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

  • huppakee@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

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

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    3 hours 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

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    I’m so glad that most imported products in my country are no longer made in the USA. I’m not even a strong believer in the effectiveness of consumer boycotts, this is just a health consideration at this point.

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      19 hours ago

      lol, I’m at the point that I just can’t understand my fellow MAGA human who would think clean water is a bad thing anymore.

      I just can’t even stoop to the level of holding a serious conversation with them anymore at all.

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    1 day 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.

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    Let’s replace them with “dirty water” “polluting plastics” and “preferred discrimination”.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    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.

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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.

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      This has happened multiple times in the USA. There are so many Erin Brokovich type stories.

      If something is causing so much environmental damage, do we need it?

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        Thankfully for that area, the plant closed last year. It wasn’t profitable anymore. Unfortunately, it and logging are really the only game in that town. They took 2 direct hits from hurricanes in fairly quick succession as well. Keaton beach, Fl is only about a 45 min drive from Perry. Some potato chip company was talking about moving there, but it remains to be seen. If I were them, I wouldn’t with the 2 direct hits. Too much risk.

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        The entire town got filled with that sulfur smell a few times a day. When we first moved there, we were baffled about the smell. The locals all said; “smells like money.” Even the other kids in school. I never got accustomed to it. It’s a smell that will forever be stuck with me.

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      My God I can’t ever comprehend how people can be so wrong

      And like, a LOT of them too

      At least when my dog hurts me they don’t try to convince me it’s for my own good too

    • 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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      2 days 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.