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[–] 53 points 7 months ago (1 child)

This has been done too much, I'd like to see a campaign to ban sodium chloride instead.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago

    They forgot to add that it has the highest pH rating of any known acid.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    100% of people consuming it have died. Eventually. That stuff is dangerous!

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    False. I have consumed it and haven't died.

    I might in the future, but haven't died as of today.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, which doesn't make it true. The "have died eventually" applies to all participants in the battle of Trafalgar. Didn't immediately, but after some time. All dead now.

    I've drunk water. I have not died.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe. The fact is not everyone who consumed it has died.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yes they did - unless you count vampires.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Trees also consume it and they can technically live forever

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    No they can't, at least not in general. The longest lived, easiest to date, life has been trees, but there's no suggestion that they'll survive climate change

    Most trees have live spans in the low hundreds of years

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    There is no definitive proof either way. Fact is that they can live a long, long time. The oldest known trees are close to 5000 years old. There's even a clonal system estimated to be 80.000 years old. https://www.bbcearth.com/news/can-trees-really-live-forever

    Fact is that a tree is much more likely to die from external factors than from old age. It cannot be proven, but it is certainly not impossible that (some) trees are immortal under the right circumstances.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    We have an eco system in southern Australia that at the moment is eucalyptus trees. They take over all at once after a fire, and they live about 300 years. When they die off rainforest trees and undergrowth take over, until there's a dry period and fire

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    The author of the petition is really looking out for others by not using the unlucky number in the list and taking care of souls for centuries even after their body's gone

    by signing this petition, the undersigned agrees and acknowledges that the creator of this petition has legal ownership of my soul for the remainder of my natural life plus 1000 years.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide is water, they’re not going to ban it. What we need to ban is hydric acid, that’s the most dangerous chemical in the world.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Most drowning victims lost their lifes in this stuff! It's dangerous at fuck.

    Also one hydrogen is already volatile, just imagine what two of them do!

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I signed this years ago. It still hasn’t been banned???

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Finally someone is thinking about our children

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Ever since high school chemistry, I've wondered if it would be more correct to refer to it as hydrogen hydroxide. Yes? No?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Links gone :/

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Dihydrohen monoxide gave me dihydrohen monoxide tainted pee and my girlfriend died when she drank my pee.

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