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When do we start using Gatorade on the crops?
Must be soon. Crocs have been in fashion for a while.
ahem Brawndo? Idiot doesn't even know it's got electrolytes...
It’s what plants crave !
Where's the grift in that? It's gonna be raw sewage and industrial waste.
Because it's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
It'll be Trumpade
RFK's worm doing some serious work on upping that foodborne pathogens game...
Edit: Missed a letter and link
It’s scares me that some of you don’t get this ~~joke~~ reference
When all the nefarious people encouraging this abuse die off.
You'll notice that they don't exist in the future world of Idiocracy. That's because it's a fictional world, with a very basic premise only vaguely related to reality.
The problem isn't that people are dumb, it's that the people in power want to keep people dumb. Without that, it's not like we'll continue to devolve into helpless infantile people with no ability to think for ourselves.
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Yeah, totally not engineered by people who profit off people getting dumber...
True, but I honestly think a significant number of people will naturally gravitate towards whatever's easier, offloading their own critical thinking skills.