Only Funny?

But I hate having to tell you that bash.org is gone.

Come on, we need a joke of some sort. For the funeral.

At least that's how the troll scores it. Around 20 comments with the BS Subject is the closest the troll has ever come to winning.

Please don't propagate sock puppet Subjects.

Anyway:

Ma Nature is strong. We humans are rather like the stupid butterflies whose little wings sometimes accidentally trigger tornadoes or hurricanes.

Give the comment a Funny mod because crying doesn't help?

I'm having real troubled understanding how this particular dictator cult continues to function. Now if it was a dick-tator cult, then that might make a bit of linguistic humor sense...

Organized religion tends to be problematic, but these modern dictator cults are going too far when the dictators are not only crazy but crazy with nuclear bombs.

The joke I was looking for was a link to a deep fake porn video featuring this judge.

Oh wait. Make that an election campaign-related deep fake video featuring this judge. With a side order of kiddie porn?

The First Amendment needs a page-one rewrite. We are stupid animals. We act and speak without thinking. Many ways of fast thinking that are stupid, and now we have the technology to "flood the zone" with BS and basically eliminate any slow thinking (based on true stuff) that works better.

And there she goes. The story is now officially dead by Slashdot time.

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.

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.

Dial "996" for more information.

Really annoying that lithium orotate became the standard way to deliver lithium, given that orotic acid is toxic and mutagenic :P

TL/DR, it affects the enzymes that regulate these processes.

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!).