People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
The power of AI.
Long story short, AI initially pushed back on the ridiculous idea that drinking your own piss was a cure all, then these users figured out that adding words like ‘esoteric’ to their prompts let them direct AI to tell them what they wanted to hear.
Tbh article was too gross for me to finish. That’s all you get from me for a summary.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm just not good enough, ya' know? That whatever I do, I'll just never be as good as someone else doing it, so why try?
Then today I learned about a bunch of people, so unbelievably, laughably stupid, that they drink their own aged urine.
It doesn't make me feel better about myself, but it sure lowers my opinion about the average stranger.
When I was a student there was a pub that was always heaving because you could get smashed on less than a tenner on horrible spirits. The gents toilets there was genuinely horrendous, very drunk people combined with questionable plumbing meant there was usually a half inch or so of stale piss pooled on the uneven floor by around midnight. Literally if I think about it I can still smell it, it was fucking rancid but nowhere else could you get a quad vodbull for £4 so we put up with it.
That exact smell must permeate all of these people's houses. Unless they're taking the piss I guess.
There was a college nightclub near me years ago known for cheap drinks. After decades they closed down and sold the building. When the new owners renovated the place, they had to dig up the concrete underneath because decades of piss getting into cracks in the foundation basically crystalized and created a health hazard.
I had real, deep fear about where that story was going.
This is the funniest fucking thread on the fediverse, thank you all
I honestly hate how many comments this thread has because I keep being reminded of this gross shit lol.
There’s also been a wild amount (see above zero) of very open people about their experiences trying this.
I mean to each their own, I guess, as long as you understand there’s no health benefits to it.
There's actually quite a few really bad things that can happen from it, depending on how much you drink, and what else is in your diet. Kidney disease is no joke.
This reminds me of a joke told by Dr. Eckhart von Hirschhausen. It's in German, but I suppose you'll get it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ELfALC4u3U&t=30
Not before you realize that if you have any social life there's a non zero chance you have or will share spit with one of these people.
"I'm trying to do my own research here, but this AI tool keeps telling me that I'm an idiot. How can I make it tell me what I already believe to be true?"
Yeah so I have a kink around something closely related. I have zero issues with drinking piss for, uh, fun purposes.
Those are my credentials, the following is my expert opinion:
Wtf this is just stupid.
You know things are really out there when "I drink pee recreationally" is a valid credential of expertise for a topic that isn't "things done at a German sex club".
Also... I'm not exactly vanilla myself, and yeah: one of the things even the most depraved toiletplay enthusiasts know is "human waste is not good for you".
Well I am German, so if that adds to my credentials....
Absolutely. TBF urine also isn't as bad for you as some people here make it out to be (in moderation... With plenty of hydration on both sides...), but the idea of "let's ingest the stuff my body has decided is unwanted waste, I'm sure that's GREAT for me" is hilarious.
I mean that is literally true of everything dose and expose make things deadly. You can die from drinking to much water.
Sure, but when people here comment "drinking urine is super unhealthy" the "...even in
normalsmall-ish amounts" part is clearly implied.Ya know it's shit like this that makes me wonder if everyone should have universal access to healthcare, because if you are drinking piss more than the piss fetishists then maybe you shouldn't get care for failing kidneys. It's like breatharians, passed a certain point I no longer have pity, sympathy, or empathy and simply see it as self inflicted natural selection.
I understand this sentiment, I really do.
But if you start to exclude people, you have to draw the line somewhere. Is this theotrtical guy willfully stupid, or mentally ill? Should both get treatment? Only the mentally ill guy? Neither?
I'm perfectly fine with my taxes going to improving everyone's lives, regardless of how much of a stubborn dumbass they are. It's too important to make sure that not a single 'deserving' person gets left out.
Hence why I said wonder, they probably should be treated because who would be the arbiter and all that but fuck does it stress test my beliefs and principles. Regardless we should allow doctors and nurses to chew people out like combat medics, humans absorb information in the immediate aftermath of trauma so if you chewed out a dumbfuck pissdrinker while they are being treated it may actually stick.
Also it should be socially acceptable to assault parents who inflict this shit apon their children, especially the bleach cultists and antivaxers.
Hospitals where the nurses just piss on ya
There's probably some Japanese film about it out there.
Japanese, German, American, British....
Wanna go to a club where people wee on each otha?
These are very serious medical conditions.
“Nurse, go piss on those heart valves” etc
Pleased ta meetcha!
You ever drank baileys from a shoe?
Do ya like watta collas?
I don't rightly know, sir
Ya eva drink baileys out of a shoe?
Yes, I am very sick, I need to go to this hospital... for research purposes only.
Nurse, this patient has pneumonia and must get 500 ccs of of that liquid gold onto the lungs STAT! Use the intubation thingy!
I mean... I've seen jav where it happened, but I didn't take it as medical advice...
I'm afraid that's not going to be enough protection.
'Nobody knows I'm pissing inside my hazmat suit'
The dumbest fucks use AI for everything. This is pretty evident from local Facebook groups.
Pissmaxxing
Who drinks their own pee??? That's just sad and lonely.
It's actually a very ancient type of....something. Dates back to the Romans or Egyptians at least.
I distinctly recall as a child, seeing some woman on Donahue or one of those mid-day talk shows that were all about making odd people seem more odd, some lady that was all about using her own urine for stuff. Took a sip on the show and everyone freaked out.
I think you missed the joke.
Not at all. I'm just saying that this isn't some new AI-related phenomenon. It's an ancient form of insanity.
Methheads.
AI: A tool that allows idiots feel like they finally have someone agree with them.
The foot-soak part is actually true though. The uric acid does kill foot fungus. It can also cause kidney stones when consumed regularly, so don't drink it. But a foot bath is harmless (just wash your feet afterwards).
Of course, there are other ways of killing foot fungus. But in a pinch, soaking your feet in piss can actually help.
Big Tech isn't going to conceal the hidden wonders of urine from me!
Those greedy billionaires just wanting to keep all the piss for themselves! They're probably hoarding it in their doomsday bunkers
/s
Asking for esoteric facts ain't a jailbreak. Just because you don't know a word doesn't mean it can't hurt you.
Asking for false facts gets you false facts.
Yeah. Here’s the direct quote
People that don’t want facts telling a glorified auto correct to write them a fiction and they accept it as fact. Who’da thunk?
There’s a word for false facts: falsehoods.
People should not even say false facts it makes them seem like facts can be opinion oriented.
Falsehoods call them out as what they are: lies.
Gladaed was in on the conspiracy, trying to hide the ancient and mystic powers of urine from the public. But this time, we wouldn't be fooled. A loosely-connected group of online activists, we'd been working together, putting together the pieces, uncovering the real truth, and sharing what we'd found. We had a list of people who were in on the conspiracy. Gladaed was in on it, along with Wikipedia, the government, the mainstream "medical" industry, AI companies, and countless others. But as we worked out who had been secretly working against us, we forged forward. Our time was coming. The Second Era of Liquid Gold was nearly upon us.
And then... the Kidney Stone Nation attacked!
I had to look up esoteric; doesn't it just mean something that's not widely known? Like very specialized knowledge?
It basically just means "hidden knowledge". It can be used pretty neutrally, one might refer to a largely unknown book about a particularly niche topic as "esoteric". Largely though, it carries a sort of mystical connotation, referring to knowledge that requires a great deal of metaphysical understanding to comprehend. Qabalah, alchemy, hermeticism, generally any topic concerned with uncovering the nature of reality through study of the qualities and patterns of the natural world.
Yoga is a broad spiritual practice, with the goal of using physical mastery of the body (including asana, the poses most people associate with "yoga") and mental mastery of the mind (meditation) to uncover hidden knowledge of the universe.
Naturally, a lot of vast writing on yoga can be described as "esoteric", including the practice of amaroli.
Thank you!
Wasn't the top commenter suggesting "esoteric" means "false"?
Conflating "esoteric" with "woo-woo nonsense" is pretty common.
Hah, that's news to me! I had always interpreted it as meaning something like "specialized" from context
Thank you, I'm tired of seeing "esoteric" get thrown around as a synonym for "niche" or "specialized," because we already have words for those things, and it waters down the meaning of the word "esoteric."
I'm also tired of seeing it get co-opted by conspiracy nutjobs who have never heard of kabbalah and who think yoga is for hippies and single moms.
"Esoteric" is basically the less-scary way of saying "occult," a word that has also been co-opted, this one by the hollywood horror genre and basically reduced to exclusively meaning "lemegeton and liber xv," when those things are actually considered highly fringe within the occultism community.
So now we can't say esoteric without people thinking we drink piss. Can't say occult without people thinking we drink... other... bodily fluids. Most of the other words that might fit have been reduced to drinking kool-aid; i.e. "mystical," "metaphysical," etc.
I think the true conspiracy is co-opting all these terms to make it impossible to talk about spiritual growth, because if people actually teach each other how to comprehend the intricacies of our own minds, and how to take our own fates into our own hands, then the people in power lose the monopoly they currently wield over our destinies.
Strictly speaking, "occult" and "esoteric" accurately refer to a certain kind of niche or specialized knowledge which the layperson lacks the underlying knowledge to even understand conceptually. What you and I use the terms for is a specialized case.
As a student of the spiritually esoteric, I don't really care much about what fluids people think I drink. The goat-fucking and lizard-people jokes are so overplayed that we've reclaimed them. People are going to believe what they want, and the ones who are ready to learn won't get distracted by the noise.
I think the word's original usage was specifically in reference to secretive spiritual teachings, and using it as a synonym for "niche" is a more modern phenomenon. Go back 100 years or more and I'm fairly certain most if not all uses of the term will be in reference to some combination of spirituality, philosophy, and/or proto-psychology.
Maybe the occult community has reclaimed satanic panic jokes in places where most people aren't religious anyway, but for anyone who lives in a conservative area then that stigma is definitely still a real risk that any practicing occultist needs to be aware of. As dangerous or more as being openly gay in some areas, for mostly the same reasons.
I don't really think terminology is really your problem. You're going to face stigma for anything outside the local dominant church. In some areas a Catholic is no better than a satanist.
Yeah, growing up catholic and later becoming pagan I'm absolutely certain a lot of protestants can't tell the difference. I was called a devil worshipper more than people would expect. Fortunately the area I grew up in was pretty Catholic, but I still have an instinctive caution whenever an area feels too protestant
Yeah but that's what I mean, the terms "esoteric" and "occult" basically originated because it wasn't safe to openly study/practice certain teachings. Even owning the wrong book could have meant a death sentence in some times and places. Hence, practices were "occluded" and passed on in secrecy from adepts to initiates.
My point was that even though some places have evolved culturally beyond that, not all places are quite there yet. So an offbeat joke about sacrificing goats isn't exactly going to be an effective coping mechanism everywhere...
Or secrets, if you prefer to think about it sneakier
We should introduce these people to the anti-vax horsepaste crowd. Let them think that drinking your own piss and squirting dewormer up your ass makes you effectively immortal
It's the same crowd.
My stepdad was an early version of these people. He didn't go to doctors and ate raw onions, a lot of them, because he'd heard on the radio that they were in the Bible as some kind of secret miracle drug that "Big Medicine" doesn't want you to know about."
When he died, I went in with the hazmat crew to clear out the hoarder mess he'd made of the house. You couldn't get to the stairs because he'd been buying online vitamins, boxes and boxes of them, and they were piled up there. He'd also opted out of Medicare.
I have a coworker who isn't that bad, but I wouldn't out it past her.
Her younger kids aren't vaccinated...I dunno about the 18 yr old. She is one of those "I listen to my body" nutjobs because she read it in her FB mommy group or whatever propaganda outlets she subscribes to to
My uncle is final stages pancreatic cancer. She legit thought it was a valid suggestion to ask if he's looked into invermectin and fenben because "research" shows it's actually "curing" cancers. I legit stopped talking to her for a while after that. But out of morbid curiosity I did look into it and it's a few sporadic wackos making unsubstantiated claims online.
What a great headline.
Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but i do it anyway because its sterile and I like the taste.
It's not actually sterile. It's an old myth. It's actually, just like any other bodily fluid, full of bacteria.
If it's fresh then the bacteria haven't grown to dangerous levels, unless you have an infection.
That doesn't mean you should drink it, of course. But bacteria doesn't always mean bad.
The most dangerous part of fresh urine is the uric acid, which can cause kidney stones if it's allowed to build up (i.e., by drinking it over time)
Does blood count as a bodily fluid? Pretty sure there's no bacteria there
If you visit the dentist, then (in the UK) you are not meant to donate blood for the next two weeks.
Any trauma in the mouth from the dentistry will allow mouth bacteria into your bloodstream, and whilst it'll be okay for you a weaker person may not do well from the subsequent transfusion.
Interesting, I wonder if the US has similar laws?
In the US the dentist draws your blood and then sells it on the side. Guys gotta make ends meet somehow.
If you have any small wounds, e.g. in your gums, mucosa, etc, yes there are.
If that were remotely true, we wouldn't need an immune system.
Reverse causation. We don't have bacteria in our blood because we have an immune system
Our immune system isn't that efficient. There's always at least some bacteria in there. Just not enough to kill us, most of the time.
That doesn't sound right. We'd be perpetually bacteremic if that were the case.
Seems there's a paper on this (doi 10.1038/s41564-023-01350-w) that showed that 84% of people don't have bacteria in their blood. Authors hypothesized based on the detected bacteria that the remaining 16% were likely temporary colonizations and not permanent.
So for the most part, blood appears to be sterile with some possibility of temporary low level bacteremia
Not on a good day, anyway.
Yes blood is a fluid from the body and bloodborne illness are absolutely a thing.
Your kidneys must feel like they’re being played for a fool.
"What, this again?"
Though "sterile" isn't really a decision factor in food. Otherwise we'd eat examination gloves and drink bleach 😅
I only drink 95% ethanol.
Your poor microbiome...
It was a rough year for fresh vegetables.
Yeah, that was nasty. Though I'd like to point out our food safety here (on other continents) has been a-ok. I ate a lot of fresh produce.
I don't know why Justin Long getting hit by a wrench still makes my chest shake with laughter 2 decades in, but damn if it doesn't.
It's like eating your own feces, it's what the body worked hard to remove from you because, surprise, it's bad.
Don't drink your own pee. Don't drink anyones pee. I mean a little if you're sexually into that, but don't overdo it!
Urine is not sterile.
As others have said, not sterile. Even if it was, though, sterile doesn't mean safe to consume.
Underrated lol
It's not sterile. What's in there just doesn't grow if you simply put it on petri dishes, similarily to the gut biome or the bacteria in your stomach. They are adapted to an specific low-oxygen environment. Which means when you drink your piss, all bets are off, because the bacteria in it might like your stomach or gut, even when not growing on an agar plate.
This is also the reason why research in things like Heliobacter pylorii (a chronic stomach bug, causing all kinds of cell damage there) are so complicated: you have to use a bioreactor tuned to the specific conditions of the human stomach to even grow it, and research also has to take place in these, with very aggressive conditions compared to "in the open under the fume hood"
Alright real question though. Didn't Romans use it to whiten teeth and doesn't it help with athletes foot or something?
Not saying use piss there are other probably better alternatives just heard these before and am curious about their veracity
Human piss is a very useful precursor for useful chemicals like potassium nitrate and Ammonia, but theres no good reason to mess with the raw product. I hadn't heard about the teeth thing.
Appears to be a common myth. They apparently did however collect it for ammonia and phosphorus extraction and for use in cleaning agents. There’s a couple articles on dispelling the myth, but this one looked like a good read. (Unfortunate domain name with the topic at hand, however)
https://www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispelling-some-myths-romans-cleaned-their-teeth-with-urine
And entire thread without this pic?
It has electrolytes!
Yeah. Like...has anyone ever really asked if your kidneys are doing ANY critical thinking when they're supposedly "eliminating waste"? Who the fuck made YOU chief, kidneys? I'll be comprised of what I WANT, you're not the boss of me!
If we weren't supposed to drink piss, why did god make it come out of dicks?
Squirt is also piss. I'm not into pissing, but squirting? Sign me up!
Suddenly got soaked when I was doing a girl. I'm like "what the fuck, are you pissing on me?" "No, I'm squirting." "Carry on."
This is actively so much weirder than piss fetishists. At least they know they're drinking piss because they like it, unlike these people
I mean, I have drank pee, but it wasn't my own and I was drunk at the time.
Is there some angle where influencers make money off this?
I ask because “Facebook Groups” sounds a little more homegrown than Instagram, like it really is just conspiracists indulging in this, rather than grifters trying to farm engagement.
The money comes from selling supplements on the side. Also, chiropractors and other quacks, as well as Christian fringies, make bank off these losers. I bet that's who most of the advertisers are.
Maybe it's a way to filter out the dumbest people around. They're easily influenced and are a great target for advertising.
"I need some really dumb customers"
"People still on Facebook in 2026?"
"No, even dumber"
"Hmmmmm . . . how about people still on Facebook AND engaging with conspiracy theories?"
"Go on . . . "
That's quite conspiratorial, TBH. I can picture ad buyers wanting that information, sure, but what's the motivation for the, errr, facebook group piss peddlers?
I don't see how they make money without some sponsor, or engagement money, which Facebook normally doesn't pay out AFAIK?
If you've seen "recommended for you" on Facebook (or recommendations on other platforms), it's usually the dumbest shit because it drives engagement.
For the influencers, lots of visitors = potential market to peddle their piss merch, urine therapy books and recipes on YouTube
Some nutjob groups are all natural. Like the piss they mistake for medicine
To me, this comes across as a TIL about the fact that a certain percentage of people exist who drink their own urine. Also, I love the fact that I won't remember anything important or useful due to my shitty memory but I'll never forget this new fact.
Roy, can you get sick drinking piss?
I hope I piss myself and you call me your little “pee pee piss piss boy”
Finally a use for piss filter
I never thought humans could be so stupid. To believe this is the end of the world. People are getting dumber and dumber; some believe everything. This world is lost..
LET'S GO DARWIN
Fucking Waterworld?
Man I legit love that movie. Partly because my mom hated it growing up and I guess it’s one of those inside jokes where you joke about something then actually enjoy it.
Cult leaders are literally out of a job and there are absolutely no unions in that sector.
Honestly, if they insist on drinking their own piss, be my guest. That shit doesn't affect me in the slightest.
They do spread misinformation which can harm others around you. So an aunt can stop chemo and start drinking urine causing her to die, which will affect you.
Be careful with "I don't care because it doesn't affect me" because if society is harmed, we will all feel it in some form. Like vaccinations. If the percentage of vaccinated people go below a certain threshold, also vaccinated people are at risk of getting sick and die. And often piss drinkers do not vaccinate.
Drinking urine is just one effect of mass misinformation and poor education. If this becomes more popular, you can assume other harmful things are also becoming more popular, endangering the general public.
I have genuinely no empathy with people who believe this kind oft bullshit. Common sense tells you it's bullshit. If you still believe it, well ... Don't stop Darwin doing bis job I'd say.
Like I said. If the percentage of vaccinated people reaches below a certain threshold, everyone is at risk of getting sick and die.
It's this selfish thinking that is destroying society. If one part of the group does bad, the other part of the group will feel it too. If one idiot grabs a gun and starts shooting, others will suffer. Same with a drunk idiot getting behind the wheel.
It's in everyone's interest that the general knowledge, quality of life and proper health of everyone in society is of a decent level, to lower:
If people are dying because of Facebook knowledge, they won't be able to work, pay taxes, pay for pension fund, support their children, etc. so this will hurt society, including you.
Instead of laughing at them, maybe try to fight fake news so people with low intelligence won't fall for these harmful scams.
So when it comes to the Darwin awards and lack of common sense, you're nominated.
Which is completely different from someone drinking bis own piss.
I would argue people who drink their own piss shouldn't reproduce. Will strain the social system in the short term, but benefit long-term.
People who fall for these obvious lies aren't just falling for fake news. They are living in a world where "school medicine" wants to kill them so they resort to alternative medicine. Do you think RFK Jr is falling for fake news or is simply a complete and utter retard?
Well, you're clearly not properly informed either, so it's kind of hypocritical to condemn others who also don't know any better.
Always fun when people just shit their opinion under another comment without refuting anything, but still pretending to be morally or intellectually superior lmao.
Ah well, on the list for the other annoying lemmy-people you go.
I made several points in my previous comments, which clearly you don't understand anything of seeing your answers. I can't compensate your lack of comprehension.
So if you don't like me for pointing out and explaining why your way of thinking and comments are a major issue adding to the problems of the world we live in, then I understand why you have a large list of Lemmy people you don't like.
But at least you're not on Facebook, so that's something you can be proud of.
No, but it will affect someone you love who might be gullible enough to believe their bullshit. Public health education saves lives because it innoculates them against believing in stupid shit like thieves' oil, horse paste, and piss-drinking.
Humans have a genetic instinct to trust their in-group, and we have a bad habit of being slow to accept new information unless we've trained the habit. It's a really nasty combination for people who never really learned critical thinking skills.
If someone I love is drinking their own piss, I will roast the fucking shit out of them.
If someone I love believes drinking their own piss is a miracle cure, that's no longer someone I love.
We used to say the same thing about anti vaxxers
Only if herd immunity was not a known concept.
Yes, anti vaxxers didnt affect me either.
You are about to find out the hard way, that's bullshit.
It's not. It doesn't affect me. You can keep pretending it did, but my life kept going as usual.
If people like this were able to keep to themselves, we wouldn't even know it was happening.
...I did not need to know this.
I prefer the purity and simplicity of the standard piss fetishist.
Looks tasty.
I post this with no comment
more suprised that the chatbot have those idiotic "safeguards" in the first place