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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Ooh. Diatomaceous earth is also the best safest healthiest most humane method of fending off bed bugs.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I'm all for being humane but I would stab a bed bug with a pin and yell "die, fucker". Same goes for mosquitos, ticks and fleas.

Isn't diotemacious earth cancer causing if you breath it in?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Most shit will cause lung cancer if you make it into a powder and inhale enough of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In this case it's pretty much the same risk as inhaling asbestos dust. Fun fact, in the past, beer was filtered through asbestos, which was perfectly safe because asbestos is only dangerous when inhaled. Nowadays it's filtered through Kieselgur because its properties are pretty much identical to those of asbestos.

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