Are we doing "i just cant even" posting in 2026? Wastewater is not expected to be safe as drinking water, so it meeting the standards for drinking water shows how safe it is. If you have a reasonable argument to the contrary then please post it.

This is what social media and LLMs have done to the average member of the society - one has to explain to folks like you everything literally, because you're not able to infer anything on your own any more. Where do you think the wastewater goes eventually genius? Do you think Elon Musk transports it safely into outer space? Or does it have a chance of eventually polluting your own drinking water too? It does not even have to pollute the drinking water directly, as the stuff maybe filtered out by the processing plants, but it will land in the ground, pollute the plants, the food that you eat etc. Is that a bit clearer now? Or do you need more words ?

Yes, if you're going to bother to respond, you should use words, and not mere guttoral gestures like a cave man. I consider this an advancement of society and not a regression, but perhaps that's my particular bias.

"guttoral" ? I'd learn to write first, before holding others lessons :)

This is a discussion forum. Putting things into words is the purpose of commenting. If you can’t, then maybe you shouldn’t.

I guess you need to understand the deeper meaning implied by that comment. It's OK if you don't - unfortunately social media and now LLMs have strongly impacted the average Joe's or average Teddy's ability to understand something like this.

Nearly as much as they have impacted the ability of some to articulate clearly?

Perhaps it'd be best for all to drop the snide and review the HN comment guidelines.

It’s not a question of understanding; the issue is that the comment had literally no other meaning than “this is bad, for a non-specified reason which I will not give”. This is, by itself, not worth a comment.