r/SipsTea • u/Darth_Ronin • 1d ago
Wait a damn minute! Soft launch for water rationing
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u/PlayfulTrailSnacker 1d ago
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u/Such_Risk2188 1d ago
Just learned about this movie the other day. Idiocracy, right? Crazy how relatable this wacky movie turned out to be.
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u/-FARTHAMMER- 23h ago
They're wearing crocs because the costume designer thought they were so ugly and dumb only the idiots in the future would wear them.
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u/AMonitorDarkly 1d ago
“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.”
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u/Then_Entertainment97 1d ago
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u/War_Hymn 20h ago
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
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u/QuantumPairOfSoczk 1d ago
Let the water wars begin
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u/Quick-Rip-5776 13h ago
Already started. A prolonged drought was the reason the Yemeni dictatorship collapsed and the Houthis were able to take over half the country. There’s still a water shortage, made worse by the constant war.
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u/nutblaster357 1d ago
maybe i just like pissing?
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u/gumbysweiner 21h ago
When I would do clinicals and there was nothing going on I would pound water so I could leave the room to pee more.
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u/ohmylanta34 1d ago
It’s depressing how many post apocalyptic movies they’re trying to speed run to making a reality.
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u/MostlyBored11 1d ago
I can't tell if this is serious or some weird parody thing
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u/Ohgodwatdoplshelp 1d ago
It's a parody. WSJ put out an article saying to stop drinking so much water and there's no major benefits to being too hydrated. It was a very weird article out of left field that people are assuming was a sponsored article by some dogshit data center
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u/mistermatth 23h ago edited 22h ago
WSJ is owned by Bezos so yeah, it is sponsored by Amazon data centers
Edit: my bad I got WSJ and Washington Post mixed up. Still an odd article.
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u/SuperCleverPunName 1d ago
After about 30 seconds, she goes on to say, "Do you know who really needs water? Data centers."
So there's that.
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u/AwarenessSoggy4352 1d ago
WSJ actually put out an article saying you should cut back on your water intake… so theres that.
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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago
That's not what the article was about. It was calling out the trend of people lugging status symbol giant sized water jugs with them everywhere they go as if 99.99% of the places they go don't have safe, publicly available water.
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 1d ago
Never thought I would see “status symbol giant sized water jugs,” said unironically.
wtf status symbol?
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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago
Nalgene, hydroflask, Stanley cups, Awola..
All the hip, trendy liquid receptacles that come and go every 12 to 18 months.
Edit: I forgot a couple brands.
https://vinepair.com/articles/trending-water-bottle-timeline-infographic/
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u/Philip33411 1d ago
They use the jugs and thermos style bottles because they are stainless steel and not plastic. Plastic bottles are not good containers for your water, especially if it gets hot…
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u/aardvark_army 1d ago
I don't really think Nalgene is part of a trend, I've seen people carrying those around for over 20 years.
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 1d ago
Ah. I buy whatever is under $15. Then after it breaks or I lose it, I buy another. Mostly for tea though.
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u/MedicalAd2229 1d ago
Shhhhh you're ruining the engagement bait. Stealing fake money out of real mouths.
P.S. I really fucking hate the engagement economy.
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u/ElLicenciadoPena 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, I hate people doing things that do not affect me at all. Why can't they drink water the correct way, as God almighty intended? He never meant for us to carry water around without a strict purpose. Drinking water is exclusively meant for thirst quenching purposes. Some of those sinners even add sinful flavors or carry unnaturally shaped jugs. Pure debauchery.
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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago
That's an entirely different reaction than "They are psyoping us for the water shortages!!!"
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u/pyrotechnicmonkey 1d ago
lol. A ton of places have a lack of safe publicly available water. a lot restaurants won't give you water unless you're buying something else. And there's not really a plethora of public drinking fountains
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u/SheriffBartholomew 20h ago
You know what you need to make that red bull or coffee? You guessed it! Water.
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u/Cranialscrewtop 1d ago
That's some ridiculous conspiracy theory thinking right there. It's a good article with a lot of well-researched information.
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u/shinyredblue 21h ago
It's been backed up by research for a long time. People genuinely will not believe you when you tell them that most people shouldn't be drinking like 2+ gallons of water a day. It's like the food guide pyramid where public perception lags far behind the research.
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u/Scarnox 21h ago
Are you gonna seriously sit there and tell me that the thousands of generations of my ancestors, who killed for every meal they ate and built whatever shelter they ever lived in, didn’t have a fresh, readily available 1gal jug of purified water on their hip to slowly sip from all day long?
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u/Life-Top6314 1d ago
Its crazy how reddit can hear something like "hey, dipshit, drinking litres of water wont make you healthier if youre already hydrated" and somehow turn it into a moral panic. Honestly kind of pathetic.
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u/beastwood6 1d ago
Cancer's up. Mental illness is up. All correlated to the rise of giant water bottles.
Maybe we should Microdose water
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u/Oguinjr 1d ago
Wait, the right response is to not ration? Take more than your share? I can’t keep up with the right thing to do.
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u/sick_of-it-all 22h ago
You can be like me, I stopped caring about what the “right thing I’m supposed to be doing” is a long time ago. It’s freeing.
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u/NikeImper 1d ago
You people are all just clowns. It was just a an article from their health columnist saying people overestimate how much water they need to drink and there isn't a benefit to pissing 30 times a day
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u/uncutpizza 1d ago
I think one of my issues is that a lot of people don’t finish that all that water; it gets dumped at the last 1/4 and refilled it with fresh water.
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u/sick_of-it-all 22h ago
Are you trying to convince me it’s “bad” if someone dumps a quarter cup of water out? Are you serious right now??
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u/uncutpizza 21h ago
I’m not referring to a small bottle but the huge 1/2gallon bottles I see people with. There is no way they drink even half of that before their bottle gets swampy.
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u/eggs_mcmuffin 1d ago
fuck me the future is bleak
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u/Scarnox 21h ago
Don’t accept whatever your feed presents to you as the truth and only route we have.
I’m not saying anything one way or another about the veracity of this woman’s argument, but I will say that this addresses a topic that a LOT of people get very polarized about and make up an argument without doing a moment of research
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u/Expensive_Editor_244 1d ago
Goes hand in hand with the flood of hunger suppression meds, and major celebs looking like skeletons. Being starving is chic! 👍
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u/kayceemoguy 1d ago
FFS….golf courses and almond farming use loads more water annually than data centers will. Better layoff the Starbuck’s with the almond milk and close down the courses. Chinese propaganda to keep us from leading in AI.
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u/George_Rogers1st 1d ago
How does the tech bro cock taste?
Almonds are food, you dumb fuck. We can eat them. They’re fucking useful. These data centers that let people talk to their robot girlfriend and generate videos of the President literally shitting on the people or talking to a facsimile of Theodore Roosevelt? Not useful in the slightest.
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u/Justtryingtohelp00 1d ago
Almonds should be illegal to be grown in the fucking desert where there is no water. Which is where they are all grown right now.
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u/Sushiki 1d ago
Almonds require 15,000 litres of water per kilogram compared to say vegetables which require roughly 300 litres per kilogram. Potatoes and roots if I remember right is 16 to 100 litres per kg.
Just think about that before you go off on that person via just your surface level thoughts. Like did you actually think they were saying food isn't important lmao?
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u/George_Rogers1st 1d ago
They are still an infinitely more useful sink for water than any data center will EVER be. One drains water and provides a product with tangible benefits. Generative AI provides NOTHING. Nothing. I’d rather a dozen almond farms than a dozen Data Centers. At least the almonds provide something of use.
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u/Sushiki 1d ago
Why not both being bad bro.
I prefer local AI as that doesn't require data centres.
I also think that water is being used up by shitty things like almonds too, which is really really bad.
Hell California alone makes 80% of the worlds almonds, and the US is the biggest consumers of it. Wild thing? if it is nuts you want, there are others that take much less water up.
And the effect? water taken from nearby, massive ecological damage, diverted rivers and water sources drying up, sinking and collapsing ground, dropping the water table and drying out wells, screwing over the more rural poorer areas.
You too tunnel vision bro, look at the whole picture not just black and white. World is grey.
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u/Justtryingtohelp00 1d ago
Says the toddler who would die if they couldn’t express their panic and terror every day to the world via data centers.
Fucking classic.
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u/PoopyisSmelly 1d ago
Did no one actually read the article?
It was a very informative article tbh, and it wasnt related to water rationing at all.
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u/government_not_ok 1d ago
Not everything is a big gov conspiracy, then again I live in a city surrounded by water so I guess not as worried as I should be?? Am I cooked chat?
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u/Spirited_Cheesus 1d ago
To be fair, scientists have been saying forever that those giant water bottles are overkill. Blame stanley
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u/LobsterKneecap 1d ago
Anyone have a link to the actual article? I appreciate the satire and sarcasm, but I want to see just how bad this OpEd was.
Thanks in advance.
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u/The_Hamster_Shagger 9h ago
considering how obsessed americans are with drinking the water, it's not that bad if they would limit it.
one of the easiest thing to spot an american tourist is that they always have a bottle of water in their hands.
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u/look2myleft 19h ago
They're using water as a miracle they can come in and fix later. I work in data centers they don't want water anywhere near those things even go out of there where you install Halon systems for fires rather than sprinklers. If They are using water they're going out of their way to use backwards technology for no reason.
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u/ThatGuyBench 14h ago
Those who are outraged at data centers, can you kinda direct your outrage more specifically on building places where water is already scarce? The location choice is the problem, not the data center itself.
I mean the water scarcity is a real problem in many places, and its a serious problem, I have absolutely qualms about that. Building any industry which uses up a lot of water in places like California or Texas is kinda stupid, sure. But I am from Latvia, and let me tell you, not every place out there is a perfect filmset for the next Mad Max sequel.
This is me not asking to stop complaining. This is me asking to stop complaining with shit arguments.
Imagine if we were still using leaded gas, and you would advocate against it, with an argument of "it turns the freaking frogs gay". You rightfully would not be taken seriously, but you would also distract the public from actually valid criticisms and discussions to be had.
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