[ SECRET POST #3115 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3115 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Tom Selleck]


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03.
[Kylie Bunbury]


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[My Life as a Teenage Robot]


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05.
[The Raid 2]


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06.
[Ore Monogatari]


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[noel fielding]


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08.
[Matsumoto Jun, Arashi]


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[The Quiz Broadcast (That Mitchell and Webb Look)]








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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

Is this tar season anon gone subtle?

[a_potato]

Nah, this is actually a real thing. California is in the grips of a very serious drought and has been for some time.

Check it out:

[kallanda_lee]

Holy crap I had no idea.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a big controversy in that state, especially because people are ticked off over rich people taking more than their fair share of water (because they can afford to pay the penalties) to keep their lawns green and swimming pools filled. Tom Selleck isn't the only person doing it, unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

The swimming pools and those stupid lawns that have to be watered daily just to exist (lawns in a desert!) would annoy me more than a farm growing things that people actually eat.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. But Selleck's farm in particular is a hobby for him, not his livelihood. And because he's got the money, he can circumvent the laws that restrict water usage for people like him while people who actually farm for a living cannot.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but he employs other people to work the farm. And those are trees. They take years to get into production, you don't just plow them over each season and start fresh each year like strawberries or lettuce.

I don't think half the people here griping about irrigating a farm have a clue how agriculture works.

[(Anonymous)]

All the other farms who don't have Selleck's financial advantages also employ people (arguably more of them since they're not doing it for a hobby) and some of them also have tree crops, though. Don't get me wrong, I'd be said if his avocado trees died due to lack of water, but this is a problem every single farmer in the drought area is facing. Selleck at least doesn't have to worry about going bankrupt and losing his shirt if his farm fails.

[(Anonymous)]

agreed. sure, it would be nice if he had been charitable to his fellow farmers, or maybe watered the trees just well enough for them to survive... but it's still pretty neutral behavior.

[(Anonymous)]

residential water usage makes up around 10% of the state's total usage. all those rich people could stop filling their pools and watering their laws immediately and it wouldn't begin to make a dent. our problem is that a desert isn't meant to be farm land, and industry saps us of every other bit of our water.

[ginainthekingsroad]

Californian here. One of the big issues is that the government has been telling people to conserve water for years. Strongly for about as long as I've been alive (25+ years), but pushing it since the 1970s. We are conserving water. But the vast majority of California's water isn't for residential usage at all; it's for agriculture!

So there's several things that have to adapt, but so much of the country depends on CA for food crops. And achieving sustainability means higher food prices around the country, which everyone not in CA doesn't want. I mean we don't really want that either, but if that's what it takes to help this state, yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow.

[(Anonymous)]

I read somewhere that California is currently in drought to the amount of 126trillion liters of water. That if you took the recent storms that afflicted Texas, and had that amount of rainfall constantly and disregarding runoff and loss with an assumption of total retention, it would take 6-8 months of that level of rain to restore California to pre-drought conditions.

I just can't take figures of that size in. It is just mind bogglingly huge.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, plus we're pumping so much groundwater so fast the entire state is basically a sinkhole. And when aquifers collapse, it's not even possible to refill them again. I keep hunting for household greywater/desalinization systems, but they seem to all be a) not legal in most or all of California and b) mostly only available in some countries in Africa. Dude, I don't care if it's toilet to tap, I just want to be able to grow food and a few flowers. I've never had a lawn in my life.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe contact your local university or community college?
Also, look up the word xeriscaping. It's the science of water conservation as applied to gardening and agriculture in a water scarce environment.