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Cake day: April 8th, 2022

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  • Wastewater analysis is a real thing and is very useful. People were using it to track covid after the pandemic although idk how accurate it was there.

    The privacy concern here is only if they are getting per-household or per-toilette data. You don’t have to worry about per-household analysis ever happening unless your sewer system is somehow privatized, in which case, lol rip.

    Smart toilets exist and definitely are a massive privacy concern. But they haven’t caught on because only rich weirdos would ever want their toilet to be an iot device.




  • Originally it was a label Trotskyites used to criticize Stalinists (aka ML’s). A bit of inter-communist sectarianism. The specific line was something like “they support where ever the soviet tanks roll”. Specifically it came from the suppression of the Hungarian revolts. But it more broadly meant having uncritical support for the USSR and everything it does.

    But now we’re 30+ years after the fall of the USSR, so its definition has spiraled into any westerner who opposes western imperialism. For example: an anarchist might use it to criticize an ML outright cheering Russian victories in Ukraine. In turn, a liberal will use it to criticize the same anarchist for opposing NATO.










  • There’s a lot of pipeline between the filter at the plant and your home which is where something like lead contamination would happen. However from wiki,

    When filtering water, charcoal carbon filters are most effective at removing chlorine, particles such as sediment, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), taste and odor. They are not effective at removing minerals, salts, and dissolved inorganic substances.

    And The EPA, make it sound like Carbon filtering is not an effective solution to PFAS contamination at an industrial scale. So I doubt your Brita pitcher is going to do better.