mleku on Nostr: i just realised something litmus is a chemistry pH test that is either red or blue, ...

i just realised something

litmus is a chemistry pH test that is either red or blue, and iirc, it's originally derived from that funny flower with the big globular clusters, i forget the name of it, but when the soil is alkaline, it makes blue flowers, and when it is acidic, it makes red flowers

someone made a first post on bluesky and used the word litmust test and it made me think of politics because supposedly Team Red had all the opinions it expressed. Not THE red as in communist, but red as in republican

and i realised that the color scheme of the two party farce of USA precisely matches the chemical properties of what a litmus test will show as red or blue

blue means alkaline, and alkaline, in extreme, is caustic... alkali dissolves proteins, alkali converts fats into soap

acids, on the other hand, tend to make things agglomerate. the basis of cheese is literally adding an acid to milk, and it causes the protein to stick together, and form curds, and the curds are what you make into cheese... mostly a glob of fats and protein

the number of analogies you can draw from this pattern are quite incredible, but it all starts with water, and whether it has an excess electron, which causes the formation of gaseous hydrogen and leaves behind an electron on the OH giving you an alkali

i could talk about how blue light also has more energy and is more likely to cause oxidation as well, to add to the caustic association of blue

really, blue is a perfect color to describe statists - they erode the environment, they are toxic to life, and promote oxidation and burning...

i already elaborated in too many ways lol.