Anon sees through the lies

It's almost like the amount of salt matters.

Water: good
Hyperhydration: exists
The dose makes the poison.
- After all breathing pure oxygen is incredibly bad for your health.
And the kind
- And the fact that you might drink electrolyte beverages after sweating.
Yup, human kidneys suck at efficiently filtering out salt and can only do so at a relatively low maximum concentration in the urine. The moment you take salt water that is of higher salt concentration than that, your body uses more water than what you took to eliminate that salt.

If only he'd gone the next step and actually looked up how electrolytes work.

This is how conspiracy theorists actually think, they do a single Google search, fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese, and form a totally incoherent theory as a result. Once the theory is formed, any evidence to the contrary is disregarded.

Flat earthers primary reason for believing the earth is flat is that otherwise water wouldn't form puddles and lakes it would always be flowing downhill. This makes perfect sense provided you've failed to achieve a 12-year-old's understanding of gravity. Which of course they have failed to achieve because of the aforementioned intellectual deficiency.

fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese,
LMFAOOOO
Whoa now, lets not give flat earthers so much credit. That doesnt even make sense within their own theories. Logic is not the point
- Well it does. Here's the logic, with proof by negation:
  Earth is round (assertion to disprove)
  Water flows around round objects
  Water doesn't flow on the earth, it stays put, therefore the earth is not round
  That's as far as it goes.
they do a single Google search, fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese, and form a totally incoherent theory as a result
I mean, it's more complicated than that on two levels.
Firstly, sports drinks like Gatorade were formulated for a very specific kind of short term high intensity activity (specifically, playing football in Florida during the summer). But for lower intensity and longer term exercising (anything over two hours - long distance running / biking / swimming, most notably) its generally worse for you than water. So expressing a degree of skepticism is warranted. That's doubly so in the face of endless marketing and native advertisement in sports media.
Secondly, when you get into the dietary sciences and start running into contradictions between the more well-established benefits of drinking water relative to the dubious claims of marketing agencies, it can easily become difficult to determine what is and is not bullshit. Because Google itself has been marketed as a valuable tool for research and analysis, and because so much of our academic infrastructure has been privatized (Google being a prime example), even the most intellectually curious and level headed can become overwhelmed with the task of "Doing Your Own Research".
Flat earthers primary reason for believing the earth is flat is that otherwise water wouldn’t form puddles and lakes it would always be flowing downhill.
The primary reason for believing the Earth is flat is that the ground is flat in much of the country. People don't natively intuit that the earth is round, they have to be told or to engage in some fairly non-intuitive experimentation. To grapple with the idea of a round earth, you have to start taking second and third hand accounts at face value or get reasonably good at geometry and have a certain bedrock faith in the accuracy of your calculations.
I'd argue that flat earthers are more curious and often more intelligent than their "I believe the earth is round cause that's what they told me" set. And its often this curiosity - combined with some error in logic or bad initial data - that leads them to try and prove the unproveable so doggedly.
But so many people fall into the trap of believing intelligence leads to correctness. You can be very smart and still end up with a very wrong answer. What's more, if you're surrounded by people you don't trust (because you believe you are smarter than them), it can be difficult to convince you of your own failings precisely because you don't have enough of an intellectual peer base to understand your reasoning, spot the mistake, and demonstrate a counter-example.
It's also how conspiracy theories spread.
People sharing it thinking it's a joke.
- Yup, for that reason I don't share cracked views, even as a joke.
"This is how conspiracy theorists actually think"
I'm not sure why this generalisation was required? Many 'conspiracy theories' have been proven to be true, and not ALL theorists believe ALL of the theories. It's easy to discredit somebody when you label them something and then say that those that are labelled are idiots.
edit- downvoting something without replying to it is how you get an echo chamber

You can drink a little amount of salt water and probably come out ahead... Drink too much and you get into a death spiral though

Why
- That is a good question for a nephrologist.
- Your body needs some salt, and it sweats out salt. So it needs to be replaced.
- Because your kidneys can filter out a certain percentage of salt, and that's based on the blood concentration
  But if your blood goes above the level where the water is being drawn out of your cells and drying them out, you'll be dehydrated from the inside out
- Because you can have a little salt, as a treat.
- It's your body doin homeostasis, hombre!

It's what plants crave!

Isn’t this the plot of Idiocracy?

It's a major plot point. Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator, has been put into almost everything in place of water ("water, like from the toiler?") And consequently kills the crops.
- How the fuck would it even do that? It's got what plants crave.

Fun fact: the further into the Baltic Sea you go (ie the farther you are from Copenhagen), the less salty it is. Around Stockholm iirc you can just drink the water straight up and rehydrate instead of dehydrating.

Yeah, but drinking the Baltic sea's water, one of the most if not the most polluted sea of the world, will cause you other problems 😅
- Isn't American water usually more polluted near large industries?
- rehydrating and give you cancer :v
- what?
The Danish people must be salty about that.
- Maybe that's why they like, the disgusting thing that is, black licorice.
Thanks, I'm going to do just that!

Apparently there's on average 3.5% salt in seawater, so you could probably drink ~~1 liter~~ 100 ml daily and be fine assuming you supplement it with something "else". _you _know _what..

You won't die immediately, but there's no way that consuming 35g salt/day won't lead to severe health issues down the line ...
- Yeah, you're right, it was some really shotty early morning math, I was thinking 100 ml not a whole liter.
- 35g of salt can be a lethal dose for a human of about 70kg, so no one's going to last too long on this diet.
Is it pee
- Not your own. Definitely not from anyone who has taken-up drinking seawater either.
Depends on rest of diet and starting conditions and duration.
Like if in a highly glycolytic diet/state... severely not advisable to do large doses of salt. But if in ketosis, you've a far higher ceiling. 3.5g's normal. 35g's likely going too far even when in ketosis.
H2O?

Just eat plain salt dude. Max electrolytes and hydration!

How stupid do they think we are?

That's not the question to ask. Anon should be asking: How stupid is everyone, as a group?

Ketchup is an energy drink.

Ketchup is basically just Extra Pulp V8.