This is also true in the Ogallala Aquifer which underlies large areas of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas (and other aquifers around the world as well). This isn't a problem unique to California.

In many places, the groundwater withdrawals are outstripping the rate at which these groundwater reservoirs can be replenished by precipitation. Dryer and warmer climates are exacerbating this problem as well. As the interstitial spaces in the aquifers are depleted of water, they lose the structural strength that the water provided and subside. The worst thing is that these losses of interstitial space are likely permanent, so even if the aquifer is re-watered, it will have a lower capacity than it used to have.

We are heavily reliant on groundwater in the US for agriculture and municipal water, and unsustainable groundwater use is a serious problem that is largely overlooked by the media and unfamiliar to most Americans.

The guy you are responding to is joking, but the whole planet is kind of made of water with land floating on it. It's not just water though; it's rock that is saturated with water. There is a lot of water in the crust, then the upper mantle is pretty dry, but 400 km deep there is a lot of water, possibly more than in all the oceans combined. It's the boundary between the outer mantle and the inner mantle. That transition zone is about 7% of the Earth's mass and probably between 1 and 3% of it is water. That puts it at 1.5 to 4.5 times as much water as there is in the crust.

it's from the name of a local tribe near the rhine with whom the romans had contact: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Germany#:~:text=Etymology,in%20the%201st%20century%20B.C.E.

The first page of the tax code says that all income is taxable. The rest of the tax code is explaining what is not.

There is no exemption for illegal business, or illegal business practices. So you owe tax.

Not paying taxes on your illegal income is a separate crime from whatever you did to get that income.

All that's required is flow. A glacier is made out of ice, but it's still a fluid. Each individual in the crowd isn't a fluid, but the crowd itself is.

People at the C-level are not hired by workers but by shareholders. Their interests are not always consistent with workers so even if they see a company go bankrupt they will still be judged by how much money was made leading up to that point. Of course if every company they become a CEO of immediately dies then that will draw negative attention from shareholders and will not lead to better paying positions

You have to report your income, that’s the law. You obviously don’t want to report the profits you made from your criminal acts, but it would be extremely weird if the law carved out an exception for ill-gotten gains.

There are toooooons of places where you hit bedrock before water. You can dig a well anywhere and get to water but it's not economical to do it in places that you have to drill through hundreds of feet of rock.

It’s very true. For scale, more people sold in to slavery died crossing the Atlantic than were involved in the Barbary coast slave trade.

It’s also important to not disregard that trade either. It had a very different impetus and would play a substantial role on Mediterranean trade and politics, ultimately resulting in the French colonization of Algeria. This had a huge impact on all of North Africa and the shaping of the Mediterranean.

Depends on what the goal of the CEO was.

Having a low share price is good if buybacks are the goal. You also have the scenario of a failing company needing a CEO, but nobody wants to captain a sinking ship, so you have to make the offer VERY enticing. There are also executives that specialize in pre-bankruptcy management, where it might look like they utterly failed, but actually reduced the bleeding or avoided bankruptcy altogether.

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After being in the corporate world for a while you will realize that some people are good at failing upward. With a potent cocktail of skills including shitty ethical standards, opportunistic behavior, moxy-laden performance art, social positioning, and aesthetic physiology, they are are able to bypass the standards that most others are forced to adhere to. Literally some people can just throw themselves away and be proud of it.

It’s frustrating that our economic system rewards these people, but welcome to modern “leadership.”

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Underground streams are a myth (except those that are literally rivers in caves). Water just kind of permeates everywhere underground and slowly moves towards lower elevation openings to leave as surface waters. Dowsing works as well as asking a frog to jump toward the direction of underground water, and then flipping a coin on whether or not you'll agree to it.

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Maybe people should have legal incomes and report it. Problem solved.

/r/boneappletea for more accidental telephone game players

Because if they can't bust you on the illegal activity, they can bust you for tax evasion they can prove are getting income you aren't declaring. That's how they got Al Copone, and it was only after that that money laundering became illegal to close another loop hole he was exploiting.

If you do declare the illegal income on your taxes, it can be used as evidence against you to get you on thr actual illegal activity you're doing.

In the 1940s, my grandfather used a divining rod (dowsing rod) to find the location to drill a well on his property in South Dakota. Yep, he hit water.

Japan in japanese is Nihon.

The origin of why we call it Japan comes from Marco Polo who heard the chinese call it 日本 (Riben), pronounced as Zu-Pang, which translate losely to « the sun’s origin », as Japan is west of China and Japan is where the sun rise first.

And if you dig deep enough you can jump in the hole and the momentum will carry you into the air in China, then you fall back though over and over again until someone slides a trampoline over the hole when you pop out

It would still be common for some (particularly non-visa/mc debit cards) to provide the option. Mine did back in the late 2000s.

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