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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can someone arrest him for child endangerment?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Seems like they should fix that sewage leak.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but cleaning up sewage is woke and dei.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

that means tearing up the park, I suspect that MOST people are happy enough just looking at the stream.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the creek's bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.

Sorry for those children.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

The water is now less clean for having him in it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hopefully C Diff will catch a RFK Jr.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???????

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Welcome to America era 2025!

Its sure to historical, one way or the other....

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Stuff like this isn't a problem, until it is.

What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn't bathe in toilet outflows.

Thing is, it's a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you'll see the differences. That's why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don't have to repeat them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

*used to have

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If he gets some insane new parasite from this what are the odds it kills the one driving his brain now and takes over with a more normal personality?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its like season 5 of Dexter when they start just re-spinning the same more and more absurd plot lines.

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