• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Well, that’s disappointing. When trying to convince some less-culty conservatives that some kinds of regulations can be a good thing, I used this very thing as an example, thinking nobody in the right fucking mind would support dumping biological and industrial waste into water supplies.

    In hindsight, I really set the bar too low.

  • aggelalex@lemmy.world
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    Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed, and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice:

    If you visit American city,

    You will find it very prett

    Just two things of which you must beware

    Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!

    Pollution, pollution!

    They got smog and sewage and mud.

    Turn on your tap

    And get hot and cold running crud!

    • Tom Lehrer
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    29 days ago

    can’t wait to go back to having to turn all drinking water into light beer because it’s the only way to purify it

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    To celebrate this ruling I went to my local reservoir where my town gets their drinking water and I went for a swim where I both urinated and defecated in the water. THANKS SCOTUS, you saved me from getting out of the water.

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    27 days ago

    When fluoride in your water is evil, but actual shit is fine, you know that you’re in a fucked up place