Black… deffers black. Can use it to get away when you cause some michegoss.

Oh, it’s more than that. Reddit seems unusually bouncy.

There’s a ton of that going on now. 20.1 mil $ value was 591,000 shares or so.

All the C-suite officers are selling when the market pops and buying back when it dips. Yesterday the share values jumped over 20 bucks.

There is definitely some gaming of the stock going on.

Oh absolutely. My favorite example of it is there’s a co-relation between domestic abuse and alcoholism, but the alcohol may not be causing the abuse so much as exacerbating an already violent mindset of the abuser. The actual problem of the abuse isn’t the alcohol… but it doesn’t help.

Thanks for the spurious correlations! Those are delightful. The “slaps roof of the car” meme and divorce rates… Who knew! LOL!

Nope. When you’re 9 and been running all day long and it’s as hot as balls and you just want a drink… Ehhhh. I think everyone does that once or twice.

Garden hose water is just gross.

In a pinch, you CAN drink out of the tank as long as you don’t have those toilet cakes in them. But the bowl? That’s for the dog.

When data correlates, that means that there is a liklihood that there is some connection.

Yup. There’s a reason it’s called co-relation.

Hose water tastes nasty. Esp. if the hose has been sitting in the sun. Nothing like that sour tang of plastic!

Here on Lemmy it seems to be kids mostly, going by the memes. I put it down to limited experience.

Never fear, time will sort that and then we’ll be able to tell the smart ones from the average…

Is this why we can’t have nice things?

Blasted interwebs…

It’s very rare anymore that you find lead pipes in houses - even old ones.

Modern water supply pressures being what they are means that the pipes mostly have failed. Going on almost 60 years now since the “old school” leaded piping was made and used. Lead was used because it lasted longer then iron or copper, - but not THAT much longer.

Leaded pipes usually would get brittle and crack.

I grew up in a few places where the pipes were old and the standing rule was ALWAYS let the water run for a few minutes before you got some to drink, as you were bringing in fresh water that wasn’t going to have much leachate in it.

Also, the cracks in the lead pipes would get bacteria in them and the water would just smell and taste metallic.

You can have copper pipes and the solder to join it will have lead in it. Some of that still exists because it wasn’t until the late 80’s/ early 90’s that all lead was finally banned from plumbing materials.

After the mid-60’s that was where the main “new plumbing” source of lead leachate into water supplies in homes came from - not so much pipes anymore so much as the solder used in valves, faucets and joints.

Thing is, you can STILL buy leaded plumbers solder (50/50 its called), but it’s used for HVAC, sheet metal applications and wastewater - NOT supply.

You’re more likely to come across old leaded paint in houses that long ago had the plumbing redone. The ceilings, walls and trim - well that just got covered over with a nice new coat of paint.

What explains the Milennial and GenZ Trump bros?

The devil we always were taught about was the leaded paint that was peeling and oxidizing on the ceilings. Lead white to this day is still a nightmare for anyone doing restoration work on older homes. Not even painter’s bane - calcimite (calcium white) is as problematic and THAT shit makes me want to scream and pull my hair out when I encounter it.

I was 13 when leaded gas finally went away. I am fine.

Now kids growing up in houses with peeling or oxidized lead paint OTOH… Ooooo, that shit killed and maimed…

Exactly.

…The Curse of Fatal Death.

Gah! That musical score gets me every time. Great scene…

Mr. Baker is totally wizzled, I mean he was 77 when that was filmed, and he’s getting just like my grandparents did when they crept up on their 90’s.

You just shrink as you age.

Dude, he didn’t care and doesn’t care about the United States. He’s on track to become a triilionaire and that is all that matters to cretins like him.

3D Alligator pectorals! Yikes… Yup. AI.

You know those days when the birds all seem to disappear? It’s Hermes driving them all to hide. Good job!