• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m a chemist, and I’ve been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It’s 100% psychosomatic, I know it’s fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.

    So it’s pretty easy not to

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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      1 day ago

      this is how I expect reasonable people to react with the type of knowledge you have, yet we have multiple well known sweeteners discovered by accident.