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[+] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    So no washing your hair at all?

    Or is there some whitelist of allowed chemicals? I assume at least water, but hopefully some kind of surfactant, too?

    And no, I’m not being obtuse, I genuinely never know what people mean when they say things like this. Same as eating “clean”. It usually seems to be “clean means food that seems intuitively healthy to me” and “chemicals are things that seem intuitively scary to me”.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

    My hippie neighbor who uses his own piss twice a week. For real. His beard looks lavish.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Fun fact though, pee is composed almost entirely of chemicals.

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    That’s the thing about chemicals, though. Ammonia from a penis is the exact same thing as ammonia from a factory. Despite what homeopaths would say, molecules don’t have a memory of where they’ve been. I suppose I can see an argument around sourcing chemicals from sources that minimize environmental harm.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The source is key here, especially the pathway for obtaining said chemical. The biological pathway a human used to source ammonia is natural.

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    It may be. But it’s not insanely complicated to synthesize NH₂CONH₂, and it’ll be far more pure than getting it from an animal’s waste. You just need ammonia, carbon dioxide, and some equipment (and know how to use said equipment without exploding things, so best to outsource the production).

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