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Calvin and Hobbes

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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Reminds me of that day in 2015 I tried to commit su*cide by intentional hyponatremia. because I'm a hydrohomie and I really love water and my body is accustomed to drinking a lot of water, so I thought excessive hydration would be a nice way to check out of this torturous earthly existence.

(Edit: DISCLAIMER: NSFW DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS!)

I set a goal and stayed on schedule drinking 1 gallon per hour.

well apparently hyponatremia hits differently for different people. The effect it had on me was:

first vomiting the extra water, But I was persistent and kept drinking more,

and of course lots of peeing, within an hour my pee was crystal clear,

Next, the only way I can describe how it felt was that every cell in my body felt puffy.

I kept drinking,

Then dizziness, the room is spinning

so after 5 hours of constant drinking, peeing, vomiting water, feeling cellularly puffy, dizzy, then still drinking more, for 5 hours, I was exhausted and disappointed that I wasn't dead yet, so gave up & fell asleep.

next day I woke up fine but feeling actually pretty awesome because super hydrated. Felt physically awesome & healthy, so it gave me a little more courage to keep moving forward with this miserable earthly existence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried to commit su*cide by intentional hyponatremia

next day I woke up fine but feeling actually pretty awesome because super hydrated. Felt physically awesome & healthy, so it gave me a little more courage to keep moving forward with this miserable earthly existence.

Task failed successfully! Hope you're doing better these days!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Odd way to try to kill yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yup I'm an odd one for sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't one need to drink one's entire weight in water to go from 80% to 90%?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm let's see. For easy math, let's assume a large person who is 100kg.

That means they have 80kg of water in them. Drinking 10kg of water would put them at 90kg of water, but also increase their body weight by 10kg. Thus they are 90/110*100=81.81% water.

It seems one would get diminishing returns on this too. You might be right. I'm interested know what the proper steps to figure this out is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

100kg person is 80kg water -> 20kg not water

For them to be 90% water -> 20kg not water of a total of 200kg -> 180kg water

180kg water after drinking - 80kg water before drinking = 100kg water must be consumed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yup, that was my exact thought process. You even chose the same numbers my brain did.