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[Vector]

I had no idea, thanks for saying!

[scriver]

It's not really gender neutral, more like neutral possible. Usagewise it's far more masculine than feminine, unlike say, Kim or Robin.

[methylatedspirit]

Is it a good idea to just eat salt on its own, straight out of the shaker (or jar, in my case)? I know I should probably be adding it to food (or to the water that you boil eggs in, which is still my plan), rather than just straight-up licking salt off my fingertips like some kind of deranged salt addict.

[scriver]

Well, generally -- and I am not an expert on this but -- I think that as long as salt tastes good alone you might be a little low on salt. And it's not worse to eat salt on it's own than it is to eat it with other things.

But generally it is not particularly good to eat too much salt.

I used to eat just salt when I was a kid, and look how I turned out.

If I remember correctly, you're on the south side of the equator, so it's summer where you are, right? You might be needing salt because of the heat. I think we lose a lot of salt when we sweat or something.

[methylatedspirit]

If I remember correctly, you're on the south side of the equator, so it's summer where you are, right? You might be needing salt because of the heat. I think we lose a lot of salt when we sweat or something.

Nah, I live close to the Equator. I've given this breakdown before, but I'll repeat it for the benefit for those who don't know:

I live in a tropical climate, which basically translates to "hot, humid and sweaty hell" during the dry season, and "cold and rainy hell (also still humid)" during the wet season. "Hot" is around 35-37°C (95-98.6°F), "cold" is about 24-26°C (75.2-78.8°F). It's wet season right now, I think. I'm still not sure which one's worse. By the time I'm used to one of them, the next one arrives soon after and fucks up my expectations of how the weather should be. At least I only need to wear a single layer of clothes year-round, so I put up with it.

Regardless, it probably is the heat, even during the wet season. I don't know how much water I go through in a day, but it's probably safe to say it's a high amount, and I exercise, so that pushes the water consumption up by a bit. I'm probably a bit low on electrolytes, now that you mention it.

[scriver]

If I remember correctly, you're on the south side of the equator, so it's summer where you are, right? You might be needing salt because of the heat. I think we lose a lot of salt when we sweat or something.

Nah, I live close to the Equator. I've given this breakdown before, but I'll repeat it for the benefit for those who don't know:

Oh right, I had a look at the map and the countries I've narrowed it down to are a lot more northern and equatorial than I think of them as in my head-map. Pardon my shitty geography skills

[Naturegirl1999]

Why can head maps be misleading?

[scriver]

Because you don't remember the world as it looks, you remember it as you feel it looks

[Naturegirl1999]

Makes sense

[methylatedspirit]

I'm trying to cite a report here, and instead of "authors", I see "core team members". Do I cite all 20+ of these people as authors?

[Arx]

More than three authors and you should cite "[First Author] et. al.", or possibly the name of the team if there is one.

[methylatedspirit]

I looked a bit harder, and it seems that the suggested citation in the report itself doesn't even include the authors' names (I counted 25 of them). It's just citing the government agency it comes from. I suppose I could just skip the authors entirely, and fill in the agency's name, then, if even they don't want to cite that many people at once.

[Arx]

In that case it would be standard to cite the agency, yes. It can go either way with organisations, but if their recommended citation is the agency then the agency it is.

[methylatedspirit]

I thought of something while "shredding" (turning them into paper mache, more like) some documents, and I thought of something.

You know how shredded documents can still be reconstructed if you tried hard enough? Would that still hold true if you were to shred documents with some text on them (or some arbitrary abstraction of "documents") into arbitrarily-small strips of black and white? Zooming back out from the limiting case, at what strip width is reconstruction impossible, if such an impossibility exists?

[Egan_BW]

I guess that if they were thin enough you would be able to reconstruct each line of text, but wouldn't necessarily know what order they're in on the original page and would have to guess from context.