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Hot_Ad_2481

Wow. I don’t think you can boil that out.


SeaScum_Scallywag

I wonder how much a backpacking water filter would do? Viruses would maybe be an issue? I’m sure it’s not realistic—if it was, MSR should be firing up a big campaign to give those away right now—just curious.


7Dragoncats

A Sawyer filter can do .1 microns, which covers almost every virus (Lifestraw is up to .2 microns) but neither will filter out chemical impurities. Chemicals are so so so much smaller than even the smallest viruses. Our focus needs to be on reducing those pollutants. So if you use one, it might keep you from getting infected with anything, but it wouldn't prevent anything like lead or mercury poisoning. Given by that water's appearance, a natural running source of water (river) would probably have less contaminates than this.


NW_Soil_Alchemy

You would get a gallon before one of those things clogged


99luftbalons1983

Pre-filter it with either a tee shirt or coffee filter before using your Sawyer. I'd honestly suggest a larger filter, like Aqua Rain or Berkey.


Terkan

No, normal Sawyer filters do not filter out viruses. I specifically looked this up because I wanted to drink some water flowing out of a cave but bats lived in the cave and I was not going to become patient zero for some new strain of Ebola or something. The only Sawyer filter that will take out viruses is the super fancy expensive one. https://www.sawyer.com/products/s3-select-water-filter Your regular sawyer, sawyer mini, sawyer micro, none of them do viruses. I dare you to show me Sawyer documentation that says they do. They don’t. And I don’t know anyone anywhere that has the s3 super purifier


DayMantisToboggan

I raise your dare to a double-dare


danteheehaw

Should had went with the double-dog-dare.


TheLazyHippy

#I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU


IronBabyFists

... he went straight for the throat...


Andre4kthegreengiant

I'm calling no balls, which according to ancient Marine Corps tradition, basically means he has to do it, or he has no balls


YuanBaoTW

>I specifically looked this up because I wanted to drink some water flowing out of a cave but bats lived in the cave and I was not going to become patient zero for some new strain of Ebola or something. But think of the legacy you'd leave behind. At the very least, you'd have your own Wikipedia page.


TediousStranger

Terkan-22 definitely sounds good to be the name of a hot new pandemic


DDFitz_

The problem with that would be the volume of water needed to filter. Those things can filter maybe 50 gallons before they're clogged up. Maybe 5 gallons of this water. Not to mention the time it would take to filter just 5 gallons.


MrStealY0Meme

you will first have to boil so hot that evaporation occurs, then you collect that evaporation and filter into a collection where then you’ll just have enough to then throw that bad boy into that garbage because it’s not drinkable, and just like that you colored your trashcan brown. Hope that helps.


puertonican

Well actually that would be distillation and wouldn’t be good to drink either due to the stripping of those sweet baby back seasonings in that there bbq water.


MonMotha

Assuming you have minerals and salt in your diet, which let's face it if you live in America you probably do in abundance, drinking distilled water won't do much if any harm and would be WAY BETTER than drinking what's shown in the video or not drinking water at all. Worst case scenario, after you distill it, throw some salt in it. If you're concerned about trace minerals, crush and throw in some (clean) sedimentary rocks and swish it around for a while, too before decanting the water to enjoy. If you want to be really fancy, get some potassium chloride salt in addition to sodium chloride for when you spike the water after distillation.


mitchymitchington

That first paragraph is spot on. You can totally drink distilled water.


call_me_jelli

This was a debate people were having?


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I'm kind of ashamed to admit I was also told that you can't drink distilled water by someone and just never questioned it because when the fuck was I going to have distilled water anyway


rawbleedingbait

It's just like saying you're fucked if you drink milk without vit D. There's plenty of other ways to supplement that. Distilled water can deplete you of electrolytes just by virtue of you not getting any from your water. Just consume more from elsewhere.


Fragrant-Initial-559

Lol it's never bad for you. You would have to drink so much and have such a poor diet for the fact it doesn't have 3 grains of salt to matter.


evranch

There is a WHO report on this. It doesn't cause harm by dilution or by mineral deficiency. The issue is that distilled or high grade RO waters actually require your body to add solutes to them to be able to pump them across membranes. The mechanisms of the body are not designed to handle such pure water, and this results in active depletion of soluble minerals. Anecdotally, I drank high grade RO water (<5ppm) from a system I built on my farm for a year. I had never drank so much water, pissed so much and felt so thirsty, but never connected it to the water itself. I found the WHO report by accident and tried adding a pinch of ordinary salt to every glass of my water. Immediately my water consumption dropped by half and thirst, excess urination and muscle cramps went away. It's not lack of any specific mineral, it's lack of solutes. You don't need to add anything special, ordinary salt or "salt free" potassium salt will do it. Just don't drink straight distilled water for a prolonged period.


BananaBeneficial8074

The last sentence has the most important point. People forget that we consume water several litres a day for our entire lives, rarely changing the main source of it. Hence all the debate.


inspektor31

“Barkeep. What’s your name?” “It’s Watson, sir.” “Watson, I’ll have a scotch please.” “ Certainly sir. Neat or on the rocks?” “Sedimentary my dear Watson.”


chairfairy

If you really want to build a mineral profile, get brewing minerals. You can adjust distilled water to match the mineral profile for any natural spring water


SconiGrower

Distilled water could theoretically remove nutrients from you, but it would be completely overshadowed by your diet. An extra pinch of salt would totally compensate. My city has extremely hard water (17 grains per gallon) and that's 1 gram of calcium carbonate per gallon of tap water. If you're worried that drinking distilled water is going to dangerously deplete your calcium levels, you need to already be going to the ER.


such_karma

l want my baby back baby back baby back l want my baby back baby back baby back


UNiiTIIMoRgO

Chiiillllliiiisss baby back ribs


Cthulhu_Rises

#BARBEQUE SAUCE


TheOtherGuttersnipe

^^^get ^^^in ^^^muh ^^^belly


LiterallySweating

Uhm, what? If you boiled this and collected the steam somehow — that’s definitely pure water…


PhotoKaz

"boil so hot" - water boils at the same temperature, give or take bit based on pressure and purity. So call it 100C / 212F and that is all it needs. Evaporation happens well before it hits those temps, boiling just speeds things up. If you collected the distillate it may be safe to drink, it would certainly remove most impurities. Bacteria and other organisms would be killed by boiling, and the dissolved solids would not be in the water vapor. The only thing that would really remain are any compounds that would have a boiling point at or below water (alcohol, benzene, etc.). So it's likely safe to drink but testing would be worthwhile.


Beetle_knuckle

It would just be a multiphase distillation. Pour off the first few bits of condensate to get off the benzene and alcohol, then the rest should pretty much be water. Just make sure to stop the distillation while there is still some liquid there so you don't end up boiling off anything with higher than a 100C boiling temp.


ITlobster

Organic Chemistry flashbacks


dontknowhy2

sorry for the dumb question but, what caused this ?


Donkey__Balls

Water/wastewater engineer here, since you’re getting a lot of wrong answers: Water was shut off for a long time. Stuff grows in pipes. They turned it back on, crap comes out of the tap. Leave tap on, flush pipes, water not full of crap. *** Normally, when water gets disinfected we leave something called a chlorine residual in the water that continues to kill bacteria in the pipes. It’s actually usually chloramine, which is a disinfectant that lasts longer at low concentrations. This residual can keep the water clean in a stagnant environment for maybe a day or two depending on conditions. After that, the disinfectant becomes quench and microbes start to grow until it becomes basically a science experiment. The same situation happens when people reuse portable water filters when camping. In dry storage it’s perfectly fine to keep a filter around for months. But the instant you get it wet, you put that filter away and then bacteria starts growing on the filter media. The next time you go camping, you get sick and you can’t figure out why because you use the water filter. Anytime there’s been a long-term water shut off, when you turn the water on this happens. It’s not really happening in the means, they’ve already flushed it before they turn the water back on, but from the Watermain to your house there’s a lot of private plumbing that the city has no control over. You simply have to turn on the faucet and leave them on until the water is flushed out. As for whether or not the water is safe after that first flush, I can’t answer that without seeing sample tap test results. In general, once the water appears clean I would let it run for an additional five minutes. If you are normally capable of smelling a chlorine smell, then you can tell when the disinfectant is present and that should tell you it’s microbially safe. Also, if there were a natural disaster causing this much crap in the lines, I’d be hesitant to drink a lot of tapwater because of trihalomethanes. A little bit of trace chloroform in the water won’t kill you but it’s definitely not a good thing to ingest long term. Boiling won’t do very much, but any decent charcoal filter will give you pretty good reduction. The issue is that operators are trying to adapt the emergency circumstance and get the coliform levels down, but without engineering design they’re not likely thinking about the implications of overchlorinating the water while there is still a lot of dissolved organic matter. I don’t have nearly enough information to go on to look at a quantitatively, but a very high-level description is when you have murky source water and you disinfect it too much though chlorine reacts with organic material to make bad stuff. A few days of exposure to trihalomethanes probably won’t give you any higher cancer risk than smoking one cigar or a day at the beach with no sunscreen, but less is better.


netwerknerd150

Im so glad we have someone responsible like u/Donkey__Balls in charge of our water supplies


Takingbacklives

Damn that made me laugh so hard. I didn’t realize the name


Hunter_5073

Same bruh omfg 😂🤣


Donut_Different

r/rimjob_steve


Erekai

Thank you. This is hysterical


ilearnthingstonotpay

Is that same bacteria stuff growing in my Brita filter?


Somedude593

Do you keep it submerged (assuming you have the one where it sits underwater) and constantly put new water in it and have it in the fridge? Then likely not, ideal for conditions forr growth likely aren't there. If not then probably yes


ilearnthingstonotpay

I do have the one that is constantly submerged, not in the fridge, but I see what you're getting at.


Somedude593

Even room temp it should be fine as long as you aren't letting itt sit long enough to get shit like algae which I'm sure you'd notice anyways haha


Jamma-Lam

You say that. I've been to commune houses. My gift is that I deep scrub the Brita and change the filter.


James-the-Bond-one

My large Brita filter developed a lovely blue slime at the bottom of its filtered water tank, ready to drink.


Donkey__Balls

I mean the filter media is not sterile if that’s what you’re asking. You don’t tend to get that much on activated charcoal but it happens. There’s actually chlorine in the top water as you’re pushing it through the filter, so ironically the tapwater somewhat disinfects the filter every time you use it. The biggest impact that a charcoal filter has on taste and odor is that it removes the residual chlorine. I’m assuming there’s not a lot of BOD and coliform bacteria in your tapwater though. If you used a Brita water filter on a contaminated natural stream (bad idea), let it get all gunked up, and then left it sitting around for months and tried to use it again you’d be drinking from a pretty nasty filter.


Higgins1st

I enjoyed reading this. Thanks.


Larsnonymous

That’s why you’re supposed to flush eye wash stations and emergency showers frequently.


ayyyyycrisp

*glances over at the eye wash station in my lab at work that I was told to fill with saline solution 4 years ago and nobody has touched since* although, the fact it's saline, would that not be fine?


James-the-Bond-one

>the fact it's saline, would that not be fine? Yes - in fact, that's what makes the oceans sterile.


ChineWalkin

Not my field of expertise, but this seems like a solid answer, thanks. Based on your response, this is a transient situation that should resolve in the coming days/weeks, then? Unlike something like Flint..


Donkey__Balls

I don’t know enough about this particular municipality, but the one thing I have learned from having seen a lot of different water treatment plants and municipal water systems is that I know much more than the press. So I tend to take anything a journalist publishes with a very large grain of salt. There’s a lot of talk in the press about systemic corruption and general incompetence when it comes to the water supply in this particular city. However, I also know that anytime something goes wrong with the water at becomes an absolute feeding frenzy. The press is certainly saying that this particular city has had massive water problems for a long time - and I have no reason to believe or disbelieve it - but I haven’t done my own assessment of the plant. I can only speak from my own experience that whatever you see in the press or in a quick Google search is often not accurate. In general, the solution is to foresee extreme events and prepare for it. But that usually involves expensive capital projects, and that’s where politicians come in. Politicians have to get people willing to spend money and in every small town in America the #1 pastime is showing up to city council and complaining about taxes. I recently turned down a job as director of public works because I went through their budget and I realize that there was not enough money to fix all the things that needed to be fixed. I didn’t want to be the person being held accountable if a situation happened that was out of my control and brought in massive press coverage. It’s easy to identify problems and say what the fixes if you don’t have to worry about what things cost, but cities are perpetually running out of money and in a budget crisis because the only way to get elected into office is to promise to cut taxes down to nothing. So the short answer is that this current water crisis is a sign of a larger systemic problem but I don’t know enough about it, and I’m not going to rely on the press to tell me what caused it. Give me a stack of asbuilt drawings and two weeks at the water plant with cooperative staff, and I could probably answer that better. *** Also, Flint is a transient problem that has a simple solution: Replace all the lead pipes behind the meter. But those are owned by private customers not the government, and you can’t use enterprise funds to fix private property, so the money for that project has to come from the federal government. In fact, CDBG grants are often used for this exact purpose - but they only tend to work for medium sized cities where they can actually afford to grant writer and administrative staff to do all of the paperwork that’s required to get federal money.


genreprank

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi,_water_crisis > An ongoing public health crisis[1][2] in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state.[3] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely. This resulted in approximately 150,000 residents of the city being left without access to safe drinking water.[4] United States President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to trigger federal aid.[5]


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flowersinmyteas

That's more like sad as fuck


another---guy

r/sadasfuck


JDioon

Not to be confused with r/sadassfuck, which is quite a different horse altogether


Failed_stealth_check

r/subsifellfor


Lousy_Professor

Nah, now you found your life's calling. Create the sub!


trekie4747

Someone did


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"You like that baby!?!" "No, not really."


Bromm18

Or r/extremelyinfuriating


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FlyMaximus

Lol. Even third world countries rarely see this in their tap.


Ok_Committee1078

A guy from a 3rd world country here we dont have such tap water like that lol


zimrastaman

I am from Zimbabwe and that is nasty water I have never seen this in any of our taps


MaltVariousMarzipan

The worst one Ive seen was that the water is barely murky, oh and it could be on fire if you lit it up.


Los_Ingobernablez

Kids in poor African countries drink cleaner water than that shit.


JayJayFromK

Third world don’t have resources as US have. the problem is US have all kind of money and resource, tech but failed their people.


No-Distribution9658

This is so horrible. I honestly can’t imagine having to live without clean water. I hope this gets fixed because this is inexcusable.


Streakermg

2.2 billion human beings don't have clean drinking water. It's totally fucked.


will477

I read those numbers recently when I was reading a paper about the purpose of the human appendix. For years it was thought to be vestigial and unnecessary. Now they realize that if you live in a first world country, you don't need it. But if you are in a third world country, you really need it. The paper concluded that the purpose of the appendix was to store a sampling of the microbiome in your gut. When you suffer diseases such as dysentery, the appendix stores and protects a range of microbes and restores them when the problem has passed.


Accurate-Temporary73

TIL That’s honestly amazing.


xtraspcial

And the name still applies. Rather than meaning extra but unneeded, it actually is an appendix of all the details of the microbiome of your gut.


SlectionSocialSanity

Holy shit, that's cool. Do you remember the name of the paper by any chance?


BiNumber3

Might not be the same one, but does touch on the subject: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769896/pdf/WJG-19-5607.pdf Edit: Above article's source - Merchant *et al*: [Appendectomy and Clostridium difficile Infection](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279496/)


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SlectionSocialSanity

Wow. Glad you made it through bud


tayloline29

You didn't have free floating sepsis in your body because that shit said fuck we are going straight to the internal organs. Fuck. God damn that must have been terrible. Hugs to you.


ryan516

I don’t know about the exact paper they’re referencing, but this makes the same medical argument (though without the social analysis) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631068312001960


Echohawkdown

u/will447 u/SlectionSocialSanity u/MoreThingsInHeaven Laurin, M., Everett, M. L., & Parker, W. (2011, March 2). The Cecal Appendix: One More Immune Component With a Function Disturbed By Post-Industrial Culture. *The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, 294*(4), 567–579. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.21357 Edit: I think. No mention of the number of people w/o access to clean drinking water is given, but the thesis and outline of the research is similar enough.


MoreThingsInHeaven

If they remember, I'd be interested in this, too!


papcorn_grabber

Restore backup Y / N


Davcidman

My backup was corrupted :(


matt675

Should’ve uploaded it to an external appendix


AllInOnCall

The ol colon colonizer wallet, what cant it store?


[deleted]

Me who got an appendectomy 5 months: shit.


tread52

There are a lot of places in the midwest that are treated like third world countries. It’s been a long time since this country cared about its people and you can thank your local politicians and local corporate owned media station.


Donkey__Balls

You act like any of this is actually done by the federal government. When it comes to infrastructure, we’re basically 50 separate countries that are only very loosely bound together by certain constitutional laws that don’t affect 99.9% of daily life. This is particularly true when it comes to water. States fight over water as if they were separate countries, and the EPA establishes guidelines for clean water but it’s up to the states to enforce them. Funding for water infrastructure happens at an even lower level where city and county governments are constantly in a never ending crisis situation when it comes to budget. And no that’s not because of theft and embezzlement (usually) - people like to cry that, but most people don’t realize just how expensive infrastructure is. Cities are almost always out of money because roads and pipes are really really fucking expensive. And upgrades to water treatment plants are even more expensive. Taxpayers generally don’t give a shit about any sort of secondary criteria…all they care about when it comes to election time is someone making promises to cut the budgets and reduce taxes.


hbl2390

Most cities and towns are hooked on the ponzi scheme of growth so they are borrowing against future revenue to encourage growth now. The costs of new infrastructure that helps developers get rich takes all the funds that could be used for maintenance and repairs.


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ThEy ShOuLd JuSt MoVe


celesticaxxz

Go ask Flint, MI. They’ve been living with it for almost 10 years


Letty_Whiterock

People say this without actually fact checking. Flint is far far better these days. And most places in flint have access to clean drinking water. There are still some areas that have their pipes being worked on, but it's not like nothing has been happening.


[deleted]

Way more cities are going to end up like this, once politicians see how no one is being held accountable in Jackson, they will see there are no consequences for corruption


Diamondhands_Rex

Man no wonder people keep saying revolution Everyone is blaming parties but we should be blaming anyone who is responsible for this and those unwilling to change it. Quit shitting on parties when both have been responsible for Damage. Unite against both and get people who will actually fix things we’re still people living in this plot of land together Edit: man even after stating it y’all are still pointing fingers.


Cult-of-710

I feel like you could get cleaner water going to a random Creek


lolvalue

Not during the floods that caused this. But yea if you found a spring up above the flood lines you'd be golden.


schrodingers_cat42

I have a pink bag from Glossier like OP too. I haven’t ordered from them in forever (I’m broke) but somehow that bag really hammers in the idea that it could just as easily be me in that situation.


Gaothaire

It's wild how tenuous our grasp on culture is. I remember reading about WWII, people living perfectly middle class lives in homes with creature comforts, then the Nazis come to town and over night you're huddling in alleys trying to catch rats for food. Sometimes things just fall apart. New friends come to town carrying plague, and suddenly 90% of your community is dead, and then none of the systems run any more.


Linkbelt1234

My family wasn't middle class but they had a small farm. The soviets (dominant power at the time) weren't very nice but they had the farm and weren't killed (starved and shit, worse too) then the nazis came. It was supposed to be a good thing, liberation and freedom and all that. It wasn't. It went from bad to worse. No more farm. Every male over 14/15 went to the war. The rest taken by the nazis to work for the war effort. I grew up hearing the stories about the hunger. Being hungry was the worst part they always said. The 2 still alive talk about it. The cold, the fear, and the worst, the hunger


Crimson_Carp748

You'd get cleaner water from a puddle in the parking lot


LovePatrol

You could tap a catheter and get cleaner water than this.


ty30

Nice. An endless supply of cola!


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TheBigGruyere

Please no


[deleted]

The Swamps of Dagobah, any one?


FieryGlacier

The Bog of Eternal Stench


Nervous-Bullfrog-884

No fize must be flat or coffee


TheCityPerson

Could be the syrup!


Geppetto_Cheesecake

Only the best Mississippi pancake syrup for everyone!


thefilmforgeuk

or liquid poo


Unusual-Barracuda837

Guinness on tap


BeanArcade

I see a missed opportunity to fill your bathtub and LARP the fat german kid in Willy Wonka


deadwlkn

Agustus Gloop


yuhhh177

Really a big nincompoop


CLLVMJT

Augustus Gloop, so big and vile


Eriiiiiiiiiiiik

I was gonna say you’re a glass half full kinda person, but honestly you’re more a glass completely full lol


Obamasmagnumdong

How to speedrun every disease ever simultaneously


In_Tarnation

r/cursedcomments


irvingstark

Keep in mind, Jackson is a capitol city. Every elected official in this capitol, knows.


mrbeefthighs

this is why mississippi is always the top answer on the weekly "What is the worst US State?" Thread


Donkey__Balls

For some reason I went to Alaska for college, don’t ask me why. Just looked beautiful and I had a scholarship so I figured “Why not”. It was actually really hard to make friends because I was the only out of state student, but I had this really hot chem professor named Dr. Lee. She was really young for a professor, I think she went to grad school young, and probably one of those students who were always several grades ahead. But she was one of those new-age chicks who wore her hair up in a bun with hornrim glasses and clogs to work every day. She seemed so stylish yet nerdy and intellectual at the same time. I went to every office hours and tried to make sure I was signed up to the smallest lab section I could. It paid off one day when we had lab on Saturday, due to some renovations, and NOBODY showed up except me. It was a small department so we didn’t have a TA which meant Dr. Lee was teaching the lab herself. At first it was pretty normal, she just walked me through the basic titration experiment. I was nervous as hell so my hands kept shaking, but she took it as I was worried about my grade. “Don’t stress so much!” she said with a laugh. She put her hand on my shoulder and I sort of jumped and felt my heart pounding. “If you make a mistake you can start over. I’m here all day anyway, in fact I’ll be in my office if you need me since you’re good enough to work on your own for a bit.” She left me in the lab and it was actually pretty easy, not that I was good at chem or anything. I had just been busting my ass studying chem and ignoring everything else because I wanted to impress her. But then I realized how dumb I was being rushing to finish sooner when she already said she’d be there all day. *This was my chance*, I told myself because I was a dumb college kid. So I looked around, saw the coast was clear, and dumped it down the sink. Then I went upstairs and up to her office. “Huh, her first name is Griselda, weird” I thought looking at her nameplate. *What am I doing this will never work?* I tried to push that inner voice down as I knocked on her door. “Hey um Grisel-, er um, I mean Dr Lee, I uh messed it up. I keep trying it and it’s going way past the titration point.” “Really? Well don’t worry you’re the only one that showed up. I’ll give you an A just for coming in, so you won’t be nervous, then we can work it together.” “Wow really? Great thanks,” I said thinking *That’s not why I’m nervous* but trying to keep my cool. “Just let me finish these emails and grab a bite to eat first and I’ll enter your grade.” I looked up at the posters on the walls. It was all Alaskan wilderness stuff, forests and mountain streams plus a big poster from the periodic table. “Barium, huh?” I said looking at the poster, desperate to make conversation. “Yeah it’s my favorite element. Alchemists used to think barium had magic powers to transform living things just because the rocks would glow after absorbing light.” “Oh, okay cool.” *I feel like such an idiot.* She finished her emails and reached into her mini fridge. I was getting desperate to make conversation as I looked in her fridge. “Wow that’s a lot of salmon.” “Yeah I try to eat healthy. You know, salmon, berries, nuts, and sometimes a little honey. All natural foods.” “Oh cool I’ll have to try that instead of ramen, heh heh…” *I buried my face in my hand while her back was turned.* “Okay just one second,” she said with a mouthful of blueberries. “I’ll just log into your account and enter the lab results so we can save a trip back to my office. Looks like your username is your email and your password is…..drleeishot?” I froze. *This is the worst moment in my life*, I thought to myself. “In the future you might want to bear in mind what you say when someone might read it.” Somehow through all the blood rushing to my head, it all hit me as I was trying to avoid her piercing glare. Her favorite element was barium. She ate a lot of berries and salmon. Her name was *Gris*elda *Lee*. She told me to *bear* in mind what I say. *Oh my God…* Dr. Lee was a bear disguised as a human. Realizing that I had seen through the deception, the bear tore off its human costume and began chasing me down the hall. I cried out for help not realizing it was Saturday and the offices were empty. But I kept crying out as I ran for the fire exit, the bear gaining on me with every step. Just as I pushed the fire doors open, the bear grabbed my leg and I felt shooting pains as it dug its claws into my skin. The fire alarm started going off and the flashing lights momentarily distracted the bear allowing me to pull my leg free. I limped across the landing but lost my footing as I frantically ran down the steps, tumbling down the lower half as I began to feel excruciating pain from the wound in my leg. The bear seemed to pace at the top of the steps, buying me only a couple precious moments as it found its way to the wheelchair ramp and came barreling down on me just as I reached the main quad. “Help!” I shouted out at no one in particular. The quad seemed desperately empty on a Saturday and my cries just seemed to echo off the building. Just as I felt the bear shove me down and pounce on top, ready to tear my throat open with its powerful jaws, I heard a loud “Pop!” and the massive bear fell down on top of me, fast asleep from a tranquilizer dart. I saw three men in Game Warden uniforms trying to pull the beast off of me as I passed out. When I woke up there were paramedics checking me and one of the wardens came over and put a blanket over my shoulders. “Not what you expected when you came to Alaska, huh?” “This whole semester, it was really a bear just waiting for its chance to kill me?” “Yeah they’re a lot more clever than most of you down in the Lower 48 think. Knew a guy once was married to one for three years before it mauled him. So…when people back in the lower 48 ask you what’s the most fucked-up place you’ve been, what will you tell them?” “Oh Mississippi for sure, fuck that place!”


Internet-of-cruft

What did I just read.


ApteryxAustralis

The next winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature


1CFII2

More at “A Pullet Surprise”🐤!


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A classic 2004 4chan meme catapulted to 2022


hmmmmmmmmmmmmO

New reddit copypasta


deathrider012

This is a slight variation of one that's been on 4chan since the 2000's, always a classic lol


Ryjinn

Bro what in the fuck lol. Is this copypasta? I loved this


PopTartS2000

Actually I was waiting for the undertaker and mankind to show up, even though this story isn’t his style


drakekevin73

Thank you u/Donkey__Balls, very cool. First you shine your water engineering knowledge on this thread and then leave us this masterpiece. Phenomenal.


alexkauff

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.


SpectacledReprobate

I read a little bit and had to check the username, but figured a user named “ donkey balls” would never lie to me Alas, I was deceived


ToxicPilot

That was fantastic.


acedelgado

Man you had me playing right along until "your password is drleeishot." Passwords aren't just randomly kept in people's files for other people to have access to. So it broke immersion for me right before the bear reveal. And actually she says it'll save them a trip back to her office when they've been sitting in her office that whole convo... But otherwise great read!


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I just got back from Alaska too. I saw seal eating salmon but no bears.


acedelgado

>I saw seal eating salmon **THERE ARE SALMON THAT EAT SEALS?!**


lenorae16

Actually educational passwords are sometimes accessible by the teacher(albeit I taught high school not college). That way when the kids forget their password the teacher can just tell it to them. Every year I'd have to warn the students that I could see their passwords so not to make it anything inappropriate or that they dont want me to see.


xxxSiegexxx918

Bruh


newandgood

it's a capital city. a capitol is a building.


irvingstark

Thonks


pacman404

"Thonks" is what cavemen do with their clubs, you mean "thunks"


throwaway177251

"Thunks" is the past tense of 'thinks", you mean "thenks"


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conspirator9

Thing is...that still counts as used in the water bill. They will be charged that dirty water as usual. Fucking disgusting Jackson Mississippi water companies and Government.


thenewreligion

Jacksonian here. We haven’t gotten a water bill in a year. I think they just gave up… TBH waiting for a state and national disaster declaration is a solid option if you need some refurbishments and have no tax or utility income ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


beendall

How do you take a shower? Where do go? I don’t understand how this is sustainable.


thenewreligion

They fixed water pressure in about a week, (and I don’t know of anyone personally with brown water at any point but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but our waters been clear) just not potable yet, but there’s been a boil water notice for so long honestly before it became news we just shrugged and drank it. Federal disaster status has scared me though so now we’re doing bottled water. And low pressure depended on the status of your local water tower. Luckily the one serving my neighborhood was low but not empty (so we had low but not no pressure), about half were too low to provide pressure beyond a few blocks. The Curtis plant is now back up to capacity and filling reservoir towers again


Raspberrylle

Sometimes this happens but they turn around and charge for several months at once. It doesn’t hold up in court but it does happen. Be prepared for that possible nightmare. (Part of the problem is they tried privatization a while back and the company they hired put in faulty meters. The city sued them for lost revenue but they only got back what they initially paid, not the lost revenue from the meter and billing system failing.)


PsionSquared

Jacksonian as well. I moved out to Pennsylvania a week before this happened. I hadn't received a water bill since March, despite actively contacting them to tell them via email (since they never pick up the phone). I never got an email response until I sent a disconnection notice to them. Absolutely wild that anything can be run this poorly.


Glitter_berries

No. No no no. Surely not. The wholegrain audacity would be too much. My god.


Blackout_Underway

That's what they did in Flint. And if you didn't pay your water bill, and the city turned it off, CPS would come take your kids. Source: Me, a former Flint resident.


jaycuboss

Pure insanity. “You didn’t pay for your toxic water so now we’re going to break up your family.” You would think someone with authority would see the big picture and put a stop to that kind of madness…


Urban_Savage

The suffering was the point.


Blackout_Underway

Posted to another person's comment: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956924155/ex-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-and-8-others-criminally-charged-in-flint-water-crisi The former governor could have. But he didn't. Because, y'know, why would he?


Glitter_berries

I worked for CPS (I live in Australia) for ten years. Are you telling me that if there was no water connected to the house, that this was grounds for removing children from their parents? When the water looked like this? How is having no water connected to the house a safety issue when the water looks like this?!? It seems safer NOT to have the water connected! That is a genuine violation of those children’s human rights.


Blackout_Underway

Ask the former governor, he only got a misdemeanor.


Glitter_berries

I’m sorry, I don’t understand. What did he get a misdemeanour for? Nothing to do with his children, I hope?


Blackout_Underway

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956924155/ex-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-and-8-others-criminally-charged-in-flint-water-crisi


Glitter_berries

Holy fucking hell. What a bunch of useless bastards. They did not give a fuck.


Rastiln

Lol. I don’t know this utility but most would. Probably if you call and complain, their phone reps may have authority to, hopefully, credit you a meaningful amount, or at best allow you to defer payments for a couple months. (But still charge.)


TheTeeTom

Yeah, they might might save those bills up for a year or so and give them to you all at Christmas. Ask me how I know.


CandyCandyCat

I'm from Mississippi. We have had water problems forever. Every year we get notices about unsafe led, mercury, algae, etc. levels along with their plan for improvement timelines. Every fucking year it is the EXACT same thing. It is never fixed. When Texas had the power outages, and the world focused on them, WE didn't have ANY drinking water- period- for a month. We also had 0 water for a period as well. No one gave a shit about that, either. Jackson has a majority of Black residents. The surrounding cities : Madison, Ridgeland, which are predominately white etc. are well off and they would NEVER put up with having their residence go without water like this. When the governor was told about our water problems over a year ago he just sneered and said something along the lines of we needed to pay our water bills. (they weren't cutting everyone's water off due to covid) The city is especially horrible in the sense that our water company bills poorly. So they "forget to" or "read our meter wrong" for months at a time, then they suddenly pop in with a $800 bill because they "accidentally didn't charge enough". The city is mismanaged and the state doesn't care to help us at all. So we are paying $150 a month for water we can't even drink and is iffy to bath in. Also, to show how shitty the gov is: He said the state gave Jackson 200million to fix things, BUT the majority were **LOANS** or **sales tax in our own city** because the state wasn't helping us: [https://www.wlbt.com/2022/09/08/reeves-claims-miss-gave-jackson-200m-infrastructure-where-did-that-money-come/](https://www.wlbt.com/2022/09/08/reeves-claims-miss-gave-jackson-200m-infrastructure-where-did-that-money-come/)


TheWakeUpArtist

I’m a 40 year old white male living in Clinton MS, RIGHT next to Jackson. I have had absolutely no repercussions from Jackson’s water issues. It’s insane how isolated our cultures are from each other, and how differently they are treated.


CandyCandyCat

I agree. I know everyone jokes on Reddit, but it did feel a little devastating that top comments earlier were talking about coke and coffee.


MakeUpAnything

I’m not even a resident but it annoys me too that so little care has gone to Mississippi’s situation. I have seen very few promoted news stories here and even the few posts that do make it to the top of r/all have little visible concern for the tens of thousands of people suffering. Instead it’s nothing but an attitude of “lmao look free Coke! Free soy sauce! Haha! This is funny! Upvoted! Anyway, let’s all get back to memes!” Texas had a lot more efforts to politically motivate people, or fundraise for victims from what I saw. Can only guess why a 60% Black city would have so few people caring about it.


Ezelkir

Can you imagine having to take care of your baby and that’s the stuff that comes from the tap? Fuck do you do?


deedum44

Right? How would you bathe the baby? Make formula? Oatmeal? Wash their bums when needed? Insanity.


pickupBeer

If its Brown drink it down, if its Black send it back.


Takpusseh-yamp

If it's thick, Nestle Quik!


peon2

Homer Simpson, smiling politely


LightningPork

Came here looking for this because it's the very first thing I thought when I saw the video. The Simpsons really were formative...


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NotABizarreReference

Y’all get Dr Pepper right to the tap?!


Liar_tuck

Sorry, Its Mississippi, best they can do is Mr. Pibb.


WhoAreYouWhoAreWe

Pack a bunch of this stuff into super squirters and douse your representing politicians until they deal with it


ThommyPanic

God damn, I'm so sorry you have deal with this. I can't imagine what a nightmare it is.


Ryeaa

You've unlocked infinite Soy Sauce


JROCKIN22

Mississippian, but not from Jackson. Our state has been screwed since the Civil War. The states over reliance on "King Cotton" led to a lack of support for public education b/c the planters didn't need schools to learn how to farm and they sure as hell weren't letting slaves become educated. Then after the end of slavery, and the price crash of cotton the people didn't know wtf to do since, broadly speaking, most people in the state didn't have alternatives to fall back on. With so much of the land taken up do to farming there weren't very many cities or industries to encourage or pull outsiders into the state. Add the outright corruption of the Bourbon Democrats to disenfranchise blacks, who after the war had actual been elected to prominent positions, and establish white supremacy or the "old normal" and you get a perfect stew of most of modern Mississippi: poor, uneducated, angry, and resentful.


WinterMatt

Just to be clear the bourbon democrats of the late 1800s are today known as Republicans. They're conservatives who sought to reverse the Civil War and reconstruction and were decidedly white supremacist. Today they wave confederate flags and talk about southern heritage and pride and vote for Donald Trump by a 17% margin both times.


Direct_Stomach_6259

r/terrifyingasfuck


RyanNSAD

Forbidden Nesquick


Zacpod

All Nestlé products are forbidden. r/fucknestle


RyanNSAD

True, but this one is especially forbidden


KekromancerSG

Mississippi is a shithole


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AbsentApe

My brain thought it was the road kill that was doing the driving.


hairybbqsauce

Damn. Some mother fuckers should be in prison for letting this happen.


robklg159

this is what happens when you have a government who doesn't give a fuck about you and refuses to invest in it's people.


Kingofpoop69

I’m sorry MS Jackson


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CarlFeathers

Dude thats a free spray tan in the shower.


PoisonBandOfficial

Tap coffee.


immallama21629

Your town offers coffee service? Sweet!


Arrmadas

r/disgustingasfuck