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[Kak]

This doesn't sound right.

"People working in moderately hot conditions for 10 hrs on average will lose between 4.8 and 6 g of sodium (Na) equivalent to 12–15 g of salt (NaCl) depending on acclimatisation."

Source: Sweat rate and sodium loss during work in the heat.

Seawater is 3.5% salt
Source: Seawater - Wikipedia

So one litre of sea water has roughly 35g of salt. In a 1/4 mix as recommended, that's roughly 8g of salt per litre of water. It would take about 15 hours of physical labour to sweat out that much.

I'm sure @Kak plays a hard game of golf, but no way does he need that much salt. It would only dehydrate him further, causing him to drink more and probably end up feeling terrible for it (saying that, maybe no worse than drinking 10 gator aids ).

The sea may have had the minerals necessary for proto-life, but man is a bit more complex than that, and getting the right minerals from seawater would require insane amounts of salt. Not to mention sea water has a distinct lack of proteins and fats.

And I suspect the benefits of swimming in the sea are mainly from the cold exposure.

Chilled filtered water is probably the best thing for a hard day of golf!

And here I was going to take a quick boat ride to the blue water with a bunch of jugs.

 

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[Kak]

USDA Approves ‘Lab-Grown’ Chicken—Here’s Where To Buy It

Customers wanting lab-grown meat will have to venture to upscale restaurants in San Francisco or D.C. for now, according to the Associated Press, since It’ll likely take years before cultivated chicken reaches American grocery carts because of the need to ramp up production capabilities.

www.forbes.com

In preparation for the launch of this new meat product… I would also add a suppressed Glock and a high quality hatchet to this list.

 

[socaldude]

Cautionary tale for product inventors...

1) Don't let your Chinese vendor convince you that your invention isn't patent infringing, they don't care.

2) If you receive a cease-and-desist complaint of potential infringement, it's best not to totally ignore it and hope it goes away.

I have no knowledge or experience with patents or law. But it looks like the defendants didn't have very good attorneys or maybe just didn't care. A summary judgement and a bench trial? No jury trial? It looks like maybe the Judge lost his patience with the defendants.

I do believe the Patent system in America to be broken. Run by academia trained patent examiners and language-twisting attorneys. I mean... the designs of the curtain rings in the photo do not look alike. Although I do understand this gets very technical.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

USDA Approves ‘Lab-Grown’ Chicken—Here’s Where To Buy It

Customers wanting lab-grown meat will have to venture to upscale restaurants in San Francisco or D.C. for now, according to the Associated Press, since It’ll likely take years before cultivated chicken reaches American grocery carts because of the need to ramp up production capabilities.

www.forbes.com

In preparation for the launch of this new meat product… I would also add a suppressed Glock and a high quality hatchet to this list.

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Isn't it funny how accurate this is to real life without actual zombies? You should already be well equipped for defense and survivability, and avoiding urban areas is good for one's sanity, zombies or no zombies (perhaps metaphorical zombies).

 

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[StrikingViper69]

And here I was going to take a quick boat ride to the blue water with a bunch of jugs.

Depends on the jugs.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Depends on the jugs.

[Moved to men's room]

 

[StrikingViper69]

For anyone interested in Sci-Fi, this page is better than Sci-Fi: Cassini–Huygens - Wikipedia

 

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[Creative_Name]

Cautionary tale for product inventors...

1) Don't let your Chinese vendor convince you that your invention isn't patent infringing, they don't care.

2) If you receive a cease-and-desist complaint of potential infringement, it's best not to totally ignore it and hope it goes away.

The Hapless Case of the Hookless Defendants: A Cautionary Tale on Treble Damages and Costly Attorneys’ Fees

www.quarles.com

Legal is part of the process. Don’t skip it I guess.

 

[Matt Sun]

The enormous amount of people celebrating on Twitter is disgusting simply because all of the victims are, you know, evil rich people.



I always thought this was because the water is usually dozens of degrees lower than your body temperature, giving swimmers a "cold water plunge" effect.

The cold totally ads up to the feel good for sure.


But there is also another thing, there is a recommended way to eliminate toxins from the body, that is to fill your bath-tub with bathing salts, and what it does is that by reverse osmosis the toxins pass through your skin pores into the salty water.

Even if you google it says bathing in salts has anti inflamatory and anti pain effects:




So I believe it's a combination of the cold + toxins leave your body + minerals go into your body through your pores (in the case of the sea, idk so much about bathing salt's content).
Usually the people on vacation over eat and don't exercise at all and they still feel great, I think this is why.



Also there are many testimonies of people helping their condition drinking sea water, anecdotal evidence favors Rene Quinton's work and thesis.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

The cold totally ads up to the feel good for sure.


But there is also another thing, there is a recommended way to eliminate toxins from the body, that is to fill your bath-tub with bathing salts, and what it does is that by reverse osmosis the toxins pass through your skin pores into the salty water.

Even if you google it says bathing in salts has anti inflamatory and anti pain effects:

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So I believe it's a combination of the cold + toxins leave your body + minerals go into your body through your pores (in the case of the sea, idk so much about bathing salt's content).
Usually the people on vacation over eat and don't exercise at all and they still feel great, I think this is why.



Also there are many testimonies of people helping their condition drinking sea water, anecdotal evidence favors Rene Quinton's work and thesis.

Time to eat some bath salts?

 

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[Matt Sun]

This doesn't sound right.

"People working in moderately hot conditions for 10 hrs on average will lose between 4.8 and 6 g of sodium (Na) equivalent to 12–15 g of salt (NaCl) depending on acclimatisation."

Source: Sweat rate and sodium loss during work in the heat.

Seawater is 3.5% salt
Source: Seawater - Wikipedia

So one litre of sea water has roughly 35g of salt. In a 1/4 mix as recommended, that's roughly 8g of salt per litre of water. It would take about 15 hours of physical labour to sweat out that much.

I'm sure @Kak plays a hard game of golf, but no way does he need that much salt. It would only dehydrate him further, causing him to drink more and probably end up feeling terrible for it (saying that, maybe no worse than drinking 10 gator aids ).

The sea may have had the minerals necessary for proto-life, but man is a bit more complex than that, and getting the right minerals from seawater would require insane amounts of salt. Not to mention sea water has a distinct lack of proteins and fats.

And I suspect the benefits of swimming in the sea are mainly from the cold exposure.

Chilled filtered water is probably the best thing for a hard day of golf!

Good question. So from your link it says 3.5% "predominantly" Sodium.

So first that 8g of sea water salt it's not all sodium but also magnesium, boron, and many other elements.

Second it says in your link that in 10 hours working in the hot you can loose even 15g of pure Sodium. So 8g of sea salt (that is not pure sodium) for let's say a 5h golf in the sun (7.5 g of pure sodium lost) wouldn't be so much. Not even at replacement levels probably.

It's an interesting topic, I researched this a while ago but will try to answer what I can.

 

[Matt Sun]

Time to eat some bath salts?

I mentioned them to make the point that the sea's feel good effect isn't just the cold. Idk about eating them, but stop eating salt all together and you won't live very long.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

I was listening to the Andy Frisella's podcast with Tim Grover.

They were attacking people who say "don't worry, you have time" to ambitious people. Tim then started to get emotional, and he brought up Kobe's death (because they were close) and then he said "you don't have time, you don't have time."

Life is a blessing and you have no idea when it will end - and it could end abruptly. Make the most of each F*cking day because you don't know how many of them you have left.

 

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[P789]

The CEO might be regretting this:

Titanic tour CEO didn’t hire ‘50-year-old white guys’ because they weren’t ‘inspirational’

“Anyone can drive the sub” with a $30 video game controller, Titanic tour guide and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush once said.

nypost.com

its just like when some client of a company who wanted to pay a graphic designer less amount of value because they think that graphic design is simply doing some keyboard strokes.

an example of Dunning-Krueger effect on a large scale

 

[Kak]

My barely two year old just asked me to “order him a superstroke putter grip on Amazon” because he likes mine.

Order placed. On Amazon.

 

[theag]

After months in a depressive slug, it seems like I kicked myself out of it by suing Meta/FB. Finally having fun again. I should do this more often

 

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[Kak]

In general deal making… Go confidently.

No one wants the “please buy from me” wimp.

Treat the situation like you are doing them a favor by offering what you are and you will have better results.

 

[Kak]

After months in a depressive slug, it seems like I kicked myself out of it by suing Meta/FB. Finally having fun again. I should do this more often

Please tell!

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

The Titan submersible was designed very poorly, had obvious flaws, and the execution was terribly reckless. However, they were brave enough to do what nobody else thought was possible, and that is pretty damn inspiring. The founder even died for it.

These are the same kind of people as Elon Musk and the Wright brothers. I know it doesn't look that way right now, but it's true.

I'm not saying it's a good thing. It's really awful. That sort of device has to be built perfectly and held to the highest quality standards - and theirs was not. But literally nobody is exploring the depths of the ocean.

 

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[theag]

The Titan submersible was designed very poorly, had obvious flaws, and the execution was terribly reckless. However, they were brave enough to do what nobody else thought was possible, and that is pretty damn inspiring. The founder even died for it.

These are the same kind of people as Elon Musk and the Wright brothers. I know it doesn't look that way right now, but it's true.

Thats definitely an "interesting" take on the whole thing.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

However, they were brave enough to do what nobody else thought was possible

Nothing wrong with dying for your cause, the problem is, when you recklessly kill others due to your zealotry.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Nothing wrong with dying for your cause, the problem is, when you recklessly kill others due to your zealotry.

Good point...

 

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[theag]

Please tell!

A few months ago, Meta disabled my ad account without warning and without giving a reason, which also affects my brand's fb page, IG account, etc. Basically most of my work of the past 8+ years suddenly in danger and as close as a death sentence as it can get for the business, cutting revenue at least in half. I pestered them constantly through all channels, but it's basically impossible to reach a human there. Not even high level account managers could help. I felt (and still feel) like a complete failure for allowing me and the business to get into this position. It also coincided with a big project that I've been working on for 2 years going to shit, with a big personally guaranteed loan attached to it (not failed yet, but on the edge), serious personal health problems, etc. All this pushed my into some serious depression for a couple months. But today I woke up, for some reason thought "F*ck them" and called up some high profile attorneys to start legal action against Meta for the wrongful account restriction. I should have done this earlier because there seems to be a good chance of success after some recent court rulings here. But my depressed, brain-fogged past self wasn't able to do it.

 

[loop101]

An Amazon delivery driver claimed a homeowner made a racist comment over a Ring doorbell, so Amazon permanently shut off all the homeowner's Amazon devices. Turns out it was a malfunctioning Eufy camera repeating setup instructions.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s

Amazon responds

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq313q00

 

[Kak]

A few months ago, Meta disabled my ad account without warning and without giving a reason, which also affects my brand's fb page, IG account, etc. Basically most of my work of the past 8+ years suddenly in danger and as close as a death sentence as it can get for the business, cutting revenue at least in half. I pestered them constantly through all channels, but it's basically impossible to reach a human there. Not even high level account managers could help. I felt (and still feel) like a complete failure for allowing me and the business to get into this position. It also coincided with a big project that I've been working on for 2 years going to shit, with a big personally guaranteed loan attached to it (not failed yet, but on the edge), serious personal health problems, etc. All this pushed my into some serious depression for a couple months. But today I woke up, for some reason thought "F*ck them" and called up some high profile attorneys to start legal action against Meta for the wrongful account restriction. I should have done this earlier because there seems to be a good chance of success after some recent court rulings here. But my depressed, brain-fogged past self wasn't able to do it.

Give them heck man!

I hope you get a massive settlement.

 

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[Simon Angel]

The Titan submersible was designed very poorly, had obvious flaws, and the execution was terribly reckless. However, they were brave enough to do what nobody else thought was possible, and that is pretty damn inspiring. The founder even died for it.

These are the same kind of people as Elon Musk and the Wright brothers. I know it doesn't look that way right now, but it's true.

I'm not saying it's a good thing. It's really awful. That sort of device has to be built perfectly and held to the highest quality standards - and theirs was not. But literally nobody is exploring the depths of the ocean.

The thing is, people have been doing it successfully for 40 years without reinventing the wheel. James Cameron himself has done 33 dives to the Titanic with the Deepsea Challenger.

The CEO and the captain's arrogance killed them.

 

[Simon Angel]

A few months ago, Meta disabled my ad account without warning and without giving a reason, which also affects my brand's fb page, IG account, etc. Basically most of my work of the past 8+ years suddenly in danger and as close as a death sentence as it can get for the business, cutting revenue at least in half. I pestered them constantly through all channels, but it's basically impossible to reach a human there. Not even high level account managers could help. I felt (and still feel) like a complete failure for allowing me and the business to get into this position. It also coincided with a big project that I've been working on for 2 years going to shit, with a big personally guaranteed loan attached to it (not failed yet, but on the edge), serious personal health problems, etc. All this pushed my into some serious depression for a couple months. But today I woke up, for some reason thought "F*ck them" and called up some high profile attorneys to start legal action against Meta for the wrongful account restriction. I should have done this earlier because there seems to be a good chance of success after some recent court rulings here. But my depressed, brain-fogged past self wasn't able to do it.

Transfer your pixels and all other data you have to a new Business Manager and contact Httpool. They can supply you with an agency ad account with whitelisting for your niche and official rep support.

 

[theag]

Transfer your pixels and all other data you have to a new Business Manager and contact Httpool. They can supply you with an agency ad account with whitelisting for your niche and official rep support.

Thanks, will keep it in mind.

I'll wait and see how the legal action plays out. If it fails I'll try stuff like that or just go pure black hat. Wanted to avoid that though, because of the implications on a future sale of the business.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

The thing is, people have been doing it successfully for 40 years without reinventing the wheel. James Cameron himself has done 33 dives to the Titanic with the Deepsea Challenger.

The CEO and the captain's arrogance killed them.

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Thanks. I didn't realize this. Yes, definitely, on that last part.

 

[socaldude]

Just wow at the emojis and comments on the internet on the deaths of those people.

We truly live in a spiritually bankrupt world.

I’m going to light a candle for those that perished.