“whatever you do don’t forget to check the big tab is on the left and the little tab is on the right, even if you get it backwards it won’t close as a safety precaution.”

Gets call of machine not working in another country, sends out consultant.

Big tab is on the right, little tab is on the left and the entire tray has been forced into position because “it wasn’t closing properly so we had to apply a lot of force”

Professionals with confidence are the absolute worst, I tell ever consultant or technician that comes into my lab “I’ll be in the corner if you need me to grab you any supplies or coffee, do you mind if I ask questions as you go so I can have a better understanding of what’s going on with this magical box”. I like to think they appreciate me.

You’d complain about a ton of gold being too heavy wouldn’t you?

Your citation needed and my citation needed are very different things!

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I have family that can’t drink their tap water because it’s practically brackish (is was entirely brackish when someone pierced the aquifer boundary and created a hole that filled the underground reservoir with the nearby sea water, that lasted about 18 months, the entire community was on water that was being trucked in while a new well was discovered and drilled), their water is insanely subsidized, and still pretty expensive. The community is about 200 houses, each with access to Ocean/River inlet water, I don’t know a single one of them that wouldn’t go for this option. Their water is so heavily mineralized that filters lifetimes are hours to days. And then maybe they can allow the aquifers to refill, and maybe their houses wouldn’t be sinking as quickly…

“The researchers estimate that if the system is scaled up to the size of a small suitcase, it could produce about 4 to 6 liters of drinking water per hour and last several years before requiring replacement parts. At this scale and performance, the system could produce drinking water at a rate and price that is cheaper than tap water.”

Holy eff, I was expecting “per day” after 4-6 liters from a suitcase size device… That’s more water than I consume in a day, even on double flush days. Of course it would only be during daylight, and with full sun I imagine. But that’s still so much water!

Because what goes better around electronics than conductive liquids?

Gamers trying to show up Republicans for who the real snowflakes are.