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  • I have occasionally found the Google search AI handy in pointing me in the right direction, like when I can't remember or don't know a particular term for something, it's decent at giving me the term I'm actually searching for. Can't trust it for shit as it's intended to be used though.

  • There are low sugar sports drinks. Most of the electrolytes they're advertising is just salt. Your body needs salt to function. You lose salt when you sweat.

    My doctor told me I come literally just put some table salt in water and it would do just as well as any sports drink, sugar or no.

    I work in a physical environment and they hand out electrolyte packets and Gatorade like candy when it gets hot.

  • Here's a fun fact

    Thomas Edison was one of the first people to speak out against putting radium in fucking everything. When everyone was going absolutely nuts for radiation, Edison refused to join the craze and wouldn't work with radium or polonium after watching an assistant develop a skin condition after working with X-rays.

  • This hypothetical scenario assumes that stopping time is universal and instantaneous. Simultaneity in two reference frames, even when that doesn't make sense. Someone on earth snaps their fingers, and in that same instant, some unwitting observer spends 100 earth solar cycles in frozen, abject terror.

  • The way you address that is build 3 million homes, and rent them out at rates 60% lower than market rate, rather than sell them.

    This does not increase ownership, no. But it does force landlords to compete. Why rent from slumlord Paladino, when I could rent a new unit from the US government at half the price?

  • Many years ago my grandfather was involved in an air force test of aerial defense platforms that used balloons.

    The idea was you could station these things all around the country and at the first sign of an attack you could have missiles launched from 10k feet to anywhere from anywhere.

    The test encountered two problems that caused them to abandon the idea.

    These balloons were incredibly easy to shoot down. Which would, presumably, rain volatile rocket fuel and munitions down on whatever was beneath them.

    And if a missile launched, but failed to separate completely from it's housing, it would carry that balloon on a wild, unpredictable trajectory, until it collided with something or it decided it had reached it's detonation time.