Agricultural Research Service sent out a list of 110 terms that can no longer be used

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    2 years ago

    Let’s replace them with “dirty water” “polluting plastics” and “preferred discrimination”.

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    Let me tell you a little story about The Fenhalloway River. About a year before I moved to that area as a kid in the early 80’s, some reporter came to report on it. Some locals assaulted her buy burning her with cigars and cigarettes, then pouring the river water into her burns.

    I remember wandering some places with my step brother. One spot was along that river. The spot was out there, but still on a decently used dirt (sand) road. We got to the end and to an area we heard was a swimming hole. This was before we heard the river was badly polluted. It was littered with empty bullet casings, KKK signs and nazi symbols. We noped the fuck out of there quick.

    While I lived there, at one point, the EPA provided everyone who wanted it with cases of bottled water. We lived close enough to see the sign over highway 19. A 30 second walk and I could just read it. Our well water stunk of the paper mill and you couldn’t see the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. The EPA water program lasted about a year. Then…nothing. The river wasn’t any cleaner. It was still black coffee. Still smelled of satan’s farts. I just now get the irony of living there and watching Captain Planet.

    The mill shut down last year. It will probably take some time before the pollution from it will fade. Decades.

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      This has happened multiple times in the USA. There are so many Erin Brokovich type stories.

      If something is causing so much environmental damage, do we need it?

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        Thankfully for that area, the plant closed last year. It wasn’t profitable anymore. Unfortunately, it and logging are really the only game in that town. They took 2 direct hits from hurricanes in fairly quick succession as well. Keaton beach, Fl is only about a 45 min drive from Perry. Some potato chip company was talking about moving there, but it remains to be seen. If I were them, I wouldn’t with the 2 direct hits. Too much risk.

  • pelicans_plight@lemmy.world
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    At this point we already know they have “frontotemporal dementia,” so my question is at what point do we bar them from government positions because of known brain damage?

    Maybe they already read the article, and that’s why they hate science, knowledge and free speach so much? I think it goes way deeper then that though.

    Hopefully if we come out of this alive we’ll come together and finally do something about the things we already know, and I’m not talking final solution, I’m talking about banning people with known brain damage from office, then helping them with their known problems and possibly allowing them government positions again once recovered from this nazi disease.

    https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.16030051

    Just putting this out there because these numbers give me hope that we still have a chance to move past this. Keep in mind that these are raw numbers that include everyone, including non-voters like children and felons. still makes me hopeful though.

    Number of U.S. population 2025 = 347,276,000

    Number of votes for Trump = 77,284,118

    Number of people who didn’t vote for Trump = 269,991.882

    This translates close to 22.2543793% of the U.S. population voted for Donald Trump.

    This also translates close to 77.7456207% of the U.S. population didn’t vote for Donald Trump.

    I was the one who did the calculations… sooo maybe check my work, it’s been a long time since I had to deal with percentages, I think it’s correct though.

    Good luck, and stay safe out there.

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      While your point is valid in that a lot of people didn’t vote for Trump, you’re being slightly disingenuous here. Ok maybe that’s the wrong word since I don’t believe it’s malicious. But in my opinion the number of eligible voters, not the total number of US Residents is really what you should be comparing. And that number is more like 244,600,000. So while the number is still very high, it’s more like 68.4% didn’t vote for him.

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        I agree, those numbers are the complete population, (not only eligible voters) that’s why I added the statement “Keep in mind that these are raw numbers that include everyone, including non-voters like children and felons.”

        In my lifetime I haven’t known many people that would be considered left leaning that vote, yet I’m pretty sure everyone I’ve known who are conservative vote every chance they get.

        I should also point out that my view comes from someone who only ever lived in vary conservative areas in the south. Hopefully this election will finally get the left out to vote more.

        Plus ineligible and disenfranchised voters still have a voice and they still matter, hopefully many of them will use their voice as protests are dramatically on the rise now that people are starting to take a financial hit.

        So with my experience (which is subjective) the voting numbers definitely don’t represent the whole story because so many people don’t vote and many more can’t vote, so that is why the raw numbers give me some hope.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      If you want to work as a politician it should be required to take psychological evaluations. If you have narcissistic or psychopathic tendencies, you should be barred from that. I have no problems both a rule like that

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    If nothing else, their sheer inability to understand reality would make it much easier to put Dogey America to sleep. Animals use language, however primitive, to warn of danger. Trumpkins fundamentally fails at this, and will start to die in record numbers when they eat RFK Burgers with rat diarrhea as the sauce.

    Not even sure if I am kidding there. They are tearing down the institutions that protect everyone from everything.

  • Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    next we see Trump saying “Microplastics? I solved that too, it no longer exists folks. America is great!”

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    What’s interesting is that other then three minor places reporting in this. Not even a comment from the democratic party. Nothing in major news publications. Nothing on CNN that I can find. Nothing on AP or NPR. I’m questioning if this is even real.

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      A lot of the time major publications won’t print something like this unless it can be verified. They are probably trying to get confirmation it is real.

  • thallamabond@lemmy.world
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    Pollution remediation banned terms runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution

    What a massive gift to the worst people

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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      I feel like at some point there will be so much banned that every government document is just going to be like caveman talk about how amazing petroleum and guns are

      Gas good and drill good so money good too. All is good if gas is gas. Oil and gas and drilling is great. Guns for army man. Make America great again.