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.

I also haven’t experienced it myself, so I should have added that I don’t support that view due to my own lack of evidence.

No idea about quokk, but for db0: from what I read here, the blocking of the tankie triad seems too be pretty effective, so in order to be able to still bother the rest of us, some were looking for alternative servers. And Db0 had the problem of being very open, so they went there. People then complained that more and more db0 users are tankies that can’t discuss faithfully.

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)

While you correctly stated why I find acts such as these dangerous when not done very carefully, you are simplifying things a bit too much. Terry Pratchett correctly countered your argument in Going Postal:

Moist Von Lipwig: I’m just a con man!
Mr. Pump: You have killed 22.8 people.
Moist Von Lipwig: I’ve never so much as drawn a sword.
Mr. Pump: You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it’s not bankers who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths. There will be no running.

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.

Nah, your answers here are either from a point of true or feigned ignorance, I agree with the other commentator. So feel free to block me too, because I also think you are not engaging in good faith.

What made them special to you?

Ok yeah, Tunic is cheating! But it is simply awesome, I agree.

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)

Plastic are made from fossil fuels which are from primordial plants. So still organic according to your definition. Just a few hundred million years since it was alive.