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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Patenting chalk water solution is like patenting milk.

Oh look, I've made up a liquid consisting of suspended lipids, sugars, and proteins! Please detain these cows!

These corporations would try to patent any molecular arrangement that contains two oxygen atoms and call it a day and they'd fight a plant for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2 oxygen atoms? Your product sounds awfully similar to my proprietary, patented, 1 oxygen, 2 hydrogen atoms compound.

I hope you have a good lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Well, dehydrogen-oxide has been proven to, in large enough quantities, be deadly to humans.