What is that stuff?
Cans of compressed air to blow out computers.
Thanks. I was wondering, especially about the abuse stuff. Could this be more like compressed nitrogen?
Lots of blow jobs.
Compressed air. Used to clean electronics. You can also use it to get high (which is what is being implied is happening here) with some very serious side effects.
So more likely compressed nitrogen or something. I can’t see people getting high on air.
Compressed air is about 0% air, you’re correct in that, but nitrogen is a part of air so it’s not it. It’s butane, propane or other less flamable but worse shit, afaik
They get high on the propellant (usually difluoroethane), basically, enhanced by hypoxia
Nitrous oxide (“whippits”) is a whole other thing that is very much a grey market drug dealer “this should probably just explicitly be legal at this point because the hoops people jump through are kind of silly”. Like if you’re into cooking nitrous oxide chargers are a valid thing to own for making whipped cream and such so headshops often stock huge tanks under the guise of “for culinary use only”, just like how people only use bongs for tobacco, right
I got a restaurant I worked at to buy a tank of N2O for staff.
The kitchen staff kept huffing my beer gas (N2 & CO) despite multiple warnings and explanations that it wasnt getting them high, just suffocating them. Twice I found a guys passed out in the walk in, still holding the still running line. The gas is heavier than air, so it pools on the ground, and it was a small walk in that didnt cycle often, so this was really dangerous.
I managed to convince the owner that buying a N2O tank for $300 and occasionally ‘forgetting’ to lock it up was way cheaper than the costs associated with a staff member dieing on premises, especially considering the health dept would almost surely force us to replace our old system and put in air testers and stuff.
More specifically it’s usually a chemical called tetrafluoroethane and yes it is absolutely horrible for you
If you turn them upside-down you can use them to make stuff cold also.
I used to do that to doorknobs as a kid. Getting high never occurred to me but it’s good I didn’t know were flammable because… 🔥
Also very flamable that way.
Very serious == death, dont do it kids.
I had an old, dusty laptop that needed some serious cleaning recently, so I went to the store to buy one of these. Was rather surprised that they’d make me go to the counter and show my ID before allowing me to purchase one, but now I know why.
What a waste. $15 air compressor for blowing up air beds does a better job, with no pollution
i dont think its for computers 😞
Almost all of that has some sort of additive now that makes it extremely unpleasant to huff.
You just have to blow it through a folded up rag usually… Otherwise, do you think an addict would stop just because it tastes bad?
How would they start considering how expensive it is and with the additive?
Like nitrous canisters are decently cheap
Was gonna say, isn’t it mostly NO2 things for making whippy cream that people huff. And butane although that’s riskier.
Compressed air tastes awful, even when directed into an aging 1060.
was it ever plesant to begin with
Cheaper ways to get high.
Probably safer, too.
At my age I can get high just by standing too fast.
I’d recommend one of these
A cheap no name brand works too but I enjoy this one. Definitely overpriced at full price but it’s on sale.
You can also pay a little more and get a duo tool that’s a tire inflator or a vacuum as well as a blower. Great for the car
I hope anyone who does these dusters realizes you can get whip it’s on Amazon for like 20 bucks, then a cracker for a other 20, and then they won’t be absolutely destroying themselves and their lungs. I also hate all the misinformation surrounding nitrous, fucking dentists use it for fucks sake, shits safe as long as you don’t abuse it.
Chronic use can really fuck people up though. Nitrous oxidizes b12 in the blood stream destroying it and that can lead to neurological issues.
Absolutely, this is why I specified not abusing it
Only destroying their cerebellum. Who needs it?
Recreational use of nitrous oxide (N2O) has increased rapidly in recent years and is now the second most commonly used recreational drug among young people in the UK. There has been a corresponding rise in cases of nitrous oxide-induced subacute combined degeneration of the cord (N2O-SACD), a pattern of myeloneuropathy usually associated with severe vitamin B12 deficiency. This can cause serious and permanent disability in young people
They were abusing it, clearly.
The only recreational use of N2O I know of is to add a tank of it in a car and pipe it into the fuel mixture.
And even that seems kinda snake-oily to me.
People doing duster are not usually the same people doing nitrous. In my years of working in a hospital, duster addicts were the worst of the drug addicts mentally and physically.
Correct me if I’m wrong, doing whippets is text book abusing it
no. doing hundreds of them is.
Pretty sure what these people are doing is the definition of abuse though.
Don’t even bother with crackers, they suck. Just buy a 1L+ tank and some big balloons from Amazon.
Also, don’t do it every day, or even every other day. You will fuck up your vitamin B12 reserves and you’ll quickly discover what happens. Having a binge once a week is much better for you than a couple balloons every day.
I’d also point out ripping nitrous hits out of balloons is most definitely abuse. Ain’t nobody out there using a regulator and metering their nitrous intake like medical usage.
You’re metering it to one punch balloon every couple minutes! And when you wake up, you have another. It’s self-regulating.
I would like to say I’m 10+ years out from the days I’d drive down to Bristol PA and pick up two or three 20 pound tanks from some random fire safety place. Definitely abusable, and easily so. We’d pound a 5h energy and Gatorade after and you’re right as rain, which is not good, needs to be harder to feel fine after.
I also hate all the misinformation surrounding fentanyl, fucking surgeons use it for fucks sake, shits safe as long as you don’t abuse it.
I was once given cocaine eye drops in a hospital though (it’s a combined vasoconstrictor and analgesic, which makes it good for facial injuries that tend to hurt and swell/bleed a lot). Just because something can have a clinical use case doesn’t make it safe for anyone to use it regularly.
Comparing nitrous oxide to fentanyl is actually fucking stupid.
you’re right, one can be bought legally and used to even be available on amazon and the other gets you in jail
True, fentanyl might kill you while nitrous will just put you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. With poor fine motor so even gooning won’t be the same.
If Steve O didn’t end up in a wheelchair from his nitrous use, then I think that might be a hyperbole…
Only if you abuse it. Like I had said already.
I also hate all the misinformation surrounding Ivermectin, horse vets use it for horses’ sake, shits safe as long as you don’t abuse it.
Had a minor surgery earlier this year. They gave me fentanyl as the drug to put me under. Was hella surprised about it. Also I see why people love that shit so much.
But also for fentanyl’s danger, I think it comes down to how small a dose you need to hit the LD50/50 point is so low that you can hit it by accident without even trying. Street drugs are also being laced with Fentanyl and not in safe / well regulated doses. If you had a lab grade supplier, it’d probably be safer / easier to do safely…but I don’t think that’s what people are doing…
Are you sure the fentanyl wasn’t supplemental to something else like propofol? It’s not used for anesthesia induction before surgery AFAIK, just pain relief afterwards. If the IV burned a little when they pushed the plunger down on a syringe full of milky fluid, that was propofol.
But I can see an anesthesiologist saying something like, “We’re going to put you under now. We’ll give you fentanyl so you won’t be in pain when you wake up.”
I’m not sure.
I want to say they gave me two stages of anesthetic, but I also think fentanyl was the first of the two stages (counter to what you’re saying should have happened). But also, I’m at best an amateur at chemistry; even less when it comes to medicine. That said, reasonably certain what they gave me was not milky nor did it burn going in (you’ll have to excuse me if I misremember any deets, it was my first time going under and I was irrationally nervous about it)
I could have some things mixed up, but it did stand out in my mind that they used fentanyl (and I remember how fuckin’ nice it felt when they threw it in my veins). But that’s how I remember it.
I don’t know what order they should have been given in. Maybe the fentanyl was first? Did your tongue just go numb and your vision go dark for a few seconds before you passed out or did it feel like an angel tossed you into a zero gravity hot tub and instantly jerked you off?
Lmao, love those descriptions.
It was more the second one (tho I think the dose was small enough to miss the full jerked off effect).
But it also wasn’t a full “being put under” (they said they were aiming for a full under situation, but that they really just needed to “turn off” my sensitivity in some sensitive spots), and so I have at least a fuzzy memory of everything that happened along the way.
shits safe as long as you don’t abuse it.
You literally just explained how to abuse it though…
finally made a lemmy account just to downvote you. don’t fucking do whippets they can paralyze you for life. I’ve seen it. And dentists use it because they have years of training and proper equipment and they understand the risks (unlike you clearly).
A once a year huff at your favorite music festival is fine but yeah, two of my friends started having trouble walking and while another friend and me realized our hearts were doing weird stuff and quite that stuff. Turns out it oxidizes the b12 in your blood stream. They started getting b12 injections but spending an afternoon huffing destroys all the b12 in an injection. Better to quit.
Happy cake day.
I’m not late according to my timezone
I’m walking on sunshine
I wish I had a father.
I wish I didnt
I’ll be your long distance father! Everyone needs a good dad in their life. My dad was not one of the good ones. That’s why I try so hard to be a great dad to my girl.
Seriously though, I’m always here if you need some fatherly convos
They sang, drooling and laying in a puddle of their own piss.
Bro is going to fucking die 😭😭😭
Died of blow job
‘At least he died doing what he loved: a bunch of whip-its’
I was about to say to buy an electronic duster instead, then it dawned on me
Next best thing to boofing?
Got one a couple years back. God damn thing would push a Schooner against a current. Brilliant piece of kit.
They say you’re not supposed to use a vacuum but I do.
Might just be a home user regassing his air conditioner. Air duster is usually just r410a
I’m not sure where you’re getting your air duster but none of the stuff I’ve seen is R-410a. It’s usually R-134a or R-152a. R-410a would be a much higher pressure. Trying to run an R-410a system on either of those refrigerants would not work out well.
Also even if they are full of whatever refrigerant you need, they aren’t even close to pure enough to use in an AC system. I’m also not sure how you’d get it out of the can and into the system. You would need to make some sort of custom piercing tap or adapter for the can.
It’s 152a, difluoroethane. It’s never 410a or 134a.
Yeah you’re right, r134a was what I was thinking of. I had to look for it when regassing the car but just ended up going with hychill
I bought this many recently… I just use them to clean/dry my 3D prints off after a wash so I go through a few every year.
I’ve switched to using an electric one after this review video. It’s been great to use. https://youtu.be/X_ncYXk1cP4
They also work great for getting PETG prints to release from PEI build plates. Flip the can upside down, spray at the back of the sheet where the print is until it forms a thin layer of frost. Wait until the frost disappears (really you’re waiting for the metal to contract, but you won’t see that), bend the plate, and the part should pop right off.
…then flee to somewhere better ventilated to escape the cloud of bitterant before you vomit.
The amount of people not understanding this is mental
I have a theory that Lemmy commenters are dumber than you’d expect and this comment section doesn’t help their case lmao
Risky comment. They also cannot handle any sort of criticism whatsoever
Its a level of depravity I think im kinda glad to see people ingnorant of.
Yeah apologies for growing up in a healthy household
People don’t understand that niche thing that only seem to be a problem in america? Crazy
I’m not from the US yet I am aware of people huffing duster to get high
Sorry
Explain please …
Someone is probably huffing it to get high
People use that word wrong. If it’s paid after the service is provided, it’s a tip. If it’s paid before, then it’s a bribe
Its still paid after but you can see the tip first and deny it if it’s not to your liking.
*I don’t agree with tipping culture and how disgusting it has gotten but just being pedantic I guess
Fuck I think if I really couldn’t control myself I’d actually rather just do hard drugs, at least they don’t have bitterant and probably have a lower death rate.
