• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Wine is 80-90% water. So that can be turned into wine with a wine base. And so forth. What is the end result?

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    This is actually (spoilers for terrible movie Scales: Mermaids Are Real) the climax of the movie Scales. Mermaids can control water and their blood heals people in that movie, so hunters are trying to get their blood and then one guy tries a last ditch bad guy move and the main character pulls all the water out of his body and he horrifically melts.

    Kind of made me side with the hunters at that point it’s a horrifying power.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    If you could control the percentage and get rid of those pesky wine parts, this would be a damn useful power, kill, incapacitate or make drunk depending on BAC.

    Excellent against superheroes, most of them are lightweight tea totals, although a mean drunk Superman would be a bad day. Might be tricky to judge the level with the Supes from The Boys though…

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Reminds me of when someone made the same observation in Avatar: the Last Airbender about waterbenders.

    (Except in that one, the observation wasn’t from online comedians - it was a fridge horror episode in the show)

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Also reminds me of the lactokinetic in Misfits. He appeared harmless, but if you had consumed any dairy products that were still in your body, he could kill you instantly.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      The show directly addressed this with blood bending, maybe not as viscerally as I’ve seen online but it definitely did. Like if water benders can build enormous ice walls they’re definitely the most dangerous benders in Avatar. They could absolutely rip a person’s soft tissues off their bones if they tried. It’s just seen as so morally wrong that few benders even think about it. Like how we generally view mutilating a body in our societies or other strong taboos.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        4 hours ago

        Earth benders can do the same with the iron in blood

        Air benders can blow up your lungs

        Firebenders can remove the heat from your body or boil your blood

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Which makes no sense considering there’s a war going on. The fire nation goes around burning ppl alive. The last thing I would care about is the moral high road when my opponent genocided a bunch of monks.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Shame all his enemies are demon type who are immune to blood attacks, of course he can perform the cleansing ritual that has advantage against demon types casting possess so he isn’t completely useless it’s still a waste of a spell slot.

  • gaael@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I can also give you an army of Aquaman, how cool is that?
    (don’t hurt me if I made an unholy crossover, I have no idea which heroes belong to which universe)

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      People have said the fact is derived from experiment done on live human subjects by the WW2 Japanese torture unit, Unit 731.

      • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        I don’t believe you can figure out the water content of a living human. And if you can, I don’t want to know how.
        You could just weigh a mummified body instead, figure out how much a living person of the same sex and height would weigh, and the difference would be water. (Not accounting for the internal organs that were removed during mummification).

        • Agent641@lemmy.world
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          5 hours ago

          Same way you learn the water content of any vegetable. Weigh it, then stick it in a kiln at 100 degrees for a few weeks, then weigh it again.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          10 hours ago

          Sort of. You distil the wine, ethanol comes out first in a higher concentration than water, you also get some bits of the wine flavour, but some is left behind as well. Over time the ABV of the liquid coming out of the still drops as the ethanol is mostly boiled off. Mostly. There would probably still be traces of it left down to the last few drops if you were to evaporate all of it.

          Fun fact though when chefs add wine and say “it just boils off”, this is mostly a lie. Depending on how you are cooking it some amount will remain. A long stew probably removes most but something quick would still contain a lot of the alcohol. But it’s a very small amount in total.

          • Hoimo@ani.social
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            4 hours ago

            It’s not untrue that it boils off, but dilution is the bigger factor by a wide margin. When I use wine to deglaze, it will be 100ml. That is then turned into 2 or 3 liters of sauce, so a dilution of 1:20, 1:30. Or, expressed in percentages, 3-5% of the sauce would be wine if none of it evaporated - 14% alcohol would be reduced to less than 0.5% just by dilution.

            To get a similar reduction from evaporation, you’d need to boil off 95% of the alcohol, assuming none of the water is also evaporated, which it will at the temperature of deglazing. I don’t know the exact ratios here, but even a 75% net alcohol evaporation (which I think is generous) would leave you with a 3.5% alcohol (light beer) before dilution.

            Relevant Adam Ragusea video.

            Edit: the table he shows has 95% actual alcohol loss for a 2.5 hours simmer, but every other method (where you’d “burn it off”) is below 25%, so that’s definitely a noticeble amount of alcohol left in, especially when you start with something like a brandy.

  • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Miss when superheroes had vague wording in their powers, leap great distances could scale up and down , mean anything