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Binette , in SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years

Yo gen alpha with mercury in their brains?

Iheartcheese , in Horses Can Plan And Strategize, New Study Finds
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chemical_cutthroat , in Horses Can Plan And Strategize, New Study Finds
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Dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle.

recapitated , in Biden dropped out because “the most important thing” is “we must defeat Trump”: CBS News

Dropping out because of “must defeat trump” is not a point-A-to-point-B reasoning. I think it was the right choice though. You can’t kick the can down the road forever.

A_Random_Idiot , in FTC head wants investigation into grocery stores over inflated prices

Just remember, eggs were 12 bucks a dozen until the fed threatened a RICO investigation.

Hopefully the same happens to the rest of our groceries.

shalafi ,

Never saw it get $12 crazy, but at one point farmers had to kill off 100 million chickens because of bird flu. That’s nearly 1 chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.

Imagine the disposal cost, let alone the costs for sterilizing monstrous chicken warehouses. Then factor in the costs of keeping operations going while they repopulated.

However, there was something I read and can’t remember, about the prices staying jacked beyond what was to be expected.

Bearrorrist ,

The egg-laying chickens were not as affected from everything I heard.

PalmTreeIsBestTree ,

Was it just meat birds?

shalafi ,

Can’t picture how that worked, but I know nothing about poultry farming. Person below posted a link saying the same, can’t see the data I hoped to.

lolcatnip ,

The US population is 340 million.

shalafi ,

nearly 1 chicken

Jesus save us from pendants.

Ravenson ,

It’s not pedantic to object to “nearly 1 chicken per man, woman, and child” in the US when it’s much closer to “1 chicken per 4 people” than it is to the former.

hark ,
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at one point farmers had to kill off 100 million chickens because of bird flu. That’s nearly 1 chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.

Didn’t seem to impact egg production all that much: statista.com/…/us-total-egg-production-since-2001…

BlitzoTheOisSilent ,

My dad worked for a private company that was a government contractor for almost 30 years before they were bought out by some international corporation.

I asked my dad if they used to have years where they didn’t turn a profit. “Oh absolutely, but we made up for it the next year, or they had money set aside, or…”

None of that happens anymore. Those chickens, I guarantee, caught those diseases because of the practices put in place by the 4 or 5 companies that basically produce all of the poultry for this country. They made poor business decisions, they chose to pinch pennies and not put money aside for unexpected emergencies, they continued to pay out dividends and issue stock buy backs instead of creating an emergency fund like they tell us poors we need to do.

So no, I don’t care to imagine any of their costs, because if they were a legitimate business, they would have contingency plans in place beyond “jack the prices up as high as they’ll go and keep em there until it starts to hurt our wallets enough.” They would take the hit for fucking once instead of passing the cost along to those who can least bare it so they can maintain their lifestyle built on greed and stolen wages.

xmunk , in US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling

We have an irresponsible and illegitimate Supreme Court and this is what we get.

originalucifer ,
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there are also humans at the top of the 'air force' that made this decision not to clean up. its two sets of irresponsible...no... negligent humans at play.

NJSpradlin ,

Playing by the rules and showing those that made them their flaws, is also a legitimate strategy to force corrections.

originalucifer ,
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exactly, lets purposefully poison lots of people so we can force those regulations written in blood!

IsThisAnAI ,

And playing with lives over to respond or not with unclear rules over the next 50 years is better? Folks will get sick either way. I’d prefer to force a decision sooner rather than later.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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Well… Just poison the right watering holes that the people who have the power to act care about, and suddenly they’ll care about the EPA and water quality regulations.

gAlienLifeform ,
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You think the drinking water of Supreme Court justices is going to be contaminated as a result of this? They’re not being punished for making a mistake, a bunch of innocent powerless plebs will be.

catloaf ,

I’m sure Clarence Thomas’s RVs have a water filter.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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So you’re saying contaminate their water. I like the idea.

catloaf ,

That would be the Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall.

Also, he is appointed by, and reports directly to, the president. Biden could easily call this guy up and tell him to unfuck himself.

andrewta ,

That’s exactly what I was thinking

frezik ,

“Do you know the chain of command? It’s the chain I use to beat you if you don’t cleanup the gorram PFAS.”

Biggles ,

Biden is commander in chief. He can just order them to clean it up.

thefartographer ,

I can’t tell if this is a genuine attempt to dodge cleanup or an attempt to test a Supreme Court ruling before companies can get out of hand during the next administration.

But maybe I’m reading too much into the context.

index ,

They also made the decision to pollute in the first place. Let’s not divert the attention off the cause of the pollution.

Maggoty ,

To be fair, much of this pollution was done decades ago. The people responsible for the bulk of it are retired by now.

SGGeorwell ,

We have a *criminal, irresponsible, and illegitimate Supreme Court.

CaptainSpaceman ,

Gorsuch was an eternity ago, but thats where it started

Yawweee877h444 ,

We have a nation of people who voted for the people who selected the extreme far right conservatives into the court.

Voters deserve much of the blame too.

Blackbeard ,
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…and who vote for a Congress that refuses to pass laws to address these problems.

grue ,

What are you talking about? Congress did pass a law to address this: it’s called the Clean Water Act. The issue is that an illegitimate SCOTUS packed by traitors basically invalidated it.

Blackbeard ,
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The article spells out what I’m talking about pretty clearly. I work with the CWA literally on a daily basis. Congress hasn’t made the CWA more clear or specific since the Water Quality Act of 1987. Congress could literally fix this dispute between federal agencies tomorrow, but we elected Republicans to control the House, which means it has a snowball’s chance in hell of ever happening.

grue ,

The CWA as of 1987 is plenty clear under any reasonable standard. The relevant problem here is that SCOTUS has ordained an unreasonable standard. Yes, Democratic control of both houses of Congress could “fix” that issue, but the point is it shouldn’t need to because the EPA should be allowed to do its job (which, contrary to the illegitimate tyrannical stooges’ diseased opinions, does include interpreting the law!).

Blackbeard ,
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Yes, Democratic control of both houses of Congress could “fix” that issue

Glad we agree.

originalucifer ,
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id argue non-voters are equally to blame, and a larger block

xmunk ,

Erm, all Americans who could vote share the blame but Mitch McConnel gets a big heaping serving of it.

capital ,

The consequences of people staying home and/or general apathy in regards to voting.

venusaur , in Paignton: Same-sex flamingos successfully hatch a chick at zoo.
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Not to be confused with these flamingos laying an egg

Kolanaki , in Parents and Gen Alpha kids are having unintelligible convos because of ‘brainrot’ language
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Fanum tax? Shit, I thought they were saying phantom tax.

Etterra , in Parents and Gen Alpha kids are having unintelligible convos because of ‘brainrot’ language

Slang is stupid, film at 11:00. This is just old people complaining about young people. We’ve been doing this for literally thousands of years. It’s not newsworthy, not even in in the modern age of 6 second attention spans.

tehcooles , in Horses Can Plan And Strategize, New Study Finds

Oh fuck oh shit

LovableBastard , in Horses are smart enough to plan and strategise, new study shows

previous theories that equine brains respond only to immediate stimuli and are not complex enough to strategise

Who held those theories? And have they ever been around horses?

Just this weekend my spouse and I had to move our mare and almost 4 month old colt. She’s quite used to riding in a small horse trailer, but the little guy was terrified of getting into it. When his mom realized it, she started getting on and off the trailer several times to show him it was fine. Then she went behind him and kept nudging him towards the trailer. Seemed pretty obvious to me that she knew what was going on and was trying her best to help the little guy understand it was all ok.

I’ve certainly met some horses that could have made me question the species’ intelligence if they were the only ones I knew. But there are plenty of intelligent horses out there. I’m really surprised that the prevailing theory was that they only respond to immediate stimuli.

Apytele ,

Honestly I would’ve guessed that on size alone. Its generally a characteristic of anything bigger than a fruit fly, and especially mammals and birds.

shalafi ,

Mammals and birds, yeah, but reptiles and fish are dehydrated rock-hard stupid. They just don’t have the brain structures.

AlecSadler ,

I sent this article to my wife who trains / rides horses daily and she was just like, “Duh.”

She says anyone who has spent any time with horses knows this.

I guess a formal study proving something has some clout though?

some_guy ,

The arrogance of our species is quite astonishing. Look at the morons who get offended at the idea that we’re evolved apes.

Obviously, nothing could have any amount of actual thought if it wasn’t human! /s

GreyEyedGhost ,

We had a stallion that could jump the 6-foot fences of his corral. My dad would yell at him and he would jump back in. He was a bit of a jerk (stallion), but he definitely wasn’t stupid.

We had a Shetland mare, and she wasn’t stupid, either. Pure evil, as is the Shetland way, but not stupid.

Our Welsh was neither stupid nor evil.

Our thoroughbred might have been stupid, or could have come from an environment as unstimulating as a rat cage with nothing but food and a single wheel.

count_dongulus ,

Yeah some horses are super smart. I had one that learned to open doorknobs with his mouth after seeing it used up close for a long time. Very annoying, had to start locking that barn door.

YogurtDoes , in White House names Bezalel Smotrich as obstacle to ceasefire deal, says he is ‘jeopardizing’ hostage lives

Gotta love the way that one single shitbag of a person can keep a disgusting war going just because they want it to.

catloaf ,

It’s not just one person. Enough people in the Knesset are okay with it too, because they haven’t shut him down. He’s just the most extreme.

PugJesus ,

Unfortunately, it’s not just him. Netanyahu, for example, has also been cited as an obstacle to serious hostage negotiations, even by members of his own government.

chilicheeselies ,

Because the plan all along was to allow october 7th to happen to give then a cassus belli to erradicate the gaza strip. Its not erradicated enough yet to alow them to make bank rebuilding it for israelis. The hostages are pawns for them, and if they get them back they lose their pretext for the take over and destruction.

Linkerbaan ,
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It’s not. Israel is doing it almost unanynously.

But it’s an easy out for the white house to pretend it is.

Zombiepirate , in Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years: The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens look forward to voting
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One of my friends was naturalized this year and he fucking hates Trump.

I told him we could use more people like him.

barsquid ,

I wish we could deport the MAGAs that hate our country. I’d rather have citizens who actually want to be here and improve the country instead of harming all their neighbors so they feel better about themselves.

TransplantedSconie , in For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division

Had a good friend of 30 years, tell me over the phone that my kids and I should be shot because I didn’t immediately feel sorry for Trump being shot at.

I told him, “This is a direct result of pushing division, guns being able to be bought with amazing ease, and it will probably happen again.”

He said, “I wish the same thing that happened to Trump to happen to you and your kids.” and hung up.

Friendship over. I’m not being friends with anyone who wishes my kids to be killed.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

Yikes. The parasocial relationship people have with Trump is psychotic - this guy clearly felt like an attempt on Trump’s life by a random nutjob was equivalent to an attempt on his own life by whoever is arguing with him.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Even if it’s hyperbole, it’s still a shitty thing to say.

deadbeef79000 ,

When someone is telling you who they are, listen.

Dkarma ,

THE FIRST TIME!

deadbeef79000 ,

That sucks. I hope that cloud has a silver lining for you, somehow.

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