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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also crazy and most of my stars end up inverted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare: it would let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please use this website to find the contact information for your california senator and assemblymember: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

  Also contact the office of Governor Newsom at 916-445-2841

  Its easy to call! You just get some intern on the phone or their voice mailbox. You say, something like “Hi, my name is whatever, I want to encourage [politicians name] to oppose Senate bill 690, the corporate cover up. Please protect my privacy.” And then they say, “OK, how do you spell your last name? Thanks for calling”

  Its not hard to do. The government feels out of control these days. Make your voice heard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article, “the advocacy group Demand Progress Wednesday, urging Americans to call 1-833-STOP-WAR to connect with their representatives and push them to support war powers resolutions.”

  I called this number, gave them my zip code and they automatically connected me to the offices of my representatives to leave a voicemail urging them to support a war powers resolution to stop a war in Iran.

  It was super easy. A phone call is worth 1,000 emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oxidation is the loss of electrons, whereas reduction is the gain of electrons. The mnemonic is OIL RIG: Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain.

  Oxygen is highly electronegative (second only to fluorine), meaning that it will strongly pull electrons.

  The reason that oxygen is so important for respiration is because of its high electronegativity. It is used as the final electron acceptor in a chain of chemical reactions that are used to convert high energy molecules that you’ve eaten into different high energy molecules that your body can use.

  Think of the analogy of a staircase and a ball. The ball is an electron and the stairs are energy states of different molecules along the metabolic pathway. As the ball goes down the stairs, the electron loses energy (which is usually converted to ATP or NADH). At the bottom of the stairs is oxygen, once the electron gets there, it doesn’t have anymore potential energy to lose, unless maybe you have some fluorine around.

  An oxygen missing an electron (an oxygen radical) is highly reactive. It’ll just steal an electron from whatever molecule is nearby. That may be DNA or any other molecule that you’d rather keep intact. Antioxidants are helpful as electron donors, neutralizing radicals before they do damage.

  This is my understanding, at least. It’s been a while since I took chemistry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LA sheriff’s department apologizes for post sympathizing with Iran victims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m offended that they would apologize for having empathy for the victims of a bombing. You had it right the first time!