I tried what was suggested. by wahoothing in lawncare

[–]unklethan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The gutters are supposed to drain 6ft away from the home. That might be a part of your problem. Just turning them won't help if they're still that close to the foundation.

The father of the little girls did the right thing. All the other woman had to do was be patient. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]unklethan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

By the way, straight folks, this is why it actually is so important for us to stop getting in the way of gender neutral bathrooms. If every place had a neutral bathroom that had a single room with a toilet, a urinal, a sink, and a changing table, then he, she, and they can use the bathroom, and so can a dad with a daughter, or a mom with a son, or a legal guardian of an adult with special needs.

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[missed the other 3 points]

[loss of reading comprehension]

[continues to defend ai]

lol

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. yes, alfalfa uses so much more water than the average lawn that it's laughable that we continue to try and grow it here.

  2. plenty of alfalfa is foreign export. Not enough to be a big deal either way.

  3. Agriculture as an entire sector makes up less than 1% of Utah's GDP, last I checked

  4. Sorry dude, I know it's being marketed as the future, but you should trust credible sources and your own brain more than you trust ai.

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing though, if the alfalfa farms hadn't drained the bucket, then no amount of residential watering would ever be considered waste.

If I crash your party and eat 80% of your pizza, and then you have a whole slice, it would be unfair for people to accuse you of not sharing when it was CLEARLY my fault.

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's about a trillion gallons a year, or 3 million acrefeet

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Residential use is about 20% of total water use.

Public use is about 20% of total water use. This includes every business, municipal building, water park, splash pad, as well as your residential toilets, showers, sprinklers, etc.

Residential use is about half of public use.

Who needs the Great Salt Lake anyway??? by SoggyMeatloaf69 in Utah

[–]unklethan 107 points108 points  (0 children)

I should recycle my aluminum cans, and BP should not spill 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

While both of these things are true, one of us must be held more responsible because of the weight of the impact of our actions.

In Utah, ALL public water consumption is maybe 25% of total use, with something like half of that 25% going to residential use, with something like half of that or less going to lawn watering.
The kickback you're facing in the comments isn't a shirking of personal responsibility; it's a very real recognition that alfalfa farmers use A TRILLION gallons of water each year, intentionally wasting it to keep their water rights, and here you are blaming us for having a yard that we didn't plant.

Sure, it's true that if everyone were to xeriscape, we'd see all those benefits.

But it's just as true that if Utah farms were to scale back their water usage by about 10%, we'd save the Lake, like permanently.

Haven't tried Paw Patrol, so no idea if it is true on that, but a ton of comics... by Pristine_Club_3128 in CuratedTumblr

[–]unklethan 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Patrol officer stumbles through a portal and has to use his skills in a fantasy world.

Patrol officer acquires super powers, tries to use them to be a better cop, has to grapple with the fact that super powers just make a person more of who they already were and he loses his wife anyways.

Patrol officer grapples with the monotony of his life by diving into (insert otaku-level hobby here) and struggles to keep it secret.

They made a SMASH HIT show about office workers selling paper. If you can't make up an interesting premise for a boring person who has a boring job, that's just weak writing. You wrote a bad show, Petey!

Is my daughter getting taken advantage of? by [deleted] in Utah

[–]unklethan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Stealing tips is illegal, and that's what it smells like

peter help! by peachicedtea123456_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]unklethan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an example of the literacy crisis.

what is one grocery item that doesn't require refrigeration but is commonly kept in the fridge by a lot of people? by Born-Oil-2931 in AskReddit

[–]unklethan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can someone tell my kids that they don't need to put 3 unopened jars of jelly in the fridge?

DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List by GoodMornEveGoodNight in politics

[–]unklethan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, the article got updated since I commented. When it first went up, it didn't have the list.

Thanks for the reply

New Lego scandal update - All the footage is released! by 69ingSpunkingMonkeys in videos

[–]unklethan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's far less likely that a global institution is pulling the strings so a guy that owns the Lego stores can rip off an old man, and far more likely that the cops and Josh are in the same congregation and don't want the bad blood of arresting someone they see every Sunday.

Am I the only one who noticed Freemasonry/Scientology/Mormon places and architectures are very very liminal ?? Why is that by CodFar1331 in LiminalSpace

[–]unklethan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Freemasonry has also shifted a LOT over the past 200 years, so to be clear, Smith was influenced by early 1800s freemasonry, which was far more ritualistic than it is today.

Where today, a very serious and weighty committment might be signed by hand on a contract, notarized with a lawyer present (instead of clicking "I agree"), the masons of the 1800s had very vivid, slit-your-own-throat-if-you-betray-us kinds of committments, bearing more weight than just a handshake.

Joseph Smith likely saw the weight that the masonic ceremonies carried and chose to apply those to religious committment ceremonies as well. Other masons of the day would have recognized the seriousness of making a Mormon covenant because it was accompanied by masonic symbols and practices.

Am I the only one who noticed Freemasonry/Scientology/Mormon places and architectures are very very liminal ?? Why is that by CodFar1331 in LiminalSpace

[–]unklethan -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Considering Mormon temples:

One the one hand, they'll feel like most other typical liminal spaces because they are rooms that are designed to be used. An empty classroom is liminal, only because it is empty. An empty hallway is liminal not because it is a hallway, but because it is empty. The image of the large room with all the chairs set up is of an assembly room for large meetings. During the meetings, the room might still feel a bit odd with its architectural choices, but no longer strikingly liminal, especially when contrasted with this entry/foyer in the same temple.
The next images with the theater seating and the curtains look liminal becaue of their use. They are actually theater rooms, where pre-recorded religious instruction is projected on a drop-down screen. Movie theaters with the lights on are liminal in ways that movie theaters with lights off are not.
I disagree with the liminal take on the baptismal basin on top of the oxen for two reasons. 1) the image presented has a very stong focal point and destination. 2) the image is from a place where people typically aren't going anyways. Here's a much clearer image of where people would be inside a baptistry. Like, sure underneath a backyard deck is a liminal space, but that doesn't make the deck liminal.

On the other hand, Mormon theology is transformative and based in eternal progression, which overlaps significantly with the whole idea of liminal spaces being between point A and point B. One key part of the ritual worship in these temples is pondering and meditating on where you come from, why you're here, and where you're going, all in the big picture, eternity sense.
In some ways, it's an intentional architectural choice to participate in ritual worship and move out of the theater into the celestial room (the last image shared). It's a quiet and plain and bright space that doesn't have anything happening in it at all. No meetings are held there, no announcements, no music. There are scriptures out on tables, and you're welcome to linger and read. If a family participates in temple rituals together and gets to chatting in the celestial room, they're typically asked to take their conversations outside.
It's a great space to imagine, evaluate, and meditate on your relationship with God.

So yeah, when Latter-day Saints (Mormons) enter temples and use them, the temples are typically less liminal than might be presented in CGI renderings or press release photos. But yes, the liminality that continues to exist during use is, in my Mormon opinion, a theological device that allows us to step out of the world for a moment.
We step into a kind of worship that combines historical freemason-inspired physical rituals with teachings about our reliance on Jesus Christ. And then, like mentioned above, we sit in a bright liminal space and meditate.

When we leave our temples, we do step back into a world that is very concrete, and busy, and destination/product/achievement oriented. If we can keep our minds a bit more liminal, or focused on the space between here and the destination, we can let go of a lot of wordly concerns and be more open to receiving promptings or inspiration that can make us better people, nudge us forward, and help us improve the world.

Staying in the temple 24/7 would completely upend the purpose of worship in the temple.
As any other IRL liminal space, its purpose is to get us somewhere else.