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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 182 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I was going for. Gonna need a lot more na tho.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Na-na-na Naaa

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 47 points 1 week ago
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

pure sodium meets saliva

bits of mouth, now spread across the room, catch fire

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Bits of Mouth, name of my new band.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pasta would cook itself

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Just don’t put the pasta next to the antipasta.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Cu later then

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it -1 points 1 week ago

You don't say!

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mmm, yes. I too love eating metals that explode when they touch water. Extra spicy. It does more than double the sodium content of your salt though, so watch out for that if you have high blood pressure.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instead we should be replacing the sodium with chlorine!

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

"This food isn't salty enough" Huffs chlorine "Much better!"

[–] swankypantsu@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

thx. i like that

edit: laughs in german

[–] ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

This is an explosive opinion

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like the next thing we should get people riled up with along with the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

They put unchlorinated salt in the dang dihydrogen monoxide!

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is kind of funny how, even though I understand how they cancel out, the unification of two very reactive elements makes harmless salt.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hydrogen and oxygen are quite reactive as well.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

And both water and salt, while vital to human life, are harmful to others. Water is a powerful solvent, and salt can kill snails.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're just nearly equally reactive in two opposite directions.

You can absolutely make salts with acidic or alkaline properties by altering this careful balance.

It's like two titans fighting until both are dead and peace roams over the valley. Or, more accurately, relentless robber meeting someone who desperately needs to give something away.

[–] Brynawel@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

That's just your reaction to it!

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I mean if we could get certain people who are deadset on making the world worse to believe this like the do for every other dumb fucking lie (EG: Vaccines and Autism, Fluoride in tap water, etc) this might be productive.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Na, I don’t think so

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Personally, I sub out the chlorine for hydrogen and oxygen, which I know are safe because that's what's in water. It also helps keep my soup nice and warm whenever I sprinkle it in.

Eating sodium chloride is kind of insane. It would be like if you took my stuff and poured a bunch of hydrochloric acid on it and then sprinkled that all over your food. Yeah, no thanks.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just know getting that to happen was the absolute peak crowning achievement of some bureaucrat's career.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Naw the army was dumping all kinds of stuff after WWII. They had built up so much material that this would be a unknown rubber stamp action without that film.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorta like the artifical coral reefs the US made out of WWII tanks

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

"I'm just gonna salt my pasta a bit and ... "

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Do you want to keep your teeth? How much are you planning on living? I have so many questions.