Hey, I'm American and it disgusts me as much as you.

Ever since around 2009-10 my bias has been against those with Gmail accounts.
Like FB, it is another path of least resistance that the tech behemoths have herded Americans into.

My experience in living in places with "bad water"(wells with ultra high mineral content) and visiting people who live in those types of places(Phoenix...) has shown me that people will either buy five gallon plastic jugs of water at the grocery store or get their drinking water delivered somehow from a "reputable source".

Of course there will also be those who invest in high end in-place water filtering systems.

Human behavior dictates that no one with the financial ability will knowingly drink recycled sewage. I see a boom market for water distributors of all flavors.

With that being said I applaud the efforts in So-Cal to be better users of their precious little water.
Let us raise our glass and give a cheer!

I would like to extend this laurel and hardy handshake

Brilliant!

An iPad, seriosly...?
iPads are media consumption devices, not workplace tools, unless of course FB, NetFlix and YouTube are what you do at work.

You better hope they drain Lake Powell to fill Mead or you're going to wish you moved to Seattle.

Frasier reruns did the rest.

Sorry, meant subconsciously...
See! It's happening!

Everyone in our modern age of flitting/fleeting/browsing/tweeting knows intuitively how much our attention spans are being ravaged.
This is another one of those "we need empirical data to prove what everyone already knows", like studies on the differences between men and women, how peoples behaviors are affected by wealth, etc;
We can chalk it up in the "no shit sherlock" category.

FTFA:

I have to don my tinfoil cap now and surmise that in all liklihood, it isn't in the best interest of Google, Facebook, Apple or the rest to point out that yes, using our "products" and living this fast and loose, jittered-stimmed out existence of tweets, posts, statuses, etc isn't in your best interest, even if your best excuse is the usual "but this is how I stay current with my family"

What we are creating ladies and gentlemen is a generation of people who will HAVE TO HAVE computers and AI run things for them, because their attention span and critical thinking will be in the toilet.

Removing my tinfoil cap...

Brilliant!
Mod points!

You are asking the key question.
That is the question that gets ignored, on purpose, the 800 pound gorilla.

Why not just reduce pollution?

Anytime I get into a debate with anyone about "climate change" or how much carbon is getting pumped into the atmosphere, I ALWAYS use the argument of reducing pollution. We know for a fact that air pollution contributes to increased rates of heart disease, of asthma in children, to increasing rates of dementia, the list goes on and on, yet the douchebags continue with this "The Planet is Warming Naturally, Its a Cycle"

F#$k you and your cycle.

San Francisco has a Costco?!?!
Good Lord, how bourgeois...

Well, with all due respect, there are boatloads of tea party nutjobs on /., so don't feel left out, sir...
He is probably on here for the same reason most of us are, because we assume, people who work in IT have a better grasp of almost any issue, whether it is politics, science, human behavior, etc; A more nuanced and better researched grasp of the issues.

That is why were on /., not because we all want "social justice".

I'm a liberal, yet I detest nothing more than the hardcore politically correct attitudes of many in this country(and on this site).
My attitude is more aligned with people like George Carlin(May He Rest In Peace) and Bill Burr.

on the fucking barby.