cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3356775

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Dionysus wants you to know...

Atlanta is currently suffering from a major water main break that has put half the city under a boil-water advisory. The city government is reportedly bringing in pallets of bottled water, so there hopefully will not be any real crisis here. But I expect this will be a wake-up call for a lot of people who have not given much thought to prepping.

There are also major droughts in Mexico City and Bogota, threatening to dry out their taps.

Do you all have any tips for folk with how to prep for loss of water service, especially for folk in cities where they may not have a ton of storage space or land for collecting water?

I'll start off by referring to the US FEMA guidelines: One gallon of water per person per day. In my experience the best format is those upright 1-gallon bottles with the opening in the top middle (not the milk-jug style with the handle).

I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it?

A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings:

1. Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc.
2. Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc.
3. Boosts and replies
4. Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced)
5. timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view

This may just be a Decatur thing, but I am getting pretty frustrated with how quickly the youth sports leagues around here fill up. More than once I've had to tell my kids that a league had filled up before I got them registered. And it's not just the city league -- the private leagues like the YMCA and Druid Hills Youth Sports fill up just as fast. I don't remember that ever happening when I was a kid, and that's not because my parents were especially on top of things. I can only speculate why this might be an issue, but I'd love to hear if others have noticed it and have an idea of what the limitation is. My ideas are:

1. Density: Decatur has much higher density than where I grew up (Baltimore suburbs). Maybe there just are a lot more people per playing field, and the leagues are limited by space.
2. Growth: Decatur's population has been growing rapidly over the past decade, especially it's youth population. Maybe the infrastructure -- both physical and organizational -- just hasn't kept pace. I hope Legacy park can make a difference.
3. Popularity: Maybe more kids are playing in leagues these days (I've heard that's true)
4. Traffic: Maybe I'm not willing to drive as far my parents were because there's a lot more traffic here.

Any other thoughts why this might be so hard?