The composition of sewage is more predictable and a lot of the contaminants are organic, so bacteria can do a lot of the cleaning for us. If you go to a treatment plant, you can see that most of the process is just letting the water sit in big aerated tanks while the bacteria eat the poop.

The seawater has been sloshing around for millions of years and is full of minerals and things bacteria don't eat so you need to either distill it or pump it through a lot of filters.

It's cheaper to purify sewage than to purify seawater, so desalination is really only relevant in places without plumbing infrastructure... and even there it's the wrong approach.

Good on you, but the other commenter is right that Darth is a legend and hopefully you can still take his other advices to heart despite having beef.

Middle finger, probably from playing counter strike. Ideally I'd use the right button with my ring finger and then have access to all 3 independently... but I'm lazy and let my middle finger handle both middle and right.

Why is the key for translating the letters to numbers such a random order and doesn't use all 26 letters?

The yellow one specifically

Good picks here; my favorite is LSU.

Thanks chatgpt

IME, adults are using different chatbots

You know, I hadn't considered this probably because of form factor, but that's actually a good idea... I wouldn't need to turn on my main workstation to manage it. Do you think it would be noisy?

Ok cool I've heard good things about start9 os vs umbrel, so thanks for confirming that. I'll probably give that a go this time around.

Aren't 8-10% more dollars added per year? And if that number is so much higher than CPI, doesn't that imply that if we weren't adding dollars, prices would be falling? What do you call the difference between these numbers?

I remember asking my dad when I was a child why they don't just make more 100 dollar bills instead of 1 dollar bills, and he properly explained to me that it devalues our money. I'm very fortunate he didn't do the cop-out of "you'll understand when you're older," because it got me thinking from a young age. We underestimate what children can understand, for sure.

Human: can I have my money AI chatbot: no

Holy shit

This song is actually quite special to me; it was my introduction to how the minor iii chord works when I was first studying music.

I mean, I used to think they did, but after listening to Peter Schiff peddle the utility value, I wonder.

People who like the tipping culture must have never worked for tips. It hurts employees. It allows employers to pay below the minimum wage and then they split the tips anyways. And even if they don't do that, your income as an employee is less predictable. Stupid idea.