Soggy @ Soggy @lemmy.world

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Ah yes, Lemmy the monolith. Lemmy the single person with a single thought. Nevermind that there are many Lemmy instances with very different user bases.

Fine, I’ll bite.

Salt mining is a human invention, though not at all a recent one. Seeking out natural salt deposits to directly consume is essential herbivore behavior because vegetation alone is an insufficient source of key minerals. Adding animal products, especially seafood, to a diet should be sufficient for minimum healthy intake of not just sodium but all trace minerals and vitamins but concentrated supplements are obviously also available and careful meal planning can get it done with just plant products. That is of course a truth for the modern, developed world and not at all indicative of our biological heritage.

The downsides of slight-to-moderate overindulgence of salt, mostly high blood pressure through water retention, can be offset by a more active lifestyle. (Sweat more, hydrate more, flush the excess out.)

And it’s cue. A queue is a waiting line.

Sodium-potassium pumps are pseudoscience, got it.

Salt is quite possibly the single most important nutrient we take in. Well, sodium is anyway. Is too much salt bad? Sure. That's what "too much" means. Too much sun is also bad but a little is required for vitamin D production.

Being so reductive with your claims makes the rest of your argument less compelling.

Gulls are an integral part of the beach ecosystem, and far less obnoxious than nature-hating people.

Balloons, probably. Like a WWI reconnaissance blimp. With modern optics that thing could survey the entire beach without moving.

Sure, but having something actually happen when the actor pulls the trigger gives them something to react to. These aren't impossible hurdles but shooting blanks is way easier.

In addition to the other thing, dams have a dramatic and disastrous impact on the ecology in the immediate area and the entire riparian system they connect to. It's "green" in terms of emissions but they're still harmful and we should be phasing them out for lower impact alternatives as much as possible.

Lots of people really enjoy competitive games. Competitive multi-player games attract the most cheaters, resulting in the strictest anti-cheat measures (which still barely work, honestly).

Let's get Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands proper representation as well.

Western Red Cedar looks like that.

Why assume that an illusion must have a constructor?

I'd rather be nuked than starve to death.

A lot of those island colony-states aren't self-sufficient and will have massive famines when the trade routes stop.

Individually? Maybe. That's why worker solidarity is important. Let the bastard replace the whole team while you're out front protesting shit pay and long hours.

I had a Game Boy, that got a lot of use.

Howany moons does the Earth have?

This supreme court? I wouldn't count on it.

That assumes that interstellar travel is possible. Physically, economically, socially, there's a lot of boxes to check for near-light extrasolar expansion (let alone FTL, which probably is impossible)

I think the easy solution to the Fermi Paradox is that we're stuck in our fish bowl and so is everyone else.

Transparency? In the agricultural sector? Madness.