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tacetabbad0n t1_j6mud48 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration? by Dartualexmachina
Your body requires salts to function. Without salts your neurons would cease to signal each other and the cells in your body would stop working.
If you just drunk ultra pure water you would die as it would flush the salts from your body.
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. While sea water is saline and hydration fluids is saline, hydration fluids are 0.9% saline sea water sits around 35%.
tacetabbad0n t1_j6lo9ae wrote
Reply to ELI5: when people give up red meat for lent, why do they always eat fish instead? Aren't chicken and turkey white meats too? by Inanimatepony
It's ash Wednesday and Fridays that require fasting and white or red meat doesn't have anything to do with it.
It was ment to show piety in giving up more luxurious foods. Fish, grains, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit all ok, as these were staples that the poor generally lived on.
But because the Catholic church was a bit hypocritical and didn't want to upset the rich too much they decreed that bevers were fish because they swam so were ok to eat when fasting.
tacetabbad0n t1_jac0hfz wrote
Reply to ELI5 How do banks work? by RussianPremier
By the bankers axiom.
Buy at 2 Lend at 3 Go home at 4.
When you deposit money in a bank it isn't really in your account. The bank uses the money people have deposited in invests in things, from giving out personal/business loans and mortgages to buying stocks and shares or even buying and selling debt. The profit they make doing this covers the bank's operating cost and interest on your account.
Essentially when you put your money in a bank you are in actuality loaning the bank your money.
This is why when banks collapse people loose their savings. The bank gambled with your money and lost it all.