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  • While technically feasible with pure soap in small amounts (which is lye fully reacted with food grade oil/fats), the stuff you find in stores will have stuff like:

    • Conditioner
    • Perfume
    • Coloring

    All of which are likely to cause irritation on your intestines and worsen the overall acid flux experience.

    If you need to do this experiment for some reason, make sure you know exactly what is in it. Most likely any “safe-ish” soap is more expensive than antacids or food-grade chalk.

    Fun fact: Old timey cheap industry soap (plain tallow and lye) used to be popular with rats and mice.








  • The effect will be stability, but not in a good way. Like a pile of bricks being more stable than a wall because they can’t fall over.

    US troops pacify enough that no government can grow there, and no foreign nations (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc) can sponsor a puppet government.

    Things that will be cracked down on: Any strong organization not endorsed and in leash of US military.

    Things that will not be: Systemic problems like corruption, smuggling, organized crime, etc. And with no other organizing force allowed, nobody will be in power to handle those.

    The result will be less violence and war, but a region that’s not sustainable or functioning. It’ll be less able to stand on its own after the US gets bored with it than it is now.