Republicans 20 years ago were quite different to republicans now though.

Yep, very similar to UK Labour, in my understanding. They’ve distanced themselves from their union roots a lot over the last 4ish decades.

Please tell me you understand that you can direct your own preferences?

This is how you should vote:

1. Put any parties you really like the policies of first
2. Put your least worst major party next (or the lest worst of the two most popular candidates, if you’re not in a Lib/Lab contest)
3. Put the worse major party next
4. Put all the garbage parties after that.

First preferences get reported, so they are a symbolic message to the politicians. But they might also win in some cases, so bonus. If your early preferences get knocked off early, then your preference will flow to who ever you put higher among the last 2 to be knocked off.

Edit: to be clear, there is no way in any ballot, that putting greens first makes it more likely that the liberals will win, UNLESS YOU MANUALLY VOTE THAT WAY.

Barring the fact that most pollutants aren’t that easy to deal with, I don’t think so. I think you’d suffer from a kind of Jevon’s Paradox of toxicity, where people would just dump more in, until whatever “ok” threshold previously existed would be breached, and you’d be left in the same situation, just systematically worse.

Ah yeah. We really need another word for that other-nationality bigotry.

Fair enough, sorry. It’s just that your question (and some of your answers) don’t seem to be accounting for dealing with the volume change of steam, and how that would be managed.

Also the fact that if you’re evaporating the water off anyway, why not just let it escape and concentrate the chemicals, and then deal with them that way? I’d guess most of them would not be in the vapour anyway? (unless they’re volatile, in which case they’d probably boil off even earlier)

Re: Lava contact. I don’t think the resulting water vapour is much more than 100°C? The phase change takes a lot of energy to phase change, and is still at about 100°C after that, and then the steam would escape very quickly, and be displaced by more water, so it would not have much chance to heat up more. The lava-water interface would always be at about 100°C, give or take a few tens of degrees for the Leidenfrost effect, maybe? I might be wrong here, but I can’t see how it would get MUCH hotter than 100°C (assuming normal surface pressure).

sorry, thought I was replying to OP

For your europe example, If it’s related solely to someone’s personality then it’s not racism by definition. If it’s claimed that it’s based on personality, but the claim only appears in relation to people who look different in a particular way, then it’s racism masquerading as something else.

Maybe the only real difference you’re seeing is that Europeans are a lot more subtle than Americans (culturally).

Or, hear me out, you could have a minority government with multiple parties and independents, many of whom want to see coal phased out.

Right… Have you considered that a basic order-of-magnitude estimate of scale of water, energy, and pressure requirements make the idea wildly infeasible in practice?

You realise we can vote for third parties here, right?

Concise, funny, and correct. Good work.

You COULD name names… Perhaps via Tor to a journalist

You could always regulate and ban toxics at the point of production or sale, before they get into the waste stream

You realise water boils at 100°C, right?

Edit: yes, I know it boils a different temperatures, but we’re talking about 500°C for a practical use case at scale here…

Luigi Mangione

Man, fuck wet wipes. They are such horrible pollution.

Take some toilet paper and some sanitiser instead.

Go in with low expectations, and you’ll probably have a good time. Here’s some to start with:

You’ll be sore from walking. Sleeping might be uncomfortable or cold, or wet. Food will probably be crap, or hard to cook. Animals will freak you out in the middle of the night, or try to eat your food. You’ll smell like smoke (unless it’s a fire ban, then you’ll be cold). Taking a dump in the bush is not comfortable, even after you get used to it.

It’s type 2 fun though, so it’ll be good in hindsight. Also you’ll probably see a bunch of beautiful shit and maybe get to swim somewhere nice. Just gotta give it a go, and see if it’s for you. Personally I love it.

Don’t lots of places in the US show the full breakdown of takes on every receipt? I remember that from travelling through some south western states…

Because that’s what’s mastodon groups are (e.g. the a.gup.pe). Mastodon doesn’t have actual native groups, so bots-as-groups is a work around.

Mastodon doesn’t fully federate with Lemmy, so while you can partially interact with Lemmy users and communities, you can’t meaningfully partake in conversations here.