"in between brush strokes"? As in keep turning it on and off while brushing?
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People keep the water running while brushing their teeth????
I brush my teeth while showering so yes
Clean teeth shower gang ™️
Do you shower twice a day to brush your teeth enough?
My wife does this and leaves her electric brush in the shower, and I knock it down every.single.time and it goes down very loudly and it’s extremely annoying. Those fuckers are heavy, and sometimes it smashes my foot.
This one was so crazy to learn about as a kid, because I genuinely couldn't believe people needed to be taught this.
You'd be surprised how ignorant some people are about things that should be common sense.
I lived most of my life near a huge river (it spans 3 countries) and when I wasted water, my mother beat the shit out of me.
Are you on Arrakis?! You're recycling your pee, aren't you? Tie your stillsuit boots in slip-fashion like Muad'dib.
This whole thread is blowing my mind. The Colorado River is drying up, using 26% of it's water for alfalfa, largely for export, and here we are,
"Doesn't everyone know to conserve that extra 1/2 gallon when brushing their teeth!?"
It's not about conservation. It's just, why have the water running when you brush your teeth? I wet the toothbrush, brush my teeth, then rise the toothbrush. What do you need water for while you're brushing?
I never think about it in terms of conserving water. It’s just plain stupid to keep the water running when you don’t need it.
97% of its water for agriculture in general. In deserts. Home water usage, all homes, including watering a lawn, use less than a percent.
About 52% of the Colorado River’s water is used for irrigated agriculture, while 18% is consumed in urban areas. The rest supports natural vegetation (19%) and evaporates from reservoirs (11%). No water reaches the ocean.
Looks like ag usage has dropped to 70-74%, been a couple of years since I read that stat.
https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/
https://www.worldatlas.com/rivers/who-actually-uses-colorado-river-water.html
Definitely not 52%.
This whole thread is blowing my mind.
Probably not hard to blow given you're apparently too fucking stupid to turn your wrist twice a day in a way a toddler can figure out and too fragile to not lash out about it when people are surprised.
This isn't even a conservation thing; the sensible default is to turn off the water.
I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.
Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?
Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.
That's really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?
Ha, this happens to me when I'm high. I love how odd sounds can be turned into music in that state.
I have done so my entire life, water has been cheap here, and I currently don't pay for water used in my apartment, I have a utility bill, but water is included and I only pay a fixed amount every month for the utilities in my apartment.
I realize it is wasteful when I think about it, but in general I don't think about it.
But... Why? You just stand there and watch the water run uselessly for 2 straight minutes while you brush your teeth????
I don't understand this consumerism mindset.
I guess that's why temu is so popular. Consume and waste because you can, not because you need. Just to tell yourself that you're doing great in life.
Eh, fair I guess, I just don't see any weird with this, granted I live in Sweden where water is abundant so my frame of reference is different.
Cleaning our drinking water is quite a complicated process. I think it's pointless to just waste all that energy because you can afford to. And with seasonal droughts becoming more and more common in Europe...
Here in Sweden we seldom carry water when out camping in our inland, there is so much clean water comming out of the ground that it is unneeded.
This is changing, but still mostly accurate.
With all due respect, this is such a narrow and selfish way of thinking. Allow me to say, it’s really shitty. What a shame.
Could you perhaps make a habit of thinking about it from now on?
I mean, use a cup. Data centers aside, it's fucking weird to leave the water running for 5 minutes while you brush.
I refuse to believe that anyone brushes their teeth for 5 straight minutes. No way you're more than doubling the recommendation just for fun
My toothbrush counts 2 mins, good enough for me. I've lost a bunch of teeth to pregnancy, don't need more than that.
to pregnancy?
She gave birth to the next Mike Tyson.
But in seriousness, pregnancy fucks women up. It's a huge strain on the body so I wouldn't be surprised if someone's teeth got weakened by pregnancy.
I brush 8 minutes every night with 2 minutes each quadrant. Fuck cavities. Mornings are 4 minutes though.
This has to constitute over brushing which is also bad and leads to cavities
Also, be careful about damaging gums. You think cavities are bad? Wait until you hear about gum surgery!
It's a soft brush and my enamel's still okay. I just don't want cavities or plaque buildup so it's my way of playing it safe.
That seems excessive to me but do what you like. I don't have the patience for that
I'll get watching a video or something and might do it for longer than that. It's probably really not good for my gums.
It's very unlikely to be bad for your gums unless you're brushing directly on them every time you brush. The main thing id be worried about is brushing off the enamel, but that generally only happens if you're brushing way too hard with harsh bristles.
Brushing on the gums is what you're supposed to do, because it's the crease between the gums and teeth where plaque and food can accumulate.
Yeah I have a friend who has marks on her teeth from brushing 3x a day in high school with apparently hard bristles
This presumes that data centers offer no value in return.
When in fact, they return negative value.
Won’t you think of the ad delivery system? And what about the profiling? Eventually, governments we’ll be able to pluck rabble rousers off social media to quell the public from rioting.
High value, just not for any of us.
You say on a Linode hosted server
Stop the disingenous techbro "but you already use datacenters/yet you live in society, curious" excuse. We are talking about hyperscaler datacenters here.
We know that the cloud uses datacenters, but they are far smaller and use less energy. Almost all new datacenters being build or being projected are huge hyperscaler datacenters, which uses a lot more water and energy than any of our previous ones.
Even Sesame Street was putting out PSAs about this.
But while I'm brushing my teeth
And having so much fun
I never let the water run
No
No
I never let the water run
1kg of flesh requires 15.000L water, if you cared about water use you wouldn’t eat animals.
I eat ass. And I don't use a fork and knife. I just get in there like a caveman.
If I eat people, it actually saves water.
While their marketing slogan of "eat the rich" is very good, it should be noted that it is not recommended as a sustained diet, as they are very often quite high in fats and full of preservatives and bad chemicals
I'm pretty sure a more useful measure of this is calories per unit of water than straight weight/mass. Which tbf is a metric meat will probably still be less efficient by.
There's also like multiple factors of this, if you're growing meat at industrial scale then you are farming crops specifically to feed the cattle so its doubly wasteful; but not everything is like beef, goats grazing on mountains where you can't plant crops easily can feed a family with minimal labor, and they produce more than just meat. Ideally you wouldnt be raising cattle for just the meat.
Soy yields roughly 2,12 calories per liter of water, whereas flesh yields about 0,16 calories per liter of water.
Your other comments are more about animal agriculture and not about water usage (which is what this post is about) but to address all of your arguments I will say that I think it is wrong to cage, impregnate and kill others for the simple fact that they experience the world just like you and me in all the ways that matter to whether it’s ethical to be inflicting these things on them.
Bruh and you are one of those annoying vegans that do nothing but tell everybody how terrible meat is.
I get it but people like you are just annoying as hell
To be fair, meat and AI have a lot in common. They're useless and they make us unhealthy.
Yeah dude, food is "useless"
I mean, you're taking 10kg of plant food and turning it into 1kg of meat food. That seems useless to Me, it seems like throwing away food, but maybe your math looks different.
Cow feed isn't fit for human consumption so your entire argument here is flawed
I just don’t like the hypocrisy.
I don't like distraction from a topic.
Which was clearly not related to eating meat.
Given your vote count, seems I'm not alone.
Congrats on being annoying?
Hope you contribute something, somewhere, someday.
gl.
Where you live it is difficult to get water. Probably because idiots built there. It has nothing to do with hyperscaler megacorps consuming your country like the capitalist doctrine mandates.

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