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[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 85 points 1 year ago

The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Apparently it’s the hose that’s the problem, something about it breaking down or whatnot.

[-] SGG@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Well obviously, it's probably depressed from getting called a hoes all the time.

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[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

People used to eat lead paint chips, too. Now they run our government.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

Can you describe where the lead chips from tap water going through rubber comes from?

[-] crabArms@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In brass fittings and brass spigots, for one.

And lots of weird/toxic shit in hoses that isn't lead (like plasticizers etc), because of the manufacturing process. And because hoses aren't by default regulated for Safe Water standards.

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At my childhood home, I wouldn't drink the tap inside without a filter either. And my parents don't trust it even if it has been through a filter. Only reason I'd drink directly from the outside faucet is if I'm really in need of water and there's no other viable option.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's not always the case. If a house has a well and later gets water from a utility, they will often keep exterior taps running well water because it's a lot cheaper than abandoning the well. So, technically, you could have water that's safe to drink inside the house but still have unsafe water outside.

Also, if the house has filters or other water treatment that generally isn't used for the exterior (though that's typically more about taste and mineral content, rather than anything hazardous).

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[-] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago

Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.

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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie. Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.

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[-] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago

Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.

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[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago

I'm gen z and did this as well.
Stop pitting generations against each other.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The whole generation thing gets so much funnier when you think how other countries exist.

Imagine you experience a military coup at age of 10 and flee to North Iraq with your family where you live for a few years until your Asylum status gets processed and come to US.

Because of how weird whole process is however you still have to stay in a migrant detention center for anywhere between 2 days to several months depending on your age and gender as they check your papers and luggage.
Photo of migrant detention centers. Basically a cage with too many people inside (It looks like this btw.)

Then some highschool teacher calls you overgrown toddler because "your generation is too sissy to drink from a hose."

[-] Katzimir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Oof. Poignant. hope you're safe these days.

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[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Did this and it was glorious after playing bball in the driveway. Nothing better.

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[-] Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it's all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.

[-] dmention7@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago

Used to drink out of the hose all the time growing up in the 80s, but it was usually after playing in the sprinkler or otherwise running the hose for quite awhile. But never really thought twice about it either way.

Now as an adult the hose water always has this super appealing nostalgic smell, but I don't run it very often, and the idea of whatever might be lurking in that stagnant water just squicks me out too much to take a swig :(

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was born mid eighties and grew up in South Florida. You better believe we learned to let the hose run for a solid minute before even thinking about drinking from it.

Also most filters don't filter out pthalates.

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[-] j5906@feddit.org 23 points 1 year ago

I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the "savings" these measures had.

Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.

If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I still laugh about boomers bitching about participation trophies while being the ones handing them out

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Have a sip of water that's been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

We just ran the water a bit

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[-] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago

Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.

They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah....

[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 19 points 1 year ago

As a gen X I always think it's kinda weird how Gen Z (or whatever is the last), care about health considered the shitty world they're supposed to meet.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's because a lot of Gen Z already have health problems that they can't afford to go to the doctor for. Or if they can afford it, the doctor doesn't know how or doesn't care about treating it. I know a healthcare provider that said they can't believe how many young people come in with old people diseases.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago

Because they live in a poisoned world. If you know you're constantly being poisoned, do you accept it, or do you become worried about the level of poison?

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Social media and short videos. That's why there's a reason young girls to young women have a eating disorders and it's going up.

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 1 year ago

And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?

  • Gen Z and Gen Alpha
[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago

Aren't Gen X the parents of Gen Z? That feels more like a failure on gen X for not teaching the ancient art of outside hose drinking.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Gen Z and Gen Alpha because anyone younger can't afford to have kids. Been seeing plenty of people in their late 40s and early-to-mid 50s with young children, but almost nobody under 40 with kids.

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[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My kids got to drink from a hose. Nothing was more refreshing then drinking cool water from a hose as a kid. As an adult still not to bad.

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[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Libs: owned

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let's see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They'll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.

The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.

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[-] salty_chief@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

I can taste this.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

GenX have higher amounts of brain damage from lead poisoning, and earlier this year Trump saw a spike in support from GenX:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-gen-x-polls-2099640

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