I let my players make checks: "what would my character know in this situation?" History roll. Me as DM: "your character would have gone to kindergarten and learned the number 2"

Nicely done in homebrewery. :)

Yeah, there is risk of some chemistry happening at really low voltages which cause irreversible changes to the structure of the material. Given how the battery responded to tests afterwards, I can only presume that these didn't happen. Short of dissecting the cells and putting them through XRD. Mind you, I do know a few people in the lab...

First question first. The ions in the salt dissociate with one another and more or less freely flow in the water.

Second, as far as I know, the hypochlorite ion has a covalent bond holding it together. It's just not a very stable bond.

It's weird. The provinces vote conservative when the feds are Liberals. And then it swings the other way. It's like the system is designed to keeps the provinces and feds always at odds with one another. Pointing fingers at another level of government is easier when they're a different team.

Hey, maybe it is true and they've been using this location as their central reserve equivalent. Announcing this is clearly intended for the locals, to encourage them to storm the place so Israel doesn't have to, regardless of whether it is true. Combined with their announcement that they won't target it, it seems like they're encouraging people to go there. But instead it was evacuated. If it is a safe spot with no gold, why would they evacuate it? Anyway, the mind games are interesting...

Soap does it differently, allowing non polar molecules (like oils) to be dissolved in water by acting as a bridge between the two. It usually doesn't actually modify the compounds. Just acts as an adapter.

Bleach has more in common with acid based cleaners in the chemical disruption sense.

Just don't mix bleach and acids or you might actually die.

If there are only two competitors for a product, then it is either a niche product or there is room for more competition, usually, who can use disruptive marketing.

The problem is, for very large markets, companies will abuse their position to prevent competition from forming. Coke and Pepsi should not be allowed to simply buy every new drink that comes to market.

Anyway, I digress. The government doesn't have the balls to bust monopolies anymore.

One of these farings is not like the others

SpaceX is in a near monopoly position, but hasn't yet shown signs of abusing that position. This is good. So far.

So anyway, where was I...?

I guess teaching them to like baths early is your next task haha.

Gacha mechanics are patentable in games in Japan?

Man, patents just need to go away.

I can hear the spurs jangling. Can you?

Tl;dr: Bleach is a salt with one of the ions being unstable. When that ion decomposes, the resulting oxygen and chlorine are disruptive to other chemistry.

Salts refer to the type of bond involved -- ionic bonds. Typically a salt is a positive ion and a negative ion that just sort of stick together due to their charges. These bonds aren't very close, and a salt molecule is easily dissolved in water. Once in water, the ions just sort of mix freely with the water molecules.

So here's the thing. Household bleach is sodium hypochlorite, which is technically a salt. They just sell it already dissolved in water at the right strength. The sodium ions in it is identical to the sodium ions in table salt. But the hypochlorite is the key here. This ion is made of a single oxygen and a single chlorine bound to one another. The hypochlorite isn't actually that stable (the solid form could be used as an explosive, actually), and in the presence of other molecules, tends to break down releasing oxygen and chlorine, neither of which are stable by themselves and will prefer to bond to something immediately. Both oxygen and chlorine are strongly electronegative and will bind fast and hard to other organic materials in such a way that they disrupt those materials. After the materials are disrupted, they tend to dissolve easier in water for removal.

Tangent: most household bleach has a significant amount of sodium chloride in it, as a byproduct of the manufacturing process. And it isn't worth it to purify the sodium chloride out of it so they just leave it in there.

Pub owner knows how to get the cats to sit -- random cardboard box lids haha

Oddly enough, it's probably one of the best and most affordable devices in this sector. You can buy 10-20x units compared to the brand leader (Trimble). So I think they assume that this is how most people will operate.

It's a fantastic photo 😍

They're lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which typically draw down to 2.0V without problems, and tend to be a bit more forgiving. I agree 0.9V is low, but the cells were relatively new. Furthermore, no sign of damage or other typical faults associated with a failing battery, and my battery analyzer (from my drone batteries, same chemistry) approved it. According to my gantt chart, they've likely been charged and discharged 75 times since I brought them back to life.

Sadly, because they are a manufacturer device integrated battery pack, and the manufacturer doesn't sell replacements, my only options would be installing a third party battery pack or buying another device at $1500 or more. I'm happy with the battery recovery process though in this case.

Appeal to authority argument incoming. Points to self. Am scientist. Am geoscientist. Am hard rock geoscientist who professionally uses instruments to quantify rock properties.

You're quoting things that do not apply uniformly across the shield as though they apply across the shield. Nuclear waste storage locations ideally are within granite plutons, of which there are many within the shield. You don't think the people looking to develop storage facilities don't look for the most competent rocks? There was a research facility in Pinawa Manitoba for years -- they mapped every fracture in that rock from above and below. They learned construction techniques tailored for the rock. It's goddamned perfect.

Furthermore, have you ever heard of grout? How do you think hydroelectric reservoirs retain their water when built in the shield? Engineering and materials science are marvelous things.