• dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    This happened 3 months ago. Connor Murphy died from drowning in a lake in Thailand. His two bro-science friends claim that he was injecting gold and that the gold injection made him behave erratically.

    I think there’s not enough evidence to show that injecting gold would make him behave erratically. There are documented instances of people injecting gold for medical research. I think Connor was probably behaving erratically prior to injecting gold, if he even actually injected gold.

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      As I recall the comments from his social group implied that he was erratic before and also experimenting with amphetamines, though I’m certain it was the gold

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      He may have been scammed, we’ve all had run ins with door to door metal salesmen, and sometimes they’ll try and pass off gold coloured mercury as liquid gold to try and swindle you.

      Just this morning, a man tried to palm off some copper so shit it’d make Ea-nasir blush. I said “Look, buddy, I’m in the market for copper because I’m making High Bandwidth Memory chips in my bathroom right now, and you’re offering copper not even suitable for roof gutters. Please come back with some actually good copper and then we can talk”.