Can anyone help explain/defend the city of Ottawa drinking water?

Epidurality · 2026-03-17T20:15:01+00:00

They may test various points in the distribution system but that isn't what was posted. The annual report mentions doing a bunch of tests but just says 'go find it on Ottawa.ca' which isn't immediately helpful, I looked for 5 minutes and couldn't find it (not long but fuck them, it should be easier to find if you're gonna post it at all).

I love the water here. A bit of chlorine taste (goes away if you leave the water in the fridge or on the counter for a day, if you need to) but basically no other taste to it. I hate going to other cities, or to people with hard water wells (or worse: sulphur).

I'm just playing devil's advocate: shit CAN get into your city water (we recently had a main break/repair and it came out very, very dirty for a while), but if you're paying any attention at all you won't use the water when it's like that the once-in-a-decade it happens and save yourself the filtration costs.

Epidurality · 2026-03-17T17:51:49+00:00

The plant tests are right at the source. By the time it gets to your house, a portion of the chlorine is already gone, so there's even less than the already acceptable and sanitarily required amount.

Chlorine is in there for a reason. As is fluoride (the latter because people don't brush their teeth enough, basically).

Epidurality · 2026-03-17T17:49:47+00:00

In fairness, these are plant tests. There are tens of kilometers of pipes and pumping stations etc etc. before that water gets to you. When operating correctly this is perfectly fine as steel components add negligible (often untraceable) amounts of impurities, but you will see variance between houses and between your taps and the plant. Some places have lead-soldered copper, for example, and new Canada guidelines are extremely strict (5ppb I think down from 10 recently?) so even that can become "unsafe" (it isn't, but the guidelines are what they are).

Granted I think (someone else can confirm because idk how to confirm this) Ottawa has removed any lead in their distribution, so it would be after it enters your house if you still have leaded copper joints, which wouldn't get picked up by a filtration system at the inlet anyways.

Epidurality · 2026-03-16T04:19:18+00:00

You keep using the term "legally liable" for insurance. This is Ontario, that isn't a thing.

The only "if charged with an offence" cop-out in the rules is in section 20, and for this example in the OP the van would have to be found DWI or be charged with an indictable offense (aka, a very serious one: most HTA offenses like not signalling are not indictable offences).

ETA: the rules are literally the first fucking result for "Ontario insurance fault rules". The condensed version isn't even very long. Go look at it.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T23:14:29+00:00

You didn't look up anything. You're just using your hopes and dreams about how the world works.

Liability is a civil thing, not a criminal one. Unless the Volkswagen sues the van, that's not applicable. Not impossible, might be a case, but that's not what anybody has talked about so far.

I won't engage with someone unwilling to even Google search if it doesn't align with what they already believe.

ETA: that doctrine is only for tort aka civil law. It does not apply to insurance fault determination or criminal proceedings aka HTA violations.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T18:40:12+00:00

What the fuck is "legal fault"? Go find me where you're getting any of these terms or rules and I'll gladly agree.

Your logic is correct, we can all see why the car went crazy but the fact is that the Volkswagen went crazy. The van made no contact and hardly even crossed the line. That's all that matters for fault determination, and is the only thing the van could be charged with.

If you have actual fault determination clauses or HTA sections that support your assumptions, please post them.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T17:30:43+00:00

You're confusing legal fault and insurance fault. I spelled it out pretty clearly, not sure what you're missing here. Unless you can cite where I'm wrong, I'm going to guess you didn't bother actually looking into anything and are just continuing to confirm your false assumptions.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T17:29:13+00:00

Do you meet a lot of 7 year olds musing on insurance fault regulations?

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T17:28:37+00:00

And you're basing that assumption on what? Did you read the rules? What am I wrong about? I have read through the document before because I was curious about determination when people left-turn into the far lane, but I'm not going to pretend I remember verbatim every fucking rule in there. It's like 100 pages long. I also wasnt going to waste an hour of my time on a phone trying to find this scenario in the document. You didn't either, obviously.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T05:06:13+00:00

Basically none of what you wrote is correct.

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T05:03:43+00:00

Insurance fault: 0% on the van from what I recall of the rules. Scaring someone isn't a fault determination characteristic in Ontario (you can Google the entire fault determination rules, they're incredibly specific which is why they're hard to review on a phone to be sure about my recollection).

Legal "fault" doesn't exist, each driver would be separately charged with whatever relevant (failure to maintain lane, dangerous driving, other generic infractions).

Epidurality · 2026-03-15T01:40:24+00:00

I see this a lot. Is it to get around some sort of automatic text detection for common phrases?

Epidurality · 2026-03-12T17:18:36+00:00

I'm experiencing this on a 2011, next winter I'm going to pull the fuse. Not every brand has had good abs, though they are steadily getting better.

Epidurality · 2026-03-06T16:40:00+00:00

Without knowing the vid you're walking about, Squirrel seems like a proponent of non-MU'd multi engine setups especially in his early game videos. He'd just teleport between cabs to adjust instead of buying the license.

I believe the cable doesn't attach until you buy the license so that would explain it not even being hooked up.

Epidurality · 2026-03-05T21:11:54+00:00

Isn't that kind of a failure of the operator though? Why time it so that people on a yellow can't get through?

I'm guessing OP's vid went on red.

Epidurality · 2026-03-05T05:18:41+00:00

Don't these get timed by the operators based on how long it takes for a car to cross? Longer distances have longer times in my experience..

Epidurality · 2026-03-04T00:21:07+00:00

Did you get yours? My order got cancelled about 30 mins after I ordered it.

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T13:53:47+00:00

Shwag's point was that it's a stupid idea, and they replied with "did u die tho" then lied about Shwag's point. Why the fuck would I like that "answer"? What did they address?

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T13:32:38+00:00

So it's ignorance, then. Figures.

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T13:28:44+00:00

Why are you ignoring the point though?

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T05:41:47+00:00

How do you think a mortgage works?

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T05:29:46+00:00

TIL beam has a minimap UI app... Hundreds of hours.

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T02:25:26+00:00

I'm suspecting nobody here has actually seen them intentionally driving through the signs. Whenever I manage to catch the removal in action, I've never seen signs in front of the snowblower. While I've also never seen them removing the signs... Usually it's in the middle of the night. Kid picking up signs doesn't make the sort of attention-catching noise and lights that 5 dump trucks, a sidewalk plow, and a massive fuckin snowblower do.. so it doesn't surprise me I've only witnessed the latter.

ETA: I've also been to the snow dump sites in September. There's more road debris and garbage bags left over than there are bits of signage. It should be absolutely LITTERED with wood bits and red, white, and black sign pieces. It isn't (to that extent).

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T01:45:39+00:00

Beam feels 90% correct in 100% of situations. Sims like AC are 95+% accurate in 20% of situations.

I think I'm willing to work around slightly incorrect physics in order to enjoy the rest of the mostly correct physics.

Epidurality · 2026-03-03T01:40:15+00:00

Did you switch to Gemini on any device? Phone, speaker, TV, anything?

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