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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
I Googled it, because this is the first I've ever heard of it, and some sources suggest that taking daily sodium bicarbonate supplements
, which is prescribed in some cases of chronic kidney disease, can increase the chances of calcium oxalate kidney stones forming. But this isn't a concern if you aren't on a baking soda tablet regimen for kidney disease (do not try this or just start eating out of the Arm and Hammer box without professional medical supervision), because even if you need to take antacids (which contain sodium bicarbonate) on a daily basis, the proper dosage is half that of what's prescribed for kidney disease, and the average person doesn't consume enough baking soda in a regular diet to get anywhere near the levels prescribed for medical treatment (and that's assuming that cooked baking soda still has any of its medicinal properties, which seems unlikely).
Of course, the simplest way to prevent kidney stones is to drink plenty of water. Caffeinated beverages like coffee, tea, and soda don't count!
Edited by CrystalGlacia on Feb 11th 2022 at 1:31:16 PM
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Where's that one TV Tropes forum game where you pick an avatar that you want the above poster to use?
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You mean this one?
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Yup, TY!
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For some reason, TV Tropes is switching to Night Vision every time I load page. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm not sure what I did that caused it.
Edit: Now that I messed with the other settings (Show Spoilers, Sticky Header), they also won't turn off... sigh.
Edited by Bluethorn on Jan 14th 2022 at 3:42:05 AM
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Delete the browser data to TVT.
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Just a Mettaur
It's happening on both Edge and Firefox, so it's not a browser problem. In fact, it's even happening with me logged out.
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It stopped when I deleted tye data, so it is TVT not wishin' to delete the data.
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How do you do a ping on TV Tropes again?
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~@ /{{Cutegirl920fire}}. See TV Tropes Glossary under "Paging".
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I see, TY! Also this is the first time I got a DM from a ping lol ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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Be aware that this doesn’t work on tropers that have special characters numbers in the beginning of their name or tropers with dashes in their names.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jan 14th 2022 at 11:50:49 AM
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Also it doesn't work in queries as far as I'm aware.
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Does the USA have income taxes?
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Um, yes, obviously. How else would the country be able to pay for things?
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How high is it?
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That's dependent on your income
Oh really when?
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"10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% or 37% from yearly earnings"
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US Federal income tax is a bit too complicated to just give percentages. You pay X% on the first $Y of income, and then above that, you pay a higher percentage on what you make over that. There's multiple income brackets like that, so when you're making a ridiculous amount of money, you pay a very high percentage on only the very highest amount of that income.
Or at least that's how it's supposed to work, but the richest people can hire accountants to make their income look smaller than it really is.
Well, I think they didn't impose an income tax permanently until one of the world wars. In the beginning, most national expenses were paid from import duties. Also Texas has no income tax but a surprisingly large state apparatus. They pay for stuff through sales tax, property tax, and charging fees on services.
Edited by TParadox on Jan 15th 2022 at 10:53:24 AM
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Are there any forums dedicated to posting art? I'm a digital artist and I'd love for a place to share my work :D
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Why is the strikethrough forum-only?
Disasturbator
To stop it being used on wiki where it was misused
New theme music also a box
You can still find strikethrough markup on old pages, and the majority of them contributed nothing of value to the wiki.
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Can you explain why? Or is there more to it than that? The answer doesn't have to be anything too elaborate given the thread that we are on.
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