(politics)...well..i guess...its really more of a now what the fuck is he on about

"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
08/13/2020 at 05:28 • Filed to: None

i remember when cell phones were that big

now..first off going by the header pic and the comment with it i’d say even the bbc is taking the piss out of ole donny showerhead now

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but really? moar water pressure for the shower is a priority now?

i mean...i guess timing wise its perfect as we are all heading for water shortages anyway....and who doesnt love a power shower...

still...seems like there might be more important shit to worry about

DISCUSSION (45)

Sovande > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 05:42

He has a weird fetish with plumbing. He thinks toilets have to be flushed a lot too. Weird guy.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 05:51

The problem with capitalism is that it can not coexist effectively with efficiency in a situation where the rich want to get richer...

The current PoTUS knows this...and his mates depend on it. Like a lot of other world leaders...

pip bip - choose Corrour > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 05:53

fingers crossed in a few months he’ll be gone

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 05:53

Don’t you know? Conservation is lib shit

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
08/13/2020 at 05:56

there is that...still all seems very short sighted...but what do i know...im just a poor

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/13/2020 at 05:57

i wont be holding my breath....but heres to hoping i guess

PyramidHat > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:02

Aye, but remember ours is the society where businesses would rather make $5 in one quarter instead of $6 in two quarters. (Credit: someone else who thought of that metaphor)

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:10

Being poor is where these dills want you to be...the problem will come when you and the rest of us can't afford what it is that makes them rich. Efficiency makes that happen faster and I call that a win

vondon302 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:30

If he wins again, the US is doomed.

Time to sell off everything and run if that happens.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > vondon302
08/13/2020 at 06:33

welp..i’d like to say he wont...but i remember that optimism from last time...and here we are

*shrugs* i’ll wait and see...nothing i can do about it in any event

SiennaMan > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:34

I’d say two things with this. First, “Nero fiddled as Rom e burned.” Second, he is only really willing to do those things that fit with his professed ideology or that make him personally feel good. A robust federal intervention to try to get a handle on the pandemic in the US is forbidden for “real Republicans” these days. Also, that’d require real work on his part and he’s not going to put in any effort unless it makes his base praise him or it makes the rest of America angry. (he prefers that everybody is either angry or scared, depending on whether you support him or not).

Also, the only thing he knows to do to “get the economy going like a rocket ship” is to end federal regulations. There is probably a federal reg from 15-30 years ago that requires low flow bathroom fixtures to conserve water. I don’t see how ending that regulation does anything other than for him to go to the people he wants to be scared and say “see? I’m ending regulations that were oppressing you!”

I’m afraid it’s only going to get weirder the closer we get to November..

vondon302 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:36

Too true.

So what’s the Visa requirement for the Netherlands again...

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > vondon302
08/13/2020 at 06:45

from outside of europe?...i think you’d need a job guarantee, have family ties..or lots of money

tho way things is going.....might could apply as a refugee?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SiennaMan
08/13/2020 at 06:46

part of me is wondering just how much fucking wierder things can get

part of me doesnt want to find out

SiennaMan > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:53

Let's put it this way, some eternal optimists have suggested that Trump might just resign if he sees he's going to lose big. It will be a huge relief if at some point in the next several months Mike Pence is sworn in as President..

My bird IS the word > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:56

I'm sorry, but why should i give a shit that the man has an opinion on shower heads? Why is this news?

vondon302 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 06:57

Lol well I'm close to Canada at least.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SiennaMan
08/13/2020 at 06:57

i dont really see that happening.. im much more inclined to go with several months of temper tantrum and accusations of voter fraud and argleblargle...and thats assuming he loses...

buuuuut theres a pretty decent chance my political predictions are just as always wrong as my f1 predictions

so hey theres hope :)

SiennaMan > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 07:15

I highly doubt it'll happen either. My hope is that we get several months of what you described. My concern at this point is that he'll take a more active interest in gutting the federal government as opposed to the current haphazard approach of only attacking those agencies that present a threat to his beliefs being accepted..

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > My bird IS the word
08/13/2020 at 07:45

excellent question

beats me

but it did catch my attention in a what the fuck now kind of way

BigBlock440 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 07:54

We don’t have a water shortage though, there’s never been a water shortage. Localized places, like deserts, yes. Anywhere that it literally rains water? No shortage outside the infrequent drought. There are states taxing the amount of runoff you allow, because there’s too much water.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > SiennaMan
08/13/2020 at 08:00

Trump can’t resign, the only thing keeping him out of jail right now is that he is president. He’s going to cling to that for dear life. If he loses he is going to try and question the results and refuse to leave. It’s going to be a shit show.

facw > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/13/2020 at 08:02

538 just released their projections and give him a ~30% chance of being reelected. That’s way too high! If it happens, I might seriously look at emigrating, as I do not want to be stuck in a country that’s dumb enough to reelect the man after seeing him in action for four years.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 08:03

may have been projecting a little there... over on this end of the pond we are starting to worry about water shortages (wich is bloody wierd for the netherlands) far as im aware it is expected to become a global issue tho...

eventually

Just Jeepin' > facw
08/13/2020 at 08:07

It’s depressing enough being in a country that elected him once. Worst election night ever.

facw > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 08:12

He’s got this thing where he hasn’t learned much for decades. So he complains about low gpf toilets and low flow shower heads even though better designs have meant that it’s really a non issue (and for the few people who care, pulling the little green restrictor ring is easy). I mean the Seinfeld episode aired in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shower_Head (which strikes me as the tail end of that particular panic, wikipedia says the episode idea was from 1991 which is more in keeping with when I saw people freaking out)

That said, instead of worrying about water usage for various fixtures, I say just charge rates based on the overall usage you want, and add a tax to be used to evenly distribute a subsidy, so that you have a progressive system where heavy users subsidize more economical ones.

facw > Just Jeepin'
08/13/2020 at 08:20

I was left with a hollow feeling and a profound sense of disappointment since I thought my country was better than that. Mix in some real worries about what would happen if he actually killed Obamacare and got rid of the restrictions on denying coverage for preexisting conditions and lif etime benefit caps which would cause me great harm.

But I can accept that people make mistakes, and can be frustrated by lack of progress on the issues they care about. However, Trump has done nearly nothing of what he claimed he’d do, and it really should be clear to anyone watching even a little bit that he’s a incompetent bigoted conman, so it will be so much worse if he gets reelected.

Just Jeepin' > facw
08/13/2020 at 08:37

Apparently the evangelicals have sold their soul for the move of the embassy to Jerusalem and the ongoing flood of conservative judges.

SiennaMan > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/13/2020 at 09:28

Sadly, this is more along the lines of what I expect too..

BigBlock440 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 10:04

Interesting, a quick google to see what problems you might be having and I only found articles about a drought in 2018, nothing more recent. It’s like an information desert. But either way, low-flows will still be available, and probably still the majority, and higher flow ones (if any get developed) wouldn’t be available to you anyway. They’d probably still be illegal in California too. My wife will love it though, she constantly complains about not having enough water to wash her hair out.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > SiennaMan
08/13/2020 at 10:35

He’s not going to resign if he looses, hes just going to whine about made up voter fraud and fight it until he is forcibly made to leave by the other branches of government. Then he will go to Fox news and make a huge stink about how the democrats were out of line to remove him from the white house and how they rigged the election and how he would have gotten to the bottom of it and fixed everything if he had more time in the white house . We’ve got at least another year of him spouting nonsense in the news cycle regardless of if we as a country come to our senses and vote him out or not.

onlytwowheels > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 10:40

Those of us who live on well water know there is a water shortage. I have seen the water level in my well drop so low that the water trickled from the faucet and the aerat ors on the f aucets clogged with sediment. Many in the area have had to have new wells drilled or re- fracked.

This is in Maine, where water is considered one of our greatest natural resources, and I li ve in the lakes region, not a desert at all.

For Sweden > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 11:16

You need a Commando 450

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 11:33

no major problems here yet...but persistently too dry for a couple years now (and when it does rain...it tends to drop a months worth in a couple of hours...wich doesnt do much for ground water levels but does cause flooding..lol)

Kinja'd!!!

thats how much rain were short off so far this year in mm

Grindintosecond > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 11:50

Concepts in play for water shortages is looking at where does all the excess water go? How much is usable and not contanimated for consumption/planting, etc. It takes 10 gallons of water for every pound of beef the cattle produce, and where is that beef sold to? Consider how much beef Japan and Asia buy from America. So in essence, we are using the water and selling the product out of country, which is actually using that water for another country. The sheer volume of water csome commercial farming uses is diverted from the sources upstream and downstream other farmers complain, cities complain, everyone else complains becuase they are using much more and more water than before. The shortage could easily be attributed to greed and corporate farming in some locales. Now add the average temperatures rising, and we can see evaporation in some areas far above normal for long periods. Also, far more agressive storms mean lots of rain, but in volumes that cant be controlled, therefore flooding and loss of usable water. If not damage meaning more water needed to recover the crops. etc. etc. etc.

Point is, there are many more pictures behind the big picture to consider,and many of those also have big stories behind them that arent easily seen.

DipodomysDeserti > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 11:54

I’m in an environmental resource management MS program with a focus on water management, and you are wrong. Deserts are not the only places experiencing reduced precipitation.

Extreme rainfall events have also increased, which can reduce groundwater recharge through soil erosion and other processes. In the US, we’ve also permanently polluted quite a bit of groundwater. Phoenix lies on top of a huge aquifer, but our groundwater was polluted by Motorola. The plum e is so large that it will never be fully cleaned up.

Mercedes Streeter > BigBlock440
08/13/2020 at 12:17

Kinja'd!!!

On one hand, you aren’t wrong. Lake water levels in my area keep rising. Lake Michigan continues its relentless torture of the shorelines with its own rising waters.

But not everyone gets their water from the lake . Groundwater levels are so dangerously low and so many are pumping water in my area (and really, the entire northern part of the state ) that wells are drying up. In other words, the water is disappearing quicker than it can be replenished. It’s definitely a good time to be in a well drilling business as older residences lose their water supplies.

Some local municipalities have enacted water conservation ordinances to slow the damage but it is ultimately irreversible. There’s just too much water going out and too little going back in.

And of course, the further you get from Lake Michigan, the more prohibitively expensive it is to bring its water to your community.

fintail > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 12:42

It’s a good distraction from his other failures, both personal and professional.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti
08/13/2020 at 20:01

That’s all a hoax.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SiennaMan
08/13/2020 at 20:05

One of the primary reasons that more people in the US do not wear masks is Donald Trump’s vanity : he thinks that wearing a mask makes you look wimpy. Further, asking people to wear them would make his base whine, and again, vanity , because only Mr. Trump is allowed to whine, except that when he does it, that’s not whining because reasons.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
08/13/2020 at 20:06

No, he will start Trump TV and his base will subscribe, maybe, initially...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/13/2020 at 20:07

I think there’s also a possibility that once he becomes dethroned, his base will drop him like a hot potato, crying, We never knew him!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/13/2020 at 20:12

He certainly may act like that’s what he’s going to do. But as with many other things, what he acts like he’s going to do and what he actually does are not always the same thing.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/14/2020 at 04:18

wir haben es nicht gewußt

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/14/2020 at 07:49

Eh...I think he actually does what he acts like he's doing. Now what he says he's doing, that is a crap shoot whether he actually does it or not.