Meh, what can I say. I am legitimately not allowed to give out any identifying details that would tie me to my employer on any social media channel, because then I would be considered to be representing that employer. I can only represent my employer by going through all the official channels, which involves public affairs people, managerial review, blah blah blah. I have to take an annual training on this exact topic. Nowhere near as exciting as a Navy Seal, but similar levels of bureaucracy.

I prefer to fight bored apes.

All water is infinitely recycled. Anything that can be put into water can be taken back out. It's just a matter of how much time, energy, and money you want to spend.

I don't know enough about what was going on with that guy's water to comment on specific fixes to his well water. But when you get into issues with rural communities where people are using individual wells, it can get really, really expensive to try to treat all those individual wells. Like many other technologies, water technologies benefit from economies of scale. So for a guy who's private well is suffering from contamination, the costs to remove that contamination can be nightmarish because he's got to pay for the whole thing himself. But if that same contamination was present at a municipal facility serving 1000s of people, the total equipment and operational cost might be much bigger than for the private well but the cost per person amortized out over 20 years might be quite manageable.

Just hate seeing people trashing a subject I have devoted my entire career to with misinformation and innuendo. Water reuse is safe, effective, and achievable.

Well, I'm bound by legal provisions that curtail my ability to speak freely on social media. I could lose my job and be subject to fines, etc. So I can't just school you, much as I'd like to.

But I can say that I am a co-author on a shelf full of books and peer-reviewed journal articles about this exact topic. I know the intricate details of water reuse and resource recovery from wastewater very, very well.

Over the last 20 years of work in this field, I've gotten good at determining who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't. And you don't.

Please shut up, you are out of your depth.

Not everyone needs to reuse water. They can spend less to get water to the quality that is what meets their 1970s or 1980s permit limits.

But water reuse is entirely achievable for those who need it. You seem to be stuck on the ick factor. Get over it.

I've been to over 100 of them. The whole point is that we take stuff out of wastewater and make the water clean again. I don't care how dirty the water coming in is. I care how clean it is when the job is done.

What's missing from this thread is the realization that there are different levels of treatment. You can take any grade of dirty water and turn it into any grade of clean water. It's just a matter of how much time, energy, and money you want to spend.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And it appears you have a very little knowledge.

I mean, it IS the financial district. I expect to see all the regional and national banks have offices and branches there. It makes sense for them to be in proximity to each other.

What I didn't need was a new Chase bank on Centre St in JP where there used to be a family-owned restaurant.

Not pretending to be ignorant of anything. I was a loyal android person for years, but the build quality was consistently crap no matter what brand I bought or how much I spent. I've only been on Apple for 13 months but so far the hardware is 10x better on all things, including the cables. I don't love the software experience and miss a lot about android, but I no longer have issues with basic functions like charging my device.

I tried to buy quality cables and chargers, including many from Anker. The Anker chargers generally held up but I wasn't as impressed with their cables. Found myself replacing multiple cables a year between our 2 phones and all the places we keep chargers (2 each for bed, couch, office, each car). Have not had an Apple cable go bad on us yet.

I do not, actually. Phone, wallet (slimmest one I can find), chapstick, keys. Usually try to keep the phone separate from the keys and the wallet so I'm not walking around all lopsided. Tried compressed air and all the other various tricks.

Never defended micro usb. My habits are to put my phone in a case and then keep it in my pocket. I work an office job and sit around all day. Pockets have phone, wallet, keys, and chapstick and very rarely anything else. Maybe don't get so worked up about a USB port?

Hah. Otterbox cases and all that jazz, I tried hard to make sure the phones lasted.

I'm not surprised that people pile on downvotes for weird shit on reddit, but I am surprised that so many people seem to have based their self-worth on a USB standard.

I had at least 4 devices with crappy USB C ports before I reluctantly switched over to Apple. All I do is use my phone like a normal person with an office job.

Meh, my experience is dissimilar. I didn't really want to switch to Apple, and I didn't really want to switch charging cables. But after having so many phones give me hardware issues I made the switch. Not a huge fan of Apple software, but the hardware is exceptional and the charging has been rock solid.

Also worth noting that the wireless charging on the Apple works so much better than it did on the Pixel or Samsung I had previously that I actually use it, which also relieves pressure on the phone port.

I had no idea that the USB C standard was so vital to making the world a better place.

13 months in and not one single issue with the apple cords. My wife made the switch, too, after her Samsung kept having USB C issues. Every single device that has USB C has been problematic for me except for the Macbook Air I bought last year. Even my HP laptop barely made it 18 months before both ports stopped working well.

My last Samsung and Pixel phones both developed USB-C port issues in under a year.

I'd be fine with this. USB c turned out to be such a poorly done standard that I ended up burning through cables and chargers trying to find good ones and also ended up with multiple phones that had broken usb c ports after less than a year of normal usage. Finally have up and switched to an iPhone and haven't missed usb c once.

Edit: for the love of god, stop replying. It's just a USB port.

Dark roast just blasts all the flavor out of the coffee. Great way to cover up stale or bitter coffee beans, not a great way to experience the flavors of really good coffee.

You have no idea what you're talking about if you think adding a roof over an existing deck is "easy" or that high VOC, toxic varnishes are environmentally friendly.

Get out of here with your holier than thou sanctimony.

I looked long and hard for other decking. It comes down to pressure treated, which has its own environmental issues and looks absolutely awful no matter what you do to it, or exotic hardwoods ripped from the rainforest. And all the wood decking requires regular maintenance with things like poly, which is just another kind of plastic.

Outside of the small amount of construction dust, which contractors could mitigate if we pushed it, the plastic deck systems aren't shedding plastic at any appreciable quantity, last a really long time, don't contribute to tropical rain forest degredation, and don't require frequent applications of chemicals that just wash off the deck every year or two.

And don't forget that you have to actually work with a contractor, and if you get into exotic, hard to use materials many contractors will turn down the job. I looked at black locust decking and it was impossible to source, didn't come in the historic porch flooring style I wanted, cost about 3x as much, and my contractor wouldn't even consider using it.

We had our deck redone with azek and the house re-sided with cementboard and plastic trim. It killed me to see the guys just making huge piles of plastic "sawdust" and having it run off everywhere. I have a shop dust collector and dragged it out for them to use and they just looked at me like I had 3 heads. I was out there after they were done trying to vacuum the driveway.

Hah. I just washed the windows and polished the chrome.