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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

I remember the times when all online content had a list of search words so they would score higher in the search result. Still see a youtube video with this. Good for them they are trying to resurrect this trend, I miss it.

climate, climate change, climate-change, changing climate,  climate consulting, climate models, climate model, climate accountability, climate risk, climate resilience, climate smart agriculture, climate smart forestry, climatesmart, climate science, climate variability, global warming, carbon sequestration, GHG emission, GHG monitoring, GHG modeling, carbon emissions mitigation, greenhouse gas emission, methane emissions, green infrastructure, sustainable construction, carbon pricing, carbon markets, runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution, clean power, clean fuel, alternative energy, geothermal, solar energy, solar power, photovoltaic, agrivoltaics, wind power, nuclear energy, nuclear power, bioenergy, biofuel, biogas, biomethane, ethanol, diesel, aviation fuel, pyrolysis, energy conversion, electric vehicle, hydrogen vehicle, fuel cell, low-emission vehicle, affordable housing, affordable home, low-income housing, subsidized housing, transitional housing, housing affordability, housing efficiency, prefabricated housing, equity, DEI, DEIA, equitable, inclusive, BIPOC, people of color, disadvantaged, social justice, environmental justice, underserved, underrepresented, justice40, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, two-spirit, queer, QT, diverse, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, accessible, black, indigenous, asexual, non-conforming, trans, vulnerable, gender, gendered, gender, gendered

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

double posting because these photographed email printouts (!) are absolute gold:

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 176 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It is long past overdue for torches and pitchforks.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Start tomorrow? They’ve been every damn day for months now. Tomorrow is a big one.

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[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pollution remediation banned terms runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution

What a massive gift to the worst people

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I feel like at some point there will be so much banned that every government document is just going to be like caveman talk about how amazing petroleum and guns are

Gas good and drill good so money good too. All is good if gas is gas. Oil and gas and drilling is great. Guns for army man. Make America great again.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago

You mean Newspeak, don't you?

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago

"Party Of Small Government"

This is fascism, by the way.

[–] cnirrad@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God forbid someone mentions ”clean water”.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah man. Nestle owns that word.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please don't say the "N" word.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's interesting is that other then three minor places reporting in this. Not even a comment from the democratic party. Nothing in major news publications. Nothing on CNN that I can find. Nothing on AP or NPR. I'm questioning if this is even real.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

A lot of the time major publications won't print something like this unless it can be verified. They are probably trying to get confirmation it is real.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gonna make it hard to talk about home REDACTED loans

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, but that’s ok, because you can always REDACTED using the REDACTED by speaking the REDACTED. That’s the best way to REDACTED REDACTED the REDACTED.

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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Oh man... i just completed my home microplastic loan application.

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL that clean water is “woke”

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hard to believe there are still people willing to pose for a photo with Elon.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

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[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These people are so ridiculously evil. Banning the phrase clean water is insane.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they can't reference the Clean Water Act?

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is some truly 1984 double speak bullshit

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microplastics are woke? Fellas, is accumulating microplastics in your balls gay?

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its woke to drink anything but pisswater.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Step 1 prevent agency from doing it's job

Step 2 shriek about how agency does nothing and must be dismantled

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

We are so fucked.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Fuck these guys, what time is the white house raid?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I never in my lifetime thought this country could turn such a complete 180 in such a short period of time and yet here we are.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, in other words, we will no longer be able to trust the USDA to safeguard our food supply and companies will be able to bastardize any and all foodstuffs without any kind of oversight whatsoever.

[–] Snowstorm@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also forget about exporting those.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the EU is already pretty wary of US agriculture goods. This is going to absolutely murder the farming export business in the US.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Imagine being opposed to clean water. Death cultists, one and all.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SabinStargem 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If nothing else, their sheer inability to understand reality would make it much easier to put Dogey America to sleep. Animals use language, however primitive, to warn of danger. Trumpkins fundamentally fails at this, and will start to die in record numbers when they eat RFK Burgers with rat diarrhea as the sauce.

Not even sure if I am kidding there. They are tearing down the institutions that protect everyone from everything.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to get those social media kids to start coming up with alternatives asap. They're good at that shit

[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Freedom juice, bootstrap subscriptions, and trickle down polymers

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Trickledown polymers is incredible ngl

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"clean water"? So we'll refer to it as "water not full of shit"

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Paper bags for everyone's head! No more problems!

[–] TJC@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Let's replace them with "dirty water" "polluting plastics" and "preferred discrimination".

[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

To be fair though the Democrats tried to stop dumb shitheads from pushing horse paste on Twitter during a pandemic, so no one's blameless in the censorship game.

(Please don't make me reply clarifying the intent of this statement.)

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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Sizing2673@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Another day another fascist idiot move hurting everyone

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