Last three weeks I finished John Scalzi's "the consuming fire" and "the last emperox" and "the android's dream". Latter one was just up my ally, the other two were fine except for the villains of the story, they were too over the top for me. Somewhere along the line I also read Orson Scott Card's "the last shadow", I had read all the Ender and shadow books years ago, but somehow missed this one. It's not the best book in the series, way too much people for way too little storyline. In the last month and a half or so I've read the Beastie Boys book by Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond, which was a good book to read on and off between doing other stuff. Basically I forgot to mention it before because I wasn't reading it during my normal reading time. Currently I've just started "the long earth" by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, it's a bit too early for an opinion on that one.
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You're right, drinking distilled water is perfectly fine, just take a multivitamin to compensate for the lack of minerals.
Source for the salty foods? Salt in food is normally sodium chloride, not the calcium or magnesium which you need to replenish.
Can't find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.
For once, yes. But exclusively? It'll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.
Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.
I have a kid of the same age, and ours are less strict, except for bed time, it's 21:30 if there's school the next day. Wake up time is whatever necessary, like others said teens need their rest. Screen time ends at 21:00 on school nights, but will get more strict if school results are getting lower. Basically we give our kids a lot of freedom, but expect them to do their school work and behave like normal human beings. We're also strict on alcohol, drugs or other substances, which is not always the case in my part of the world.
The acces to birth control?
Meanwhile I learned this weekend how to pronounce "dandelion" from watching a Beavis and Butthead clip. And I haven been speaking English for decades, in both professional and social settings.
China is doing a lot of sneaky stuff in the EU (and elsewhere), like operating illegal police stations or have state owned companies acquire critical infrastructure.
Moi mien jong!
Yeah I'm done here. And hurt, I even said you're right!