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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The revelation about the sulphuric acid sparked wild speculation on social media as to what Epstein needed it for, including to 'destroy evidence or even human remains' - despite there being no evidence of criminal use.

I think you may be confusing "wild speculation" with reason.

What would be the other conclusion you draw when you hear a sex trafficking pedophile who murdered and tortured his victims, ordered multiple drums of sulphuric acid to be delivered to his private island the same day a federal investigation was announced?

But further emails in the documents, dating back to 2013, suggest Epstein used sulphuric acid on the private island to purify water.

RO stands for Reverse Osmosis - a water purification system - while sulphuric acid is widely used in water treatment, specifically to soften, adjust pH, and enhance the efficiency of other chemicals during purification processes.

Oh well as long as that's what he'd always been ~~dissolving bodies in~~ using to purify water, nothing to see here. Just like there was nothing to see in the entire decade between first being arrested for sex trafficking a minor in 2008 and charged with "soliciting prostitution of a minor," continuing to do insane business transactions with powerful elites and banks who still won't release records of those transactions, and ending up dead in his jail cell with a federal record date of death listed the day before he actually died at the exact time security footage resets itself, and both guards take a meal break so there are no witnesses. Oh and 2 minutes are missing because glitches happen.

There's no need for wild speculation because there's always some perfectly logical explanation for why none of this is what it looks like.

[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Why's that?

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

red herring minute. where's the other cameras?

[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

They raped and killed. Now we are all out of rape and time to _____ the guilty

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sulphuric acid does not dissolve humans.

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sulphuric acid is a strong acid and in sufficient molarity will dissolve a Buick Roadmaster

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

I've never used sulfuric acid on flesh, but I can tell you that it works wonders on both plants and chicken shit.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be easier to just toss the bodies in the ocean, the acid is for pools

[–] Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I was skimming the article. Only saw mention of it being used for the pool. Then just general information we already know about the island.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes it does, it's a matter of volume, exposure, and time. Dahmer used hydrochloric acid which is more effective.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also used in desalinization. A technology that's pretty useful when you're on an island surrounded salt water

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Yep and far more likely the reason for the order.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 262 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The records seem to indicate it was used as part of the island's reverse osmosis water treatment system. There I saved you a click.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago (17 children)

I kind of consider that to be plausible. 330 gallons sounds like a lot but it's only 6 barrels and there's way more effective ways to get rid of bodies (which I think is the implication). Also, justice isn't being achieved, not because of lack of evidence here, but because disgusting crimes are being covered up, and disgusting people being protected. I'm ok focusing on "why aren't any men in jail for this right now?"

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What's funny is the UK? wants someone to step down cause they hired someone on the list. They fired him a year ago but they still want him to step down. Well US is like whatever. Who cares.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've been boggled by American inaction in this and I wonder if it's because there's no recall function in our system? Maybe folks are just waiting for the midterms, but we aren't seeing civil consequences (firings, boycotts, etc) either. It genuinely seems like there's something uniquely American about the lack of consequences here

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been boggled by American inaction

I mean it's pretty clear why: Trump's name appeared more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files according to Rep. Jamie Raskin

The highest office in the country benefits from the inaction.

I know it's not really the same thing in the UK, but even within the royal family and public opinion, if it had been Charles instead of Andrew, do you think he would willingly be giving up his royal title and everything that goes with it, even if other members of the family were pressuring him?

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Definitely, but there should be systems in place like impeachment, no confidence votes, etc. in the US, Congress can impeach a president and remove them, but if they don't do so, we-the-people don't have legal recourse for removing members of Congress in the middle of their terms. A lot of the advice angry Americans are getting right now is "just vote them out in the midterms". This feels woefully insufficient

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

Also you’d buy in bulk because the cost of delivery is probably the same.

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

We wouldnt have to speculate if the DOJ would do their job in a way that allows the population to trust them. We dont get that though, so we have to be the justice ourselves to a degree by demanding total transparency and that also means questioning to ensure information comes out if its there. Thats my take.

People are being left to fill in the gaps and that causes mass confusion and makes people question real evidence. Its not okay

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

That is probably the point

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't disagree at all. The process we're forced to go through because we seem to be the only ones that care is maddening

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its so depressing, honestly and its purposeful. They want confusion. The American government is pretty damn good at Gaslighting and confusing the public, honestly... It wouldnt be the first time... and I have never been one of those tinfoil hat types. You can even go back and think about the Tuskegee experiment, MKUltra ect... among others... Its messed up how much they view us as manipulatable pawns... and this isnt to say other Governments dont engage in similar crap, too but ours is pretty dang experienced in the art of deception now.

P.S. MK Ultra feels cheesy to bring up at all due to the stigma but it happened and its messed up but its an example of purposeful manipulation.

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[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The volume is a tote, aka an IBC container

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_bulk_container

Super common and readily available for both legitimate and/or illegal purposes.

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok. But how much? It's just used for that doesn't tell me if that's a normal amount for reverse osmosis or if it's triple the amount of a normal scenario.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It would depend on how much water they treated.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Correct. All this information plays a factor in why it was there in the first place.

[–] idyllic@leminal.space 7 points 1 day ago

It may not be for dissolving bodies. But since the timing is suspect and indicative of some coverup, I would guess probably destroying trace DNA evidences.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (9 children)

It’s also, like not even that much for this kind of janitorial purpose. To add to that, while it sounds insidious, sulphuric acid isn’t the nefarious thing it sounds like.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Just add salt peter acid and charcoal acid and BOOM! /s

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 12 hours ago

Probably translation mistake. Nitric acid is called after saltpeter in a lot of languages

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I seem to recall from my childhood, back when kids made stuff go boom and nobody was afraid of terrorism yet, that sulfuric acid can be used to make nitroglycerine.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You'd need Nitric acid too, iirc.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can't recall whether we had ntric acid, but we definitely had hydrochloric acid and glycerine. I guess a recipe is a nice touch too... We had it all. Don't anymore, am responsibly adulting now. But I can tell you that sulfuric acid makes an orange cloud when poured on chicken shit, and that your mom isn't pleased when said cloud moves through the drying laundry. Still, far from the craziest thing I did before puberty.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

sulfuric acid makes an orange cloud when poured on chicken shit, and that your mom isn’t pleased when said cloud moves through the drying laundry

Sulfurous is not a lovely smell. I would also not be pleased.

I'm pretty confident about the nitric acid. It's not called nitroglycerine for nothing. I seem to remember my chemistry teacher saying that nitric acid and something else make a nitrating mixture, and when you do that to glycerine you get nitroglycerine.

I flunked chemistry, though, so don't set great store by what I remember!

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was the point of the video?

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It was probably tied to the article. The video is meant to show potentially doctored footage of another inmate walking into Epsteins jail sector the same night and time of his death, but the jail record claimed no one else being in the sector at his time of death.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

If only the current American administration could be bathed in it.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good goddess that thumbnail is horrifying.

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[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sulphuric acid is not the clean and easy method to dissolve a body as you might think and Hollywood might suggest.

[–] CarterH739@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I second this. Sulfuric acid was my entire job for eleven years. It would definitely do the job, but it's not as simple as dropping a body into a drum with it. You'd need a lot more of it, heat, pumps for a circulation system, filtration for the parts that it won't eat through right away (hair and fingernails, possibly teeth). There are much more efficient ways to get rid of a body. Especially on an island.

[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

If he was ordering hydrogen peroxide as well that would be more in line with the complete destruction of organic material

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago
[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Downvote this whenever you see it, it's either bait or just dumb reporting.

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