A proper septic system is carefully engineered but they can still be quite low tech. Many houses still just have gravel trenches and pits.

My own home doesn’t have any pumps, it just pushes water out as water comes in. My tiny strip of land has deep trenches and the right native soil (deep sand).

More modern systems just need some pressurized lines and only three feet of the right sand to achieve proper treatment of effluents.

A lot of people don’t realize outside sewers and cities, septic systems are a thing and all the sewage goes to a tank that drains out into a patch of soil. A hundred feet/30 meters and usually even a wellhead is considered at a safe range.

Soils do a lot of biological treatment just as the enzymes and bacteria in septic tanks break down and dissolve solids.

UV disinfection and other treatment of sewage on-site is only common in areas with high water tables or proximity to waterbodies under that 100ft/30 meter range.

The majority of modern wastewater comes from other fixtures for laundry, showers, and the kitchen. Toilet sewage is relatively small volumewise.

I get you, but I mean the grand alliance scheme to be including what ultimately became the Quadruple Alliance/Central Powers. The Kaiser’s bellicose disposition is noteworthy but doesn’t mean he wasn’t strategizing around the Entente any less.

The thing about World War 1 is that it was inevitable in the sense the grand alliance scheme demanded total conflict. The sphere of influence approach to peace and balancing powera militarily itself provoked worldwide conflict. Most of World War 1 was a detached elite refusing to recognize reality as they sent wave after wave of people into machinegun fire.

By the time you’re going back to the root of it all you find yourself stabbing Caesar along with the rest of the time travellers.

I have always seen him as an absolute unapologetic grifter in it for the love of the game.

Asmongold fan by typo is a cursed reality of our time.

So the thing about Evangelion…

Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.

There’s a whole lot of people who were too young to remember a quarter century ago.

OP just downvoted my post history. Anonymous or not, I now know that happened, and that’s hilarious to me.

Likewise. This is my only reoccurring issue I have had since switching, and it isn’t consistent enough to really be a problem.

I do notice that after sleep mode when things work fine I’ll get a notification my displays are detected. So I assume display detection is switched off during sleep mode, and maybe not always turning back on.

This community is pretty much singlehanded trashed by this user who nukes everything constantly.

The bridge crossing level and using the crossbow to crucify combine soldiers were about the best parts of the game as I remember it.

If it is chronic those flowers and cards dry up quick. Also the medical care and attention beyond hucking out pills. Which brings us to panel 2…

There should be an Australian guy who is still just hating on China in the 2nd panel anyway.

I think it is more that Americans are so used to extractive austerity and warfunding/fighting that we’ve completely forgot that economies can build civil society.

I wouldn’t use the word ‘delusion’ then. Delusions are predicated on defying incontrovertible proof of falsehood.

They are a defense mechanism. The desire to be deluded is a fear response. Knowing you’re dealing with fear is one thing, but I think this has to be treated more like addiction intervention than some kind of puppet mastery.

Right, and this is Lemmy. I am not sure this is exactly the facebook browsing demographic.

people who have a vision, even if delusional, for a better America.

Knowing the perspective of american liberals is perfectly fine and normal, but that’s not a call to cater to delusion. Delusional visions are not helping.

Probably in this context: the ruling class.

The lack of class awareness here in the comic being why the use of cultural hegemony is lost.