@ComradeSalad - eviltoast
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Cake day: October 25th, 2022

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  • You can go. Literally no one cares. Just fly to Miami and get a separate flight to Cuba, the local airline will even give you a tourist visa to fill out mid-flight.

    The “ban” is completely superficial to deter tourism agencies and airlines from organizing mass tourism in Cuba, and it’s a declaration by the Department of State that if anything happens that you are on your own and they will not help you with anything should something go wrong.





  • How is that ableist? It was “coined” by Horatio Nelson who himself was blind in one eye and ignored an order from his superior officer by raising a telescope to mockingly “look” at the signal flags of his superior’s ship while saying that he quote, “had the right to be blind sometimes”.

    If you’re in circles where people are preformitively picking apart every single phrase known to man then the answer is ignore it.

    This sort of thing almost 98% of the time happens online. No one is going around real life and getting mad at people saying phrases like that, unless said phrases include slurs or are egregiously racist, sexist, etc.



  • How many people are those island nations supporting through desalination? Do you really think that is anywhere near the same as creating enough water for ten of millions, hundreds of millions, or billions of people???

    Further, island nations ration water to an extreme degree, and they also don’t need to support agriculture to massive scales like mainland farms in Russia, China, or the US do.

    I never said desalination was impossible. I said it was extremely expensive and nigh impossible to scale to a degree that the world could use it. The vast majority of countries could not afford the resources required for that, or sustain it for long at all.

    Also are you serious? Lack of political will? Most irrigation comes from rivers, like it has for thousands of years. Or farmers draw it from wells that draw ground water. Those well and rivers are running dry. Have you looked at any research related to this?

    Also “you drink treated water”, yes… it’s still freshwater. The treatment is to remove sediment, bacteria, and other harmful elements. Guess where those water plants get there water? Rivers, lakes, and aquifers.


  • 2/3rds of the planet is unpotable, unclean saltwater that is extremely difficult to desalinate and requires immense amounts of electricity, technology, and manpower to do on a scale to create fresh potable water. It isn’t economical or feasible to rely on desalination. Especially since barely any countries could actually afford to do it.

    Further, agriculture as a whole relies on irrigation. What are countries going to do when rivers run dry and ground water has been drained? You can’t use saltwater, that will kill all your crops.

    You need freshwater to grow staple crops such as wheat, corn, rice, potatoes, and other grain. No water, no food.