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

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

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

  • DarthKaren@lemmy.world
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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.

  • notannpc@lemmy.world
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    TIL that clean water is “woke”

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

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

    • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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.

    • Jinx@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, death to progress, bring back the dark ages! 😂

      Edit: Why the downvotes, I meant it sarcastically!! Hence the “😂”
      I guess it wasn’t obvious.