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Like most vitamins, most of the claimed effects of Vitamin D turn out to be unprovable. It does however, help with absorption of dietary calcium:

Being deficient in vitamin D can cause intestinal absorption of dietary calcium to fall to 15%.[1] When not deficient, an individual usually absorbs between 60-80%.[1]

There's no provable effect on cancer or depression, though.

We all are riding a Skeleton of Theseus:

In the first year of life, almost 100% of the skeleton is replaced. In adults, remodeling proceeds at about 10% per year.[1]

10 checks today.

Laughed way harder than I should upon remembering a time that I thought a cat was named "Dort".

17 checks yesterday. A lot of it was seeing if people were following the new bot, which is a bad habit. (I can honestly say this spacious, unmetrics'd version if it Is hands down the best version.) And then, there was some investigation of issues, which is legit.

Well, there it is. I had a good day, but now Kavanaugh is confirmed. It's the inevitable outcome of a Republican presidency and congress. And of course, the inevitable outcome of a Republican Supreme Court is the rolling back of reproductive rights, civil rights, voter rights, and consumer rights.

I wish I was being hyperbolic in the least about the inevitability here.