• Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
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    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?”

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      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.

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        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

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          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?

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            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

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      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.

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            Non sequitir.

            The presence of an IBC tote would imply the presence of some equipment necessary to move it (at least a pallet jack, possibly a forklift).

            However, the inverse does not follow: absence of a tote does not imply the absence of the equipment needed to move one. The presence or absence of the equipment is logically independent of the absence of the equipment (even though it would be be implied by the presence of the equipment).

            This is called denying the antecedent. In symbolic terms:

            Conditional: p → q Inverse: ¬p → ¬q

            (p → q) → (¬p → ¬q) is False.

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        Didn’t realize there were tall ibc totes, I thought they were all 1000L/265gal

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          Which is ~3.5 foot-bathtubs or 7 MFM…Mega-Foot-Mugs or 35panda-feet or 35 pizza ft ~65watermelons per apple feet. I asked Mr Chat for these actual units, so likely to be all wrong. Things were looking credible until pizza ft. Darn!

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      Yea seems a lot easier to just take a body out to sea and drop it. They won’t even know where it ends up between the depth and the currents. I doubt a body would even last that long on the sea bed.

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      I think it’d be a shit way to get rid of bodies unless maybe if it was just bones. Fat and soft tissue would probably need a strong base like sodium hydroxide to break down - which is why it’s used for making soap

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        Nitric acid would be better. But apparently sulfuric acid and highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide works well. Look up piranha solution.

        But on an island, I would think a large barrel, concrete, and some very deep water would be sufficient.

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          If anyone wants to see this in action, one of the Mythbusters Breaking Bad specials test out the bathtub dissolving thing from season 1. In the show they use hydrofluoric acid, but that doesn’t work and they move to harder stuff. They don’t actually say it’s piranha solution, cause Discovery probably wouldn’t wanna let them teach people how to get rid of bodies, but they say sulfuric acid and something else “with a lot of oxygen” wink wink

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          If there was a massive order for hydrogen peroxide I’d believe piranha solution was used for these purposes