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…

Yup. Kinda why I’ve been using my gmail account as image storage for the last 19 years, and nothing else, since I made it.

That was stated from the get-go, that Google reserved the right to scan for potential ad-words in order to advertise a product you might have written about in a correspondence.

I think that the folks in the town of Jaba might beg to disagree with you.

I have a PC that was originally built as a hackintosh, so if I just pull the main Windows drive and install a new SSD in it’s place, and boot to an installer USB, it should work, yeah?

Am ready to try Bazzite as I only game on the PC at this point and my OS (Win10 Pro) is constantly nagging me to update the hardware as my current kit doesn’t have the TPM 2.0 that the newer OS needs…

You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.

It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

LOL!

We’ve all been there…

Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.

I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.

Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

Oh sweet Jesus! LOL! This is me, though not with Linux, but trying to use Macports to get some damn program running and failing miserably because I couldn’t get the permissions set on the dependencies correctly.

Rake right to the face. FML.