Farvana

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[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The content's gone

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago (6 children)

He doesn't have a dog. He didn't choose to pick up poop.

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can someone ban this homophobe already?

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you swapping between like 5 pairs? As my single pair of shoes, Vans lasted me 5 months when I stopped wearing them 8 years ago. Docs barely made it past a year.

I got Irish Setters for work and am taking proper care of them, and I'm thinking they'll make it to three years.

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 week ago

The Dollop is somewhat better

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The limit wasn't set at "definitely get poisoned," but "noticable risk." There was also the statistics saying the vast majority of people move before then or that the lines fail and need to be replaced anyways.

This was meant to balance safety with not bankrupting every small town for the poor decisions of the previous generation.

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As this is relevant to my job, here's the score:

This process has been coming for a few years now.

Some old houses had small sections of their "service line"- the pipe between the main and the internal plumbing of the house - made of lead. The amount of lead that leaches into the water depends on the chemistry (the Langelier Index) and the contact time. There is currently a requirement for regular testing to see if water that sits for 8+ hours leaches enough lead (& copper) to be dangerous if someone drinks it for 20 years.

The difficulty of replacement is that records from before the 60s are spotty and may not note the material of the line. This will require potholing in front of every house to try to determine the material.

My town was already planning this out, and was starting to get prices from contractors.

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Bindweed too

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Switched to netrunner instead of magic, now I'm 10x more intolerable

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

The first book was a Roald Dahl ripoff, and I enjoyed it for that. Everything was downhill from there.

 

But college textbooks are absurdly expensive. Can anyone point me to some options for digital textbooks that don't have stupid drm?

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