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[–] finitebanjo 92 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They check ID for compressed air? Where is this?

Now something like 99.99% alcohol electronics cleaner I would understand because people use it to cut meth or some other wild shit.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Causes instant death but also addiction? They resurrect me and I immediately go for another can of air duster.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2 11 points 2 months ago

I guess being dead was just better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

High so addictive not even death results in ingervention

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Totally guessing but im sure its similar to people saying "Try coke once and you could die!". Technically true, if your coke is laced with Fent. Maybe get too high of a concentration in your air duster and you simply die?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Guessing some people suffocate, they get too high, keep huffing and forget to breathe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

*not always all at once

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it maybe an US-exclusive thing? Due to less stricter regulations maybe? I'm from Europe and no compressed air was 18+ or had warning signs like "causes instant death"

[–] jaybone 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably because you can buy beer at 16, so no one is trying to get high on office supplies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not Europe but here in Norway I do see people huffing nitrous oxide. We do have a legal drinking age of 18 tho

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Nitrous is not comparable to air dusters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And a beer at the supermarket costs the equivalent of $18.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm in the US and haven't bought compressed air recently, but I definitely didn't need to present ID the last time I did.

This article says 38 states have age restrictions, but after a brief search, I couldn't find any evidence for this in my state (Utah). It's illegal to use it to get high and to sell it to someone with the understanding that they'll use it to get high. But now I'm curious, I'll have to ask the next time I'm at a store that sells it.

[–] finitebanjo 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A DuPont study tried HFC-152a and HFC-134a on rats, dogs, and humans for time periods of up to three months with a followup examination 2 years with no adverse effects. LINK

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the USA'S proposed ban DFE last month despite it functioning as a zero-potential for ozone-depletions alternative to CFCs.

That red line you drew could just be explained by market availability of the new Aerosol that convienently excludes the CFC equivalents which existed before and were banned.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anon could've bought an electronic air duster and had a clean PC for years! But good on you, anon. Cleaning out your PC is important.

[–] kameecoding 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, bit more expensive up front but pays for itself and performance doesn't massively downgrade as the can cools down, and is stronger anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Stronger? Which one? I bought one for 30 bucks and it was extremely loud and had less blowing power than the can. As I buy 1 can every 5 years or so, I returned the electric one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I have a micro inflatable mattress fan that I use to clean my keyboard. It has attachments and one of them is just a tiny small pin hole, I think it's meant for inflatable water donuts or something. Works wonders.

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

I use this one and it is definitely much stronger (and louder) than any can of air I've ever used. Stronger as in more volume AND velocity.

On a hot day it literally cools my entire body down.

[–] Yokozuna 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anon is on the path to finding out why it's like that and trying it out for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Breaking into buildings by triggering their REX-sensors?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I shouldn't ask but how do you trigger an exit button from the outside with a can of compressed air ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Many just detect temperature changes. And upside down can will spray cold air. If there's any space between the doors or between the door and the frame, you can spray it in and it'll detect the temperature motion. Fancier models do exist that are more specific, so YMMV.

[–] BobbyGasoline 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)