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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?

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  • RJM is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the European Hydration Institute. PW has received funding in the last 3 y from the European Hydration Institute for other hydration-related research. None of the other authors reported a conflict of interest related to the study.

    Could not find much more information on this institute. It ran an introduction to a conference in a supplement to a trusted, peer-reviewed journal but supplements have a general reputation of being advertisements.


  • article links to a yahoo version of 2019 CNN which links to a 2016 study with a URL resulting in a redirect to the new standalone website for the journal now-declared-independence instead of a DOI I had to rescue from the archives which now links to the ScienceDirect hosting of the article instead: https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.114769 (Thankfully open (archive) access)

    In summary, the present study describes a novel tool to enable the objective assessment of the effectiveness of beverages to maintain hydration status. The BHI is reproducible and the pattern of response for a range of commonly consumed beverages is consistent with what is known about the effects of their constituents on water balance.


  • aww thanks. these are great! (though obviously the one in the post seems better)

    the “i tend to forget” image i guess you’re referring to is actually also a screenshot. of a short walking simulator on roblox called “oobja”. all i did was take a screenshot at a lucky time, carefully crop it, and run it through gif compression.










  • No, that’s the opposite of what I was saying.

    Then what you said doesn’t make any sense. I agree nobody needs to make assumptions. The driver didn’t need to, the parents didn’t need to. But my argument is they all did.

    His actions were not based on the decisions of other.

    Of course they were. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”, said a famous person whom we all know thanks to the context we live in. The basis of whether we do anything is whether it would be good for ourselves, no matter if that means it would be better to someone you’re close with or that the backlash from incongruence with society’s expectations is too little to worry about. Here, according to your narrative which I agree with, the driver assumed that the views of others and superiors wouldn’t change except maybe someone’d bad an eye or avoid looking at them. Instead, parents were scared to have their children ride the bus.

    Didn’t you say that the driver probably didn’t know the pedophilia connotations of “Lolita”? How is that “Lolita” is a normal word without such connotations not an assumption?

    The story would be very different if parents were primarily concerned about the driver’s dress, in which case I would agree with you. But, instead, the story here is with the sign.

    That was not a reasonable assumption. It was an ignorant assumption

    How were they supposed to know “Lolita” referred to the fashion trend?

    He no longer drives that route.

    That’s all it says. You assumed it meant he was fired when in fact it could’ve been a suspension or a transfer to some other route, just as the parents assumed “Lolita” meant what they were taught it meant growing up. The article doesn’t even seem to know what gender the driver is.

    This is called the “benefit of the doubt”.

    To do that you need possibility for doubt. What is the reasonable doubt against the negative effects I mentioned occurring?

    And this is all predicated on the assumption that the driver was in fact referring to Lolita fashion. If I need to prove there was harm, you also have to prove they was just making a fashion statement.


  • The parents expressed their care for their children in the avenues they preferred to do so.

    He doesn’t need to make any assumptions of other people

    Assuming you tried to avoid a double negative and instead meant “There’s nothing wrong with them making assumptions of other people”: Again, I’m not blaming him for making those assumptions. But he did believe it would not cause harm which most likely turned out to be wrong. And that was, in your narrative that I agree with, based on the reasonable assumption that there’s no ulterior connotation to “Lolita”.

    You can argue that Japanese Lolita fashion has little do with the infamous book, but that doesn’t shake the fact that we are not in East Asia but in North America, where “Lolita” is intensely associated with the book and pedophilia. The parents made a reasonable assumption that this is what “Lolita” meant. There’s no difference here between the amount of assumptions made by the driver and the parents.

    They can look away

    From the reasonable conclusion that their driver is a predator?

    unfairly forced this man out of his position

    That’s an assumption. It’s still possible the driver is given a second chance at bus driving. And in the worst case I doubt the driver would not be able to find employment in public transportation.

    The driver caused zero harm.

    That’s also an assumption. I don’t see any reason why the driver would not cause parents to not trust the bus and harm the children forced either to wake early and walk to school or contribute to the emissions in their air.

    or chose to drive their own kid to school.

    Again, there’s the harm. The pollution doubling as half the bus goes to school in a car instead and being prevented from talking with friends on the bus, especially those with whom one does not share a lunch period. And your assuming that all the parents have the time to drive their children to school, not conflicting with their work schedule