Rant VIII: The Reckoning
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GasBandit
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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?
I've heard of grilled Portobellos used as a substitute for hamburger patties, but not a steak.
GasBandit
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1987, it turns out. Her name was Bertha and holy crap there's a wiki article about her.
I knew exactly who you were talking about, I just couldn't remember her name. 
--Patrick
--Patrick
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 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
Fuck
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Boiling is not an option. Water is currently only safe for flushing the toilet."Freedom Industries."
Might have to fire up a still just so you can drink your own water for a while.
--Patrick
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A still would distill it, not boil it. Though, I suppose that might not help depending on what sort of chemicals are currently tainting it.
figmentPez
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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.
4-methylcyclohexane methanol. Used to wash coal. Until yesterday, they didn't even have a method to test for it. It can't be treated out of the water supply.
figmentPez
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I had to check to see if my ex-fiancee lives in that area. She doesn't but her parents and other family are awful close. This is a messed up situation.
They usually give you a week to add or drop classes. Just relax and get down there.
figmentPez
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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.
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.
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
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...
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...
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
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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 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.
CAPITALISM IS FUCKING
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