Rant VIII: The Reckoning

Cajungal

Staff member
I'll eat the hell out of a portobello... I just really hate cauliflower. And I don't like when vegetables get called steak.
 
I love Portobello mushrooms too.

However, I think everyone is misunderstanding the point:

This lady, got a huge Portobello mushroom, the size of a steak, grilled it, and called it her vegan steak.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I love Portobello mushrooms too.

However, I think everyone is misunderstanding the point:

This lady, got a huge Portobello mushroom, the size of a steak, grilled it, and called it her vegan steak.
I've had that before too. It's not awful... but it's not steak.

It's more like... vegan liver maybe? From the consistency?
 
You've never eaten something more disgusting than little caesars?

You need to experience more of the world.
You've never had our town's LC pizza. For months. You know how bad a pizza has to be for me to turn it down when it is free? Little Caesars bad.
 
I wasn't using a personal opinion necessarily... just an example of how vague and poorly stated opinions can be sometimes.
...I was tryin to be overly critical and offensive in stating a contrary opinion and claiming every other position was "wrong", to continue the thing with Chad being seen as too in-your-face or whatever. Apparently I was still too polite :p
 
Fuck

Fuck

Fuck

I am so angry

Why the fuck do I get treated like I am always the villain if I'm not actually the fucking villain? I must be a shithead, and I don't even know what I'm doing to be so goddamn awful.

If I'm trying to help, I'm wrong, if I'm trying to be patient, I'm a 'man of inaction', if I express my opinion, I'm mean, if I'm quiet, I'm antisocial, if I have feelings, I'm unsympathetic.

I know I am no saint, and no easy person, and so full of flaws and biases and ignorance. It doesn't mean that sometimes, maybe, it's you who is wrong. Jesus fucking Christ.
 
For clarity's sake: I hope this isn't in one of the states currently completely blanketed in snow? I mean, losing drinking water during a disaster can easily be life-or-death. Wouldn't want to be responsible for that.
 
I'm not affected, but a large portion of the state, including the capital, have had their water supply poisoned by a chemical company related to the coal industry.

Folks in charge aren't inspiring much confidence. They won't say the water is unsafe, but can't say it's safe, either.
I loved the pic on your twitter feed of the douche-nozzle president of the offending company drinking a bottle of water during a press conference about his company's chemical spill. That is just an epic level of douche-baggery right there.
 
I loved the pic on your twitter feed of the douche-nozzle president of the offending company drinking a bottle of water during a press conference about his company's chemical spill. That is just an epic level of douche-baggery right there.
Don't have the link right at hand, but dude was told basically, "get your ass back here, we're not done with you" by reporters when he tried to bail on the press conference.


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The only way it could be worse is if the guy then said:

"Oh, by the way. We recently purchased all the bottled water companies in the state and doubled the retail price! But we care!"
 

figmentPez

Staff member
I fucked up. I thought I was registered for classes, but I did something wrong and I'm not. I thought I had another week before classes start, but they start Monday. I have no idea what the hell I'm going to do. Hopefully I can find out just how screwed I am tomorrow.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
I fucked up. I thought I was registered for classes, but I did something wrong and I'm not. I thought I had another week before classes start, but they start Monday. I have no idea what the hell I'm going to do. Hopefully I can find out just how screwed I am tomorrow.
They usually give you a week to add or drop classes. Just relax and get down there.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
They usually give you a week to add or drop classes. Just relax and get down there.
I'm sure I'll be able to sign up for some sort of classes. I just don't know that I'll be able to get into the classes I really need, or with teachers I actually want to take. I don't want to go through another semester of early classes, and classes 5 days a week.
 
Distilling might work, then. Water boils at 100 Celsius, Wikipedia claims that stuff doesn't boil until 192 Celsius. You'd end up with an awful lot of leftover sludge in a pot, but the output would at least be drinkable.

--Patrick
Unless big coal foots the bill, I don't see that happening. We're probably talking millions of gallons here, which not only needs to be distilled, but also housed and contained separate from the water supply. It would take weeks/months just to build the distilling facility, which has to be near the water supply because of how difficult to ship all of this is going to be. Big Coal won't pay for this because the compound hasn't been proven dangerous to humans and the government can't afford it.

My expectations? They are going to drain the system and dump the water somewhere remote, then do studies to see if the chemical is dangerous. These studies will find that it is not, because they will be financed by Big Coal. That said, I expect a rise in cancer rates in the effected counties over the next 10 years.
 
Unless big coal foots the bill, I don't see that happening. We're probably talking millions of gallons here, which not only needs to be distilled, but also housed and contained separate from the water supply. It would take weeks/months just to build the distilling facility, which has to be near the water supply because of how difficult to ship all of this is going to be. Big Coal won't pay for this because the compound hasn't been proven dangerous to humans and the government can't afford it.

My expectations? They are going to drain the system and dump the water somewhere remote, then do studies to see if the chemical is dangerous. These studies will find that it is not, because they will be financed by Big Coal. That said, I expect a rise in cancer rates in the effected counties over the next 10 years.
West Virginia uses 4.8 billion gallons of water per day, of which 190 million gallons are used by the public. West Virginia has 1.8 million people and at least 300,000 people have been affected so far. So blind arm chair estimates put it at roughly 30 million gallons of water every day that has been affected.
 
Unless big coal foots the bill, I don't see that happening. We're probably talking millions of gallons here, which not only needs to be distilled, but also housed and contained separate from the water supply. It would take weeks/months just to build the distilling facility, which has to be near the water supply because of how difficult to ship all of this is going to be. Big Coal won't pay for this because the compound hasn't been proven dangerous to humans and the government can't afford it.

My expectations? They are going to drain the system and dump the water somewhere remote, then do studies to see if the chemical is dangerous. These studies will find that it is not, because they will be financed by Big Coal. That said, I expect a rise in cancer rates in the effected counties over the next 10 years.
You know, maybe it's me, but I don't think the suggestion was to distill all the water, just for you to set up a small still in the back of your garden and set up a moonshining business water treatment plant for yourself and loved ones
 
as an environmental scientist that specializes in remediation and prevention. they dun goofed...

Basically everyone involved with the clean-up will downplay the danger. Hopefully it is readily broken down by environmental factors and since it seems to be a NAPL, Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid, they might be able to skim it if it doesn't break down. The water system will be cleared once the spill is clear of the intake and they can get "clean" water in to flush their systems. people living in the area should probably get those cancer riders though....i bet their chances of cancer go from 1:100000 to about 1:10000/1:1000 in the next ten years.(which is what ashburner said)[DOUBLEPOST=1389457649,1389457421][/DOUBLEPOST]jesus it has a 45 day half-life...
 
Unless big coal foots the bill, I don't see that happening
You know, maybe it's me, but I don't think the suggestion was to distill all the water, just for you to set up a small still in the back of your garden and set up a moonshining business water treatment plant for yourself and loved ones
What Bubble said. I'm not suggesting that municipalities set up distillation centers, just that if you coincidentally already somehow happen to own your own distillation equipment, you should be able to keep yourself supplied with drinking water until the danger has passed. Shower/laundry/etc. would still be done with the "grey" water.

--Patrick
 

fade

Staff member
I'm sure I'll be able to sign up for some sort of classes. I just don't know that I'll be able to get into the classes I really need, or with teachers I actually want to take. I don't want to go through another semester of early classes, and classes 5 days a week.
I was always pretty sympathetic with overrides. But they were first-come-first-served. Tell your tale of woe and hope for the best.
 
I fucked up. I thought I was registered for classes, but I did something wrong and I'm not. I thought I had another week before classes start, but they start Monday. I have no idea what the hell I'm going to do. Hopefully I can find out just how screwed I am tomorrow.
I can sympathize. I thought the same thing. I'm registered for my classes, but ordered my books late. I'm hoping to get them on Tuesday.
 
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