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[-] orclev@lemmy.world 265 points 1 week ago

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 116 points 1 week ago

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?"

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

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

[-] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

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.

[-] commie_rogers@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Document specifically states 6 55-gal drums.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Must not have a forklift on the island in that case

[-] commie_rogers@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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), maybe.

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. The conditional does not imply the inverse. In symbolic terms:

Conditional: p → q
Inverse: ¬p → ¬q

(p → q) → (¬p → ¬q) is false.

If you're going to make claims on the Internet, it's worth learning at least a little propositional logic.

[-] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Also, forklift attachments exist specifically for grabbing and moving barrels around. One of them is called a parrot beak.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Couldve also used a barrel dolly. Frankly I don't really care if Jeffrey Epstein was forklift certified.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

are you telling me epstein couldn't labor traffic one forklift certified worker

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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] blitzen@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

My first thought went to scrubbing things like iron and calcium stains.

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Do you mind if your second thought goes to scrubbing my dishes? I’ll pay it in b12 or whatever brains like

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Great cover story. At this point, no conspiracy theory is crazy enough to not be true.

[-] idyllic@leminal.space 8 points 1 week 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.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

I heard someone say on a podcast that 330 gallons would last about 15 years. I haven't fact checked that and AI wouldn't touch it, lol.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I think that would very much depend on the size of the system. If you're processing a gallon of water a day that's probably true, but if you're doing like 60 gallons a day probably not so much. It sounds like he had a reverse osmosis plant in the island that likely supplied all the water in the island so probably even for things like showers and maybe even swimming pools (I assume he had a swimming pool, it sounds right for a rich douchebag like him).

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[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 week ago

Good goddess that thumbnail is horrifying.

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[-] statelesz@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CarterH739@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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 week ago

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

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Sulphuric acid is not particularly good at dissolving bodies. It's hard to believe that a bunch of billionaires on a private island with bodies to dispose of would chose that as a method.

Agree that Epstein was clearly murdered.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

Sulphuric acid does not dissolve humans.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

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 1 week ago

Yep and far more likely the reason for the order.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago
[-] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ssfckdt 7 points 1 week ago

Worse, I hear they surrounded the island with dihydrogen monoxide, which kills 300,000 worldwide every year by inhalation.

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"We stand here today in praise and mourning at the loss of our dear friend the dihydrogen monoxide water joke. It was a good joke. A faithful joke. Always ready for a quick chuckle. A true best friend to the nerd in need. May it rest in peace."

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I heard that people that have tried it once are addicted for life. If they ever try to stop consuming dihydrogen monoxide, they will die.

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

What was the point of the video?

[-] Zanathos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Would you like a free bath?"

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