That does make more sense.

I lived for a while in Australia in a house with water pipes running on the outside and I found that shocking.

We pay a LOT, in terms of time and complexity, for having nice smooth pretty interior walls.

Well, I mean, telling people to go fuck themselves is not the usual way to really connect with people and get a message communicated, exactly…

At least not most messages.

I dunno I kind of like it when my water keeps running and the pipes don’t burst even when it’s freezing outside

I’m on programming.dev. I don’t usually pay much attention to which host people are posting from but mostly when I’m reading Lemmy from here I see just waves and waves of “this slop is slop” posts and very few “but no it’s useful” responses.

Almost no posts reach me that start out as pro-AI.

I had the same question and found: https://lemmy.world/post/22183725

Settings -> enable user tags

If it was an accident — tank rupture or otherwise — they would just say so instead of firing the driver.

Maybe the driver just pulled the dump valve, got back in the bus, and drove away leaving a long streak of disgusting on the road behind him, but the stretch over the bridge is the only part we hear about??

It seems unlikely any professional driver would expect to get away with that without being noticed.

The party is split precisely about whether we really need to be fighting the fascists or not.

You can’t come together ignoring differences to accomplish a shared goal when the goal is not actually shared.

How does this happen, physically? Do fancy tour buses have a “dump poop” button that the driver can actuate while under way?

My motor home has a black tank with a dump valve, but to open it I have to be standing outside the back of the vehicle, open a big hatch to the wet bay, and pull a lever. This is not something that could happen while the vehicle is in motion.

Also it takes a few minutes for the tank to drain out — much longer than the time to drive across a bridge — and if I did it without the sewer hose attached it would mostly go out the hole for the sewer hose under the dump valve, but also I’m sure the side splatter would make an unholy disgusting mess inside the wet bay as well.

Assuming you wanted to do a deed like this with any normal motor home, I don’t see how you could.

Has anybody got more technical detail on how this dastardly deed was done?

Mostly tradies are learning by hands-on apprenticeship with a master. All that discussion is not on the internet.

I’m out of the loop. What’s going to change tomorrow?

I was not trying to be rude here.

I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.

We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.

Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.

You do you, man.

Everything is a choice. Sometimes the options are shit. But we’re still making choices all our lives and the shit options are still options.