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Or you could get a conductometer and measure the purity yourself.


I guess it would work with one filter as well.


I once made glasses that made me see polarization. It made plant leaves look beautiful.


Humans can see polarization without any apparatus, but it requires practice and patience.

http://www.polarization.com/haidinger/haidinger.html


I came here to suggest this. Great to hear that someone actually tried it and found it to work.

Did it take long to get your mind to 'get' it? Did the effect fade? What polarization filters did you use?


More or less immediately, as far as I can remember. I used polarizers from an old LCD display.


There's a HD version on Steam.


It's only meant to intimidate people. There is no way it could serve a real security purpose.


The line between microdosing and tripping balls is thinner than many people realize.


I suppose you meant to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731931


No.


Not to mention that once you've crossed the line, you may lose sight of it forever.


I think the more important question is, if even insects can be this smart with their tiny brains, what the hell are our huge brains for?


It just shows that mammal brain is rather inneficient and has to compensate with size for that.


They have more iron in their bodies.


I agree. However, most of the info. I've read comes from "health journalist" Bill Sardi. Despite the sound ideas, he is still brushed off as a crack-pot. Nevertheless, I'm betting on the "over-mineralization" theory of aging.

I doubt it will ever become accepted. People seem to like to think in terms of genetics (because that's what the "experts" talk about most of the time) and "hi-tech" dreams (e.g.nano-bots killing off cancer). Even when epigenetics is mentioned, they still get it wrong when applied to age-related illnesses.


Bil Sardi is brushed off as a crackpot because he is a crackpot.


Why? It seems to be the only theory that actually fits the evidence, unlike SENS and similar nonsense.


There is reasonably good evidence that excess iron is a risk factor in heart disease, which may be at least part of the reason that pre-menopausal women have less risk than men and post-menopausal women. But there doesn't appear to be a clear link to cancer.


Those are the signs of deficiency, not overdose. What made you think you suffered from copper overload?


I do suffer from overload and have been tested. It's common to suffer the same symptoms as someone who has a deficiency when trying to bring those levels down.


That's nonsense. Please get tested by a real doctor.


Nonsense. It only happens after prolonged massive intakes (A man who intentionally took 60mg/day for a year and 30mg for several years before that is one of the few examples found in literature.) and the signs are liver and kidney failure. It's completely unrealistic you could get that much from anything resembling normal food, vegan or otherwise.


It's perfectly realistic and more common than you think. There's plenty of evidence around which you can find with a simple google search.

http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/copper-zinc-imba...


As far as my knowledge goes, that seems to be completely made up.


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