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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 115 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

When do we start using Gatorade on the crops?

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

ahem Brawndo? Idiot doesn't even know it's got electrolytes...

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

It’s what plants crave !

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It’s scares me that some of you don’t get this ~~joke~~ reference

[–] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Where's the grift in that? It's gonna be raw sewage and industrial waste.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 42 points 21 hours ago

Because it's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 13 points 20 hours ago

It'll be Trumpade

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

RFK's worm doing some serious work on upping that foodborne pathogens game...

Edit: Missed a letter and link

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, totally not engineered by people who profit off people getting dumber...