A "few" people? The problem is not a handful of loudmouths, but the masses hanging on their lips. An influencer is not influencing without a mass of followers.
Of course a rubber band reaching to the edge of the atmosphere most likely exceeds its own tensile strength by far. And even if it was short enough just not to, it would simply be pre-stretched by it's own weight, you would not even need to hold it down.
If you believe that your local bakery can survive without those chemicals, think again. There are a handful of specialized bakeries that actually work on "clean" recipies, but they are rare and much more expensive.
Yes, even in Germany, the country of bread, rising agents and acidity regulators are common. Whenever you see a "bakery" put prepared rolls into the oven, you can be sure that chemistry is the bakers best friend.
Try doing anything with US customs. On the one hand, woe and Armageddon to those who do not enter absolutely correct data, on the other hand, you cannot enter anything but A-Z, 0-9, and a handful of basic punctuation. And, of course, addresses have American formatting and fields.
One would have thought that a bureaucracy dealing with customs might have heard about foreign countries...
Wrong. You might not have asked for it, but it is nor your computer, it's windows' computer. Microsoft decides when it wakes up.