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Hurrah, we now officially have drinkable running water for the first time since the September floods!
See, unusually heavy rain can wash a lot of extra E. Coli and coliform bacteria into your well water. The solution? Pour a gallon of bleach into your well, and flush it. Problem is, we soon found out, if you have hard water, the chlorine in the bleach will catalyze the iron and manganese in the water to flocculate into heavy brown metallic sludge, which will choke your filters and possibly kill your pump motor. The process of pulling out the dead motor and installing a new one will also stir up a lot of the metallic sludge, further choking your filters, as will pulling the new pump out to fix the wiring that arced out. And if you live, say, here, every time you want to get your water re-tested, you have to drive to a town 45 minutes away to reach the nearest analytical chemist. And of course every time the power goes out (which is quite often with Appalachian Power) you lose your water (as well as your phone service which was all over WiFi because the southern half of this county has no cellular coverage).
Anyway, it's all finally fixed until the pipes freeze again.
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@killick It looks to me like much of human history has been a struggle to build and sustain alternatives to aristocracy, and a swinging pendulum in the war between the 1% and the 99%. Making "class warfare" into a thing to be avoided at all costs was one of their greatest tricks - the working classes are colonized, occupied, and imagining any alternative is heresy.
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@killick It looks to me like much of human history has been a struggle to build and sustain alternatives to aristocracy, and a swinging pendulum in the war between the 1% and the 99%. Making "class warfare" into a thing to be avoided at all costs was one of their greatest tricks - the working classes are colonized, occupied, and imagining any alternative is heresy.
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@killick It looks to me like much of human history has been a struggle to build and sustain alternatives to aristocracy, and a swinging pendulum in the war between the 1% and the 99%. Making "class warfare" into a thing to be avoided at all costs was one of their greatest tricks - the working classes are colonized, occupied, and imagining any alternative is heresy.
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@killick It looks to me like much of human history has been a struggle to build and sustain alternatives to aristocracy, and a swinging pendulum in the war between the 1% and the 99%. Making "class warfare" into a thing to be avoided at all costs was one of their greatest tricks - the working classes are colonized, occupied, and imagining any alternative is heresy.
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@killick It looks to me like much of human history has been a struggle to build and sustain alternatives to aristocracy, and a swinging pendulum in the war between the 1% and the 99%. Making "class warfare" into a thing to be avoided at all costs was one of their greatest tricks - the working classes are colonized, occupied, and imagining any alternative is heresy.