this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
529 points (98.9% liked)

Not The Onion

15879 readers
2235 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any idiot with a pair of pliers can take the flow regulator out of a consumer-grade shower head that you can buy off the shelf at any hardware store in the country and get as much water pressure as your pipes are capable of pumping into it.

Here's hoping we all still have enough money to buy shower heads in the new Trump economy so we can enjoy the fruits of his labor. Who needs prosperity and economic stability when you have a roaring torrent of water to take a depression shower like a real American patriot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Our company founder always had the tools necessary to remove flow reduction devices from hotel room showerheads. Together with the power adaptor set for several countries and some other gadgets, this was always part of his travel set.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

I had to recheck 5-6 times while reading that this was the guardian and not some sort of mock guardian/onion news site

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how many of those political decoy flares he has in stock. Useless stories that ire up people just to distract them from real problems. Like the "Gulf of America" thing, or the showerhead pressure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I might have missed the one wherein he makes electric cooktops illegal but I think that one is still coming, at least. And potatoes must use masculine pronouns. And it is domestic terrorism for Taylor Swift to be a meaniepants anymore. Something, something Dr. Seuss. Masturbation will make you blind (please self-report to the nearest blinding centre).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As an additional layer of stupid, most of the "low pressure" seen in showers is due to water saver shower heads and have nothing to do with the pressure going to or in the home. So this literally proposing that the government regulates your water regulating shower heads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

shakes fist I have had it with the god darn govment regulations!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not only that but every house I’ve ever lived in has a pressure reducing valve right after the main shutoff. My current one drops the 150psi city pressure down to about 60psi for use in the house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

And it likely predates Obama. This is just weird and invasive government shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just another ”fascist playbook” thing. Declaring war on pointless, or almost pointless, stuff to make people feel that the country is ”under attack” and to downplay actual important stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Also part of the "dominionist playbook", which states that YHWH gave the earth to humans to dominion over it, which they think mean "should deplete its resources ASAP without any second thought".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A good not the onion headline

I like it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel like it's April 1st all over again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Every day feels like April fools except the only prank is my future getting stomped out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bill Murray should do a sequel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A horror comedy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The US has been in a perpetual state of April 1st since november

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

All this reminds me of is that video of that guy who's friend "upgraded" his shower pressure. And it was just one hyper-powerful stream out of the whole shower head. Wish I had a link.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a ploy from big bidet to take over our toilets with pristine water pressure that can douche-clean your asshole and I won't stand for it, god damnit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

the one device i want to have a pressure regulator on it is the bidet. we used to have one that, uh, well you could really do your spring cleaning if you weren't paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Because you have to sit to use the bidet?

load more comments
view more: next ›