- hsdkfr734r ( @hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ) English44•5 months ago
- FozzyOsbourne ( @FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ) English35•5 months ago
gms/kg
That doesn’t look right
lb
Ugh, at least I’ve heard of that
quart
Was this chart made by a mediaeval apothecary?
cylinder
Alright, what the fuck‽
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English4•5 months ago
My first thought was gram times second times meter per kilogram xD
- FiniteBanjo ( @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ) English4•5 months ago
Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.
- rockerface 🇺🇦 ( @rockerface@lemm.ee ) English37•5 months ago
So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
- CosmicTurtle0 ( @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•5 months ago
The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn’t care after that.
- FiniteBanjo ( @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ) English1•5 months ago
Over the course of 2 weeks, yes.
- plactagonic ( @plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ) English27•5 months ago
I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don’t understand it.
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English19•5 months ago
Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:
1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)
So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.
- 1rre ( @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•5 months ago
Ah I got thrown off by it being a US unit as I know in the US for some braindead reason they call a pint a “half quart(er gallon)” so I was thinking 1.136 litres, but yeah the US decided to not even use the same imperial units as anywhere else which still used them at the time just to be extra special (and scam people into thinking they were getting more than they wore, which sets the tone for the US I guess)
- bl_r ( @bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•5 months ago
The thing I find hilarious about this is alcohol in the US is often measured in ml, and usually sold at 750 or 1500ml as opposed to quarts
- amelia ( @amelia@feddit.de ) English11•5 months ago
These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I’m sorry but I call bullshit.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English3•5 months ago
Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.
Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.
- amelia ( @amelia@feddit.de ) English2•5 months ago
According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English1•5 months ago
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
- pseudonym ( @pseudonym@monyet.cc ) English8•5 months ago
Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
- WolfLink ( @WolfLink@lemmy.ml ) English7•5 months ago
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
- FiniteBanjo ( @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ) English7•5 months ago
Technically, LD50 specifies a time of death within 2 weeks of the consumption. That is very relevant for some items on this list, but there you go. Also, Morton Tender Quick is 0.5% Sodium Nitrite so 1/22nd of a 2 lbs bag is enough to kill you and much faster and more reliably than 175 lbs of cured meat.
- Texas_Hangover ( @Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ) English6•5 months ago
Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”
- meowMix2525 ( @meowMix2525@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months ago
Username checks out
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) English5•5 months ago
gms/kg
The what now
- Femcowboy ( @Femcowboy@lemm.ee ) English5•5 months ago
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English4•5 months ago
Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) English3•5 months ago
Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!
- TransplantedSconie ( @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months ago
- moosetwin ( @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•5 months ago
if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me