that lithium article mentioned https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/24/18010592/future-perfect-podcast-lithium-drinking-water-suicide

how'd i miss this

literally taking the water from the lithium pits lmao

*as a gesture of goodwill we will not use that nickname tonight*
2 seconds later

they are putting chemicals into the water that turn the frikkin frogs sane

tbf very very low dose lithium is generally good, still not for it being mandated into the water https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579

im not even anti floride, i like that it helps my teeth, but if there was a strong movement to remove everything from water i'd stand with that

its fucking water, let it be water, no side games

Even if the overall outcome was positive, we cannot condone this.

The ends do not justify the means.

i dont think most people drink tap water

If we killed all mentally ill, there would be less mental illness. It does not make it right.

For similar reasons, too many people confuse the rule of law with having a law for everything.

Are long term side effects of lithium exposure documented? Every cure has side effects.

There are few people who have articulated this in a better way than Friedrich Hayek in his "Road to Serfdom".

All i know about lithium is that it is a component of lithium ion battery

low dose lithium in the water, Oh my. Can't I just smoke weed?

Or do Medical Cocaine

@barcotics even then i don't want minerals fucking with plantlife etc

we've already had issue with that with floride

yea idk what lithium would do to the soil

Make it a gaint battery duh.

I found the chapter, in an audio book version. This is an incredibly important read, in a defense of liberal values (in its classical definition).

Chapter 5: Planning and Democracy

https://youtu.be/gznfG9G3uxc?t=9955

idk if this is everywhere but i always drink spring water

@barcotics lil is good, alot is toxic. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1941.tb07552.x
The problem is unless we had a extremely minute amount it would probably build up over time and cause toxicity

6:38:41 Ch12 The Socialist Roots of Nazism

i drink tap water

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i buy alkaline when i can tho

yea spring water is almost always sold out in florida

The study up there is on the effect of lithium on plants.

Did you mean to post that one?

Almost every poison is only poison if you take it in high amount, calcium and magnesium can both kil you yet are necesarry for life

As a psychiatric provider I think the idea is terrible

@Undead Mockingbird yes

Oh.

But its effect on people is different. That is what we are talking about, right?

Water can kill you if you drink enough fast enough

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