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[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was about to write back that we are not far off the advances to make these affordable and then did a google search and found that you can get a distilled unit on Amazon for $180 that is capable of making a gallon in 5 hours for about $.45 worth of electricity. That is far less than what it costs to buy distilled water at the store, which is around $1 a gallon. If you look at this from a break-even analysis, you technically start to reap the rewards of ownership after about 800 uses since the first 400 uses basically cost you $1.45 per gallon, then the next 400 costs you $.45 per gallon, but you are recouping that extra cost over the $1 retail price, so by the 800th use, you are getting water at less than half the price of the store.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Not necessarily. It just requires excitation at a molecular level. You can get creative with your source. They have been playing around with low energy methods like LED or even just using the sun, geothermal, etc.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Distill water, then add minerals back into it, and bottle in glass, profit.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago

What if that tent was firing rockets though.

[–] porkins 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t we get their side of the story?

[–] porkins -2 points 7 months ago

Just playing devil’s advocate, but is it possible that the resources existed for these people to leave their war zone homes and they chose to stay in a war zone where they were told that if they stay, they would be considered enemy combatants? It feels like this supposed ethnic community would come together and help each other out. I feel like there are two sides to every story. The IDF said that the homes that burned contained terrorist stuff. It’s possible for the bad guys to have families and still be bad guys. They put their own families in harms way for their ideology.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well. If no one can claim land permanently, then it all becomes a negotiation of words and actions regarding who gets to live where. The people in Palestinian Territories are beholden to those that let them have their independence. They abused those freedoms granted to them. If they did not like settlers in their territory, then they should have treated the situation diplomatically instead of murdering and raping like savages. Hamas should surrender instead of hiding behind civilians.

[–] porkins 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They seem like they might do things like that.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What you seem to be saying then is that the argument that past colonialism doesn’t matter therefore present colonialism shouldn’t matter either.

[–] porkins 1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Archaeology has repeatedly confirmed that the Jewish peoples originated in the Southern Levant thousands of years prior to Arabs leaving the Arabian Peninsula. Archaeology has also repeatedly confirmed that the presence of Arabs and the Arabic language in the Middle East and North Africa everywhere outside of the Arabian Peninsula, including the Southern Levant where Israel is situated, is the result of past imperialist colonialist expansions and forced assimilations.

Historic records repeatedly emphasize not only the Indigenous presence of Jews in the Southern Levant, but the fact that there remained a number of them in the Southern Levant to meet every outside group which came into the region, including Arabs. Even Arabic and Ottoman Empire historical records confirm that Jews were in the Southern Levant before them.

Case in point, the historic and linguistic origins of the name, "Jew." European languages call Jews "Jude," "Jew," etc, because they are shortened derivations from "Judean." A "Judean" is a native of "Judea" which was one the historic Jewish nations in the Southern Levant which predates Arabs arriving in the Southern Levant. Even the terms that Arabic speakers use for Jews, "Yahud" and "Yahudi," testify that Jews are the Indigenous population of the Southern Levant. As there is no "J" sound in Hebrew, the actual name of "Judea" was "Yahuda." A "Yahud" or "Yahudi" is a native of the historical Southern Levantine nation of "Yahuda."

[–] porkins 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They were all being manipulated by a cult, so not sure if this is the exact justice that’s required.

[–] porkins 0 points 8 months ago

I’m saying that we get to a happy medium where employers aren’t empowered to do wrong by their employees because they know that a bad contract may not withstand future arbitration, even if the employee does sign, but the employer does get a better guarantee that they are investing in a long-term asset. The employee does sign something though that is binding and they are not off-the-hook if the contract is executed without malice. In turn, they get an education. It’s a win-win.

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