FuglyDuck

no no. they need to switch to Flouroantimonic acid instead of just flowing water.

“fuck it, it’'s friday”

However, you should be able to use empirical science to debunk BS ideas and move things along that way.

And that’s what gets them breaking out the pitchforks and torches.

That is clearly an illegal amount of floof. Gus can report to my house for sentencing (which consists of five minutes of scritches.)

They’d probably burn you alive for Devil worship or something.

Hallmark, are you taking notes?

I wouldn’t be embarrassed. I’d be angry.

Even being set up isn’t a problem- doing so without bothering to ask first is.

Computer science, I wish to believe, still has doors awaiting exploration.

There was a time where you could grab a walking stick, a cloak, and a pack and go see things no other human has ever recorded seeing; and then that exploration was done and we needed boats or whatever vehicle to get there. Then the boats had to get bigger, and had to be powered by wind rather than oar, then we had to go down, into the depths of the oceans, or up into the vastness of space. We still haven’t explored all of the ocean, seen everything this world has to see.

with each new horizon, there is a new place to explore. a new richness to discover.

This is true, also, of computer science; and all sorts of other frontiers.

I’m not trying to disuade the OP or anyone else. Even if they’re never even close to successful; it’s their time to spend. if they enjoy the work; then by all means. It’s more of a warning… it’s not the kind of thing that’s going to be a weekend project. (“There be dragons,”)

sure. But it’s a task that usually takes entire teams of highly competent and experienced people. Computer science, software engineering. Database management, lots of math.

Like ext4 took contributions from several orgs and numerous individuals over the course of years to develop. if a single person can do it, it’s the work of a lifetime.

I mean, short answer is… yes…

But, eh, like. That’s a technicality. Chances are the task is something beyond typical individuals these days.

gonna laugh when they come back confused about nixos being her fetish.

Basically, casserole. Or maybe a shepherds pie.

But with tatertots (sometimes. We have options!)

we, uh, also have hotdish.

just saying.

you, eh. could move to minnesota. We got that law, now.

:)

This is largely a myth. It would only apply to large cities, and then, the fresh water sources were frequently protected by law in cities.

Alcohol itself doesn’t actually destroy the pathogens in question- booze was made by microbes, after all, and as for bacterial… only beer and liquors was boiled, and simply adding it to already-contaminated water wouldn’t make it safer; since that only happens at much higher concentrations of alchohol than you’d find, even in liquors. It does inhibit bacterial growth, though, usually people were mixing booze into water to make things taste better. (Similar to how modern restaurants will frequently add lemon slices to cover the taste of tap water.)

in terms of maintaining hydration, alcohol- even weak alcohols- are very much not good for that, even 3% alcohols, particularly in high-heat or under activity.

Boiling water was discussed in Roman and Greek writings well before the medieval period, as well- mostly in the context of making it not taste funky; and usually they were talking about filtering it to remove contaminants (for example, near mining operations.)

Again, streams rivers flowing were generally safe for consumption and would only become unsafe as a result from urban pollution, of which, there were controls in place to protect at least some water ways and wells.

they’re both drunk, though. so that’s more than normal.