The power of AI.
Long story short, AI initially pushed back on the ridiculous idea that drinking your own piss was a cure all, then these users figured out that adding words like ‘esoteric’ to their prompts let them direct AI to tell them what they wanted to hear.
Tbh article was too gross for me to finish. That’s all you get from me for a summary.
I’m afraid that’s not going to be enough protection.
‘Nobody knows I’m pissing inside my hazmat suit’
Sometimes I feel like I’m just not good enough, ya’ know? That whatever I do, I’ll just never be as good as someone else doing it, so why try?
Then today I learned about a bunch of people, so unbelievably, laughably stupid, that they drink their own aged urine.
It doesn’t make me feel better about myself, but it sure lowers my opinion about the average stranger.
When I was a student there was a pub that was always heaving because you could get smashed on less than a tenner on horrible spirits. The gents toilets there was genuinely horrendous, very drunk people combined with questionable plumbing meant there was usually a half inch or so of stale piss pooled on the uneven floor by around midnight. Literally if I think about it I can still smell it, it was fucking rancid but nowhere else could you get a quad vodbull for £4 so we put up with it.
That exact smell must permeate all of these people’s houses. Unless they’re taking the piss I guess.
I had real, deep fear about where that story was going.
Pissmaxxing
This is the funniest fucking thread on the fediverse, thank you all
I honestly hate how many comments this thread has because I keep being reminded of this gross shit lol.
There’s also been a wild amount (see above zero) of very open people about their experiences trying this.
I mean to each their own, I guess, as long as you understand there’s no health benefits to it.
Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but i do it anyway because its sterile and I like the taste.
It’s not actually sterile. It’s an old myth. It’s actually, just like any other bodily fluid, full of bacteria.
If it’s fresh then the bacteria haven’t grown to dangerous levels, unless you have an infection.
That doesn’t mean you should drink it, of course. But bacteria doesn’t always mean bad.
The most dangerous part of fresh urine is the uric acid, which can cause kidney stones if it’s allowed to build up (i.e., by drinking it over time)
Does blood count as a bodily fluid? Pretty sure there’s no bacteria there
If you have any small wounds, e.g. in your gums, mucosa, etc, yes there are.
If that were remotely true, we wouldn’t need an immune system.
Reverse causation. We don’t have bacteria in our blood because we have an immune system
Our immune system isn’t that efficient. There’s always at least some bacteria in there. Just not enough to kill us, most of the time.
That doesn’t sound right. We’d be perpetually bacteremic if that were the case.
Seems there’s a paper on this (doi 10.1038/s41564-023-01350-w) that showed that 84% of people don’t have bacteria in their blood. Authors hypothesized based on the detected bacteria that the remaining 16% were likely temporary colonizations and not permanent.
So for the most part, blood appears to be sterile with some possibility of temporary low level bacteremia
Underrated lol
It’s like eating your own feces, it’s what the body worked hard to remove from you because, surprise, it’s bad.
Don’t drink your own pee. Don’t drink anyones pee. I mean a little if you’re sexually into that, but don’t overdo it!
Urine is not sterile.
As others have said, not sterile. Even if it was, though, sterile doesn’t mean safe to consume.
To me, this comes across as a TIL about the fact that a certain percentage of people exist who drink their own urine. Also, I love the fact that I won’t remember anything important or useful due to my shitty memory but I’ll never forget this new fact.
Not before you realize that if you have any social life there’s a non zero chance you have or will share spit with one of these people.
Is there some angle where influencers make money off this?
I ask because “Facebook Groups” sounds a little more homegrown than Instagram, like it really is just conspiracists indulging in this, rather than grifters trying to farm engagement.
Maybe it’s a way to filter out the dumbest people around. They’re easily influenced and are a great target for advertising.
That’s quite conspiratorial, TBH. I can picture ad buyers wanting that information, sure, but what’s the motivation for the, errr, facebook group piss peddlers?
I don’t see how they make money without some sponsor, or engagement money, which Facebook normally doesn’t pay out AFAIK?
If you’ve seen “recommended for you” on Facebook (or recommendations on other platforms), it’s usually the dumbest shit because it drives engagement.
For the influencers, lots of visitors = potential market to peddle their piss merch, urine therapy books and recipes on YouTube
The money comes from selling supplements on the side. Also, chiropractors and other quacks, as well as Christian fringies, make bank off these losers. I bet that’s who most of the advertisers are.
Some nutjob groups are all natural. Like the piss they mistake for medicine
The foot-soak part is actually true though. The uric acid does kill foot fungus. It can also cause kidney stones when consumed regularly, so don’t drink it. But a foot bath is harmless (just wash your feet afterwards).
Of course, there are other ways of killing foot fungus. But in a pinch, soaking your feet in piss can actually help.
We should introduce these people to the anti-vax horsepaste crowd. Let them think that drinking your own piss and squirting dewormer up your ass makes you effectively immortal
It’s the same crowd.
My stepdad was an early version of these people. He didn’t go to doctors and ate raw onions, a lot of them, because he’d heard on the radio that they were in the Bible as some kind of secret miracle drug that “Big Medicine” doesn’t want you to know about."
When he died, I went in with the hazmat crew to clear out the hoarder mess he’d made of the house. You couldn’t get to the stairs because he’d been buying online vitamins, boxes and boxes of them, and they were piled up there. He’d also opted out of Medicare.
I have a coworker who isn’t that bad, but I wouldn’t out it past her.
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Her younger kids aren’t vaccinated…I dunno about the 18 yr old. She is one of those “I listen to my body” nutjobs because she read it in her FB mommy group or whatever propaganda outlets she subscribes to to
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My uncle is final stages pancreatic cancer. She legit thought it was a valid suggestion to ask if he’s looked into invermectin and fenben because “research” shows it’s actually “curing” cancers. I legit stopped talking to her for a while after that. But out of morbid curiosity I did look into it and it’s a few sporadic wackos making unsubstantiated claims online.
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Cult leaders are literally out of a job and there are absolutely no unions in that sector.
…I did not need to know this.
I mean, I have drank pee, but it wasn’t my own and I was drunk at the time.
Ya know it’s shit like this that makes me wonder if everyone should have universal access to healthcare, because if you are drinking piss more than the piss fetishists then maybe you shouldn’t get care for failing kidneys. It’s like breatharians, passed a certain point I no longer have pity, sympathy, or empathy and simply see it as self inflicted natural selection.
I understand this sentiment, I really do.
But if you start to exclude people, you have to draw the line somewhere. Is this theotrtical guy willfully stupid, or mentally ill? Should both get treatment? Only the mentally ill guy? Neither?
I’m perfectly fine with my taxes going to improving everyone’s lives, regardless of how much of a stubborn dumbass they are. It’s too important to make sure that not a single ‘deserving’ person gets left out.
Hence why I said wonder, they probably should be treated because who would be the arbiter and all that but fuck does it stress test my beliefs and principles. Regardless we should allow doctors and nurses to chew people out like combat medics, humans absorb information in the immediate aftermath of trauma so if you chewed out a dumbfuck pissdrinker while they are being treated it may actually stick.
Also it should be socially acceptable to assault parents who inflict this shit apon their children, especially the bleach cultists and antivaxers.
