On Tuesday, just as Senate Republicans were meeting behind closed doors to make their final case for a motion to proceed on debate of the health care bill, hundreds of protesters with ADAPT, a grassroots organization that fights for the rights of Americans with disabilities, were planning a massive sit-in at the lobby of one of the Senate office buildings, ADAPT spokesman Adam Prizio said in a phone interview.
Prizio said ADAPT demonstrators will not leave the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building until the Republican vote to proceed to debate fails. If the vote passes on Tuesday, ADAPT vowed it will occupy the Senate building indefinitely. Read more (7/25/17 2:15 PM)
“It was almost 400 when I woke up. I felt so sick, and I couldn’t go to work that day.”
Yeah, that does feel more strikingly terrible when things are better managed as a baseline. (From past experience.) But, it’s actually not been unusual for mine to run somewhere around there for a good while now. Maybe a legitimate reason to have some trouble functioning? Hmm 😵
I only learned one minute ago that instead of a single adjustable tap like the entire rest of the world, the sinks in Britain just have a separate “hot” tap and separate “cold” tap. What the fuck is that shit. How do you people get lukewarm water out?? You just have to wait until the sink itself fills with both extremes???
yer all sayin America has these two and I’ve never seen one in three decades of living from one coast to the other, my mind is blown
OKAY IT SEEMS SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT BECAUSE THE PHOTO ISN’T CLEAR ENOUGH
There are two different faucets on that sink. Two spouts. One only has a “hot” knob and one only has a “cold” knob. Two streams of water come out of this type of sink and neither can come out lukewarm. Here’s another photo of one:
They apparently do make it difficult enough that you can buy adapters for them and some people just make their own:
There are also lots of British people complaining about them in memes:
So I was right that these things are a shitty pain in the ass, I dunno if they’re really at their most common in Britain but I know I have seen 10,000 sinks in America and every single one just had the single stream.
what the fuck
Ah, I don’t recall the details, but it had something to do with their shitty, shitty infrastructure post-WWII. Something about water tanks in the attic? Let me see…
Ah, yes: “Most of them have a cold water storage tank
in the attic – it feeds a hot water tank that’s for central heating and
hot water in the bathroom and kitchen. The water from the hot tank may
not be entirely safe. That cold water storage tank in houses that weren’t properly
maintained might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or
covered with iron rust”
So, just to be safe, you shouldn’t drink that. But the cold came right from the mains, and was safe to drink. So they completely separated the taps. Next time, just build decent hot water tanks, guys.
I was surprised to see some separate taps here, which I’d only previously encountered with like 1920s-vintage public building plumbing in the US. (And that was only a couple of times when I was a kid.)
You do see some of the separate hot and cold taps, but they do also sell “normal” single faucets. That’s what we have.
Some older systems may still have the water storage tanks like that? I’m far from a plumbing expert. But, inline on-demand water heating with a combi-boiler is what’s been commonly used in houses for a good while now, with no good reason to keep the water taps separated. (As pointed out .)
Not sure if there are enough older water tank systems still in use to explain the number of dual taps available, or if that’s just what a lot of people are used to having.
i ignore most asks i get abt that post bc theyre usually from american libertarians called ‘cody’ who think feeding children makes them ‘welfare-dependent’ or some incoherent shit like that. like i cant even be arsed lol
but this made me laugh bc u use the word ‘poorer’, when u should say ‘poorEST’. the tories’ proposals meant only the abso poorest children would get free lunches, which according the education policy institute, would mean 100,000 kids in relative poverty would have not received them, and a further 667,000 kids from ‘ordinary families’ (getting by, eating, heating but on bones of their arses otherwise) would have gone without as well. families being too skint to find the coin for their kids’ lunches aint on a scale. children being hungry, performing badly at school bc they cant concentrate, missing out on perhaps the only nutritionally balanced and substantial meal in their day aint on a scale. i been the proper scabby poor kid who gets free school meals and i been the relative poverty kid who gets free school meals, i was on free school meals my entire primary and secondary school education, my mum could no more afford to pay for my lunches when she was working than when she was on benefits- but under them tory plans so many kids whose parents are working n barely getting by would have been expected to find money from literally nowhere. more than two thirds of kids in poverty are in working households. thats a lot of ‘poorer’ kids w hungry bellies.
im a dumb shit about a lot of stuff but not this, im not ‘uninformed’ about the gravity of the tory proposals to scrap free school lunches (i say ‘proposal’- its all academic now bc they binned it cos theyre on their arses lmao). u just have no idea what constitutes ‘poverty’ or what it ‘looks like’ and ‘cant google shit’ before ‘sending me arsey messages’
so for a few months I’ve been seeing this dude with a HILARIOUS pickup truck that has a decal on the tailgate that makes it look like bigfoot is lying down in the bed seductively, using a raccoon to cover up his unmentionables, but it’s ALWAYS at night I see him so i can’t get a photo of it when I’m stopped behind him at a red light bc my headlights make a glare.
and I was telling Brie and my mom about this yesterday and as the universe so conspired, Brie went to the dentist today and discovered that we share the same one.
– Blendo was put together before Mythbusters was a thing – Blendo was so strong and dangerous (for throwing debris into the audience) that The Boys were asked to withdraw it in exchange for a co champion title – they re-entered Blendo years later when the protective wall was much higher. It was once again asked to be withdrawn for a co champion title for the same reason. – copy cat Blendos started appearing and would tear each other apart – Blendo is in the robot hall of fame – Blendo is too strong and powerful
In an “extremely rare” discovery, scientists have found three previously unknown species of toads living in the Great Basin of Nevada. It’s rare enough to find new amphibians native to the U.S. — where only three frog species have been discovered since 1985 — but new U.S. toads are especially unusual. The last one was the Wyoming toad, which was found in 1968 and is now extinct.
Unfortunately, the scientists who discovered these toads are worried a similar fate may await one of their newfound trio.
The three species were found by biologists from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), who named them the Dixie Valley toad (pictured above), the Railroad Valley toad and the Hot Creek toad. Their habitats don’t overlap, and they’ve been isolated from other toad populations for more than half a million years, according to UNR biology professor and project leader Dick Tracy.
“We’ve found the toads in small, wet habitats surrounded by high desert completely cut off from other populations,” Tracy says in a statement. “These are absolutely new, true species that have been separated from other populations for 650,000 years.”
The [Center for Biological Diversity] will submit a petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Dixie Valley toads — and thus their habitat — under the Endangered Species Act. “If this power plant goes in and the habitat is dried up, this recently discovered species could go extinct,” he says. “It’s a good candidate for an Endangered Species Act listing.”
As for the other new species, the Railroad Valley toad inhabits Tonopah Basin in the central Nevada desert, while the Hot Creek Toad lives about 35 miles away in Hot Creek Mountain Range. All three are endemic to the Great Basin, a watery wonderland during the Pleistocene Epoch that’s now one of the most arid regions in the country. And since these toads managed to stay hidden until now, their discovery suggests we still have a lot to learn about this ancient American landscape.
“Our goal has been to understand the relationships among toad populations in the Great Basin,” Tracy says. “We’ve found that our knowledge of amphibian diversity in the western United States remains incomplete and that novel discoveries continue to occur, even in unlikely settings. This is really, really neat; an exciting thing, to find something not known to exist before.”
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