“A the-rapist” still kinda works if “the” is the title (though a little awkwardly). I’m not overly defending how it’s presented or how funny it is though so you could probably find better ways to present the joke itself. Merely trying to mention that it’s not based on sounds, so as long as you can read English, you should be able to understand the joke.

That said, it could’ve been a number of issues:

• autocorrect adding an article to an incorrect place

• general screwup of the presentation

Etc

Yes explaining a joke makes it less funny. I didn’t say it was a funny joke. But I did say that because you are misunderstanding how this joke isn’t relying on a joke being known before hand or sounds because of some meta joke commentary. At some point a joke has to be based on something. Whether it’s a misunderstanding or not.

It kinda relies more on english spelling than sounds.

A-rapist vs The-rapist.

So the implication is that they’re the same because of how they’re both rapists. They don’t actually sound the same when spoken out loud.

You need an extra bottle that doesn’t have anything in it. Or another one that has a fairy led on the end of a little wire or something hanging in the middle

That’s a way different thing than desal but does present an opportunity I suppose but the problem always comes to the unpure water products that come out.

I haven’t read the full paper but: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X20308912

> A major issue of desalination is the co-produced waste called ‘brine’ or ‘reject’ which has a high salinity along with chemical residuals and is discharged into the marine environment. In addition to brine, other main issues are the high energy consumption of the desalination and brine treatment technologies as well as the air pollution due to emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and air pollutants. Other issues include entrainment and entrapment of marine species, and heavy use of chemicals.

It does suggest that depending on the type of desal, you’ll find different products and outputs. Part of it is that the water output could contain chemicals used to treat the water and other by products that still make it through the filter. The problem is that if you just blindly support desal, without considering environmental impacts, you definitely could run afoul and ruin multiple ecosystems easily. I am personally a little skeptical it can scale across the world to supply the fresh water needed for the human race without some impact to local ecosystems. I don’t think it’d impact the global ocean, so it’s kinda sus that the conversation is like “well the ocean is fine”. But the problem has always been the local environment, not a global ocean problem.

Edit:

To your comment, brine at 2-3x saltier than normal is pretty damaging to fish (and people) who aren’t used to that much brine. It’ll almost undeniably cause a lot of species to just die. That’s the problem. Life might adapt but it might not. And should we take a chance that the ecosystem will collapse?

The problem isn’t “the ocean” it’s the local environments.

The problem with brine is basically it’s toxic. You can’t really repurpose the salt and toxins that are filtered out for consumption. It’s especially bad if it happens in estuaries and small areas which really depended on fresh water. A single desal plant might help an area. The next problem is scale. Does this mean you can run 16 desal plants without issues? Not really.

I didn’t even know Elon was even doing polls at the beginning and only started hearing about them when they started to get more unhinged after the trump one. So, that plus the short voting time is even clearer he means to sample only when he’d think he’d get the best response.

Honestly, it’s probably even stronger argument on Reddit because there’s routine posting of the article text or the archive version that lets people bypass the paywall.

The bigger core problem is that people don’t want to pay for information or “easily consumable”. But journalists need money to live too. So, it’s always a cat and mouse game with this. Just enough so that media can survive with their budgets or more but people don’t want to pay for money or increasing installing adblockers. Then revenue drops so the newspapers / media can’t invest in better journalists and get more clickbaity to get people to get to their site and people view it as less worth paying for. It’s a bad cycle.

> two big, aggressive neighbors

I’d say three at least. If not four. I get why they are demilitarized and I agree with the reasoning but Japan probably also wants to keep their own cultural identity (fair enough) and the neighbors around them are plenty itchy on the trigger often.