>"I thought 'electrolytes' meant sugar, no one ever corrected me, so I based the whole joke that (gatorade) sugar was being used to water all the plants in the movie. And that sugar was killing everything, that was the joke.">"It turns out, electrolytes just means basic minerals, like potassium and magnesium, which is actually a crucial element to soil and provides healthy nutrients for plant life. Woops. My bad."- Mike Judge
>>221828033He has to be fucking with the fans. The irony is too much to be believable
>>221828086What's more likely? Mike Judge didnt know what an "electrolyte" was in 2004?Or that soil needs sodium, magnesium, and and potassium to produce healthy plant growth?
>>221828224I always thought the joke was that everyone just parroted a slogan or catchphrase for their argument not realizing that Gatorade isn't better than water for plants because they lack understandingKind of like how you're doing parroting an AI statement about electrolytes instead of Gatorade
>>221828314Soil cannot produce healthy plants without a good amount of electrolytes, which up until 10 minutes ago, you thought meant 'sugar' and back in 2004, Judge thought the same thing.But instead of being mad, you should be glad you now know what an electrolyte actually is.
>>221828394Gatorade does have sugar though and would kill the plants making the electrolytes useless
>>221828033Idiocracy is a strange movie for the wrong reasons
>>221828394I miss Scott Adams.
>>221828422Potassium is a sugar, yeswelcome to 8th grade chemistry
>>221828479Trying too hard
>>221828033I like when mistakes like this happen, because it shows I’m not alone, but I feel only creative types end up in these sorts of situations which is why it’s not too common.
>>221828490looks like you failed it, then
>>221828459I don’t know about thatIt’s pretty stylish and it’s pretty fucking funny what are you a fag
>>221828504You're going to insist that you think sucrose aka sugar which is found in gatorade is potassium and an electrolyte?
>>221828033He’s definitely trolling As if just water in plants solved all the worlds problemsGet a sense of humor
idiocracy is dumb >white people, the heckin rednecks will produce too many offspring>electrolytes wtf this is a made up thing this is badAnd in reality indians and chinese people have too many kids, and electrolytes are important for us to live and survive
>>221828542https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169425004196
>>221828033well it ended up working even though he was a retard because it just means that the original knowledge of putting electrolytes in sports drink ceased to be known and it became more associated with the marketing sloga
>>221828545The joke is that the sports drink is bad for plants but the company paid off the government and claims it is good for them because it has something good
>>221828542https://provisiongardens.com/blogs/grower-guides/electrolytes-for-plants-what-they-do-when-you-need-them-and-how-to-avoid-imbalances?srsltid=AfmBOorOvS65qgsA4VLLXFhcPj8WCNOip1hnJ-gAzsTji4NEg3bcX88p
>>221828570>>221828600Not seeing anything there about sucrose You having fun pretending to be an idiot?
>>221828570none of this says that potassium IS a sugar you fucking retard.
>>221828545>in reality indians and chinese people have too many kidsThe birthrate in China is collapsing too, just like in the US. It's collapsing all over the world (no mention of India though). I guess this is how the poos finally defeat us
>>221828609you'll find that next year I guess? Welcome to middle school, kiddo
>>221828643Hey buddy how about you post the ingredient info of Gatorade?Noticed your whole argument hinges on ignoring everything that proves you wrong
>>221828033No, electrolytes in sports drinks are actually salts, specifically compounds like sodium chloride, sodium citrate, and monopotassium phosphate.Plants do need some of these minerals, but not in the massive concentrations that daily watering with Gatorade provides. The resulting high-salinity soil creates a hypertonic environment, causing severe osmotic stress that pulls moisture out of plant roots and completely sterilizes the soil microbiome.In a real-world scenario, water alone would not reverse this damage. Simply adding water to high-sodium soil causes the soil particles to disperse, destroying its structure and turning the field into an impermeable, cement-like crust.True remediation would take years. It would require mechanically tilling the salt-crusted flats, applying gypsum (calcium sulfate) to chemically displace the sodium so it can be flushed away, and mixing in live dung-based fertilizers to rebuild soil structure. Finally, you would need to reintroduce vital biological life—like bacterial cultures, insects, and worms—by truck-loading healthy, wild topsoil into the dead fields for months just to kickstart the ecosystem again.
>>221828479Sugar from potassium and sugar from a can of soda. Clearly the same thing.
>>221828591The movie is clearly saying electrolytes are a made up term by sport drink companies to sell products. Obviously putting gatorade on plants wouldn’t work but the movie’s angle on it is that it is not a real thing and OP is saying Mike Judge acknowledged this error later
>>221828946>electrolytes are a made up term
>>221828479Jeets can't bait well, they're iqs are too low to approximate realism
>>221828946I wouldn't say the movie presents it as a made up word. Movie presents it as a bullshit thing like activated almonds meme
>>221828972Yeah. I’m saying the movie idiocracy is saying that, and it’s incorrect
>>221828033Idiocracy is proof of itself because people take it seriously.
>>221828946No this movie is saying that people like watching movies where people get hit in the balls and laugh at the person who gets hit in the balls
>>221829004it isnt saying that, the people just dont understand what the word means because its been lost to time so they just resort to the circular reasoning of the marketing slogan when asked what it is
>>221828545The orange pedophile and his retarded cultists proved it right though
>>221829026It's a future where everyone is Beavis and Butthead
>>221829043I meant to rely to >>221829018
>>221828314same here
>221828981>they'reKys you border hopping taco slinger
>>221828612>(no mention of India though). I guess this is how the poos finally defeat usyour daddy Elon Musk was whining about birth rates levels falling in India
I hate bot threads
>>221828033He knew. This nigger is an electrical engineer.
>>221828033I thought they were salting the crops, since electrolytes are salts. So that's why nothing was growing.
>>221828033We need our government to take some notes from Idiocracy and implement a eugenics system ASAP. We cannot allow poor people to produce their useless offspring.l
