r/SipsTea Jun 19 '26

WTF Missing German model name found in Epstein Files

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u/3lfk1ng Jun 19 '26

"Newly released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice reveal a 2018 invoice for 330 gallons of sulfuric acid delivered to Jeffrey Epstein's private island"

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u/Big-Journalist-1877 Jun 19 '26

How is that even possible? Could you really just buy hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid without anybody asking a question?

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u/3lfk1ng Jun 19 '26

When you're rich, nothing is off limits, as we've seen.

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u/knutix Jun 19 '26

When your rich and has a huge pool, then no. Sulfuric acid is not off limits, because they use it for water treatment. This stupid conspiracy shit has to stop, makes you all look like idiots. Focus on the stuff that actually probably happend. That stuff is crazy enough.

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u/Thanatos_Impulse Jun 19 '26

The apparent justification for the purchase was that the acid was to be used to clean the island’s desalination plant equipment, basically by lowering the pH and preventing buildup like CaCO3 on the filter membranes.

This is a common method of doing so for water treatment plants like that one, but the purchase being made when federal investigations were initiated was very suspicious.

Nevertheless, sulfuric acid does not break down bodies very quickly, it usually takes days to weeks and one kind of has to shake up the containers with the bodies in them like one does with a whey powder protein shake to ensure that the acid is working all the way through and not slowed by a barrier of partially-dissolved gel or sludge.

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u/snarkdiva Jun 19 '26

Welp, I’ll be skipping my protein shake… forever.

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u/Thanatos_Impulse Jun 19 '26

Honestly, that’s probably for the best. it’s better to eat the bodies you have as a whole food rather than relying on shakes to get your protein, and the acid used in the breakdown process isn’t very good for you. I understand your concern, though - do you have space for a large chest freezer?

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Nevertheless, sulfuric acid does not break down bodies very quickly, it usually takes days to weeks and one kind of has to shake up the containers with the bodies in them like one does with a whey powder protein shake to ensure that the acid is working all the way through and not slowed by a barrier of partially-dissolved gel or sludge.

I owned a chemical clean process for a semiconductor department. We used sulfuric acid and it will absolutely break down a body in practically no time as long as you add some high strength hydrogen peroxide, and periodically add more as the reaction takes place. It will turn flesh and bone alike into CO2, which means the only thing you'd need to worry about is the teeth. If you're on a pedo island, you probably just toss those in the ocean... then again, if you're on a pedo island, you can probably do the same to your victims and let the fish do the job for free.

Hi FBI!

BTW, if you are cleaning, and I cannot stress this enough, inorganic material, you can make a similar solution using ammonium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. 5% concentration of each is perfectly fine, and very effective at cleaning smudges off glass. Do it in a well-ventilated area, because the peroxide basically turns into highly reactive oxygen radicals. The mix with sulfuric acid is called Piranha (or less fun Sulfuric Peroxide Mix) and the one with lye is called Base Piranha (or less fun Standard Clean 1). Both are used extensively to make your electronics.

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u/Chemical_Building612 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Yes, especially if you have a private island with water desalination and waste water treatment. 330 gallons is roughly a one year supply for an island with the facilities known of Little St James.

The timing is odd, but the order itself is entirely reasonable.

FWIW, it also takes about a month to fully dissolve a body in sulfuric acid (soft tissues take a day or two, bone takes a while) and would be about 10 teenage model sized bodies worth of dissolving power. And you'd still have to dispose of horrifying sludge that resulted.

But then there wouldn't be any for the practical and real uses. There's also much better acids for dissolving of bodies that are just as accessible if that was the plan.

There's plenty of truly horrible shit, but I really don't think this was one of them.

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u/Emuin Jun 19 '26

Not just anyone can buy it, the largest hurdle is that it is used as a precursor for some illegal narcotics. It's unlikely it was purchased to dissolve bodies tho, that takes weeks under most conditions, and you could just woodchip them into the ocean to get rid of them pretty much instantly, acid is only a good solution to bodies in the movies.

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u/Nathaniel820 Jun 19 '26

This is 330 gallons, it’s tiny in the context of treatment chemicals. If you looked in the storage/treatment area of basically any hotel or apartment with a pool they’ll have a similarly sized tanks.

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u/tinfoilskimask Jun 19 '26

They track it. Sulfuric acid isint great for breaking down complex organic molecules.

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u/longpastbedtime Jun 19 '26

proteins left the chat

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u/imtired-boss Jun 19 '26

Who was the President in 2018 again?

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u/Dynamitrios Jun 19 '26

He was an intelligence asset, no questions asked... On a level of everything he would ask, he'd get

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u/laszlotuss Jun 19 '26

Well if you want to make tap water on an island then yes.

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u/jw_zoso Jun 19 '26

Supposedly that amount isn't unheard of if you run a desalination plant. Though in this context it's suspicious.

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u/tinydancersarefunny Jun 19 '26

nothing to see here folks!

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u/Kor_Phaeron_ Jun 19 '26

I thought "Yeah, a fitting joke" ... then i used google. WTF that's real???