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

Yes, murica and china are pretty much on the same level when it comes to indoctrination. That doesn't make either a good thing. I find the leadership of both countries abhorrent, sometimes one more than the other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Except there's evidence, and not just satellite photos of internment camps. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hacked-chinese-government-files-gives-new-insights-on-the-mass-detention-of-ethnic-uighurs

You can continue to hang onto some conspiracy-theory-esque logic of "but it doesn't make sense", or you can face reality. There are enough hurdles to getting a photo on the internet and then noticed by the wider public that it's entirely explainable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

But then they cant just afford it with a single working adult in the family like that was ever long term viable instead of a short period of specifically american history that was never gonna last because that's just not possible without either completely rolling over the environment or other countries. The horror!

Not that there aren't plenty of issues with the cost and time requirement of having a family, but my god this whining like life isnt worth living if you can't buy a single family home is annoying me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

That's how it started. Nightcore were 2 DJs that did speed up mixes of songs, then nightcore became its own thing. https://www.discogs.com/artist/4533340-Nightcore

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

Hitler kept some gay people and jews in high ranking positions for a while. "One of the good ones" and all that. It's only ever a problem for them when it's someone they don't know personally.

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

Urine contains salt, always, even when in a state of hyponatremia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/sodium-excretion (scroll down to the kidney disease paper, it wont show any of the text on the direct link, insert obligatory hate on academic publishers)

I hope you don't need a source for distilled water not containing salt or water needing to be excreted or for sweat (the other way water leaves your body) containing salt, I already spent way too much time on this because sourcing on mobile is a pain.

And yes, <10mmol/l isn't a lot. That's <500mg (and how low it can go precisely idk, couldn't find that, but likely much lower, given that the <10mmol figure is a threshold for diagnosis of kidney issues) You replenish that through food, easily (esp these days where sodium intake is, if anything, very high). That's the whole point. Barring very extreme situations, healthy kidneys will regulate your sodium levels just fine.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yes exactly glad you get it. Some people want to actually understand why something isn't true instead of believing the first source that says so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Yes that's what I said. But one of the likely reasons the myth stays around is that all of the following is true:

  • Excreting water requires electrolytes
  • Excreting water will remove those electrolytes from your body
  • Drinking significantly more water than you excrete will lead to hyponatremia
  • Distilled water has no electrolytes while tap/mineral water does

What the myth ignores is that:

  • The amount of electrolytes in water is negligible anyway, so distilled water isn't really worse in that regard and consumption of any normal amounts of distilled water is completely fine
  • You can't just drink infinite fluids because you consume infinite electrolytes because your body is more complex than that, so regardless drinking too much of anything will kill you

But saying it doesn't strip you of anything isn't entirely true, and I'm not a fan of misinfo even if it's more of a nitpick. More than that I don't think it's going to help when from my first 4 bullet points you could easily come to the incorrect conclusion that drinking distilled water will quickly lead to hyponatremia.

It's probably also where the osmosis thing further up comes from, since that's involved in causing the neurological symptoms, it's just unrelated to what fluid you consume, since it happens with your blood, not the fluid itself.

You don't fight misconceptions with half-truths.

Edit: when i say fluid i mean something water based ofc, if you drink something else for some reason you'll probably have all sorts of different issues anyway.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (8 children)

It does, for the simple reason that urine (as well as sweat) necessarily contains electrolytes, so you lose those.

The misconception lies in thinking that tap or mineral water somehow don't do this. They contain some electrolytes, but not really a significant amount, as you primarily get them from food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not wrong given that browsers aren't easy to maintain, but they couls start by not paying their CEO millions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. Until they get so extreme they ruin your life. That's the whole thing with disorders. (Almost) everyone has some anxiety. Only some people have it so bad it interferes with daily functioning. Adhd is the same. Everyone procrastinates, forgets stuff, gets distracted. Not everyone is incapable of doing basic shit like taking out trash bags for months.

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