The difference is that each ion could also occur from a different source salt besides sodium chloride. In a system with only pure water and pure sodium chloride, your proposal would work.

You could have e.g. sodium chloride and sodium carbonate in there or more likely sodium citrate, since you said sports drink. Those sodium ions are the same and indistinguishable, regardless of source. People who have to limit their sodium intake should not need to calculate the sodium content of each salt and then sum that up. Instead you get one sum value directly, which people can interpret much better.

In addition I think the reason is that they simply make a ICP-MS measurement and get one sodium cation value and the same for the other ions. Therefore they cannot combine the values,to a salt because they didn’t determine the sodium chloride salt content, only sodium cation and chloride anion content separately.

Yes, not having fair and free elections makes a dictatorship. Which Mussolini didn’t have after seizing power. And as far as I am aware Netanyahu didn’t manipulate elections (yet).

Genocidal? For sure!

Military Dictatorship? Sadly not. Because he does in fact seem to have the democratic majority behind his actions. And that makes it worse in my eyes.

And when was Israel a military junta as well?

That would be UNCLOS, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

And honestly I really like the dry humor that some Wikipedia entries (strait of Hormuz in this case) are written:

To traverse the full length of the strait, ships pass through the territorial waters of Iran and Oman. Although Iran has not ratified the UNCLOS convention,[19] most countries, including the U.S. which also has not ratified it,[20] claim the right of passage as codified in the convention.

Ah well, if Red Alert 2 is the game requested, then there are multiple iconic things possible:

Tesla Coil as building

Kirov Airship as maybe most iconic unit

Yuri is probably the most iconic face for Red Alert 2.

As Easter egg you could put a tree on there as well, as the game has the Mirage tank, which can disguise itself as a tree.

This game has no tiberium and neither GDI nor NOD though, so maybr you hide that at the bottom as Easter egg (since Tiberium and the original C&C timeline is the foundation of Red Alert)

Oh wow, those tiberium crystals look really nice!

Yeah, in my opinion these two faction logos are the most iconic images about C&C for me. The idea with tiberium crystals is nice if you want to do a diorama cake, but the logos are probably better.

… And if you want to take the tiberium idea,please use green food colour in sugar crystals and not uranium glass shards XD

Yes, there were no camps when the Nazis took power, but it’s not like they took their time opening them:

Wikipedia on Nazi concentration camps:

The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

You bring a rationality that is not appreciated in investing circles!

(The OP is known for joking 90% of the time, if you read their account name, just disregard the opinion and assume the opposite)

Kind of in German? Because the last “word”-part in the word determines what it really is and the separate parts of the word stay with the same meaning most of the time, so the end result is often connected to the meanings of the word parts it is made up of.

As example:

Fahr = driving-related
Fahrt = the drive
Plan = map, plan
Bus = … bus

Fahrplan = timetable for trains, busses etc
Planfahrt = drive that is according to some plan (instead of outside of the planned timetable)
Busfahrplan = timetable for busses

That and I also read reports that people don’t want the hassle of bringing back the ammunition. So it’s better to just blindly shoot them than you having to stack them on a train

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No, capitalism is that the idea that brings the most money will succeed. And not investing in the future of your product for sure doesn’t bring the most money after a certain time. The problem is that the current Epstein class values money now higher than money in ten years.

Capitalism isn’t about caring about others and (at least in theory) not about giving those with most money even more money. That is just the reality and logic if you think about it more than 5 minutes. But again: in theory the self correcting hand of the market is exactly how it should work.

While I think we agree on it being shitty as hell, I don’t think your statement is true. Capitalism is working just fine and as defined in theory.

Old companies that don’t innovate are being replaced by newer, more innovative companies. It’s working exactly as advertised. The part you and me don’t like is that millions of people are going to be thrown into poverty by those lunatics at the helm of the companies for their own short term gain instead of the well-being of everyone. But that is not contradicting capitalism itself.

The Wizard of the Emerald City and it’s series from Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The first story was a nearly 100 % ripoff of The Wizard of Oz and later books also contain some ideas from the original stories from Baum, but Volkov also created a lot on his own in the sequels. And I love the world he created. I especially like that villains were portrayed in a manner that made sense. While there also were some archetypical “I’m capital E Evil” the character of Urfin was fascinating to me as a child, as it was one of the first instances of a multidimensional charactersi experienced as child. He was an overly ambitious but smart person in a fairy tale village where everybody else was content with their simple life. And that discrepancy was the start of his road to villainhood.

While I hope some old parts are protected as history or heritage, I’m surprised such a rule was only established now. Reusing graves is something I thought was standard everywhere due to place shortage.

Oh for sure! I just thought in their heads was a certain kind of business savvyness to reach their position. But it seems they just hear the echo of their own voice.

This is so dumb. I never believed the hype around CEOs, but I still thought they needed to have something, anything, to reach their position.

But the artificial dumbness time really reveals how many of them had simply dumb luck and no morals. And that was apparently enough for all of human history because their underlings protected them from acting too stupid. And now they think they don’t need those underlings anymore. Well, at least I can laugh myself to death before the climate wars.