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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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i havent let fireball of any sort touch my lips without social coercion in nigh a decade. cant stand the stuff, tastes really really super gross! in unexplained shittiness news, my iphone is using way more mobile data than usual for some reason, like showing these 135mb or 450mb entries on the att data requests tracking page, whatever that means, and i have a grandfathered non unlimited data plan so they charged me a bunch of extra money this month so im probably gonna have to reset all my poo poo to make that stop happening
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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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May 2, 2024 12:01
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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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