The only reason I keep Facebook is for unhinged stuff like this

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Or we could just start selling placebo tablets and make a fortune. I have some clay in my garden that should be easy enough to shape into pill shapes. We could even paint a few of them red and sell those as extra strong.

    Not hurting anyone…

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      23 hours ago

      Um Clay would have an effect. Use powdered sugar and simply compress them into a pill. This is literally one way they do already make placebos in pill form. You can buy a pill press on amazon

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        23 hours ago

        Sugar isn’t great for diabetics. Wouldn’t clay just pass through as it has no nutritional value.

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          22 hours ago

          Well sure but you could use other household ingredient that aren’t contaminated with whatever might be in your soil.

          It was intentional that i said it’s one way they already make placebos in pill form.

          It entirely is only important if you care about hurting people and not just stealing from them.

          Which you seem to since you are arguing over diabetes

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            18 hours ago

            People eat clay sometimes. IIRC its a famine thing used to bulk out actual food to make it feel slightly more filling.

            Pills are tiny. Wtf do you think the soil is contaminated with?

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              15 hours ago

              I’m sure they do but not without problems

              E coli, anthrax, Lead, mercury, oil, piss, shit, fungus, spores, mold, fucking anything really. You have no idea what’s gone into the ground or what it contains. Even if it’s “probably” safe why not use a much easier already approved product that has 0 risk associated with it

              Unless you are running it through some spectrum analyzer or whatever and have a process to then purify it, it’s a bad idea to just ingest something you dug up. And why bother not starting with already human grade ingestible material that you also probably have in your kitchen.

              Harmful substances are many orders of magnitude smaller than the tiniest pill.

              And no shovels required