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

double posting because these photographed email printouts (!) are absolute gold:

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

I remember the times when all online content had a list of search words so they would score higher in the search result. Still see a youtube video with this. Good for them they are trying to resurrect this trend, I miss it.

climate, climate change, climate-change, changing climate,  climate consulting, climate models, climate model, climate accountability, climate risk, climate resilience, climate smart agriculture, climate smart forestry, climatesmart, climate science, climate variability, global warming, carbon sequestration, GHG emission, GHG monitoring, GHG modeling, carbon emissions mitigation, greenhouse gas emission, methane emissions, green infrastructure, sustainable construction, carbon pricing, carbon markets, 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, clean power, clean fuel, alternative energy, geothermal, solar energy, solar power, photovoltaic, agrivoltaics, wind power, nuclear energy, nuclear power, bioenergy, biofuel, biogas, biomethane, ethanol, diesel, aviation fuel, pyrolysis, energy conversion, electric vehicle, hydrogen vehicle, fuel cell, low-emission vehicle, affordable housing, affordable home, low-income housing, subsidized housing, transitional housing, housing affordability, housing efficiency, prefabricated housing, equity, DEI, DEIA, equitable, inclusive, BIPOC, people of color, disadvantaged, social justice, environmental justice, underserved, underrepresented, justice40, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, two-spirit, queer, QT, diverse, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, accessible, black, indigenous, asexual, non-conforming, trans, vulnerable, gender, gendered, gender, gendered

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Imagine being opposed to clean water. Death cultists, one and all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I'm so glad that most imported products in my country are no longer made in the USA. I'm not even a strong believer in the effectiveness of consumer boycotts, this is just a health consideration at this point.

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

"clean water"? So we'll refer to it as "water not full of shit"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

lol, I’m at the point that I just can’t understand my fellow MAGA human who would think clean water is a bad thing anymore.

I just can’t even stoop to the level of holding a serious conversation with them anymore at all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I never in my lifetime thought this country could turn such a complete 180 in such a short period of time and yet here we are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

We are so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Another day another fascist idiot move hurting everyone

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to get those social media kids to start coming up with alternatives asap. They're good at that shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Freedom juice, bootstrap subscriptions, and trickle down polymers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Trickledown polymers is incredible ngl

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Let's replace them with "dirty water" "polluting plastics" and "preferred discrimination".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ok I had to do this. This quote is too awesome.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its woke to drink anything but pisswater.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 176 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It is long past overdue for torches and pitchforks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

It's time to break out the guillotines.

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

The protests start tomorrow. Big one is somehow 4/20(we live in a TV show). The only ones I can see them swaying are congress though so I guess we're all in on the House and Senate caving to protestors and a rapidly cratering economy... We're going to need a general strike.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Start tomorrow? They’ve been every damn day for months now. Tomorrow is a big one.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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

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?

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't know how gnarly paper mills were, that sucks

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

The entire town got filled with that sulfur smell a few times a day. When we first moved there, we were baffled about the smell. The locals all said; "smells like money." Even the other kids in school. I never got accustomed to it. It's a smell that will forever be stuck with me.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago

"Party Of Small Government"

This is fascism, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microplastics are woke? Fellas, is accumulating microplastics in your balls gay?

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

Getting rid of microplastics is gay, retention is alpha

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIL that clean water is “woke”

I better not see any anti-woke types drinking clean water!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only coca-cola™ will be allowed for drinking, and Gatorade to water the plants of course (it's got what plants crave).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

next we see Trump saying "Microplastics? I solved that too, it no longer exists folks. America is great!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] phoenixz 4 points 1 day ago

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

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

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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These people are so ridiculously evil. Banning the phrase clean water is insane.

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

Perhaps, but before you label something insane you compare it to all the words that the Biden - and even the Obama - administrations banned.

Oh, wait, there isn't a list of banned words from those administrations?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God forbid someone mentions ”clean water”.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah man. Nestle owns that word.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hard to believe there are still people willing to pose for a photo with Elon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gonna make it hard to talk about home REDACTED loans

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So they can't reference the Clean Water Act?

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