This has been done too much, I'd like to see a campaign to ban sodium chloride instead.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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+1 Might as well ban saccharides while you're at it.
They forgot to add that it has the highest pH rating of any known acid.
100% of people consuming it have died. Eventually. That stuff is dangerous!
False. I have consumed it and haven't died.
I might in the future, but haven't died as of today.
I wrote eventually.
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.
Yet.
Maybe. The fact is not everyone who consumed it has died.
Yes they did - unless you count vampires.
I'm not a vampire and I didn't die. I expect to, but I definitely haven't died in the past
Mind your tenses. Will die, not have died.
I haven't, and I'm not a vampire.
This is not accurate, only 93% has died so far!
Trees also consume it and they can technically live forever
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Just saw a post saying mamdani wants Arabic numerals taught in schools and boomers were going crazy over it so.... maybe not everyone..
The world would be even better if we just do away with oxidane!
Forgot about americans. /kinda sorta sarcasm.
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!
I signed this years ago. It still hasn’t been banned???
Finally someone is thinking about our children
Ever since high school chemistry, I've wondered if it would be more correct to refer to it as hydrogen hydroxide. Yes? No?
My high school teacher called it that!
Sounds like reduced hydrogen peroxide, I like it.
Links gone :/
Dihydrohen monoxide gave me dihydrohen monoxide tainted pee and my girlfriend died when she drank my pee.