South Africa has some really good tap water, can confirm I am drinking it.
We should enjoy it while we can, it seems that even that is coming to an end.
Hey, I’m not unfriendly. I like Russian escorts and vodka.
I just wish their leaders would be a little more friendly to the rest of the world.
Why is America highlighted?
And Italy?
Yet another instance of “America is actually 50 countries in a trench coat”. Some places here have really, really good quality tap water that tastes ok even without a drinking water filter on the faucet, and other places… well, everyone knows Flint, MI…
As opposed to other countries, where it’s the same through the whole country
Good question for both maps
Ripper: Water, that’s what I’m getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this Earth’s surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70 percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don’t know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
You can’t or at least should not drink most of the tap water from the US.
Unfortunately that would be the impression you’d get from the news. In reality, tap water is so safe in almost all of the US- that when its not in a city than it is major news.
Everywhere in the US where I lived, you were not supposed to drink unfiltered tap water.
Where?
South
You can drink the water in the vast majority of the South. So, that’s not really an answer.
You are not expecting me to dox myself right? This was already more than I really feel comfortable with.
Your profile picture is a picture of someone who I assume is you.
US tap watered is monitored closely and the results for basically every locality are available online. In the few places where you can’t drink it, they make a really big deal about letting you know.
Everywhere in the US where I lived, you were not supposed to drink unfiltered tap water.
And everywhere I’ve lived you can…
Habe you been living up north?
No, west, south, south east
Weird
You were likely misinformed.
Always the same map
Yeah… Canada really shouldn’t be on that tap water map; A lot of our northern communities cannot.
I don’t think we’re un-friendly, I think Russia’s just in a bad place right now and need to take a hard look at themselves and maybe consider whether their recent behaviour matches their values.
And no, they can’t crash on our sofa.
Second map is wrong. You can drink the tap water in any country at least once
Well, any country that has tap water.
The map of the US should be a bit more finely-grained to show the MAGA states as Russophiles.
Yeah, like all the Russophiles in Flint, Michigan.
Russophile is fine, it’s Putin-dick-riding that I take issue with.
Keep in mind that while they may consider Russia friendly, Russia still considers them unfriendly.
You misspelled ‘useful idiots’.
Looks like Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia and get a pass on being unfriendly countries, presumably because they aren’t in NATO (despite B&H being an aspiring member).
However Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria, also not in NATO, are still unfriendlies.
Poor Hungary is still counted as unfriendly as they actively run interference on Moscow’s behalf.
To be fair, I get the sense that in some cases, the west (and our outsourcing of pollution and trash) might contribute to the inability to drink tap water. Not that it makes it right to hate in the West, but I’m not about to blame ALL those countries for crappy tap water.
I just want to say a a resident of the US Midwest, don’t drink the tap water here - it won’t actually kill you but you’ll wish you were dead 😝
Southern US here and it could very well kill you.
Brain eating Amoeba?
I can’t say it’s still like this, but when I was in Kansas City about 20 years ago, the hotel waiter poured me a glass of water and it tasted amazing and he said it was just tap water.
What’s the idea behind this meme? That Russia is against tap-water or that Russia is a third-world shithole?
Because if the later, it reeks of western-white-colonialist supremacy. Blue countries have better infrastructure because they are colonial powers.
Oh and I absolutely drank water in Bulgaria. This is factually false.
Love how you’re getting downvoted for calling out a fascist meme, and people say this platform is “leftist”. 🙄
Liberals always have been pro-war. It’s good for business.
Canada should have an asterisc for all the reserves without clean water too. Of course not many tourists going to those.
No one would shit on Russia if they didn’t constantly bomb the shit out of their neighbours and commit genocide as a part of their official strategy.
Yeah because the first world notoriously doesn’t do that /s
Well not neighbors. We go all the way to the other side of the planet to do it.
/s?
Cuba would like to have a word.
“US does it so it’s cool for Russia too”
This logic astounds me. It’s possible to be against both, and still recognize that Russia acting in a way that is constantly and actively pursuing war.
Russian leadership (fascists) is acting in a way that is constantly and actively pursuing war*
If Russia is not a democracy, then people cannot be held responsible for the action of their government. No more then in Dresden or Hiroshima. Especially when Westerners (us, who supposedly, them, pick our leaders) are not held responsible for the atrocities committed by their government. Where are the sanctions for the Iraqi war?
Honestly, it looks like they are preparing the average joe’s mind for carpet bombing. Jingoism on all side.
If Russia is not a democracy, then people cannot be held responsible for the action of their government
Russia is just as much a democracy as the US. In the US, the electoral college picks the leaders, not the voting body. The electoral college has no legal obligation to follow the popular vote.
And besides that, Russia really wants to be able to say it’s a democracy. Ask the government there, they will tell you they’re a democracy. Just like the US.
Trying to insinuate that the American people are responsible for the actions of their government but the Russian people are not is pretty close to Russia apologist. Either the average Russian is responsible for changing their country or the average American is not. You don’t get both.
Where are the Iraq War sanctions?
Again, it’s possible to say that what the US did was wrong and still understand that what Russia is doing is also wrong. Bringing the “whatabout” argument at this point is deliberate deflection if you understand that you’re arguing with someone who agrees with you.
Either the average Russian is responsible for changing their country or the average American is not. You don’t get both.
Yes, exactly, none of them are.
Again, it’s possible to say that what the US did was wrong and still understand that what Russia is doing is also wrong.
What the Russian government is doing is wrong, absolutely. It’s not a reason to fall into jingoism and stupid stereotypes.
Bringing the “whatabout” argument at this point is deliberate deflection if you understand that you’re arguing with someone who agrees with you.
But the map is literally placing France and the US in “the good guys”. Whataboutism is when you bring out things out of the blue that aren’t being disgusted already.
Ok, and?
The US pulled out of its wars. They may not be the good guy on the world stage in a cumulative sense, but their leaders pulled out of their wars and aren’t picking any fights. Despite what you might think, wars aren’t popular in the US either.
Russia is actively being the bad guy right now.
Whataboutism is when you bring out things out of the blue that aren’t being disgusted already.
Nobody said anything about Iraq. You sort of brought that up out of nowhere, as if to say what about when it was different?
In any case, if all of this is about a meme labeling some countries good and some countries bad, a meme that isn’t even trying to be accurate on either front, maybe you should ask yourself why you care so much that you’re starting fires about how the west is just as bad?
You don’t think the average person on lemmy hears that from the lurking tankies every single day? You’re pretty much preaching to the choir here.
I shit plenty on the US for that too.
But Russia is directly affecting the sphere of influence my country has, so shitting on them is a lot more prudent.
