have to report to their probation officers.

    Just shows what a farce the whole thing is.

    • I can almost guarantee someone was trying to pass a drug test. Fake piss became easy to buy, and even include things like under-belt harnesses and fake penises. So even if someone is in the room watching you take the test, it still looks legit. So modern drug tests will also check to see if the urine is at (or at least very near) body temperature.

      And this presents a problem with fake piss kits, because the surface of your skin doesn’t typically stay at body temperature; It’s usually anywhere from 90-95° instead of 98. Which means that even if you wear the belt pack all day, your body heat won’t be enough to warm the fake piss up enough.

      So some people will resort to microwaving it just before they walk in. Get it to like 103° at the gas station across the street, (warm, but not enough to burn you when you wear it) so that by the time you walk across the street to take your drug test, it has cooled down to body temperature.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        105 months ago

        Get it to like 103° at the gas station across the street,

        This is gonna scare people who aren’t used to Fahrenheit.

        • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          You’d think so, wouldn’t you? It should be common sense that if you’re interviewing for a job, you should probably not be doing drugs in case they test.

          But also, random drug tests are a thing in some jobs.

          • Queen HawlSera
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            25 months ago

            They might be both addicted to a substance AND on probation. Drug Addiction is treated like a crime and not an illness.

            • And that’s why I mentioned random drug tests. You don’t always get the luxury of knowing you’ll be tested days in advance. And yes, it’s easy to say “just don’t do drugs while on probation” but the sad reality is that drugs are surprisingly easy to get in prison. It’s common for many people to become addicted while incarcerated, (because it’s one of the few respites they get while incarcerated prison) and then they piss hot after being let out on probation, and get thrown right back in again. It’s a cycle that the system has intentionally set up, to ensure prisons are perpetually full.

    • Drug tests.

      Buy store-bought urine or bring someone else’s for the test. It’s still gotta be body temp when you use it. So you nuke it for a few seconds before you tape it to your leg on your way in.

  • @affiliate@lemmy.world
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    85 months ago

    i feel like if they actually wanted to stop this they should just get a separate microwave dedicated to urine heating. if people are doing it to pass a drug test, and the alternative is possibly failing a drug test, then i’m not really sure a sign is going to stop them. better to have a sacrificial microwave.

    • @Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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      15 months ago

      Ideally you need to put a code on the microwave for food and leave the other one free for piss heaters and people who don’t care either way.

  • billwashere
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    65 months ago

    There’s a story here that I’m not sure I wanna know.

    • @normalexit@lemmy.world
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      65 months ago

      A person was probably heating up some pee on the way to cheat a drug test. They have little thermometer strips on the side, like what you see on a fish tank, to help verify the sample wasn’t brought in or tampered with.

    • @Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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      My head cannon is that there’s no such thing as a pee fetish, and the entire idea is propped up by the overwhelming sales of synthetic piss from sex shops in order to pass drug tests. Some porn studio marketing team noticed the sales and decided they should fill that niche, but all the viewers are just confused people watching out of shock value.

      Basically the war on drugs inadvertently created a massive market where people piss and shit on eachother and think they like it.

  • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    Someone got sick of cleaning the microwave. I would have put “feces”.

    Won’t nobody microwave shit. Ahhhh. Ahahahaha. Hahaha!

    You get me! I know you doodoo.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    15 months ago

    And? That’s not abnormal, they’re usually at gas stations and intended for people who need to eat SOMETHING while they refuel on a long journey, usually late at night when there’s not a lot open.