• gigachad@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    I could never move to a region where tap water is not drinkable. F to all my hydrohomies that can’t enjoy tap water.

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    3 days ago

    Tapwater isn’t free. It’s cheap though. But it is just hard to believe that even in first world countries there are places where tapwater isn’t high quality drinkable water. I went to Cambodia, where tapwater isn’t really safe to drink. Sure, I can understand that. But a friend of mine lives in a large city in the US and the tap water contains high levels of arsenic and lead. Like, wtf dude!

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        3 days ago

        Is that why people vote to have their tax money sent to the rich instead of having these things fixed? Why, just why. Idiocracy was meant as a comedy, not a manual. The food in the US really makes everyone extremily dumb. “Safe drinking water, or a mentally challenged billionaire playing with rockets. Hard choice. Let’s go with billionaire for now because his rockets are shiny.” “We need health care, better schools, there’s extreme poverty, inflation is making it hard on us, what should we do? Let’s vote on the guy who promices to destabilize society, deport our workers, destroy our friendships, block the economy, tax the poor, support the rich. Yeah, that’s the smart choice! 'Murica yeehaw!”

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    3 days ago

    I have a well and a reverse osmosis system, and the water is amazing. I’ve never had water that tastes so good.

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      3 days ago

      If you’re only drinking RO water, you also have to make sure you drink an equal amount of beer to remineralize your bones. It’s for health.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        Bro, I live in a tiny little middle of nowhere town that happens to have some of the best tap water I’ve ever had. I feel very lucky coming from Orlando where if I filled up my bathtub, there was so much chlorine it was like sky blue.

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            23 hours ago

            Unless the ground nearby contains some off tasting minerals. Friend’s dad had a well on his property but there was some kind of sulphur deposit in the ground or something because it made the tap water stink and taste bad. Like farty water. You had to boil it to get rid of the flavour.