70% of those almonds are exported. But you should take a pathetic dribble of a shower.

For those who don’t know, the flow restriction plug can be removed from most shower heads. But you didn’t hear it from me.

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      I agree it’s a large portion. However, the big difference is that most dairy and meat produced in state is not exported. Water is a public resource, so it should raise additional alarms when the public is not benefiting from its use.

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        Top commodities for export included almonds, dairy and dairy products, pistachios, wine and walnuts.

        https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

        It kind of seems like a lot of dairy is exported. Dairy was valued at $10.4 billion, Cattle and Calves: $3.63 billion, Almonds: $3.52 billion. I mean, unless California is consuming over 70% of $14 billion in cattle and dairy products, but exporting all the almonds.

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      It’s pretty well known how environmentally destructive the meat industry is.

      It doesn’t mean that almonds, or avocados, or any other industrialised agricultural process that uses excessive resources shouldnt have the spotlight on it too.

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    Yes they fucking do, but were told to limit our showers to <5 minutes, and upon occasion live by the mantra, “If it’s yellow it’s mellow, if it’s brown flush it down…”

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      Problem is if you let it mellow too long it starts growing stuff in your toilet. Then you gotta bleach the damn water

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      That’s because they can charge us, the peasants, extra high emergency prices to reduce usage. But do the farmers get charged the same extorted rate, or are they actually subsidized?

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      Every drop counts. On the plus side when you remove the flow restriction from your shower, you never need to shower more than 5 minutes, because you’re being pummeled with an absolutely luxurious deluge. Warm up faster, rinse off faster. It’s not even clear to me that it uses more water.

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        My pressure is so high it stings without it, I mean that’s one way to get clean by grinding off the top layer of flesh.

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          If American showers allowed adjustment of both pressure and temperature like most modern European ones, you wouldn’t have this issue

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    For those who don’t know, the flow restriction plug can be removed from most shower heads. But you didn’t hear it from me.

    Wouldn’t that reduce the water pressure? I was under the impression that these plugs improve the pressure. I want my shower to compete with acupuncture needles lol.