That’s usually down to the scale of the outage. Knock out half a city and yeah, the news is interested and water gets supplied via alternatives (bottles, localized fill stations, etc); one pipe supplying a neighbourhood bursts due to slow ground movement over time, nobody but that neighbourhood cares… I’ve experienced both.

My current issues are because a very small native government is managing treatment in our area, the systems are in desperate need of updating, and there’s been a ton of expansion (new housing) added on, so they’re struggling to cope. (this has been very unusual in my experience)

I’ve also lived in a completely different country where the water was very well managed. I walked out my front door after loosing water pressure one day and there was a new fountain of water pouring out of the middle of the street because the main line running under it broke, creating a sink hole and introducing contaminants to the now open pipe.

Similar to a power outage; a whole city loses power and you get national news articles about it, 1 house loses power and even the smallest local news doesn’t really care as long as it’s fixed relatively quickly.

/edit: well would you look at that. Woke up this morning; no water pressure. Pipe burt in the apartment building beside us, they had to turn off water to the whole lot (which includes me) to fix it. We’re probably going to have to boil water for a day or so for extra caution.

It just means water quality in the area is below the normal standard, so residents are advised to boil their tap water before consumption for a short time (usually a few days, maybe a week).

It’s never possible to guarantee 100% uptime in any system (especially something as large as a city wide water supply, underground piping and all), there will always be failures/disruptions. You can plan for a lot, and make tons of redundancy, but eventually something WILL fail.

When it comes to water treatment, those failures/disruptions mean contamination and that means flushing as much as you can out and telling consumers within the affected area to boil their water for a short time. That can be anything from the various processes within the treatment system itself failing, to simple damage to supply piping introducing dirt and other contaminants, or even just planned maintenance/additions/upgrades.

Where I currently live it’s bit ridiculous how many times we’ve had such conditions, but I’ve also lived places for years and never had an issue. It happens everywhere eventually (as long as your government doesn’t suck and actually bothers to tell you about it), but you may never even notice.

Maybe you’ve been lucky enough to have never had such a disruption, maybe you didn’t notice the warnings/communications about it, maybe they just didn’t bother to tell you and hoped it wouldn’t be a noticeable issue.

It’s not just trace minerals in drinking water, but lead, mercury, chromium, micro plastics, and chemicals like chlorine, fluorine, and PFOA/PFOS.

All of these, zerowater filters are certified and tested to greatly reduce if not totally remove. I’ve noticed a significant improvement in taste, and the chemical testing I’ve personally done shows far better results than what I get from the tap. I highly recommend watching that ProjectFarm video I linked, and getting some testing kits for your own water.

My area is regularly on a boil-water notice because of poorly managed water treatment and damaged or changing piping during heavy development (at least 6 separate times in the last 5 years). We’re not currently on such a notice, but the water we receive still isnt great.

My sister is immunocompromised due to illness and the medications required to fight it. She can’t safely drink straight tap water, but this has been much much better for her.

I started with one of those for at least a decade and upgraded to a large dispenser jug in the fridge for like 4 years.

The small pitcher doesn’t hold enough water needing a refill pretty much every use (large water bottles, and several family members). Refilling means setting it in the sink, add water, wait long enough for it to filter the first batch, then add more and return it to the fridge. Takes too long.

The large dispenser jug was a PITA to take out, filter water into (using the top of the Brita pitcher in like 5 batches), then return to the fridge around twice a week, if not more. It’s heavy, that process takes a while, and you’ve gotta babysit it to add enough water and put it away to be chilled.

The countertop cooler filter is much more convenient. It holds ~5 gallons of filtered water and you can dump like 3.5-4 gallons into the top at a time. Takes like 1/5th the time to refill with no babysitting/waiting around to add more water.

The major upgrade there is the hot filteted water. It is SO nice being able to get boiling hot filtered water immediately. I really like hot chocolate, my sister drinks a ton of tea, and we all like instant cup-a-noodles. Never wait for a kettle, and cleaner water than the kettle.

A small countertop water cooler/dispenser with a refillable filter bottle on top. (if you have the floor space, a stand up cooler is usually more energy efficient tho)

Something like this:

With one of these on top: https://www.zerowater.com/products/filtered-water-cooler

Clean filtered water, both boiling hot and almost ice cold, on-demand. Filling water bottles, cups, making hot chocolate, tea, instant noodles, even just starting to boil a pot using pre-heated water, taking so much less time. I love this thing.

When it comes to filters:

Zerowaters products specifically come with a Total Disolved Solids meter measuring in parts-per-million.

I was previously using a Brita filter jug which poured into a second filter from Aquapur ontop of my cooler.

My Tap water: 143ppm

Brita filter: 139ppm

Brita+Second filter: 87ppm

Replaced both with a single zerowater filter: 0ppm

After pulling close to 30 gallons through that filter its risen to ~8ppm (they want you to replace it at >6)

Project farm testing water filters.

Have we actually heard anything directly from Iran about this, or just Trumps blabbering? Just because Trump said it doesn’t make it so.

Because he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.

Good. But also lol.

‘Thanks for all the help fucking up Gaza. No; we won’t return the favor’

Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

America claims its attacks are to stop ‘terrorists’, but it’s exactly those actions that are creating ‘terrorists’. And they’re fully justified in becoming ‘terrorists’ imo.

If I lived in Iran, I’d certainly want revenge for this.

(here I’m using the word terrorist to mean ‘enemy of America~s administration~’, as that’s what America has turned that word into)

Prior to this attack, as well as the bunker busters dropped last year: I do not believe Iran is/was creating nuclear weapons.

Since these two attacks however, I believe they’d be justified in seeking such weapons simply because America has proven over and over that no nation is safe without them.

In short; I don’t think they are/were, but I do think they should be in response. As much as I don’t like nuclear proliferation, I’m much much more against deliberately killing innocents, particularly children.

Perhaps I’d have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets; but they didn’t. They struck homes, schools, and other civilians.

America is truly a Terrorist State, if not just a lap dog of Israel’s genocidal regime.

You might just have to settle for a big flesh-coloured dildo and some nice photographs.

Pretty sure that’s their slogan.

“The board of peace: bored of peace”

Then go get you some dick. (or whatever’s your fancy)

You’re the one that asked for serious answers.

When you say ‘craving for a certain man’, is this still talking about cannibalism, or is this some sexual desire?

If it’s the former; you may be realizing a vegetarian diet is not for you… Go have some bacon, then see how you feel.

Anecdotal; but I spent 5ish years pirating via torrents from my home in Canada. Never once used a VPN and received an emailed copyright notice forwarded through my ISP about once every 3-5 days.

They never went further than that. The ISP isn’t permitted to give out my personal contact info short of a court order, and the copyright holder(s) can’t be bothered to pursue it further to get that info.

As long as you never reply to the notice; all they have is an IP, a time stamp, and a copy of the letter they sent to the ISP. They don’t know who I am to drag me to court; so first they’d have to sue the ISP for that info. Even then, tieing one specific individual to an entire IPs traffic is next to impossible. Was it the IPs subscriber? Another person in the household? A guest? Someone with unauthorised access? Too many variables/possibilities to prove ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in a court of law.

Now a days however I use usenet. $12/year for an indexer, and ~$5/month for access to a usenet provider/server. Fast reliable downloads that always complete within 5min. No more waiting on slow or seedless torrents that potentially take days before giving up and trying another. This is all done though an ssl connection to a private server, so there’s nothing to snoop/get reported for.

If you have a static IP address, you can just use A records for each subdomain you want to use and not really worry about it.

If you do not have a static IP address, you may want to use one single A record, usually your base domain (example.com), then CNAME records for each of your subdomains.

A CNAME record is used to point one name at another name, in this case your base domain. This way, when your IP address changes, you only have to change the one A record and all the CNAME records will point at that new IP as well.

Example:

A example.com 1.2.3.4

CNAME sub1.example.com example.com

CNAME sub2.example.com example.com

You’d then use a tool like ACME.sh to automatically update that single A record when your IP changes.

Back in my day, (shakes cane), Teamspeak and Ventrillo were the big voice chat platforms/tools. Both have text chat and channels/rooms; but their focus is voice chat for gaming.

Stuff like this is an interesting issue;

On the one side: if Youtube is ‘defiant’, refusing to block streams the Israelis have ordered them to block; Israel will just remove/block Youtube from the country entirely, so no one has access, worsening news outreach overall.

But on the other hand: when Youtube complies like this, they’re seen as stifling free speach/news and submissive to Israel.

Neither is a good choice, but there’s no winning options here.

I don’t really see this as surprising. Drones have been used in mass coordinated swarms for things like new years light displays for years.

It was only a matter of time that gets used as a weapon system/platform.

A swarm doesn’t give you much advantage over a single drone though. There’s more targets to shoot down, so perhaps there’s a better chance of getting one through drone defenses; but they also lose the stealth factor a single drone brings… Maybe a really wide surveillance view if you combine their camera feeds?

IDK, doesn’t really seem all that beneficial.

Fuck off TACO; we’re taking our business elsewhere