Umbrias @ Umbrias @beehaw.org

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What lmao. This is so nonsensical I have no response.

Why isn't it?

Of course.

No. That's... Not what intellectual dishonesty is.

Not much to do about a decayed tooth short of stem cells so not sure why you're asking about repair for something that's entirely preventative

It's a blatantly reasonable question about fundamental logistics of homeschooling. Equally valid are "how did you set up the lesson plans" or "how are you supplementing teaching in areas you are weak in"

downstream effects on a vulnerable/disempowered population, that would be a different argument.

That is literally the argument in question about this whole post. 🤦

Your rant about not being able to do any rhetorical analysis without an author spelling it out for you is really not my problem. Maybe don't criticize it if you have no practice doing it in the first place.

Your willful misunderstanding of how objectification in fiction can ever be any more problematic than "discrimination based on sexual preferences" is just... Wow.

But see they're made up. If the characters aren't real, who could possibly suffer the effects of media intentionally objectifying women or otherwise reducing a group of people into caricatured stereotypes- ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

The only way for this to be consistent is if you believe authorial intent or real practical effects on an audience have no bearing on the properties of a piece of media.

As long as it's fiction, it's okay?

We are certainly agreed that the circumstances surrounding and contained within an image impact the harm it does, be it racism or sexism or anything else.

Which begs the questions, do you know that the person you initially responded to was using hyperbole to draw out a point from the person they were responding to? Do you not care for analogy? Why did you choose to specifically not read the comment you were responding to to make a tangential point after being grilled for two additional comments to actually make your point?

The most charitable explanation to all of the above is that you're here to win an argument, content and rhetoric or implications or literal interpretations of your comments text, be damned, despite otherwise actually (nominally) agreeing in no uncertain terms with the commenter you responded to negatively.

The details are literally women being objectified, and blackface. You have intentionally chosen to not read words to... What exactly are you trying to achieve here? Actually read the post and the comment you have responded to and think deeply about your rhetoric and the meaning and time you chose to dedicate.

So your understanding of something like racism is that it can only be racism if it involves a live real human? What about racist fiction? I don't think your idea of sexism or racism holds up...

You just don't digest as much nor store as much calories. So your feces and urine, as well as exhalation.

It's not cheating basic physics, there's just a lot of misunderstanding about how weight works in biology. Cico is not what many people believe it to be.

I've never heard of insurance for large scale projects which can lose tends of thousands to millions of dollars per operations day lost. That's normally eaten by the company's savings or loans. Maybe it's different in France.

This should be an automatic pinned comment.

And there you go acting superior and not listening still, incredible. My problem is specifically the smell of the sand itself. Sounds like your nose isn't sensitive to it and that's great for you.

I have yet to find an 'unscented' litter that actually works as litter, and manages to actually be unscented. Perhaps, and this is a crazy thought, different people have different senses of smell and life experiences.

Yes, you literally believe you are better than others, your entire post was ranting about how other cat owners don't clean their litter boxes as well as you do.

Yeah nah fresh litter is completely and overwhelmingly fragrant, and im not about to spring for litter that's 3x as expensive to avoid that.

Unclean and fresh litter are both pungent. One is worse, for sure, but this is just finding an excuse to claim you're better than others lol

OK let's break this down.

Distilled water will not in fact do any of this at a tiny l level. For one, again, the difference between distilled water and tap water in terms of osmolarity is actually pretty much insignificant.

For two, your mouth, and esophagus have mucus linings making this entirely moot as far as water is concerned.

For three, distilled water is far and away the least stressful thing your body ever deals with, eating something even moderately salty is far far more "dangerous" to your cells than drinking distilled water. Ever eat a potato chip?

Third, your cells actively resist osmotic pressure changes as necessary. You have to go pretty hard and actually change the salinity of your blood to have any noticeable effects.

Fourth, your cells are actively being replenished with good salinity blood.

Fifth, we are very insensitive to salinity changes in our blood. Blood salinity shifts quite a bit and regularly throughout the day.

Sixth, a benefit of being a multicellular organism is that we don't care much about any individual cell. Your mouth cells die and are replenished nearly the fastest of any set of tissue in the body. Your mouth in general is very much built to handle all sorts of harsh conditions. Chemically distilled water is nothing. I guarantee you 100% that if you drank distilled water every day for your entire life, and made sure to eat a normal diet which was not extremely low in salts, you would be fine.

Let's discuss non multicellular organisms for a moment as well: the salinity of fresh water is very low. That's the point of distinguishing it. Plenty of organisms live just fine in it. If you drank those organisms, many of them could also get you sick, as in live inside you, a pool of water with much higher salinity. Cells have ways to maintain homeostasis and respond to their environment. That's literally what they do.

No I don't think there is research on this specific subject. Are you starting to see why there isn't much worry on microdosing distilled water?

From what I can tell, they were told about osmosis and did not understand the actual volume of water involved in the quirky example of extremeness.