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I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?

Almost no matter how you do it, it's going to be a horrible waste of good drinking water to try to extract cooling from the temperature of the water. If you are in a dry climate, make a DIY swamp cooler. Otherwise shell out for a small AC unit.

Also; using your free lease-included water for stuff like that, is probably the quickest way to no longer have water included in your lease...

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Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

"The Ocean Cleanup" is a great effort and I support their mission wholeheartedly. BUT looking at the bigger picture; it seems completely asinine to fish garbage put of the ocean and call that the solution to pollution, instead of preventing it from getting there in the first place. This is not meant as a criticism of "The Ocean Cleanup", but of global society in general. One minute you see them removing the Pacific garbage patch and the next you see whole rivers covered in plastic waste flowing out into the ocean from certain countries.

Edit: Fishing it out of the rivers before it enters the ocean is also a good effort. But it doesn't address the underlying problem any better than cleaning ot out of the ocean. Also; some people seem to think I'm bashing "The Ocean Cleanup" and similar organisations. I'm very much not. They do great, necessary work. I'm just frustrated that said work is needed, and more importantly; that it doesn't seem to be on track to stop being needed anytime in the near-ish future.

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To be fair; of all the large cats to try befriending, a cheetah is probably one of the least bad options. Contrary to panthers and leopards, they don't have the ambush instinct compelling them to attack you when your back is turned.

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Water Containing Radioactive Materials Spills Over at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Due to Earthquakes

What a retarded, fear mongering headline. Nothing even happened! A tiny amount of water has sloshed over the edge of two fuel cooling pools INSIDE the containment area. During a freaking earthquake. I'm pretty sure that is entirely expected and within operating parameters for a plant like this.

Now I'm not really a big fan of nuclear power in general, but this is dumb...

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Russian war goal: “unified state” including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, says Kremlin official

Russia says; they just want Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Crimea, and a guarantee that Ukraine will never be part of NATO or the EU, then there will be lasting peace.

This article here just further confirms how much of a blatant lie that statement is. Anyone who believes, that a peace treaty granting Russia those territories is anything but a respite for Russian rearmament, needs their head checked...

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Anon looks up Danish cuisine

They are for making "smørrebrød" in commercial kitchens. Basically nobody has these at home. We use normal hard boiled eggs, like everyone else. These exist solely to minimize waste when the "smørrebrød" needs to be "pretty", with no slices of egg without yolk. And to save labour on peeling eggs.