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.

“what? It’s not illegal to have a cum tube!”

Well then what would you say you do here

I was referring to the engine block and pistons being aluminum. I assume chassis and many of the critical spinning bits are still steel or iron.

It’s also mostly a shit post. I’m a machinist and I am surrounded by aluminum in funny forms.

Aluminum is where it’s at, and where it is, is everywhere.

Your cans? Aluminum. Your car? Mostly aluminum. Old wiring, you better believe that’s aluminum. Your fucking phone screen is aluminum, sand paper is aluminum, half the birth stones are all aluminum let’s fucking goooo baybee

On my last trip I had a full water bottle with me and the lady said I had to throw it away, so I looked her dead in the eye while I chugged the entire bottle and stuffed the bottle in my bag.

Fuckin tell me I can’t bring the water through again.

That entire universe of channels is more accurately described as “whatever” hypothesis.

I kinda wonder how they’re doing with the new hosts. Not enough to check, but it’s more than 0.

That’s a feature.

We force them to gorge on themselves until there’s one, inbred, leaded rich guy left. Then we put it on display as a warning to everyone else

I got it. Force the rich to eat each other until the problem solves itself.

I just want you to know that I tried to read this comment, got bored because it got technical, (user problem) and scrolled to the bottom to find the very helpful, important part, in giant letters and bolded. And I appreciate you.

It is that hard.

I fucking hate gardening. Fucking hours of work, thousands of dollars in tools and materials to beg a plant to grow because it can’t be fucked to grow on it’s own. Only to watch it die and it’s fruit rot on the stem because of some Norwegian small nosed stink beetle that’s invaded the garden. OH WHAT A LOVELY HOME I’VE MADE FOR YOU YOU LITTLE FUCK.

I just wanted to make salsa. I could have had salsa any time. Months ago I could have had salsa. I could have made my own. I could have been bougie and gone to the farmer’s market and gotten all the things I tried to grow and made my own salsa.

Instead I made food for bugs and mushrooms.

Ok, so that scene in Jurassic Park where Dr Satler looks at a fern and goes “ok this extinct thing is killing your triceratops”

Like a how does she know? Also the fact that they have this whole magic bs story about bringing back dinosaurs with frog DNA, but never tell you where the plants came from, does that bother you too?

Is there a fucking botanist in here today? What’s with all the glorious plant memes? (Not complaining)

Linear scale reasons.

They measure the same thing. But they scale it differently, so they must meet somewhere. One, for some crazy reason, has decided the freezing and boiling point of water aught to be exactly 100 units apart. Where the other, sensibly, uses a really cold day in Danzig Germany because the AIR feels cold at that temperature, and what the natural resting point of the human body temperature is, separated by 96 units so as to make the scale easier to make in a lab.

If you go to Honolulu you’ll see them wandering on the streets. They’re all over the place. I think they’re seen as a nuisance? I dunno I thought they were charming.

Yeah evolutionary advantages don’t really factor welfare in to the equation. Like I said, the welfare of these creatures isn’t good. That doesn’t matter for what we’re talking about.

Did the animal successfully reproduce? If yes, then it has succeeded evolutionarily. The best way to ensure an animal reproduces is if humans want it to reproduce. An animal will reproduce more often more successfully when humans intervene.

I hear you, I really do. You’re not picking up what I’m saying.

It’s not about whether or not the switch is possible, the switch isn’t fucking happening. If we can’t get away from the awful habit that’s literally killing us, we’re not getting away from the awful habit that’s keeping us alive. It doesn’t matter if alternatives become available, because they are now and we aren’t switching.

Hawaii hasn’t been able to get them off of one island so… No

I’m on a strict enough diet already for medical reasons, trying to get that to work without animal products would be a nightmare I don’t think I can deal with.

To be clear, I don’t think that’s going to happen. Like I appreciate what the near meat movement is doing, I’ll grant you the conditions these animals live in isn’t good and there’s a debate to be had about the ethicality of raising livestock at all, let alone the way we currently do it.

We can’t even move away from corn syrup which is causing the largest health crisis in history because a small section of the Midwest can’t grow much else but corn. You think we’re going to let the entire meat industry crumble for some vat grown goo I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

That said, let’s say that yes, meat loses popularity for whatever reason and the industry crumbles. 90 billion cattle and 70 billion chickens become useless what happens to them?

In short, saving a few specimens on small farms, extinction. These animals will die, the cattle will die in childbirth or starve. The chickens simply won’t be able to sustain themselves, and will succumb to disease and the fucking awful effects of how horribly inbred these animals are.

When their usefulness to humans ends, their one survival advantage goes with it. And so, you’ve supported my point. Usefulness to humans is the best survival advantage a species can have. They just only get that advantage while they’re useful.