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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was about to explain how water alkalinity is pretty important to environmental scientists (and probably a few more groups that I don't know about).

And then I googled it.

And now I'm even more disappointed in humanity than I was before

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? I did me a Google but I don't think I'm looking for what you're looking for.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worst one I saw was some human-shaped piece of garbage telling people that cancer is actually a fungus and drinking alkaline water will kill that fungus. And if the twelve thousand dollar alkalinization machine is too expensive, they also sell bottled alkaline water.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh god, okay, no, all I saw was talking about alkaline water being good as a pH buffer for stuff like acid rain etc.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, those are the sane people I mentioned