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wash bucket posted:This isn't something that just got shittier. I just found out WHY it got shittier. I grew up close to Lake Michigan and am very thankful that's where we get our water (though obviously that's also been heavily polluted at times) because there is basically a constellation of Superfund sites surrounding my childhood home, and I can't imagine that sort of thing is good for the water table. In other lovely news, I went back to in-person teaching after a few years of doing remote tutoring, etc. and every student has tablets now. They were just sort of rolling out last time I was regularly in class, and the temptation for students to use them for everything is really distracting. Need to draw a dog for an activity? They'll just look up some clipart and trace it. Want to know what a word means? It's easier to type it into Google Translate and get an answer that's right 70% of the time than ask the teacher. The kids are really great at coming up with excuses for why they might need a tablet on them at any given time, giving them a reason to keep it out the whole class and look up random poo poo while I or one of the other teachers is helping another student. I hate to go all total Luddite because tablets are obvious an important tool in teaching, but they're not even learning important lessons like how to set up a proxy server to get around a firewall; that I could at least respect.
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Rochallor posted:I grew up close to Lake Michigan and am very thankful that's where we get our water (though obviously that's also been heavily polluted at times) because there is basically a constellation of Superfund sites surrounding my childhood home, and I can't imagine that sort of thing is good for the water table. Teachers imposing an antiquated notion of holistic learning on children does not really serve the children in their future influencer (god drat firefox your spell check is such poo poo you really don't have influencer) and/or wasteland scavenging career. They could be learning something actually important and relevant like the multiple fireballs. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 06:37 on May 2, 2024 |
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wash bucket posted:If you would like to search for EPA superfund sites in your area then click here to ruin your day. eh, only 3 in the entire state, and none in my county  Hmm? Nuclear testing, you say?
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Lol 70 in my state and a ton in my county. A ton of them are boeing and plane related and various smelters. A reminder that if you live in the puget sound area you should check to see if you live in the alcoa plume range before you grow any foods in the dirt. South seattle tacoma and vashon are particularly hosed with in ground heavy metals. Theres free test kits I guess if you google a bit. https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/june-2016/tacoma-smelter-plume-recap-of-tacoma-public-meetin silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 08:29 on May 2, 2024 |
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So my country doesn’t have Apple News despite using it for years…? Well gently caress me I guess.
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deep dish peat moss posted:This is now the 3rd year in a row where as soon as the start of Summer rolls around all of the tap water in my city begins absolutely reeking of mold. The water company says "Oh it's just an algae bloom don't worry about it it's totally safe" but meanwhile I've gotta take showers that smell like they're pure liquid mold, and have to buy bottled water to drink water that doesn't taste like mold and that my cats will drink. They talk about it like it's a thing that has always happened every year forever but I've lived here for ~27 years and it never happened prior to 2021. Even after going through a brita filter it smells and tastes like mold. Over in England and Wales back in the late 80s water was privatised and companies have a monopoly over particular areas. Since then the companies have paid out billions upon billions to shareholders and failed to repair existing infrastructure or build more to cope with demand either current or future. To add to this they've been pumping sewage into rivers and the sea to quite frankly absurd amounts resulting in a huge amount of beaches being off limits for swimmers unless they want to get ill. I believe also France was looking to start legal action over it. I mean the water supply is decent but gently caress me is the whole setup scummy as.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Over in England and Wales back in the late 80s water was privatised and companies have a monopoly over particular areas. Since then the companies have paid out billions upon billions to shareholders and failed to repair existing infrastructure or build more to cope with demand either current or future. To add to this they've been pumping sewage into rivers and the sea to quite frankly absurd amounts resulting in a huge amount of beaches being off limits for swimmers unless they want to get ill. I believe also France was looking to start legal action over it. Russia sells its utilities to oligarchs like this The west sells its utilities to Iike thiiiiiis
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No but you see freedom Bulldog Britannia Churchill Manichean spasm Yes
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redshirt posted:poo poo now I want some gas station Fireball enshittifying your own intestines ftw
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Wifi Toilet posted:eh, only 3 in the entire state, and none in my county Lol. I'm sure the only reason all the other abandoned mine sites in Nevada aren't superfunds is probably just because no ones lives close enough to any of them to bother caring/getting them tested. I looked for Vermont and there's like 10...a few old closed landfills, couple old mines, and then a couple random "a factory was here once." Only one in my county, not near me but with the way the watershed here works, it was def. going into the lake. And there's also the places I know aren't superfunds but still leeched God knows what into the soil and rivers and lakes...old IBM chip plant that's now a Global Foundries site, an old railway barge canal that is like ten feet form a lake and has been an issue for decades in getting any sort of buildings made in that area, or traffic getting fixed since you can' really put anything there.
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Rochallor posted:I grew up close to Lake Michigan and am very thankful that's where we get our water (though I hate to go all total Luddite because tablets are obvious an important tool in teaching, but they're not even learning important lessons like how to set up a proxy server to get around a firewall; that I could at least respect. Seems like a lesson someone should teach them!
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wash bucket posted:If you would like to search for EPA superfund sites in your area then click here to ruin your day. None close to where I live but God drat I have 20 new reasons why I would never live in Wichita.
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Time_pants posted:None close to where I live but God drat I have 20 new reasons why I would never live in Wichita. Add that to the list of 100 other reasons Wichita sucks.
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My city has only three toxic waste dumps, checkmate Kansailures 
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To complement the Superfund search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancer_clusters This list isn’t definitive but always a fun google to find out that you grew up in a notorious cancer cluster. Not just one type, either 
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Add that to the list of 100 other reasons Wichita sucks. You're only up to 120?
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LMAO ppl needing numbered and itemized *reasons* to avoid Wichita, smdh
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deep dish peat moss posted:You'd think just the Kansans would be enough
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No superfund sites near me but rivers and lakes all have signs saying not to touch the water because even suggesting that we come up with a better way for farmers to dispose of animal waste than loading thousands of dead pigs into a dump truck and dumping it straight into the lake is political suicide.
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So one of the appeals of streaming places was when a new season or whatever came out it'd just all come out at once. Now apparently we're back to releasing an episode a week? Combined with needing multiple packages for essentially channels we really are just back at regular rear end TV. Looking forward to when they air things on a schedule and you can't just watch on demand lol
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syntaxfunction posted:So one of the appeals of streaming places was when a new season or whatever came out it'd just all come out at once. Now apparently we're back to releasing an episode a week? Combined with needing multiple packages for essentially channels we really are just back at regular rear end TV. Looking forward to when they air things on a schedule and you can't just watch on demand lol It's okay modern TV sucks. Not to say old TV was amazing just that I prefer the larger season shows that were just kind of fun. Your Burn Notices, your Leverages, gently caress I just decided to watch Blacklist I never did finish that. Now days you get mystery hatches (gently caress you Lost), serious TV (I blame Game of Thrones) and short seasons. They can hardly do Star Trek anymore. Picard? Awful if you like this series never talk to me. Lower Decks? Very good. Discovery whatever. A Brave New World? Probably better than Discovery but still ehhh. We know you liked Monk and didn't think it got tedious so now introducing Monk+++++ now in New York city. Seriously what the gently caress? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2WX99QXXY. Anyway I'm tired of looking for TV to watch only to reject most of it, find something I like but it's only like 12 episodes in total and will probably not get a satisfying conclusion.
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Monk was a certified classic. All the imitators fail because they take themselves too seriously. The best amonk episodes are the one with Sarah Silverman where she plays a nerd obsessed with the TV show Monk which doesn't even exist in-universe and the one with Snoop Dogg where he plays a rapper caught up in a car bomb rap feud.
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Elsbeth has been an existing character for long time, she goes back to The Good Wife.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Monk was a certified classic. All the imitators fail because they take themselves too seriously. The best amonk episodes are the one with Sarah Silverman where she plays a nerd obsessed with the TV show Monk which doesn't even exist in-universe and the one with Snoop Dogg where he plays a rapper caught up in a car bomb rap feud. Monk could be fun and I enjoyed it for awhile but it just kept going and the shtick wore thin. Bar Ran Dun posted:Elsbeth has been an existing character for long time, she goes back to The Good Wife. Lol at the idea that somebody not only thought this mattered but mattered enough to tell me.
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syntaxfunction posted:So one of the appeals of streaming places was when a new season or whatever came out it'd just all come out at once. Now apparently we're back to releasing an episode a week? Believe it or not, some people (particularly anime fans  ) prefer weekly releases. The mindset being it makes for better discussion online - fans can talk about each individual episode as they happen, and the twists and turns over a season get to be experienced by everyone in tandem. Releasing a whole season, by contrast, mostly just means people talk about the ending and maybe one or two big important moments. This also means spoilers are easier to encounter if you're slow to watch, since the die hard fans that binge will immediately be discussing the ending before most people get more than an episode or two in.
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is Blacklist the one where fat James Spader wears a hat? No that's age of ultron
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Yes, he plays a super admiral or something. Very embarrassing Here's something that got shittier: paint jobs on cars. There was a car hauler next to me on my way home today. I was sitting at a stop light so I checked out the brand new Chevy ZR2 on it when I noticed it.   
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TotalLossBrain posted:Yes, he plays a super admiral or something. Very embarrassing That is some bullshit for a presumably expensive pickup
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is Blacklist the one where fat James Spader wears a hat? That isn't very nice. Also probably what you're thinking. I do remember it doing that whole drip drip drip mystery thing too but whatever I've seen worse.
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wash bucket posted:This isn't something that just got shittier. I just found out WHY it got shittier. I was going to say it sounds like we live in the same place, except my lake was all hosed up pre-1950. I actually unknowingly lived a couple miles away from the local Superfund site when I first moved here. Turns out there’s a good reason the nearby road smells like sulphur and is also called Sulphur Mine Rd.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Yes, he plays a super admiral or something. Very embarrassing The truck sucks, as most modern trucks do, it's just a given when it goes from a durable work vehicle to a double cabined small dick compensator used to drive around the suburbs with. But generally that style is on purpose, it's a thicker layer of stone chip protection that's painted over. It's flexible protection that serves as rust proofing and helps dampen sound. You'll find that on a lot of cars if you go looking at their sills. It's probably just noticeable on that car because it's ridiculously tall and also raised up.
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His Divine Shadow posted:The truck sucks, as most modern trucks do, it's just a given when it goes from a durable work vehicle to a double cabined small dick compensator used to drive around the suburbs with. zoom in a bit, it looks like it was slapped on with a paint brush by an eight year old - check the beltline on the door, either its a weird reflection, or it's all over the place
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I did look at the door (I'm on a desktop so I can see pretty well) and that's the texture you get when you've painted over a layer of stone chip protection. Just looks like it goes onto the lower edge of the door on this vehicle. Really just looks like they put the layer of protection up on the door on this car to me. There's some other stuff there too like streaks, but I dunno if that's the paint, or just car being dirty?
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syntaxfunction posted:So one of the appeals of streaming places was when a new season or whatever came out it'd just all come out at once. Now apparently we're back to releasing an episode a week? Combined with needing multiple packages for essentially channels we really are just back at regular rear end TV. Looking forward to when they air things on a schedule and you can't just watch on demand lol CodfishCartographer posted:Believe it or not, some people (particularly anime fans In addition to that, a lot of shows don't really hold up to binge watching. Prestige dramas that are basically a 12 hour movie sort of work depending on how they're paced, but sitcoms or anything that's more episodic will really grate if you binge watch them.
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All-at-once release tv shows are / were a curse. If you are going to make the whole thing available immediately, make a loving movie or a miniseries instead and trim all the superfluous crap that exists in serialized media due to the fact it's spread over months.
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steinrokkan posted:All-at-once release tv shows are / were a curse. If you are going to make the whole thing available immediately, make a loving movie or a miniseries instead and trim all the superfluous crap that exists in serialized media due to the fact it's spread over months. Flipside to this argument is this is how you get trilogies of 3 hour films that invariably would have been better as a longer form series. 
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steinrokkan posted:All-at-once release tv shows are / were a curse. If you are going to make the whole thing available immediately, make a loving movie or a miniseries instead and trim all the superfluous crap that exists in serialized media due to the fact it's spread over months. So literally any older show that's been put in a streaming service? MASH be cut down I guess? Also if a show isn't great to binge maybe don't binge it? I don't understand bingeing shows in general tho honestly, that poo poo gets tedious. I understand wanting to discuss shows on a weekly basis, I didn't really think of that since it hasn't been "a thing" since like high school for me lol. It feels a bit like a forced schedule to me but no different than a book club after all. So yeah, sounds reasonable.
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