Yes, that’s why I said my explanation was quick and dirty. Regular people don’t know what a plant does.

bruh it’s houston literally everyone is polluting on the east side of the city. the only people that don’t know are the people that don’t wanna know. honestly the fact that their plant never exploded killing people and belching nightmarish shit into the air made them good guys

Correct. Samples are taken regularly in order to determine if there’s something in there that’s not in the models or polymer table.

I can’t name names but there was a plant in Houston, TX that would have incoming water that would glow when a local very large company would illegally dump. I witnessed it personally after I overheard plant operators talking about it and I asked them to show me. Samples of the water would be taken and passed up to state authorities.

That was back when Texas had state authorities that sort of gave a shit about pollution.

They’re all gone now.

No. The far more likely way to handle it is with flocculation/coagulation since plants are already set up to support this.

Edit: the quick and dirty overview: shit water comes in. Chlorine and other chemicals are added to the water which kills the bad stuff. Polymers are added to the water which binds to the chlorine, causing chunks. Chunks removed. Water discharged. You can change the polymers used to bind specifically to which pollutant is coming in.

That part of the process is called flocculation. Using it to add polymers that have additional capability (like removing microplastic) is where you’d want to do it. The cost is the polymer which would be some sort of reasonable, not rebuilding every plant that exists to boil water.

Check out the video on the flocculation page. Does a great job of showing how floc works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocculation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wastewater_treatment&wprov=rarw1

Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.

There’s no real art to it. It’s done the same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.

Hey siri what month is it

Jesus Christ fellas

All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn’t there but it’s replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.

It’s not that they don’t have empathy. It’s that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only "not wealthy’ humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they’re all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?

Because that’s the mind fuck. Rich people aren’t better than you. Some shit went their way and that’s the difference. Elite earners don’t work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it’s just normalized. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s that they internalize it as “normal”.

Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.

You’re right though. It is more luxurious. They live in a world where they know the money ain’t going away, but my trauma finds a way of breaking thru sometimes. My kids both know how to make beans and rice and can shop and cook for themselves for a week for under $20.

Thanks for writing this. Amazing post.

Yup.

With the sheer size of the military, the people at the top eventually become senior executives types, more in charge of portfolios than soldiers per se.

So a soldier that high might be in charge of procurement of equipment for a whole country or region, or a couple of them could be in charge of the largest military units designed to fight.

2ID, the military unit covering all of South Korea and expected to fight if conflict with North Korea arose, has a two star boss and three one stars under him.

Brigadier general is a one star.

That reminds me I need to donate to them.

Congrats buddy. Right on.

Wonderful post. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

Great comment. Thanks for posting it.

These are tough buys when we dont know if they’ll work on the new switch.

I was a poll watcher in Texas. Electioneering was never a big deal before because you didn’t have people whose entire personality was being Donald Trump cult members. Electioneering violations were almost always small candidates trying to get name recognition at the last second. They’d have someone post up with a car with signs on it.

But the rules were good for reducing tension because the line to keep out was clear and it kept politicking out of the voting area.

Obviously the entire concept of reducing tension is foreign to the Trump nutters.

I don’t know what that means and it’s giving me anxiety.

My brother is a journeyman plumber in Seattle WA. He only does new pipe on metal frame (big buildings) for new build. He makes $130k a year not counting overtime.

Great job. Amazing job.

Netanyahu is a fucking piece of shit.

I mean, like, goddamn.

I don’t know what’s keeping Iran out of this conflict but I’m thankful they aren’t all in. This would be a fucking disaster beyond the current nightmare clusterfuck.

This is a post about Khizr Khan. Go shit up the internet with copypasta trash somewhere else.

edit: just wanna remind everyone that blocking users is super easy.