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An omega level fart

supposedly the only downside to drinking distilled water is lack of electrolytes and taste

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317698#risks

I drink predominantly distilled water at home since I have a tabletop distiller. Makes custom mineral water easier to mix up since you're starting from ~0 total dissolved solids. I'm often too lazy to add the minerals though, and the straight distilled water doesn't cause any digestive discomfort or anything

I have prescription fluoride toothpaste so I'm not too worried

Reverse osmosis filters produce pretty much distilled water that usually goes through remineraliser to add back some minerals. Fun fact is many of those remineralisers are sold as "improving water taste and smell", probably because they do improve taste and smell, but also not to make users too suspicious about adding back minerals after they just filtered the minerals out 😅

Distilled water tastes like someone cooked pasta in it.

but I don't think you're supposed to drink completely distilled water in the first place.

It'll harm you a bit over time if you're not getting those minerals elsewhere in your diet, but otherwise it's not that big of a deal.

I have some on hand for other stuff and I've drank it in a pinch when I didn't have other water (my tap tastes horrid and purifiers that don't cost shit tons of money don't filter out the reason why) and I'm still hydrated as fuck

Distilled water tastes empty, like the flavor is being removed from my mouth. Quite odd

They say you can count the jpg artifacts to determine a memes age.

Fun fact: what that audio guy was describing is called "room tone" and correct it's used for both patching and as a base sitting under all the other audio elements for the mix (music, dialogue, sound FX) and is a common practice after a on location shoot is wrapped to have the whole set "hold for tone".

The reasoning being it captures the 3D soundscape of the ambient noise in the space and how those noises bounce off surfaces and people that our ears definitely notice when it's missing like your post says! The reverb of a small office room and a gym would have very different room tones for example. And an absolute void in audio is extremely distressing and it's why you almost never have absolute 0dB in a sound mix unless intentional.

Source: work in professional production

Got any proof ?

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xkcd 1683

Title text: “If you can read this, congratulations—the archive you’re using still knows about the mouseover text”!

100% correct. If you think purified water tastes funny, it’s probably time to brush your teeth or see the dentist.

That's kinda the point though. Outside of a true vacuum or a literally perfect anechoic chamber, you won't get true silence anywhere. There's always something, even if you can't consciously perceive it.

Getting pure water is easier than true silence, but it's still not something most people will encounter in their life - and basically anywhere else you can get water on Earth will have some level of minerals in it, as such that background flavour is the flavour of water...

And like with sound, everywhere has it's own flavour of water.

You're flavorless