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  1. That'll get all the larger particulates out.
    The smaller stuff? Probably not.

    And the cost of regular filter replacement drives the costs up.

  2. You're only seeing the macro level stuff.
    The other stuff in there makes that water VERY unhealthy to drink.

  3. You don't seem to understand. Ambient air is DIRTY.
    The cost of regular filter replacement ALONE will drive the price point of the water up beyond the requisite level.

  4. The problem is, water by dehumidifier is expensive, power-wise and doesn't really produce drinkable water.
    Open up a dehumidifier sometime. Look at all the crap built up in there.
    That's all particulate matter falling out of the air during the dehumidification process.

    You REALLY don't wanna drink that stuff.

  5. Brexit elections? on Trolls Are Still Actively Trying to Influence Brexit and US Elections (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh. That happened a while ago now...
    The elections are over, despite the remoaners bitching about how they want to continue voting until they get their way...

  6. Thanks Microsoft.

    Breaking shit and blowing stuff up...

  7. Re:STFU and give us an engineering solution. on Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    But the second you bring up this particular "n-word", people start screeching and spewing bullshit left, right and center.

    Too expensive! If it reduces our carbon output by all the coal, oil and natural gas in the world, WHO CARES?
    They cite safety record. Again, how many people have died due to nuclear in the history of nuclear POWER? Not nuclear WEAPONS.
    How many have died with coal, oil and gas?
    Also, these idiots think we're going to keep building reactors with tech from the 50's.

    But these half-wits can't get beyond "Nukez eekwalz BOMZ!!!!!1111111ELEVENTY!!!"

  8. STFU and give us an engineering solution. on Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say (weather.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously.

    Number: WAH! All gonna die!

    Dumber: WAH! All gonna die!

    DON'T GIVE A SHIT!

    Figure out an engineered solution.
    Not a gamed solution.
    Not a political solution.
    Not a social solution.
    AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION.

    Until then, I don't give a shit.

    I refuse to go back to digging up grubs and eating grass while shivering in a cave.

  9. Is UBI enslavement? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    In a word.

    YES!

  10. Re:NO WE DO NOT! on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
  11. Re:NO WE DO NOT! on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I call BS.

    Gender studies most definitely does NOT make your job easier.
    Perhaps, at one point, maybe? But now, it's a divisive boil on the collective ass of sociology.

    When I'm at my job, I'm there to DO my job. Not coddle someone who thinks they can teach me to be a "good ally" to "oppressed women".
    As with every other communist ideology, they never tell the "ally" that YES, THEY get the bullet TOO!

  12. Re:NO WE DO NOT! on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Bingo!

    I'm not saying there's NO place for people with Humanities degrees in tech.
    Because there ARE.

    However, the need for "more" is a HUGE over-simplification, and usually code-speak for "Inclusion, Equity & Diversity" people who "find" racism, sexism, etc-ism to justify their job and gerrymander how a company operates.

    People in tech have better things to do than figure out the nicest way to lie and weasel-word their way around telling someone their code, device, or performance is shit. Sometimes you just need to be blunt.

    Plus, we all know what the other use of "IED" is. And Inclusion, Equity & Diversity "professionals" are bad for mostly the same reasons.

  13. Re:NO WE DO NOT! on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You assume I'm not the boss.

  14. Re:The humanities isn't just gender studies on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But it does help cut down on that sort of thing.

    It'll never eliminated it. But that's because the power of stupidity for large numbers of people is nigh-infinite.

  15. Re: The humanities isn't just gender studies on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    London's Goldsmith's University has a group of LGBTQ students who essentially claimed that gualgs were a "compassionate", non-violent course of action.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

    Maybe compared to putting them up against a wall and SHOOTING them. Sure.
    But on the compassion scale with 0 being "shoot them", a gulag was maybe a 0.001.

  16. NO WE DO NOT! on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The very last thing Tech needs more of are gender studies majors.

    Please stop trying to get intersectional loon-bags jobs where they can tell people what sexist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, blahblahblahblahblah pieces of shit they are and demanding they lower hiring standards to achieve a non-existent "perfect balance" of races, sexes and flat-out leftist-only ideology.

  17. Finally on Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds (gijsk.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Getting back to being a WEB BROWSER, rather than a shitty swiss-army-knife of pointless non-browser-related "features".

  18. There are other ways to more drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions .

    Why is every "solution" being presented the equivalent of "Go shiver in a cave and eat grass!"?

  19. No. It's a comment on the "Cap and Trade" and "carbon credits" scams.
    It relies on honest self-reporting an what is, effectively a Ponzi scheme to help control our climate and pollution.

    No government is going to actually, honestly report for Cap and Trade. It'll be gamed.
    And carbon credits are bunk, first to last.

  20. Humans: ANYTHING THAT MOVES! on Humans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Epidemics (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans are, collectively, Captain Jack Harkness!

  21. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just the SCOTUS position.

    If this crap had been found credible, it wouldn't have stopped there.

    He'd have been open to having his appeals court bench revoked as well.

    Once that happened, he probably would never sit on a bench again.

    Basically rendering him jobless.

  22. Re:More accurately - A **few** FB employees outrag on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. This counts as a "BOO-FUCKIN'-HOO" moment.

  23. Re:I can't eat the stuff on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No. That's the water. Too much sulfur in it.
    But, essentially, same effect. You become The Mighty Colon Blow.

  24. I can't eat the stuff on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It basically starts killing my gut bacteria.

    And as anyone who has taken extensive antibiotic regimens can tell you.
    Killing off your gut flora transforms you into ASS CANNON MAN!

  25. "Greenhouse gasses add heat energy" on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Cue the Kevin Spacey Lex Luthor.

    Wrong!

    By themselves, greenhouse gasses add NOTHING.

    What greenhouse gasses do is TRAP heat.