The meaning and implications of the sentence “Water is H2O” is something philosophers talk about a lot more than you probably would expect.
IMO water doesn’t have hydrogen, which is H or H2. If you put hydrogen in water it would float away and no longer be in the water (at STP). (Tbf, there are hydrogen ions (protons) in water, which determine it’s pH, but like 10^-7 for pH 7, and this is a dynamic equilibrium.)
I didn’t watch the whole video but the woman stuck me as someone who would believe anything, which is an alarmingly high portion of the population. (Hence Trump.)
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I’ve written a paper or two on whether water means H2O, it’s a fascinating topic.
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I occasionally get these “health” nuts on my tik tok pushing this “hydrogen water”. I think it’s the same people that push supplements, cold plunges, fasts, etc.
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The yt ads I get are insane. The one for the life-changing bras is by far the closest to normal but I’m not in the market.
Louisiana
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. He questioned why Louisiana has the requirement while other states where he owns Smoothie King locations, such as Mississippi, don’t have them, and criticized people who have questioned the bill’s purpose
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
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The “it’s not pedophilia, it’s ephebophilia” of labor law.
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I think learning this word was the most negative effect that 2p2 had on me.
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Stuff like this is insane. Another I have heard is that there are more planets than grains of sand on Earth.
This is the one that drives me nuts:
Think of your last card game – euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never before existed in all of history? Consider how many card games must have taken place across the world since the beginning of humankind. No one has or likely ever will hold the exact same arrangement of 52 cards as you did during that game.
They do specify that it needs to be a proper shuffle (they say later that it means at least 7 times if you use a standard riffle), but I still absolutely refuse to believe it.
Even if you add in if the card was heads up or heads down?
Would it make it easier for me to believe? Not really - there have been SO MANY shuffles of cards! Surely 2 of them must have been the same. I mean, it’s basically like walking around and seeing someone wearing the same shirt as you. Of course it’s an everyday occurrence, but it happens!
I read a book about people who do memory contests. They can do things like memorize the entire order of a random deck of cards in a minute. Seems pretty crazy.
Does it help if you grab a calculator and do 52! and realize that there has never been anywhere close to that number of shuffles in the history of the world?
The number is beyond massive.
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There probably haven’t been enough truly random shuffles to be statistically significant so it is a bit of a moot point. I do like that there are more deck combinations than there are estimated to be atoms in the earth or plank time intervals since the big bang or grains of sand required to fill the entire cosmos. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia to give it some perspective…
Look, I see the math but I don’t believe it in my heart. I don’t know what to tell you. I thought this would be a safe space.
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Hydrogen dissolves in water and it might be good for you.
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I assume we’ll all be getting those now that we clicked on that Sydney Sweeney article