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White House says order will ‘make America’s showers great again’ and ‘end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure’

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then I misinterpreted something from your comment saying Trump's promise to increase water pressure (disregarding the impossibility) wouldn't increase flow. Maybe you're specifically talking about shower heads, but somewhere else trump talked about flushing toilets over and over. It all blends together in the insanity. Did he mention shower heads being too efficient, but in worse words?

I agree, we're generally in agreement then. I did specify stream vs shower setting though, and a kinda large jet outlet at that. Maybe more like a Full setting, in my experience, but I certainly am not including all the settings. Mist, vertical, center, etc are too restrictive. I've filled a couple dozen car wash buckets on various settings and shower/jet/full flow comparably then, but somehow always slower than my bladder can handle.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha, I see where the confusion came from then. I wasn't considering the hypothetical scenario where he magically increases water pressure but instead thinking about what will happen in reality when the legislation allows people to get higher flow shower heads (and imagining some of them might be disappointed when it feels less forceful, though I'm sure plenty would enjoy an increased flow if that's their preference). His talk about pressure is a stand in for the actual details of the EO which is actually about low flow fixtures (and I assume low gallon per flush toilets but I didn't read that far).

I admit I was thrown off trying to figure out what we were saying differently, I'm sure I could be more specific though about the hypothetical I was describing. I did a solid semester in multivariate calculus just solving flow equations so it would bring great dishonor to my teacher if I mixed anything up haha.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nah my bad for refusing to Google this shit for actual details