ButteryMonkey

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.

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.

Have you ever licked one of the apple flavor salt licks?

Honestly low-key delicious and I get why large animals are into it, since their diet isn’t 90% salt already.

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 😜

Hmm good call, infinite soda hack!

As a chronic headache and migraine sufferer, those people who say “you’re just dehydrated!” really grind my gears. Maybe it’s sometimes true for some people, but lots of things cause headache. Strong smells, loud noises, bright light, stress, depression, you name it.

It’s significantly worse than when they offer weird solutions they found on Facebook, like putting your hand in ice water, or pressing pressure points or whatever nonsense, because it’s so intensely basic… At least the weird shit has novelty going for it.

I drink an absolute fuckton of water (typically at least 3 24oz bottles daily, more if it’s hot or I’m doing effort stuff) because I’ve internalized that ableist shit that maybe it just fucking is dehydration (it isn’t, and I know this).

All that said, stay hydrated friends! It’s not a cure, but it may help prevent lots of shit!

All good, language is freakin hard, man!

All that matters is we got there in the end :)

That’s exactly what I mean.

The soda dilution by halves would have far more dilution steps to reach pure water than homeopathy.

No, I do mean more steps, because homeopathy dilutes a smaller volume of target material, they actually would perform fewer steps than dilution via halving.

You invented homeopathy! Just with more steps (literally).

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 really hope you enjoy them!

If you haven’t seen it, pantheon is also fantastic, tho it’s quite a bit heavier.

One of these days I plan to make an effort post of all the good stuff I’ve seen. I have no life, and collecting non-anime, not-for-babies, animated series makes me happy. I have about 500 of them at the moment, though I’ve watched less than half.

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…