NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.world

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I think weekly, and the number of cubic metres you get at each price point should depend on the number of identification cards registered at your address.

If we use a model rate of $3 per cubic metre as a baseline, and you, your spouse, and two children all consume the average amount of water per day (225 L), the household would consume 6.3 m³ of water per week. You would be billed $3 per m³ for the first 4 m³. Then you would be billed $6 per m² for the next 2.3 m³. This totals $25.80 for the week.

If we consider a two-person household, just you and your spouse, water usage would be 3.15 m³ for the week and you would be billed $3 per m³ for the first 2 m³ and $6 per m³ for the last 1.15 m³. That totals $12.90 per week.

Under the current system, you would be billed $4.287 per m³ which comes out to $27.00 for the 4-person household and $13.50 for the two-person household per week, so my system results in roughly the same water bill for average consumers.

On the other hand, if you're a Hollywood actor living in a mansion with your spouse and each using 5 times the average water usage in order to water a huge garden and run a water fountain, your water usage would be 15.75 m³ per week, for which you would be billed $1,434 for that week.

If you use another 12 m³ to top up your swimming pool because the Kardashians or some other trashy celebrities are coming over for a party hosted at your mansion, your water bill for using 27.75 m³ that week would shoot up to $92,147.

In comparison, even if you are being penalised by the Department of Water and Power for excessive usage today, you're still only charged a maximum of $5.414 per m³, so that actor would be charged only $85.27 at most for the normal week and $150.24 for the pool week.

I do not claim that. The Chinese government absolutely lies when they need to. I am just saying that they have a track record of not lying in this manner, because they don't need to.

In China, the level of trust people have in the Government is very high compared to the US and Europe. That is the reason why this policy would work and would have reasonable public support.

In the US or Europe, a policy that seems reasonable but could be exploited by the Government for political control is a bad policy. In China, people have already sort of accepted that the Government is pretty secure in its position so it really doesn't need to suppress speech in roundabout ways; if the intention is to suppress speech then they will be explicit about it by using the words "this threatens state security" or "this is offensive to public morals". The thing about being a secure authoritarian regime with reasonable popular support is that you don't need to come up with pretexts to suppress speech or dissent. You can just say "this threatens our power" and put a stop to it. If the policy states the goal is to stop uninformed people from spewing nonsense on the Internet then people will accept that to be true, and the reality is that it probably is what the goal is.

Also, not mentioned is the fact that celebrities in Los Angeles were using thousands of cubic metres of water to keep their massive gardens green, decorative fountains flowing, and their swimming pools full during a drought, while ordinary people were only allowed to water their lawns three times a week.

Water usage should be price exponentially so that each cubic metre costs double what the previous one did.

Pot brownies are popular in the United States, which are baked at 180 degrees Celsius. I think the idea is to protect the components that contain THC, i.e. the crust and sauce.

For that reason, thin-crust pizzas like New York-style pizza are out. They are too thin and would expose the THC to high temperatures. Neapolitan pizza is also out because there is nothing protecting the cannato sauce from the 400-degree wood-fired oven. That leaves thick-crust pan pizzas.

Chicago-style pizza is a possibility despite the fact that the sauce is on top of the cheese, because there is so much of it that it becomes soupy. It might be possible to pour ordinary tomato sauce on top of the cannato sauce to protect it. Conversely, Detroit-style pizza does not have very much sauce at all so it's out.

I think the best contender is a Pizza Hut-style pan pizza, which has a thick crust and an edge-to-edge layer of cheese on top of it, which I think would do a good job protecting the delicate sauce underneath.

THC oil in the dough, cannatoe-based sauce with dried ground weed added as a garnish... might just send you straight to God.

I wonder if it is biologically possible to grow a cannabis-tomato hybrid. Like a tomacco, but it's actually a cannato.

Cannatoes could be used to make pizza into an edible, which might be too much for mere human minds to comprehend.

I would not be surprised if Meta advertised such a thing to prospective employees as a legitimate benefit of the job. A built-in VR goon cave with 30 TB of material available. Limit 1 hour per person, bookings required 6 months in advance. Sessions subject to monitoring for security and training purposes. May contain trace amounts of Zuck.

Javier Milei actually having a degree in economics just goes to show that having an education doesn't guarantee you're not stupid.

Food in the kitchen is usually measured in pounds for meat and vegetables (similar to the UK) and grams for most other dry goods. So the recipe would call for 2 pounds of beef but 5 grams of salt. The Costco hot dogs are guaranteed to weigh at least ¼ pound.

The most confusing thing is soda, because it is sold in containers of either 350 mL, 16 oz, or 2 L.

Edit: Photograph of Costco hot dog. They are also sold at the food court for $1.50 each, and it comes with unlimited soda from the Coca-Cola machine in the background. This is probably why Americans are so fat.

They're like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco

This is fantastic news for the Mamdani campaign.

The symbol in question:

If this had been a right-wing politician's rally instead, every conservative in the country would be calling for all members of the Democratic Party to be hanged for this heinous crime, regardless of the identity or motive of the perpetrator.

In the past, the Supreme Court has ruled that penalising someone for failing to file or omitting information on a form which would incriminate them violates Amendment 5.

The case was regarding a tax imposed on gambling. People who ran gambling operations had to pay a tax of 10% of the amounts wagered and register with the IRS. At this time, gambling was illegal (almost) nationwide. The IRS then made those registration records available to gaming authorities, who would use them to prosecute anyone who registered.

The court ruled that forcing them to register and then providing this information to gaming authorities to prosecute people violated Amendment 5, and thus a person so convicted for failing to register could assert an Amendment 5 privilege against conviction.

Edit: Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39

What Dutch, English, or German speakers think about speakers of the other languages

The more I hear from this woman, the more I feel like there might actually be a decent heart deep down inside who wants to better her country, but is being hindered by an incredibly stupid brain that is calling the shots.