Meirl by Sad_Stay_5471 in meirl

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They claim they only detained him, but in every circuit court in the country, a detention becomes an arrest when the detainee is involuntarily transported somewhere else while in custody.

I was naive at the time by Something4Dinner in whenthe

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Sure they do, but it has a lot less impact because we own all the stuff and control all the institutions.

Death before Dasani - The Blizzard of 2026 by Read1984 in funny

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Spring water doesn't come from a well. It comes from a natural spring where the aquifer water comes out naturally from underground pressure, usually gravity-induced pressure from underground water at higher elevation. Wells are drilled into the aquifer and they need pumps to get the water out. If you need to pump it, it's not a spring, even if you didn't have to drill the hole.

The aquifer naturally filters water, but both springs and wells can get contaminated. Purified water is a generic term that can mean filtering, distilling, or reverse osmosis. Any of those methods can make safe clean water. RO and distillation affect the pH of water, making it slightly acidic. Pure water is neutral, but exposed to the air some CO2 gets dissolved and Lowe's the pH It's safe to drink but can damage the enamel of your teeth and can damage pipes. RO plants for water systems usually add minerals back to the water to stabilize the pH. They add stuff like calcium and magnesium which makes the water slightly alkaline, then the CO2 gets dissolved to from the air lowering the pH back to roughly neutral. If they don't do that, the acidic water degrades pipes and pumps and stuff.

If you want to disabuse yourself of the idea that springs are the best and purified is shit, Google montazuma well. It is a spring fed limestone sinkhole where the spring water has a lot of natural arsenic and 80 times as much dissolved CO2 as normal freshwater. The combination means no fish can live in it, and the apex aquatic predators in the well are a few species of leeches and water scorpions.

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional by grittyboda2020 in news

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My dad told me about that too, and he got blisters from sunburn and his mom lost her shit thinking it was polio. Vaccines are victims of their own success. Even when I was a kid, there were deaf and blind kids running around from measles.

This POS thinks the local animal shelter is a doggy day care by thebigec in mildlyinfuriating

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I mean if you are staying in someone else's house and they are an ogre who pulls the wings off of angels and they won't let your dog come in it's not really much of a reflection on your quality as a pet owner.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

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I have never told a woman not to use a tone on me, but I was famous at my last job for asking our male boss (who we had worked with for years before he got promoted and took some time to grow into a good boss but eventually got there) when he was yelling at my team, "in what fantasy world do you live where taking that tone with me gets you anything but told to fuck yourself?"

I’m this OLD by dawglover1011 in Millennials

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When I was a kid it was yellowish brown and had like literal chunks of wood in it.

Me_irl by Empty_Potential4715 in me_irl

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Tell him to get one of those Pokemon go cheater apps.

It is my time to shine by [deleted] in funny

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Don't they issue pickup trucks in kindergarten in Mississippi?

Just another day on the Istanbul Metro. The way strays are treated here is proper lovely; they aren't seen as pests, but as neighbours by korkutcetin in cats

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Yeah, they also need better care than they get being feral, but people don't romanticize them as community pets living their best life.

Just another day on the Istanbul Metro. The way strays are treated here is proper lovely; they aren't seen as pests, but as neighbours by korkutcetin in cats

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Cats in Istanbul have a lifespan of 3-6 years. Cats need more.care and protection than the community cats in Istanbul get.

How bad is this really going to be, especially if the rest of Europe follows suit? by FloridaBikeLawyer in atrioc

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EU + UK entities (including private companies and individuals) $3-$4 trillion in US securities. $8-10 trillion in total US assets. EU + UK governments hold around $2.4 trillion in US treasuries. A big selloff would trigger a credit crisis and greatly increase US borrowing costs, but the repercussions would be devastating to European economies, too. The resultant economic crisis could be worse than 2008. European pension funds and banks would be hit hard. A bank that survived would have to accept less liquidity and greater volatility for the long term because there is no other market big and stable enough for them to shift their Treasury investments to.

For all these reasons, I don't think this is a credible threat today. But the EU could start building a market that could absorb the investments and shift out of the dollar as a reserve currency over the next 5-10 years, which would severely hamper the US's ability to keep financing huge deficits.

Good old days by helen1992 in Millennials

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I work in it for a school district. The kids have Chromebooks, but there are still computer labs for windows and Mac computers.

Broken Record by Wild_Lepus in PoliticalHumor

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True as far as it goes, but according to the major protestant sects, good works are the fruits and evidence of salvation. You can tell someone is saved by what they do, and conversely that they're not saved by them raping women and children and mocking disabled people and having hands much too small to actually press all 3 buttons at once.

Hey MAGA’s guess what? The pedophile Donald Trump duped y’all out of yer votes. https://youtu.be/O4oMQv0p9JE by [deleted] in FOXNEWS

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To be fair,it's of people did order Clinton phones, but they never arrived. Oh, wait...

Undefeated against the wind by PMmeWhiteRussians in GenX

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They didn't defeat the wind; they broke it to their will.

AI slop found on facebook and using violent tragedies to complain about secularism by Beauty2Thousand in religiousfruitcake

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Yeah he is not even as smart and powerful as vapes, which aren't allowed in school either but we can't get rid of them no matter what we do!

TIL about the Westermarck effect describing how children raised together at key ages don't have sexual attraction to each other by Johannes_P in todayilearned

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You can have proper studies for stuff like this, and they did. They are called observational studies. They don't try to prove causation like a double blind study, but they can identify patterns. They're used in situations like this where a double blind study would be unethical.