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Potentially. See "Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates" [1]. [1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lithium-in-drinking-water-linked-with-lower-su
by janice1999 2y ago
Potentially. See "Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates" [1].
[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lithium-in-drinking-water-linked-with-lower-suicide-rates https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lithium-in-drinking-water-linked-...
- thesuitonym 2y agoI would assume any positive effects are balanced out by living in Arkansas.
- sizzzzlerz 2y ago[flagged]
- ethanwillis 2y agoI have to ask. Why would you say this?
- edm0nd 2y agoYou aint never been to Arkansas have ya? Its a meth joke.
- hinkley 2y agoMy only experience with Arkansas was waking up to a speeding ticket at 3 in the morning. Who puts out a speed trap at 3 in the fucking morning? But if it’s anything like Oklahoma…
- elpakal 2y agoUm, why were you waking up while driving at 3 in the morning?
- hinkley 2y agoSome cars have seats for up to seven people, including the driver.
- andrewinardeer 2y agoHappened to me on Ambien.
- hinkley 2y agoHah! No I did my turn behind the wheel from 10-1 so nobody died on my watch. I was in the back.
- rootusrootus 2y agoI would have guessed better results in the 1am to 2am time slot, but 3am is not totally out of line. I bet the fraction of drivers at 3am that are drunk is much higher than at, say, 3pm.
- hinkley 2y agoI think that is a socially damning statement about Arkansas if the drunks are still out driving at 3 am.
- dyauspitr 2y agoTowns that make a living by ticketing people passing through. The worst place in the world for this is Italy. Every time I go there they find some esoteric rule to ticket me for. This time in Padova, apparently I drove in an area where only locals are allowed to drive. Bunch of swindlers.
- thinkindie 2y agoIndeed in Italy there are area (mostly historical centres) where cities limit the influx of cars to keep it liveable and walkable, therefore only residents are allowed to bring their car in.
- atq2119 2y agoThis is the kind of story that may say more about the story teller than the place it's about. (I have driven in Italy as a foreigner several times without ever receiving a ticket.)
- dyauspitr 2y agoPossibly but having extensively driven all over the rest of Europe without a ticket, I don’t think the fault is entirely mine.
- tomrod 2y agoBoth areas can be great.
- Eumenes 2y ago> waking up you were sleeping and driving? lol
- lightedman 2y ago"Who puts out a speed trap at 3 in the fucking morning?" Cops trying to catch drunks speeding home after the bars have closed. In the south, last call was 2:45AM where I served as a freshly-turned 21 year old.
- hinkley 2y agoGood god.
- snakeyjake 2y agoPeople downvoted you to the point that your comment is grayed out and about to be hidden but there is hardly metric by which Arkansas is not in the bottom ten on a list of states. Infant mortality rate? 3rd most deadly for babies. Poverty rate? 7th poorest. Homicide rate? 7th most dangerous. Obesity rate? 3rd fattest. Practically any map of any measurable statistic where states are colored red for "bad" and green for "good" Arkansas will be a deep, blood, red. But it is rude to point that out.
- rootusrootus 2y ago> But it is rude to point that out. No, that is not rude at all. Making a flippant derogatory remark gets downvotes, people like to see numbers. Like the ones you just gave...
- nativeit 2y agoPeople vote in good faith, I presume. Sometimes a comment’s factual basis matters less than its overall contribution to a productive and open discussion. Downvotes in this case are an example of HN’s surprisingly effective system for self-moderation working as it should. It isn’t vile enough to censor, but it also isn’t what a lot of readers come here for. It didn’t personally offend me (I didn’t vote either way), but I take occasional downvoting that I don’t fully agree with in stride, as the overall system seems to work better than most.
- silisili 2y agoHere's another list - Highest poverty rate? Lowest literacy rate? Last in opportunity? 8th worst in public safety? If you guessed California, you'd be right. Sweeping generalities and handpicked metrics do not tell an entire story.
- EB66 2y agoYou are citing the US News "best states" ranking. In that ranking, California is ranked #37 overall and Arkansas is ranked #47 overall. Even your own hand picked data source supports the OP...
- stevage 2y agoWow, that is super interesting. I think I heard that long term usage of lithium has nasty side effects like damaging kidneys, but perhaps not at these very low concentrations.