After dealing with chest dysphoria for years, I may be able to do something about it this time. Please reblogs and donations help a lot.
im googling how to hydrate and all the recommendations are so shit. I know that drinking water makes the water in my body. I need to understand the deeper mechanisms
when I have been dehydrated and I get really thirsty and drink a lot of water, i end up in a state where my body tries to get rid of it so fast I'm peeing straight up water every 10 minutes. It is not good.
But it seems that when I've been in the habit of drinking a lot of water and when I've had access to soups and juice and stuff, I can actually drink more water at a time without my body trying to get rid of it so fast and insanely
It seems to take at least a couple days of steadily drinking enough water to actually get back into the state of being hydrated. It's like when I am VERY dehydrated, I can drink water, quickly reach a "ceiling" where my body just gets rid of any excess water, and I have to slowly raise that ceiling by drinking more water
Like, my body doesn't want to change the hydration level too fast.
Cells are water with dissolved solutes that must be at a certain percentage, so maybe the problem is electrolytes...?
That would explain why soups and milk seem to keep me in a much better state...
I forget where I heard / saw this, but it must have been at least 20 years ago -- maybe even 30, but I think it was a presentation by a physician/author on a PBS Pledge Drive Special (so take with a grain of salt -- especially if you're concerned about electrolytes [ha-ha!]).
Anyway: this person said that the "eight glasses of water a day" thing has been misinterpreted, and that absolutely also includes things like soup, and milk, and juice, etc.. It doesn't have to be all pure water, or eight glasses of water in addition to milk, juice, soup... The only thing that really doesn't count is alcohol, because that's a really strong diuretic.
Personally, to make sure I'm not overloading myself with sodium, and sugar, and such, I try to drink at least some plain water every day (usually about a third of all my fluids). If I've let myself get dehydrated, instead of drinking a whole glass of water at once, I'll drink a couple of mouthfuls, and give my body time to absorb it and distribute it (about ten minutes), and then drink a few more mouthfuls.
Also, of course, the amount of water you need is proportional to your size. A 250 pound man needs more water than a 100 pound kid.
As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre
This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star
Happy Molassacre Day everybody I'm still alive
Because it's been a while, I must share with you the important update that the column is now hidden behind plywood, because the mbta believes in peekaboo rules of engineering
To anyone interested there is now a ziptied column and multiple plywood-clad columns, and I can't remember which was the original anymore. I would like to be clear that this train station is directly under the most expensive shopping street in the city.
Coincidentally the whole train line is about to be shut down for two weeks so that they can make "cosmetic repairs" and also replace the miles of wooden structure that hold up the wires in the ceiling. I have been reliably informed that these structures have never been replaced. This train line has been running since 1897.
January 15th, 1919, the brown paint did nothing to stop the molasses explosion.
January 15th, 2026, they have now painted the plywood on the column.
deer after almost 150 years of cars: maybe if I stand really quietly here in this exposed area, right in front of this thing that barrels directly towards me at unfathomable speeds it won't see me.
seagulls after 20 years of smartphones: the exact moment when the human glances at their rectangle is the best time to swoop in and snatch the shit from their other hand.
everyone’s talking about how unhinged fans are nowadays about their blorbos. well let me tell you that when the polish writer henryk sienkiewicz first published his novel ‘with fire and sword’ in parts between 1883 and 1884, and killed off the beloved character longinus podbipięta, people nationwide were so upset they’d go to church and ask for requiem masses to be held in his memory. match THAT freak
yes i know about the arthur conan doyle sherlock frenzy this isn’t about that at all stop english cultural imperialism #slavicpride
So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like
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