antlion
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm? 10 hours ago:
And when it’s sunny on the snow it’s about 4-5 C warmer.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 days ago:
Sorry to hear about your current condition. I have recently stopped drinking coffee, and cut down on the beer, so I’ve been conscious to replace that fluid.
As gout symptoms are very diet related, if I was in your position I would do some sort of fast or juice cleanse for a week or two. Not only does it reset your body, but it also resets your taste buds, making it easier to maintain a healthful diet.
Keep in mind you can also get a lot of water from foods. Not just salad but smoothies or yogurt bowl or steamed vegetables.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 days ago:
I don’t like drinking water because the fact is you don’t need that much of it. When I was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, walking 12 hours per day, I drank at most 3 liters, plus a pint for breakfast and a pint for dinner. So that’s 1 gallon total for extreme physical activity. In such a day I would pee maybe 3 or 4 times.
In normal life in an arid climate my water needs are about 1-1.5 liters. But this can entirely be covered by coffee or tea, a fizzy water, and maybe a beer or bedtime tea.
The only reason for the hydration obsession is excessive salt intake. Because salt and water are always a balancing act, excessive hydration will likely lead to salty snack cravings. If it didn’t we’d have a lot more cases of hyponatremia. The only serious side effect of being in the yellow pee club is kidney stones, but those are better prevented by lemon water and avoidance of spinach than excess hydration. I have no complaints of constipation or dry skin.
Drink when you’re thirsty. Eat when you’re hungry. Rest when you’re tired.
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks 6 days ago:
It’s been super reliable. Perhaps at 10 years old they’re extrapolating the failure curve and worried about many more fires.
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks 6 days ago:
Different use case. I used this one for hiking the pacific crest trail in 2016, and a few other hikes since. Amazingly, the power banks haven’t even gotten much lighter than this model, and those that are lighter are less reliable. It would be nice is NiMH could match the energy density of lithium, but it’s hard to compete with the lightest solid element.
- Comment on Jack Black tells Minecraft Movie audience to stop throwing popcorn 2 months ago:
Kids these days…
- Comment on Grocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in Produce 2 months ago:
Maybe it’s not such a bad thing if we just eat less imported produce.
- Comment on Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking 3 months ago:
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 3 months ago:
As a former 8 year old Cub Scout, bows are incredibly hard to use. I was an excellent marksman with a rifle.
- Comment on Mass Layoffs Begin at NOAA 3 months ago:
6%. Those on probation so new hires and newly promoted.
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m here for a reason. It takes a lot of blocking/filtering too. But the reason I am here is my desire for “algorithmic complacency”. I like to spend some time mentally wandering.
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 3 months ago:
I’m so glad this was algorithmically recommended. Thanks lemmings!
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 3 months ago:
Yeah my microwave operates on a timer, not a clock
- Comment on Anne Marie Hochhalter, Paralyzed in Columbine Shooting, Dies at 43 3 months ago:
Bitterness is like swallowing a poison pill and expecting the other person to die
- Comment on Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. 3 months ago:
Better to stay and obstruct
- Comment on A New Generation of ‘Unbeatable’ Fake IDs Is Bedeviling Bouncers 3 months ago:
The whole reason it’s 21 is MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), and it’s tied to federal highway funding. So, to amend it, along with lowering the drinking age, they should raise the driving age to 18. They have the highest accident and fatality rate already. Might as well allow legal adults to do legal adult things, like drinking, or driving in a way that could kill somebody.
- Comment on How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off? 4 months ago:
This sounds about right to me. I was awake for 7 days without sleep, and it took about 7-9 nights of >9 hours of sleep to feel normal again.
- Comment on Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike Earth, Researchers Say, But the Odds are Small 4 months ago:
We will know more in 4 years when it makes a close flyby and gets tugged by our gravity.
- Comment on Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. 4 months ago:
There’s an attention war now? The only way to win that is with ear plugs, filters, and ad blockers. Or just read a book.
- Comment on How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California's Water Supply | The Class Room ft. @SecondThought [08:08 | DEC 20 2022 | More Perfect Union] 5 months ago:
7x7 is 48 square miles, and four times that is about 200 square miles (520 sq km). But the area would be 14x14 miles.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 5 months ago:
The rich don’t care about money, they care about capital. They want to own every house, automobile, factory, and natural resources. Money is a very temporary store of value so more assets can be purchased.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 6 months ago:
Weaponized incompetence?
- Comment on Good ear protection for concerts. 6 months ago:
I’ve used Mack’s Hear Plugs at a couple concerts. Inexpensive and the music actually sounded better and less muddled than full volume.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 6 months ago:
Well we don’t want cancer or drugs in blood. But the current screening criteria for blood donations are kinda crazy. Travel to certain countries, tattoos. They should just test for the stuff they’re worried about directly: HIV, Hepatitis, and Malaria. Not that it matters since it’s illegal to buy/sell bodily fluids.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 6 months ago:
Blood banks. “Your blood saves lives”. Is actually “We can sell your blood to hospitals for $200 per pint”. Check the salaries of the non-profit blood bank CEO and board. I would gladly share my blood if I’m paid $100 per pint, or if they gave insurance vouchers for a free pint of blood, to avoid insurance charging $1000-3000 to get a pint back. In fact they could just call it “blood insurance” where your premium is paid in regular blood donations.
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 6 months ago:
You could DIY by freezing your food and then putting it in a vacuum chamber that can handle a lot of moisture. There’s a very detailed video about the second part and if I’m not mistaken you’d only need to freeze the stuff before hand to get freeze dried.
- Comment on It's December, what are your favorite Christmas movies? 6 months ago:
Better Off Dead
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 6 months ago:
There’s still some active tar pits. I’m surprised nobody is intentionally trying to become a fossil. It would be cool to do some weird shit to mess with the aliens who find your fossil in 10,000 years or so.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 6 months ago:
Most of the stuff you read doesn’t matter. What matters is how you treat people. Eat good food and smile, enjoy the rays of the sun which burn us all equally. Bask in a hot shower. Go outside, where you can’t see any other people for a few hours, and listen to the sounds.
- Comment on California voters reject Prop 32, raising the state's minimum wage to $18 6 months ago:
We have lawmakers for a reason. A multimillionaire, owner of Blue Apron, crafts his own bill and we should pass it? Our lawmakers should work on a real solution. Sometimes short cutting the debate and compromise process isn’t a good way to make laws. California will increase minimum wage again, worry not. Maybe they’ll have to think about it every other year. Maybe that’s a good thing for them to spend time on, until people can actually afford to life here.