• applemao@lemmy.world
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    17 minutes ago

    The fact that people have any thought that this guy is smart or a good person makes me hate humanity.

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    3 hours ago

    Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.

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    numerous century-old municipal sewer lines that run under the park. These lines have cracked over time and leak sewage

    This is easy to fix.

    Shame the article doesn’t say how much the municipality is being fined every day they continue to leak raw sewage into the watershed.

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      There are these linings that are deployed into old pipes, which would be otherwise costly to replace.
      I wonder if there’s a legitimate reason this technique couldn’t be used here.
      It is possible those only work for smaller diameter pipes.

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there’s an honest scientific debate going on

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      ‘idiots’ is my preferred term. I’m in favor of calling stupid people out again. Too long has stupidity been condoned and even championed ‘He tells it like it is’.

      They are morons and need to be called that unabashedly.

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      Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there’s scientific consensus on those matters. They’re as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you’re not a skeptic, you’re a denier. There’s no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.

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            i’m adding, not disagreeing… guess i should’ve said, “yeah comrade, well put, scientists are the real skeptics 🤝”
            but, for the record, i agree with your preceding comment.
            i apologize for lack of clarity 🎩 🤏

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        I honest to God can’t believe how such fucking morons managed to get power. RFK jr. Would have been seen as a bigger crackpot than Alex Jones if he wasn’t RFK’s son.

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    That little girl looks like she’s even sick of grandpa’s shit. Hair is bone dry in every photo and the only one of her actually in contact with the water, she’s kicking it in his face. She honestly looks visibly upset when he’s dangling her brother over it.

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    During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.

    And he’s hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.