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Should be a wild four years.

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The thread has focused on this very little on this which suggests to me it is an unmistakable L. I like the idea of the gov backing off on things it doesn’t need to control, and we’re all kind of fucked and full of plastic anyway, but most people aren’t living the self-sufficient dream to make up for it yet.
there's little talk about this because ultimately this affects a small number of people

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The EPA estimates that 6-10% of water systems serve water with excess PFAS levels, according to the 2024 regulations, affecting some 100 million people in the U.S.

this paper from earlier in the thread agrees
This review compares PFAS in rainwater to the latest US EPA regulation for the first time. ... The average ΣPFAS and HI for all five studies are below the maximum contamination levels (MCLs) recommended by the EPA. However, rainwater samples collected near local point sources often exceeded the MCLs.
so unless you're in a danger zone, your rainwater and local water systems are more than likely not over the current FDA limit for PFAS compounds. the same as many, many other chemicals

the study also notes this
Legacy PFAS refer specifically to the 8-carbon perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and their derivatives. Recently developed PFAS are referred to as emerging PFAS, and consist of thousands of different substances.
Both legacy and emerging PFAS exhibit similar persistence, stability, and avoid environmental degradation. As a result, legacy and emerging PFAS have been found in environments on every continent.
why do we keep creating these horrible compounds that are poisoning every single water source in the entire world?

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as forever chemicals, are a class of synthetic chemicals manufactured since the 1940s for a variety of industrial applications, including food containers, electronic parts, ski wax, aqueous fire-fighting foam (AFFF), and more.
because we use it in a ton of items that people want to buy and contribute to modern technology and safety. similar to plastics, asbestos, lead, and many others

part of what you're seeing is the natural fatigue the general public has gotten from liberal environmentalist faggots claiming every single environmental concern is the end of the world. when a real big problem comes along nobody is going to believe it because the last 200 things that were going to wipe out humanity never did
 
Your analogy is interesting to read. It should be noted though that Fitzhugh was in the minority when it came to his views about a colorblind slave system (his defense of slavery as an institution was popular at the time though) and his ideas were never implemented in practice. The modern pro-abortion crowd will probably get a lot further in their pursuit for power then the enslavers of old did, though they have suffered setbacks in the past couple years.
Absolutely. In my opinion, I think he's fascinating and frightening because I do think that although he wasn't even close to the majority position of his day, I think he was the majority position of tomorrow, if you get what I mean? There's a clear strand from escalation to escalation. It's stuff that schools don't teach anymore, since half of them outright lie that the Founders were pro-slavery and write out all of the early abolitionism (like Jefferson's banning of the slave trade, or how exactly the North came to be free in the first place). Likewise, there used to be this (wrong) consensus that slavery was on the way out, but it wasn't, it was getting more intense economically and ideologically with time.
 
because we use it in a ton of items that people want to buy and contribute to modern technology and safety. similar to plastics, asbestos, lead, and many others

part of what you're seeing is the natural fatigue the general public has gotten from liberal environmentalist faggots claiming every single environmental concern is the end of the world. when a real big problem comes along nobody is going to believe it because the last 200 things that were going to wipe out humanity never did
The amount of eco sperging is mental in here rn and tells me who was a convert to the republican party. Nigga I want to get to Mars. Acid rain is fake and gay. These chemicals are too.
 
Positive Good = As slavery continues to expand, slavery supporters stop apologizing for it as a necessary evil and start defending it as a good in and of itself; this is around the time of John Calhoun and feeds into the Civil War. Scientific racism begins to really develop to defend slavery. Southerners begin to not only defend the peculiar institution but actually promote it as a superior and more humane form of social organization. This accompanies waves of expansion; I'm not an anti-Texas faggot like most academics today are, but this does overlap with the story of Texas, the Mexican-American War and the filibuster expeditions against Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba. At this point the South also begins to become a pariah internationally, it sort of isolates itself intellectually in a manner somewhat like South Africa and Rhodesia under apartheid.
Note that this is the position modern liberals take on American companies' exploitation of Chinese slave labor overseas and American farmers' exploitation of illegal alien slave labor domestically.
 
>President Trump signs Take It Down Act, criminalizing deepfake and revenge porn.

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Does this include Deepfake NON PORN? Like making deepfake videos of a president saying that they should bomb detroit or something?

If so, I am okay with the idea behind it, but I don't trust the government to abuse this power.

As AI gets better and better, anything that is on the internet is now subject to a "I never did that, someone used AI to deepfake me". Imagine all those memes of Biden or Hillary having a stroke during a talk or falling down stairs or some shit - they are all now going to be "Fake news! AI deepfakes posted by bad actors".
 
Note that this is the position modern liberals take on American companies' exploitation of Chinese slave labor overseas and American farmers' exploitation of illegal alien slave labor domestically.
If there is any lesson in how everything played it out is that quite a few people don't care that much about slavery as long as they can't see it, it isn't happening in their backyard or that its convenient.
 
Change does take time, and it would be easier if people like you did not insist on simply giving up and letting gigantic chemical companies get away with whatever they want.
the recent change isn't just letting companies dump harmful chemicals wherever they want. PFAS compounds are already regulated by the EPA and they already have a safe exposure limit. this recent change merely lowers the limits to what they were before the Biden administration changed them. i don't see why i should be a doomer about this change when there are already dozens of other cleanup sites in my area for other hazardous chemicals

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The amount of eco sperging is mental in here rn and tells me who was a convert to the republican party. Nigga I want to get to Mars. Acid rain is fake and gay. These chemicals are too.
there are compromises to having an advanced society that produces things and accomplishes things. sometimes we screw up. we have ways of fixing things. eco sperging is always by very anxious people who can't handle change or risks at all and want everything to stay exactly the same forever. which is impossible, unless you do nothing and stagnate
 
While the democrat congresswoman is being charged, Alina Habba dismissed the charges against the Newark NJ mayor.

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I hope this is a good cop/bad cop situation where going after the dem rep is easier and more fulfilling, but someone needs to do a dime, you can't let them all get away with it, because they didn't do it to MAGA. Make them suffer.
 
The modern pro-abortion crowd will probably get a lot further in their pursuit for power then the enslavers of old did, though they have suffered setbacks in the past couple years.
Rate me optimistic, but I personally think we've seen peak baby murder in America as an ideology. Being pro-abortion, is being pro-death, and one need only look at modern liberals to see how miserable they are. Slavery on the other hand doesn't require one to adopt such vile views. Its much easier to lie to yourself that you are doing good when you keep people in chains. Everyone who is pro-abortion however knows exactly what they are doing, and only the most broken of them aren't that seriously effected.

This effect is reflected in birth rates. Pro-life people have always had more children than pro-aborts. It has only been a combination of law, and propaganda that has enabled this terrible minority to have a hold on society. I ask seriously can we expect these people to retain their same status now that they've lost the legal battle, are losing the indoctrination battle, and have always lost the reproductive battle. Abortion is at its most basic is a self-correcting issue. The genes that enable a woman to murder her own child remove themselves from the species. Even if every genetic dead-end woman is a drop in the ocean of humanity.
 
the recent change isn't just letting companies dump harmful chemicals wherever they want. PFAS compounds are already regulated by the EPA and they already have a safe exposure limit. this recent change merely lowers the limits to what they were before the Biden administration changed them. i don't see why i should be a doomer about this change when there are already dozens of other cleanup sites in my area for other hazardous chemicals

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there are compromises to having an advanced society that produces things and accomplishes things. sometimes we screw up. we have ways of fixing things. eco sperging is always by very anxious people who can't handle change or risks at all and want everything to stay exactly the same forever. which is impossible, unless you do nothing and stagnate
Oh. So literally getting rid of Biden's mandates to have NONE, even if they have industrial uses because we have nothing better. Good.
 
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