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[–] 72 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

"in between brush strokes"? As in keep turning it on and off while brushing?

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  • [–] 49 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

    Yeah, what?

    >apply toothpaste  
    >wet brush  
    >brush teeth  
    >free style the water tap

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

    I always had a discussion with my ex about the order. You and I apply toothpaste first, then water. She would apply water first, then the toothpaste, so it wouldnt rinse away. Glad to see more fellow toothpaste-firsters.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

    You shouldn't wet the brush at all, the toothpaste is supposed to mix with your spit. Water will make it have less fluoride.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Bro really out here rawdogging his toothbrush.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I do the same thing. It doesn't really make that much of a difference, but you definitely don't need water until you want to rinse out your mouth.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    But I wanna wash my brush a little bit before using it

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (2 children)

    That's fair, it did take me ages to get used to not doing it

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  • [–] 138 points 15 hours ago (37 children)

    People keep the water running while brushing their teeth????

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  • [–] 51 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    I brush my teeth while showering so yes

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Do you shower twice a day to brush your teeth enough?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 14 hours ago* (9 children)

    This one was so crazy to learn about as a kid, because I genuinely couldn't believe people needed to be taught this.

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  • [+] -38 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

    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!?"

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  • [–] 49 points 13 hours ago

    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?

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    97% of its water for agriculture in general. In deserts. Home water usage, all homes, including watering a lawn, use less than a percent.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

    https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/021925rivers

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child)

    That's really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 hours ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 49 points 13 hours ago (17 children)

    I mean, use a cup. Data centers aside, it's fucking weird to leave the water running for 5 minutes while you brush.

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  • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago (16 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    My toothbrush counts 2 mins, good enough for me. I've lost a bunch of teeth to pregnancy, don't need more than that.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

    I brush 8 minutes every night with 2 minutes each quadrant. Fuck cavities. Mornings are 4 minutes though.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    This has to constitute over brushing which is also bad and leads to cavities

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 61 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    This presumes that data centers offer no value in return.

    When in fact, they return negative value.

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    You say on a Linode hosted server

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 15 hours ago

    Even Sesame Street was putting out PSAs about this.

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  • [–] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago (19 children)

    1kg of flesh requires 15.000L water, if you cared about water use you wouldn’t eat animals.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    If I eat people, it actually saves water.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (4 children)

    To be fair, meat and AI have a lot in common. They're useless and they make us unhealthy.

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    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    I just don’t like the hypocrisy.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 hours ago

    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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