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. 

 And Nostr is purpled themed because its a mix of blues and reds? 

 Purple for royalty! 
Behold, my long flowing purple robes, with little white tufts, and my golden scepter and my globe with a cross atop it! 
Okay, I overdid it.  

 yeah, that one just hit me just now thinking it further

purple is the most energetic wavelength of visible light though, also...

oh and plants are green because both red and blue are more energetic than green

there are a few enzymes that need green light and they thus are purple 

so there's another metaphor in there too... purple also indicates a material that is reactive (derives energy) from green 

 Pretty sure the pigment came from lichen. Either end of the spectrum is caustic, although most people only think of acids this way. 

I like social media when it pushes my ideas. I tend to avoid it if it becomes a vacuum of ideas. Nostr is cool as most of the people i interact with are not NPC's and can think for themselves.  

 HCl and HF are pretty caustic i agree... in chemistry they talk about "strong" and "weak" acids and bases, and "caustic" could probably be interpreted to indicate whether they protonate anything or only attack weak (covalent) bonds

acids actually work by reducing and bases work by oxidation so i think the analogy still holds

and yeah, it probably was not ... whatever that flower is, it just happens to express blue or red or purple depending on the pH of the water that seeps in from the soil

also, that got me thinking about how purple is neither red nor blue, but both