Am I really bathing if I’m using water I cannot drink?
Yes, drinking water is cleaned to the point that it will not make you sick to drink assuming a normal immune system. That is extreme over kill for bathing (and toilets, laundry, etc). The only reason we use drinking water for everything is because infrastructure is expensive and laying non-potable water pipes would cost tons.
“Basement dwellers” implies parents with multi level houses. I feel like the kid living with their parents for a long time will become more of a thing but they’ll be lucky to have the privacy and space of a whole basement....
Yes, and you have to dig deep in some places to get below the frost with your foundation. In those places a basement makes sense because you’re digging that far either way. Texas frosts don’t get very deep, so you’re able to have a shallower foundation making a basement just an extra cost.
My fig tree is putting out figs! I grew this tree from a cutting that a neighbor let me take from her tree. Here’s what the figs look like when ripe:...
Are you talking about using chloramine in disinfection? I think conflating pool water and drinking water standards is a bit of a mistake. Things get added to pools from people’s bodies after chlorination that cause weird combined results. Drinking water is disinfected (chlorinated) as a final step. I would object to my municipality using chloramine, but not because I wouldn’t drink it.
I think hey are talking about the chloramine that Minneapolis uses to disinfect. It is more stable and isn’t just chlorine, so it would be in a “combined” result. The levels are page three of this report www2.minneapolismn.gov/…/2022-Consumer-Confidence…It looks like 2023 isn’t posted yet, but I doubt it changes much year to year.
Just generally, you can get a report of your municipal water testing. The biggest safety variable that I would be worried about testing at home for is lead in the pipes between me and the treatment plant. That includes my house/building and the municipal pipes.
Now taste, that’s a to each their own situation. Sulfury water is my limit for sure. No thanks!
Nice work on the write up! It is hard sorting things out when they’re half true. For me, drinking water is especially important to get the fact straight on because of how bad it can go if the system fails. It would be silly to disregard anyone saying water wasn’t up to a safe standard, but separating things I would care about out from the fluoride and chlorine background noise is tricky. Thanks for the deeper dive!
A £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid to connect up new windfarms off the coast of Scotland is expected to trigger tensions with communities along the route....
Me talking at dinner: “Will you pass me the peas?” Cut to 5 people confused about whether I mean just one of them or if I want the whole table to all hand me the peas.
I get why they/them can be confusing because of the plural thing, but we are used to a quirky language. With a little practice, the tone and context clear up nearly all confusion. The rest is as easy or hard as what we have to do with an ambiguous “you.”
PS Sorry to the “yous/yous guys” people. I am not trying to turn a blind eye to you obviously superior usage. It just really ruins my point.
Their point is that if plants can suffer, and assuming we still want to eat, less plants die or are maimed on a vegan diet than on an omnivorous diet because livestock eats plants too and the conversion to meat is inefficient.
That means vegan diet is the way for less plant suffering even though you eat them directly. In fact it is because you would eat them directly.
I just don’t get the conclusion of all of the biosolids articles. They all point to upstream sources as problems then claim we should do something about them only in biosolids. Our wastewater reflects what we allow in our houses and bodies.
Why doesn’t it ever go like this: “Micro plastics are bad. Our wastewater is telling us that we are creating micro plastics in our homes from the products we buy and use. Let’s stop producing products that force people to make micro plastics.”
My guess - the cost of wastewater treatment falls on all of us. We pay for it all, and it isn’t cheap. The most effective option is source control, so let’s make cradle to grave responsibility for the megacorp producers and watch how fast harmful products get yanked.
I spend time highlighting how my past experience relates to the job and what I like about the place or job specifically. Depending on the vibe in the room I will add one quick, interesting, and nonoffensive thing about my personal life at the end. Basically recapping a cover letter but in a personable way because my writing is dry
Yes, if I said “hand me the scissors” it would just be one tool with two blades. I could also say “hand me a pair of scissors” to mean the same thing. Kind of like how “pair of pants” or “pair of glasses” mean just one of those items. For reference, I am from the US. Not sure if you meant English as the country or as the language. Either way, those usages are nonsense and I will happily keep using them.
Pay walled, so all I could see before it closed was boil.
Further research (read 2 min) gave an answer of boiling in hard water plus filtering after removes more than 80% (soft water it is only 20%) because boiling causes lime scale to collect on plastics making them bigger and easier to filter out
So, if you have the hardest, hard water you can have 80% reduction with just a 1hr wait for cooling. Not quite a silver bullet. Interesting though
Don't mind me just mowing my roof. (lemmy.world)
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What's a hobby or interest of yours that you really love explaining to others?
What’s something you love, and love describing or explaining to people who are new to that interest, hobby, or activity?
I doubt future generations will have “basement dwellers” because none of us can afford to own basements.
“Basement dwellers” implies parents with multi level houses. I feel like the kid living with their parents for a long time will become more of a thing but they’ll be lucky to have the privacy and space of a whole basement....
how do you smoke and not get fat
i swear to fuck i consume literally every single food item within 3 parsecs of my location the second i touch weed...
Fig tree from a cutting (lemmy.world)
My fig tree is putting out figs! I grew this tree from a cutting that a neighbor let me take from her tree. Here’s what the figs look like when ripe:...
Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot (inews.co.uk)
I’ve just realised that this was already in /c/environment. Oops, sorry!
People with experience working in and around municipal water infrastructure: Do you drink tap water? Are there times when you do not?
This question is obviously intended for those that live in places where tap water is “safe to drink.”...
Whoops (sh.itjust.works)
DeSantis signs bill banning homeless encampments, public sleeping in Florida - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/10104083...
£58bn plan to rewire Great Britain expected to spark tensions along route (www.theguardian.com)
A £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid to connect up new windfarms off the coast of Scotland is expected to trigger tensions with communities along the route....
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the sensory biology of plants (mander.xyz)
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
Microplastics found to enter agricultural land through wastewater (phys.org)
How to answer "Tell me about yourself" in a job interview?
I’ve got a job interview on Tuesday and I haven’t had one for a while due to a period of unemployment because of family health issues....
Rule (lemmy.world)
Is the raccoon giving the gun or is the human giving the gun to the raccoon?
Think about it (lemmy.world)
A simple way to get microplastics out of your water (www.washingtonpost.com)
I'm working on a distro recommendation flowchart/ list for newcomers and need your input please! (Post is not only this picture btw and is mainly text)
We often get the same question with...