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Cake day: January 28th, 2024

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  • My understanding of hard water is just that there’s more calcium and magnesium ions than would otherwise be present in softer water. The varying degrees of hardness would just be the varying concentrations of these ions.

    The way you experience as a human (as opposed to measuring this with a water probe) is that soap will form a complex with these ions and maybe precipitate out a little soap scum, and this reaction will happen at the same time as the reaction which complexes with any oils or dirt so it’ll effectively be wasting some of your soap and you will have to use more soap.

    So you’ll be shampooing your hair and you’ll use the same amount as you used back in the soft water city and you’ll be thinking “I used the same amount of shampoo as I always do so why does my hair still feel oily?”

    I have one of those articulated segmented hose things on my shower head so you can pick it up and move it around while it’s spraying and the whole thing gets all covered in limescale super fast because the hard water evaporates and precipates out the magnesium and calcium as calcite or aragonite crystals. I had never seen this happen so fast and it ruins the hose so often that I thought I was dealing with excessively hard water.




  • It bothers me that no one acknowledged that this can still be logically true. Of course if most people’s ADHD goes away in childhood then it doesn’t really logically mean anything to ask “most people you know with ADHD” because by definition, you will only be asking the subset of people for whom that isn’t true.

    You can’t really survey the people for whom ADHD went away in childhood by asking all the people you know with ADHD because the people who would confirm the psychologist’s claim are not going to be included in that survey.











  • Why can’t more people be like this woman?

    Well, that seems to miss the point entirely right? Like if more people were exactly like this woman then they would still be just as anti as they are now. The only thing that made this woman be more compassionate was when it became a problem she dealt with herself.

    Either you’d have to ask “why can’t more people also deal with this problem personally?” or better yet

    “Why can’t more people be BETTER than this woman?”