TL;DR: Energy prices quadrupling in England. 70% of pubs closing. Winter will kill many people and make many more seriously ill. NHS will be stretched thin. Far bigger crash than 2008 inbound. The poor are the victims as usual.

Brits told to get used to drinking sewage, as well.

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  • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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    2 years ago

    Brits told to get used to drinking sewage, as well.

    p.s. this is a non issue, like, phrasing it like that makes it sound like they're being told to literally drink sewage but they're talking about processing drinking water from sewage which is just something that sounds gross but isn't. Distilled water is distilled water is distilled water whether it comes from a river or gets evaporated from your poo poo

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, there was a big debate over this in Aus during the Great Drought in the 2000s, and everyone on the right was so "eww, poop" that we ended up building a useless desal plant using the right wing's grifter construction teams.

      Half of Europe recycles grey and brown water.

      • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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        2 years ago

        as long as there's no poop or bacteria in the drinking water there ain't no probalo i tell you hwut

        tell these same people "wow it's like a stillsuit from dune :awooga: " and they'd support it

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Half of Europe recycles grey and brown water.

        But is it the Good (tm) half of Europe or the Eastern half of Europe?

    • Dyno [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      problem is the water is privatised too so nobody trusts the water companies to adequately treat said poo-poo water