ButteryMonkey @ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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There’s an episode of red dwarf that centers on that. They accidentally save him from being shot and the entire country falls apart because all his business comes out.

2 that I know of, but that’s the majority of my social circle (not working, no family). The other people I don’t think would want to because it’s different and difficult and those are “leave everything at default” sort of people when it comes to tech, so lost cause anyway.

Both the people who do use it are there because of me, though!

My partner and I were struggling when I was android and they were iOS, there was delays that threw everything out of order, so we tried a few messaging apps that worked cross platform and I found signal and we started using it together, and my friend started using it when dating a new person because e2ee for naughty photos and stuff, at my suggestion. They were using Snapchat and I was like ummmm.. no. Don’t do that. But we use it to talk all the time now.

The good news is with all the small plastic bits floating around the environment, it’s only a matter of time until something evolves to decompose it. Tons and tons of surface area in a wide variety of environments and exposed to a wide variety of microorganisms. I mean heck even our anaerobic gut microbes are getting a chance! And plastic is basically just energy in solid form, so it’ll happen sooner or later.

The bad news is if that happens while we still use plastics, we are going to have a bad time with it.

We probably won’t even know it’s happening until it’s spread far and wide.

Personally, as a child-free person, if someone I was interested in wanted bio kids, I’d immediately stop being interested because that’s not something you can compromise on. It’s a fundamental incompatibility, imho.

It sounds like you aren’t really hurting for options, so, you know.. probably not worth the effort.

Pro life tip: if you don’t think you need to keep info long term, but you need it for a short time, your browser address bar works super well to temporarily keep info you have no reason to save beyond like 20 min.

You can save it if you want, but the default is to search for it and that won’t do diggity dog shit if you are looking for a company.

Ah, see my toilets are always covered, my cats are indoor-only, and I haven’t had a dog in decades, so I don’t have weather worries except for my chicken friends (USDA hardiness zone 4, whooo we can’t do shit!) and whatever else.

And I don’t have the finances to marine a tank lol that shit is wildly expensive, and intensive, and I’m lazy as sin lol so freshwater plant water cubes are what I keep mostly. I have a 55 gal in the kitchen with like 5 live bearing small fish.. I’m not a fish person, I’m a “box of water with some plants in” sort of person :)

Fwiw tho my USDA zone 4 has been getting monsoon rained the last few years too.. out of season no less. Our monsoon season is winter, so we should get a ton of snow but now we just get rain all the time.

Yeah I think it just smells and tastes more like what they naturally expect.

And honestly works for me because I don’t have to deal with the shit that crops up in managed fountains. They get algae and thick blooms of slime bacteria/mold. Not amazing for health unless it’s a very easy fountain to clean (most are the opposite)

But have a 5-10 gallon tank with a half inch of topsoil an inch of sand, and a bunch of cute plants.. maybe some freshwater shrimp and scuds to clean up the plant waste.. you are golden for pet water because shit you can leave that for several days and they won’t dramatically reduce levels.

If you don’t have fish, a simple bubble-driven sponge filter is the way to go.

And any saliva bacteria or whatever just gets consumed by the micro and macrobiotic, rather than forming bacteria mats that offput harmful nonsense in the water.

Win-win.

For my home, no, that’s not possible. They get RO(reverse osmosis, second to distilled in purity, or third if you count lab-created) water which filters that sort of thing out. They don’t like the pure water tho, and prefer the tanks.

But in general, perhaps; that’s certainly what I taste when I drink tap water these days (have used RO for over a decade now for all my water needs except tooth brushing - what a weird term for such a weird concept…).

I have a lead pipe feeding my house so all my tanks are filled from the RO, as is all animal water (chickens, quail, cats)

Haha super dilution, but yeah I guess it would be!

I just assume they like the natural taste of it. The water I give them in a fountain is all RO, and they probably barely smell it or taste it, but the additional nice shit from plants and whatever makes the water taste fresh..?

(did you know most mammals can taste water, and it has a flavor? Humans can too if they pay attention and drink enough of it!)

Haha yeah, the tanks they can drink from are just plants an invertebrate life. Shrimp, scuds, seed shrimp. And plants.

Maybe they like shellfish 😜

I just have aquariums.

Like I also have a water fountain in the kitchen just for them made of old aquarium filter parts, but they never touch it. They drink from my bedroom or living room aquariums.

Maybe they like that the water is plant filtered, maybe they just like to be dicks, whatever the reason they only drink from aquariums

I mean the whole platform is designed to take advantage of kids by “allowing them” the freedom to do whatever..

I think this is perfectly keeping with their business model of using kids for profit. And I doubt they really care all that much about consequences. Locking down the platform doesn’t net them more money after all; kids are broke.

I didn’t read the post and took longer than it should have to realize that the bottom half-ish are non-Roman. (Numbers are Arabic! So half!)

I… speak Russian tho (badly, non-fluently), so I should have known..

Honestly I don’t know. It’s a yearly thing though in several places I know of. They have contests (usually through local tv stations) to guess the date it’ll fall through and stuff. People bet on it.

It may have to do with the fact that a lot of people go ice fishing so we regularly hear about big trucks falling through the ice, so it’s something to keep people aware of the danger..? Or rural folks might just find that fun, idk.

I really hope what they mean is clean water.

It can happen; there’s a paper mill by me that was actually an important part of the river cleanup process when the river was far worse than it is today. It takes water from the river, uses it for their needs, then treats it and returns it to the river far far cleaner than they took it out, which has been a net benefit for the entire downstream river ecosystem. That plan, and their follow-through, is the only reason that mill exists at all.

Thing is, where are they going to find this not-particularly-clean water to treat and return? Are they going to need all new infrastructure built to accommodate this?

And why is that cheaper/easier/whatever than just making a closed loop cooling system, which they could have done from the being..

You know, at least in my area, when they wheel a vehicle out onto the ice in winter to gamble about when it’ll fall through in spring, they strip out all the fuel lines and interiors and stuff and just leave the shit frame, and the cars themselves don’t work prior to being selected for this. I’m pretty sure they also retrieve them afterwards.

Could they do something better with the thing? Almost certainly. But at least it’s not… as bad as launching fully functional cars into a river just for funsies..

Many of us are honestly equally confused by the idea of always/frequently being horny, which I hear is the case for many many men (probably also a lot of women but you rarely hear about it). I legitimately cannot imagine it. I’ve never felt whatever that feels like, as far as I know.

Same.

I like to start conversations with strangers by asking them to tell me something they personally find interesting (specifically not something they think I’ll find interesting, something they do). Sometimes I get some great new information, sometimes just a short conversation.

It really weeds out people with no personality or hobbies or whatever, though. Like the dude who decided to explain basketball to me.. not as an info dump, just because he had nothing else to talk about and it was on tv..

Even the guy who told me about how he designs machines to make trash bags was more interesting than basketball dude.

Entirely true. I wonder what it would take to create a bog..

I mean people have been filling them for ages right? It’d just be restoration.. but probably nowhere near where I am so probably still expensive ;)

I know of a swamp that’s kinda sorta nearby, but like people constantly joke about dumping bodies there so it wouldn’t be a good spot.