Billiam @ billiam0202 @lemmy.world

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I don't know, but if I had to guess like everything else it comes down to money. It's energy intensive to desalinate seawater to the degree it's drinkable, and now we're talking about adding even more energy to refine it even further to make it suitable for human consumption. That makes any recovered salt expensive compared to natural salt deposits. Much easier (read: cheaper) to just scrape salt deposits that have already evaporated.

The problem with desalination is that there's a super-concentrated salt sludge that needs to be discarded after the process. Dumping that back into the ocean creates excess salinity which fucks up the ecosystem in the immediate area.

Not saying that desalination isn't a good idea, just that there's more to think about than "put seawater in, get tap water out".

Bluesky is still running on VC cash. We haven't seen how they plan on monetizing it yet, but if anything that is where their major fuckup will happen.

Over 45,000 Afghan civilians died from 2001-2021, but that’s not a massacre, just collateral damage.

But that’s over twenty years, of course that’s not a massacre, plus they’re, you know, foreign. Now if 45,000 Americans died in one year, well, that would be different. Except they do, but because they lack insurance coverage. So, you know, that’s their fault for dying of preventable illnesses on account of being poor. That’s not a massacre, just good business.

And when Israel kills that many Palestinians in one year, college kids get arrested for protesting it while Congress jacks off while rubberstamping another $10 billion of arms sales to Bibi.

What do you mean "trying"?

If they look at the water fountain, then the toilet, and then they choose the toilet, well maybe they’re not able to be helped.

But sticking with this analogy, imagine you see someone hanging a sign saying "water fountain" over a toilet, and you're told you have to leave it there because of "respectful dissent" and "if someone chooses the toilet, they're not able to be helped." Which makes more logical sense- telling every single passerby that despite the sign this toilet is in fact not a water fountain, or just taking the sign down and dealing with the few people who do question it?

Like, I get that heavy-handed opinionated overmoderation is a problem that should be addressed in some way. Forcing mods to blanket accept factual falsehoods isn't the way to go about it.

Surely this means the party of law and order won't support him, right?

Right?

...right?

The only way Trump whines about this for just six months is if he dies in six months.

The bad news in a good way. Yes, I can do that. The bad news in a good way. Well, here it goes...

Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we're kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.

If they think their editors should be ignoring all that, then what the fuck should they be doing?

Hey, they didn't vote for the white woman either!

HE SAID HE WAS GONNA

This smells exactly like one of Trump's "successful businessman from the 80's" power plays- someone won't do what you want willingly, so you publicly announce they're going to do it anyway to shame them into it so they don't lose face. It's not the first time he's done this and Gates is probably one of the last very public billionaires who hasn't fellated Trump yet.

Don't lie to us. We know better.

• Poster who believes the "progressive left" has had enough federal power to change anything in the last 40 years.

Since you missed it the first time, let me rephrase what I said:

If we're all going to get the shit that Trump supporters deserve since they won the election, then I'm going to enjoy all the schadenfreude of watching them suffer getting exactly what the voted for. America is not great. Trump and Musk's administration won't make it great. But I'm going to enjoy their voters realizing that fact every day for the however it takes to get that fat orange fascist and his illegal-immigrant financier out of power.

It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy the faces being eaten by these leopards,

Not for me.

This is what they voted for three fucking times. If I have to get what they deserve, then I'm damned well going to enjoy watching them get it too.

"America will be a Law and Order country!" says convicted criminal President.

People are free to believe whatever they want. However, the second those beliefs are shown to be factually incorrect, and those people refuse to acknowledge that, then we absolutely can and should criticize them.

• You want to believe in Bigfoot? If the thought of a wild cryptid makes you happy, fucking go for it.
• You want to believe the earth is flat and there's some global (lol) conspiracy to prevent people from finding out the truth? Here's a bunch of videos and articles on why that's wrong. Oh, you still believe it? Get the fuck out of here.

Americans spent a record $41 billion over Black Friday weekend. People don't have that much money to spend when the economy truly is shit. The real egregious part of it all was corporations using COVID to gouge consumers even long after the supply-chain issues had been resolved, and the most dysfunctional Congress in US history refusing to do anything about it.

"The economy!"

-People who spent $41 billion three weeks later.

they elected Biden and right-wing news told them for four years their material conditions worsened and ignored that 1) cleaning up Trump's COVID mess left America in a much better spot than every other developed country and 2) how they felt about the economy and the facts about the economy didn't match.