I believe in Canada we have high standards for our potable water, unlike the UK for example our water heaters need to be up to par (UK typically has seperate taps AFAIK).

So no need to boil, also if you’re trying to get rid of chlorine you can just use Brita filters, carbon filters that restaurants use do the same AFAIK. Also even cities like mine which (at least at some point before now) had way more houses than apartments still chlorinated the entire city’s supply.

Filters are insanely good these days. I was thinking about getting a life straw, but there’s a slightly more expensive alternative that can do like 500x more filtering before it needs to be replaced, and comes with a pouch you can fill and then pour into a regular water bottle. Life straws are meant to be drank from directly, and the alternatives that company offers are just water bottles with life straws built in - so you put unfiltered water in the bottle itself… Probably gets gross or requires constant cleaning

The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I’d call the early internet, I’d say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

Which means it doesn’t hurt to look at executive pay on top of historical profits, as those are counted as operating costs as well.

IIRC the ratio between highest and lowest earners within a company has skyrocketed from about 25:1 to over 3000:1 in the past 75 years or so…

Yes, lemmy is pretty good quality, we of course need more people to browse new, I hardly ever on Reddit, but when I do it’s shit compared to here 👍

True, maybe they could be both? They should have little mill yer own grain stations at the bottom lol

Unless if they be milling grain those are turbines if I’m not mistaken

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

I’ve been banned for spreading racist hate by warning someone looking for a realtor to avoid one that was discussed without issue in the sub 9 months prior… For running a racist ad poking fun of Asians… I think they replaced the humans who double check bans and reports with monkies, or AI

Didn’t they go from like 200 to 2000 employees? And yet they:

• no longer answer emails

• No longer respond to DMs within their platform

• have a ban appeal form they don’t even check. I literally made stupid jokes about a plot to poison Biden to see if it was monitored. 99% sure it’s not…

I’m sick and tired of thos being the Age of Faceless Corporations. Google and Facebook normalized it. Everyone else is moving towards it. Twitter automatically responds with 💩. Hell even local businesses (chains and non chains) like Score Pizza or Kingston Burger Company don’t list a head office address, email, phone number or anything. They just want your money but not to have to deal with you.

Like what’s going on with the world these days? It’s obviously natural for the human mind to seek smart or lazy ways to do things, and there’s always been that loser at work everyone has to pick up the slack for… but these days it feels like everyone is pushing things to the limits, like it’s reversed and everyone wants to be slackers until the people picking up the slack get burnt out, or the business or organization just becomes a shell of what it wants was while simultaneously demanding more and more money. Policing for example, budgets are probably historically high, mostly from taxes, they don’t police the streets or hand out tickets, people drive and park however they want, corporations and driving instructors have non-road legal cars (way above 30% tint in front windows etc).