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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You'd be an asshole.
An asshole to whom exactly? A landlord?
Also this is a shower thought. What's with this moral crusade?
To the people their arbitrage would harm because it would result in the landlord ending the free water provision. If you abuse a good thing, even the most good-natured people eventually get fed up and stop providing it, to the detriment of those who used it fairly.
Think of it this way; 70% of the planet is water. Of that water only 2.5% is fresh water, 68% of that is held in glaciers. About 1% of the fresh water on earth is liquid.
That 1% is the absolute maximum quantity of what's used for drinking, and the steps between ground/reservoir water and the tap in your home involve MASSIVE quantities of electricity and effort to make it so it won't kill you.
What you're suggesting doing is turning the tap on and sending that fresh drinkable water right back into the sewer to generate a miniscule amount of power, since the average tap pressure at 1 bar means you'll be making sub 100W of power, hardly enough to power the big light in your kitchen if it's got more than two incandescent bulbs or spotlights, let alone a kettle or a microwave.
What aren't you understanding? The water is free to them
By this definition, let me guess, you also think the fine folks over at Nestle are assholes too?
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If we ever do make it to the riots stage, I hope we can all agree Nestle goes first.You are the one who isn't understanding but yeah, fuck Nestle!
Lol I understand it perfectly, I was joking
It's like they say: Comedy is hard.
I mean, to be fair, my writing may not have been funny to you, but it didn't leave any room for whether or not I understood.
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But water isn't a human right, that's the job of datacenters!You guys get nestle, meta is mine.
He'd be an asshole because he'd need loads of water he would waste
Droughts
Depends. If you're in a metropolitan city modern condo, there's a good chance water is provided for all by the condo corp. The condo corp pays the city and adjusts the yearly budgets accordingly, which are then used to determine condo fees. So indirectly every resident pays for the water.