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There's a kernel of a good idea here, though. We need to massively invest in global desalination and transport of the fresh water which results to address the real issues of drought and crop failure which will drive suffering, poverty, and mass migration for many generations to come. Desalination can help with a lot of the risks we and our children are about to face, but it requires huge investment and policy support to achieve.

Passionately

Harrison Ford tells the broccoli joke

My fault. I didn't re-read your post first to understand why you responded the way you did.

Submarine toilets use sea water. The top two green valve handles are for filling and the bottom lever handle allows flushing to a tank below. The resulting sewage isn't ever treated though, rather it flows to the tank and then eventually blown or pumped overboard(when at sea). Suspect the salt mixed in with the sewage would pose problems for your typical water treatment plant. Grey water or rainwater is a very viable alternative option however.

Only partially. As we discussed many times before, it was always the case that some folks fell through the cracks. Sex was typically assigned at birth based on external sex organs, which sometimes misaligns with the karyotype, for example. The societal change really is not the definition, it is the desire not to ignore these people anymore.

It's remarkable to describe Hertz' work in 1886 as "recent". Anyway, if relativity only works in far-field but not near field, it's easy to test. Get a VLF radio and a short or medium wave radio and wait for a thunderstorm. Then listen for the crackle produced by lightning. Say I'm 5km from the lightning strike, listening on 5000 metres VLF and on 200 metres medium wave For the first 5 km, the long wave signal is still "near field" so it will (if the OP is correct) reach me immediately. But all but the 1st 200m of the route of the MW signal is far field. So it will be delayed by the time taken for propagation across the remaining 4800 metres at c That's about 17 microseconds. That's just about in the range where you might be able to hear it. "The normal human threshold for detection of an ITD is up to a time difference of 10μs (microseconds)." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaural_time_difference It's trivial to measure electronically. This is well into the range of "someone would have noticed".

That's how Jebel Ali desalination plant worked, when I lived in Dubai in the 1980s, using waste heat from Jebel Ali power station.

Why? Anyway, this would be a good plan in very limited circumstances. If you had, for example, a small island with little or no infrastructure and you were introducing a sewerage system for a small number of inhabitants then maybe it would be acceptable having a waste pipe that led out to sea with no treatment. If there was also a shortage of fresh water on the island such that pumping sea water was less "expensive" than desalinating it, then maybe it would be worth installing a separate sea water feed pipe to the village just for flushing toilets. But in almost all other situations, it's not going to work. (I'm about 300 feet above sea level, in the rather rainy North of England...) Having said all that, using "grey" water to flush the toilet is an excellent idea.

I’m often satisfied when my grocery bill,is below $100, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about the transaction.

Looks like all you need to do is to find a better word than 'happiness.' Guidelines to satisfaction?

Suggestions for using AI Combined with suitable human oversight, monitoring and controlling dangerous situations, places or activities such as prisons.

Lax pedagogy. Children are not taught the reason for grammatical rules - if they're even taught the rules at all - and students who should already have learned are not held to a standard of adherence. Add to the poor grasp of written English with which children grow up the fact that they're* not required to write anything on their own, without electronic assistance, and that they are bombarded from all sides with other people's faulty grammar. *they [a]re

Then how do you explain the fact that we have men's and women's categories now even though there is no universally accepted definition of male and female? The world is full of examples where we don't have universally accepted definitions yet we function just fine. In my circles, a gun would include my target pistol whereas in the military it only includes "any large-calibre, direct-fire, high-velocity, flat-trajectory artillery piece employing an explosive-filled hollowed metal shell or solid bolt as its primary projectile." What is the universally accepted definition of "football"? How can we study black holes if we don't have a clear definition of what it is? Why must the definition of "woman" be the same for a priest, biologist, sports league, school administrator, justice system, corporation and individual? Sports leagues are free to define 'woman' any way they wish, and if they choose to define 'man' and 'woman' as they've done for the past 50 years, why should they be forced to change that definition now? As I've said to you several times in this thread, I believe the quest for the mythical "one true definition of "woman"" is nothing more than a distraction when it comes to the question of transgenders in sport. We've never had the perfect definition in the past and yet we managed to have men's and women's leagues. The focus needs to be on NEW rules for trans women to compete in the existing women's leagues. There is no need to redefine the OLD rules that define women's leagues as they exist now.

Nope. If you are going to pretend to be that ignorant, then I'll leave you in bliss.

Even before that, for this thread (or perhaps another, since this one is supposed to be about gender), we need to have participants acknowledge the reality that the notion of sex is more complicated than what chromosomes you have, or what your visible genitalia are.

I wouldn't want to build a nuclear reactor in my backyard when logic tells me not to. So no, I cant prove it

Chromosomes alone does not indicate any individual’s ability at sports. So any alleged biological advantage has to go beyond your chromosomes. It’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.

Well, when you build a nuclear reactor you make an atom absorb a neutron. This can make decay chains happen. The equation goes toward zero, and whenever it goes past zero, something significant in the atom changes. Such as, (Deap breath) FISSION or certain decay chains. unfortunately the Q in the equation doesn't have a number for neutrons Somebody is ruining my reputation! I am sorry, but Iam leaving this forum until I either find out who "downvote bot" is or "downvote bot" stops downvoting everything

You have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you should study basic biology before commenting on a subject that you don't even understand, although I suppose that would be expecting too much from your typical redneck bigot who probably didn't even graduate high school. Whether you personally understand someone's identity or not is irrelevant. That is not for you to decide or dictate. People choose their OWN identity. All they matters is how they IDENTIFY. Now you can claim that's "morally wrong" and you can claim that it "woke" or that it goes against you "personal values", but ultimately nobody asked you and nobody cares about your opinion.