Yes, this. All communications should be secure. All official communications should be recorded, just like all officials who interact with the public should have those interactions recorded. Those communications should NOT be controlled by those who would be embarrassed by them, though this is a hard problem without a complete solution (and may be unsolvable). We should be able to approach a good solution though this requires pissing off officials and powerful/rich folks.
The current US administration has decided to protect police no matter how corrupt they become (executive order from April), so if you voted for the party in power, well, you now have the police state you wanted.
Many years ago, on the Stargate SG-1 TV show, an advanced race (non-human) found that one of their leaders had killed someone and had messed with official records to hide this. Another leader mentioned that messing with the records was considered a far worse crime than the murder or possible treason. THAT is the world I want to live in.
Kristi Noem (our ICE queen) is the one who shoots puppies.
Lithium aspartate, for example
The least-harm principle. There's essentially universal agreement that low (dietary-range) levels of lithium are not harmful, while the research as a whole is strongly suggestive of a benefit (but has not yet met the standards of, for example. an EPA regulatory standard for lithium in drinking water). Lithium, at the doses necessary, costs basically nothing, takes seconds to take, and is orders of magnitude away from the levels where potential toxicity symptoms can arise. To me, that's an easy call. Also, Alzheimer's runs in my family, so there's an extra factor weighing on the scale.
No issues with aspartate. It dissociates fully upon dissolution. L-aspartate is a building block to proteins. D-aspartate is also naturally found and used in the body.
It's not just Trump.
It's the entire MAGA Republican Party and their Project 2025.
Trump is just their useful idiot for now. They have many more waiting in the wings.
Their goal is to permanently establish a fascist dictatorship. They have made good progress.
It's damage will be permanent. They may be some return to sanity but we all have get used to living under an authoritarian dictatorship.
The rest of the world is rapidly moving to disassociate itself from the US since it is now completely unreliable.
Obviously, Intel has not kissed Trump's boots enough.
He needs to take a clue from Apple's Tim Cook and present Trump with a Gold icon. That's the proper level of boot-licking.
All of the salts you listed fully dissociate in water.
Nothing weird about sodium fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, or sodium fluorosilicate. Sodium fluoride is a simple salt, dissociates immediately upon dissolution to Na+ and F-. Fluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorisilicate result in a fluorosilicate ion (SiF-2) which rapidly hydrolyzes to Si(OH)4 + 6F- + 4H+. Si(OH)4 (orthosilicic acid) is the form of soluble silicon which plants and diatoms consume and is perfectly normal in water in the tiny amounts from fluoridation (like 6 micromolar concentration). Ocean surface water near Antarctica for example is up to ~80 micromolar concentration. And it goes without saying that minuscule amounts of sodium in water are also perfectly normal. The addition of the fluoride ion is the only actually meaningful impact.
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Really annoying that lithium orotate became the standard way to deliver lithium, given that orotic acid is toxic and mutagenic
Lithium is naturally present in the diet, but it varies by orders of magnitude depending on where you get your water and where your food was grown / grazed, with most people today on the lower end of the intake. Mineral spring waters in particular tend to be much richer in lithium than river / lake water, and also the fact that municipal water supplies' range limitations on the quantities of common minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, etc) will also tend to reduce lithium, could be argued that, on average, the average person in the past might have consumed more. But it still would be quite varied on a regional basis.
Note that drinking lithiated water used to be a popular health trend. Indeed, 7-Up was originally called 7up Lithiated Lemon Soda (though the claim of being lithiated was actually a lie in their case, and they ultimately had to remove it!).
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
