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  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldtoDo It Yourself@beehaw.org•just spent 2 days descaling the urinestone off my toilet bowls. wtf. Do hippies know better?
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    4 hours ago

    Pretty much. Brick is pretty good for load bearing so 50kg of water is not insane with the right hardware. Some anchors I’ve used were rated to do that with one screw, though I wouldn’t. I read your previous part as hanging from or inside of the ceiling but wall mounting should be good.

    As for using heaters at all, it might not be purpose built, but it’s hard to beat free, even if they might have some quirks. The trick will be getting pressure moving in the right ways at the right time. The line coming from outside should give enough air to let water flow down easily to the cistern as long as you keep out contaminants/wildlife. A first flush and mesh should be able to manage that. And while I haven’t worked with ones like the top pair, ones like the bottom image, in grey, usually have a port at the bottom for draining/cleaning and you could cap off the cold water port, meaning you wouldn’t have to make extra holes. The hot water outlet port is usually at the top of the inner tank so it’d be fine.

    The one thing I’m spotting is to remember the supply line has pressure and a very large supply, so you will have to make sure to either have a one way flow check valve or some other measure to keep it from sending water back up toward your rainwater inlet when using the piped supply or you could end up with a new pool where you don’t want it. Otherwise, very cool idea.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could magically form new nations, which would you break away or unify? (non-serious)
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    5 hours ago

    Lots of fun stupid ideas here…

    • Everyone in the world is now their own microstate with their current position as the start point for a voronoi style distribution of territory.
    • Canada and Canadia are now legally distinct, coterritorial nations. Anyone who refers to themselves as Canadian has the effect of renouncing their citizenship to Canada and joining Canadia. Anyone who refers to themselves as Canadan does the opposite.
    • The world is now divided into nations by elevation rather than latitude and longitude.
    • All locations are redistributed by their affixes. All -stans are one nation. All -villes are another. All -tons and -towns another. All San- and Santa- are another. And so on, and so on. Any conflicts based on having multiple affixes are decided by a fight to the death between randomly chosen locals who prefer one or the other.
    • All areas are formed into nations based on the most common seasoning in that region.
  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldtoDo It Yourself@beehaw.org•just spent 2 days descaling the urinestone off my toilet bowls. wtf. Do hippies know better?
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    2 days ago

    Because softeners have a maintenance cycle, most people want to just have one that serves the whole house rather than little ones for each appliance like some people do with water heaters. The pouch in the cistern is definitely not totally effective, but it’s a small upfront cost as opposed to the cost of plumbing in a system that costs hundreds.

    As for rainwater, there are two parts there: the idea itself and the ceiling storage. I’ve been wanting to do rainwater for a long time. It’s not terribly complex, but requires a bit of money and effort to set up. It’s usually almost pure unless you live in an area with awful air quality, and if it’s only for the toilet(s) it should be fine anyway. On the other hand, the other part with the high mounted storage has to be done very carefully. Depending on your location, you would have to balance storage amount to last between rains, and as the storage gets bigger it gets extremely heavy. (A 50 gal drum of water is over 400 lbs, or ~190kg) A pump you have to service/replace every few years is way easier to deal with than trying to set up a structure to safely hold hundreds of kilos/pounds over your head in a place where leaks could mean heavy water damage to the house.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
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    2 days ago

    Again, that all goes out the window in the case of an actual emergency. The person needs help. In NO case should corporate liability dodging be the reason someone doesn’t get help, regardless of the precise wording of the policy. A policy that can be readily misinterpreted as ‘authorized responders only’ is a bad policy. A policy that places further limitations on the already minimal number of people who could/would volunteer to help is a bad policy. A policy that makes people unsure of what to do is a bad policy. It’s really that simple. Safety and survival trump company liability dodging every single time.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
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    3 days ago

    If someone needs CPR, all that goes out the window. If someone has watched a tiktok vid that gives them the basic knowledge to say ‘this guy’s not breathing. I’m going to try to help him,’ any policy that says ‘no’ is idiotic. CPR is so ineffective already, worrying about how recently trained people are is a gross distortion of priorities. If they need CPR, it’d be nigh impossible to make their day worse. Same goes for worrying about the trauma of performing CPR where it doesn’t actually save the person, which is the vast majority of cases. It’s going to be traumatic no matter what if your coworker is dying, but the idea that you’re going to prioritize the possible emotional trauma of the basically healthy individual over the literal life and death situation of their coworker is a wild way to triage that scene.

    It’s all just liability dodging. If only the managers/safety people are supposed to do it, the company can’t be sued for ‘letting’ untrained personnel help. If the policy says ‘don’t help’ the company can’t be held liable for the workplace mental injury of the trauma of helping. Telling people who aren’t helping to keep the area clear is sensible, though.