Vincent Zimmerman
Ars TechnicaBorax is the new Tide Pods and poison control experts are facepalming
Borax is used in laundry detergent and is not safe to ingest.
Mike
SnowOne@arstechnica nice for a classic experience poison yourself with the same options your great grandparents could use as well. #WeLiveInASociety
gom@arstechnica
Are you OK over there?
Are you OK over there?
Brian Pierce MD@arstechnica If I remember correctly, it also can be used to kill carpenter ants.
Young Garlic Knot@arstechnica may be time to accept that humanity is just not very smart.
Graywulf Dolfinson (Esquire)@arstechnica Victorian-era bakeries are rejoicing with this information.
Shadowbottle@arstechnica I hear it protects against 5g if you eat enough of it while under a poster of Trump
Ambiorickx@arstechnica is this another one of those social media moral panics that is based on nothing?
Steven Molnar@arstechnica Ronald Reagan sold borax, but even he didn't say you should ingest the stuff. Although, he would have done for enough money, of course.
freeluna@arstechnica natural selection is good. It isn’t in our best interest to get in its way. What do these fads have in common? A fan base which is either too impulsive or too stupid to live.
Bill the Galactic Hero@arstechnica OTOH it's a great flux for forge welding ✨ ⚒️
eMarginalia@arstechnica
Maybe it is not all bad that certain people want to try for the Darwin Award.
Maybe it is not all bad that certain people want to try for the Darwin Award.
Illyana 🏳️⚧️@arstechnica kids are eating ant poison now?
Karl Auerbach@arstechnica And to think, I just visited the giant Rio Tinto borax mine near the town of Boron (east of Mojave, West of Barstow)
Chris Williams
Chloe Thonus@arstechnica wait why are people ingesting borax is this a new weird health thing?
JanosSitar@arstechnica so sad that MF Doom didn’t get to see this headline
Jo Momma@arstechnica i mean, it's less toxic than table salt per gram, but you wouldn't drink that either in any significant amount. It can help with fungal issues when added to a foot bath, but you would not need to add much, and I wouldn't recommend soaking your entire body in it.
But otherwise, borax is a wonderful and safe mineral salt that can be used for a lot of things.
Sean@arstechnica boron, the element in borax, is essential for humans, however the idiots that are dying from it have no idea how little boron they actually need. It's embarrassing for humankind.