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[incognito]

The solution is simple, children, make your own water !
Nobel price.

[Master]

Tap water up north is kinda decent, I don't tend to have bottled water unless I'm in London. I guess it depends on where the water is sourced from.

[Adsolution]

I always drink bottled water, our tap water here in Vancouver tastes like bitter, sticky, repulsive shit. Yet, you'll have proud Canadians always claiming and citing stuff that says we have the "best tap water in the world". No, it's awful, seriously.

That being said, the tap water in LA is delicious, easily comparable to very good bottled water brands.

Bottled water in the US is retarded anyway, either you got the brands like Dasani and Deja Blue which just taste like the plastic they come in or it's like norwegian spiritual buddhism mountain water that costs 20 bucks because it has a picture of a tropical island on the cover.

I drink Evian, it's really good. It's a bit more expensive than horse crap like Dasani, but it's not marketed as being exotic, its price point comes from it actually being really good. It's tasty, to the point where I've been drinking less pop in favour of it.

[Bradandez]

You drink it from the sink though. That's not how we do it here.

[Adsolution]

Well I drank from a water fountain at Knott's, unless you're actually supposed to put the water in your ass or something. Did I even have water at your place?

[Snagglebee]

We often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

[PluMGMK]

What about climate change? I know it's not from outside this world, but it is a threat that all humans face. People deny it even exists.

[Adsolution]

We often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

-And then come back as soon as the threat is gone.

[Keane]

What about climate change? I know it's not from outside this world, but it is a threat that all humans face. People deny it even exists.

More realistically I imagine a continuation of too-little-too-late efforts until the effects become too apparent to ignore, at which point remedying the problem is such an intense task that it plummets everyone into a crisis and a war or two over resources breaks out. I don't believe in an apocalypse scenario, but I do think we're probably going to lose some very valuable things that we really didn't have to.

But it's difficult to really predict how climate change will play out seeing as it's stretched out over such a long period of time and with so many different aspects to it, but there's plenty reason to be worried when the US just elected another round of "breitbart told me it isn't real" VS "i'll recycle a plastic bottle every other day." They're like the fucking dimwits from the first day of Majora's Mask.

[Xenon]

Nah I think fully green energy will be standard in the not-too-distant future. I think a more pressing issue will be the supply of food and particularly meat, although manufactured laboratory meat will probably come in soon to combat that. Still, deforestation and urbanisation and things like that are pretty awful to behold...

[Hunchman801]

I always drink tap water, at least in Europe. Don't mind it at all.

[Bradandez]

BUT NOT FROM A GOD DAMN SINK!

[Keane]

Nah I think fully green energy will be standard in the not-too-distant future. I think a more pressing issue will be the supply of food and particularly meat, although manufactured laboratory meat will probably come in soon to combat that. Still, deforestation and urbanisation and things like that are pretty awful to behold...

I'm confident most nations will move to greener practices over time, but I think for some they just don't understand the size of climate change. I think Bernie Sanders really put the nail in the coffin by comparing its threat to World War II - You really have to transform and move on to the "next stage" in technology to properly hold it back. Which makes it painfully frustrating when you've got politicians who just throw an occasional bone to the problem and pat themselves on the back for being so pro-environment.

And I'm so terrified we're just not going to get it right. Everything is moving faster than anticipated - ice is melting faster, oceans are rising faster, but government was already behind the pace of older calculations. Even if people fully embraced climate change like a military operation we'd have enormous tasks to face, but instead we get sleazy fucking media going "truth or hoax huh?!", dense right-wingers and politicians with corporate worldviews. You can't even begin to address climate change to a government that's in bed with corporate cash and lobbying, and every election cycle that gets squandered we're adding another couple checkmarks on the list of irreversible disasters.

BUT NOT FROM A GOD DAMN SINK!

Tap water doesn't necessarily taste like ebola in Europe, that's what life is like over there in those "first world" countries!

[Adsolution]

I'm producing my friend's band, and they did a cover of Close by Nick Jonas. I really love the way this turned out, especially the second verse, with all the cool, dark, chicka-chicka guitar effects:
This is one of my first attempts at doing a more pop-style production (including stuff like the robotic harmonies during the second and third choruses and the outro). I also played the piano parts.

[Dart]

Not bad. TBH though I feel that the singer's performance doesn't really pick up until 2:02, something about how he sings early doesn't feel quite right; like maybe if he had started singing softer and worked his way up getting louder with time.

[Pirez]

Well, it's been great making fun of our Amerifat comrades for Donald Trump, but that time is over : Nicolas Sarkozy is officially a candidature for the french presidency.

Of course it's not worse, but it's not better either.

[incognito]

My god.... I remember 2012 like if it was yesterday, dammit, I'm getting old.
And Incognito was already born.

[Fifo]

[message retracted]

Why would you care what the message said?

[Earth Gwee]

*peeks in after being away for months*

[Fifo]

*peeks in after being away for months*

*says hi to Gwee*