• @[email protected]
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    12013 days ago

    I don’t understand this post. Salt doesn’t mean sodium. NaCl and KCl are both salts, and this is a 50/50 blend with less sodium (Na) for the people who need/want that. Am I missing something?

    • macrocarpa
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      3813 days ago

      you’re not missing anything, you paid attention in chemistry.

    • @Maggoty
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      1913 days ago

      Sir that’s too many facts for this joke.

      • @Noodle07
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        513 days ago

        Now we’re cooking!

    • @Buddahriffic
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      12 days ago

      50% table salt

      50% bath salt

    • @postmateDumbass
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      313 days ago

      So much worse for people with Potasium limitations? Like dialysis patients.

      • @T156
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        813 days ago

        They could just get the normal salt, or no salt at all.

    • @[email protected]
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      -1213 days ago

      The part you’re missing is that potassium chloride used to be used in the lethal injection. Somehow it still has a lower LD50 than sodium chloride.

      • @[email protected]
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        1813 days ago

        How was that alluded to in the OP? Eating it isn’t the same as injecting it. It’s a normal ingredient in electrolyte drinks and rehydration salts. It’s also prescribed for hypokalemia.

        • @captainlezbian
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          112 days ago

          Also yes hyperkalemia is really effective at killing as is hypernatremia. This is not only known but also evolved around. Your body works pretty hard to ensure you don’t ingest so much of either ion that you develop these conditions.

          • @iCy619
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            212 days ago

            Well, let’s hope the doctor doesn’t prescribe enough, that their hypokalemia develops into hyperkalemia.

        • @jj4211
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          113 days ago

          It’s what plants crave

      • @calcopiritus
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        913 days ago

        I would be surprised if water isn’t used in lethal injections.