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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You invented homeopathy! Just with more steps (literally).

[–] sxan@midwest.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You mean less steps. True homeopathy dilutes until there's no measurable amount of the substance left; it's just pure sugar/water/alcohol. You're supposedly getting benefits from "the vibrations."

Of all the pseudo-science quackery, homeopathy is one of the most idiot-prone.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I do mean more steps, because homeopathy dilutes a smaller volume of target material, they actually would perform fewer steps than dilution via halving.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Homeopathy often dilutes by taking far less than half of a solution and diluting it in a large amount of fresh solvent. One process repeatability empties the entire container and refills it with solvent.

If you were diluting something by replacing only half with solvent, you'd have to do many more steps to get as pure solvent as homeopathy produces.

Homeopathy is a tremendously wasteful way of washing a container. It's hugely wasteful, and being a homeopathic environmentalist is oxymoronic.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s exactly what I mean.

The soda dilution by halves would have far more dilution steps to reach pure water than homeopathy.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah. I read you backwards, by bad.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

All good, language is freakin hard, man!

All that matters is we got there in the end :)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

I get benefits from sugar water alcohol.

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about the shaking? If you don't aCTiVate it, it won't work.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

Hmm good call, infinite soda hack!