Make one, or just try some of the many existing ones. That’s the beauty of federation.

That’s what the modlog is for. You can check and see the given reason is “slop spam”, it’s very transparent.

It’s even sillier than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/01/human-body-temperature-has-decreased-in-united-states.html

You couldn’t physically drink enough water. Math is not my strong suit but this seems pretty straightforward.

It takes one calorie to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius, by definition. Plugging in some numbers (a liter of water starting at a very frosty 1 C) takes almost 40 kilocalories or about 160 kiloJoules of energy. That’s like half of your “simply existing” calories per hour, so you’d need to consume 2 liters of ice-cold water every hour (and excrete every gram of it to 40, which you aren’t doing with your living body) just to break even.

It gets more complicated when you factor in evaporative cooling and I already said I’m not a math-man but the environmental factor is simply too strong for biology.

To elaborate on “the corn sweats” for anyone curious, the process is “transpiration” and it’s a significant source of local humidity.

Halfway between freezing and boiling, the specifics hardly matter at that point.

So countries should be entirely free to do anything they want and nobody is morally correct to stop them?

No fair, we already have too many of these fucks.

The media is captured, it’s complicit, it’s bought and controlled by people like Murdoch.

Nationalism then. People love to feel important or like they’re part of something, even if they put no actual effort towards that end. Just identify with the place you happened to be born and convince yourself its victories are your own.

Elder Scrolls is gonna be mid but the next Fallout will be the most immersive ARG ever.

It was mostly other imperialist countries and their vassal states, why wouldn’t they accept another of their own?

We got a really cool legally invisible forever-prison/torture-dungeon on stolen Cuban land, but that’s not technically South America.

Literally the person I am replying to is saying it’s unsafe.

“La la la I make up my own facts” is an embarrassing stance to upvote, let alone put forth as an honest argument.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7015476/

There’s ongoing study about safe exposure levels, but the usefulness of animal studies is limited (mice are a poor metabolic analogue). The World Health Organization stands by 0.7mg/liter in water for chlorate and the key thing being looked at is how much remains on food as residue.

Regulations are only as good as their enforcement. The US has pretty good food safety laws (the discrepancies with the EU tend to be our “prove it’s bad” rather than “prove it’s not bad” stance on common-use ingredients and additives.) particularly with labeling. We don’t have fresh raw cheeses because we decided the best Brie wasn’t worth occasional listeria outbreaks.

Had cheap goods. With the way our food costs have exploded in the last five years we almost certainly wouldn’t have leverage over local production.

Ignoring that, the behavior that protectionist trade laws are avoiding is: Country A using tax subsidies to artifically deflate the cost of a good, flooding the market of Country B where it isn’t subsidized and eventually putting the producers there out of business so they become reliant on trade with Country A. Protectionism like this isn’t wrong, but people generally don’t like being told that they’re being barred from less expensive options so it gets dressed up in nationalism.

The USDA has banned hormones and steroids since the 50s and like 5% of chicken gets the (perfectly safe) chlorine rinse. European countries use the same rinse on leafy vegetables, they just banned it on poultry because they thought it would make processors complacent.

Only a small portion of US chicken gets the chlorine rinse, a practice that the EU recognized as perfectly safe by the way. They banned it because they didn’t want poultry processors to get lazy about other hygiene practices. They don’t import American chicken because the cost difference would destroy the local farms.

It has influence disproportionate to the number of followers. (But Hinduism and Buddhism should be ahead of it anyway, this is a very Western perspective)