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Sorry about the ads in the pictures. Since I got this from my iPhone’s “Apple News,” my adblock app does not work.
Source: The Guardian
Link: https://apple.news/APus3XvK8S26MAHTygHGTvw
BananaWilds
Its banned in Europe already ?
shekilledcovid
Thanks uncle Sam ?
STINKPICKEL
Any retired IBM service reps, IBM gold can cleaner.
PenguinNamedWobbles
For light cleaning mix water with white vinegar and dish soap. Still kills most bacteria and won't hurt you at all.
Callintryluck
As someone who was born on LeJune in '81 this interests me.
Commononsense
Good thing the only things I drink are rainwater, and pure grain alcohol.
Isometimestakethingsliterally
I was going to make a sarcastic comment but honestly as time goes on, the news I hear makes me more and more depressed.
agent0Creator
1.9% refinance rate! I’m in.
makingwoofles
Right! Just had 2.1% on a 30 year and the agent didn't fucking lock it in! I wanted to fucking scream. 2.3 isn't terrible though
Cytos
The anti-maskers and covid deniers on my facebook are the same ones that say California's restrictions on these are over-reaching. smh..
TheFastpaws
I hate this place.
phtsl
I went no look at my carpet cleaner. It does not even list the ingredients on the bottle. I had to Google them. Pain in the ass
phtsl
Here is bissell: https://supplier.bissell.com/Ingredients_Domestic/Default.aspx
FirstThingThatCameToMind
oh man, I'm gonna be so healthy, cuz I cant afford any of those things.
CanadaIdentifier
Don’t worry, it’s in the water too
Navrodel
Google built an office on top of a literal toxic waste site? Why am I somehow unsurprised by their lack of concern for their workers.
westPAguy
1.9% is a really good rate.
tegfdd77
Good how. Do I amuse you?
retrohellix
THAT'S IT!
IdiopathicHomosapien
TIL from the NPL site that the water where I live and where I work are both contaminated with various industrial chemicals
ScorpionSage
@LesbianRedwings ughhhhh I hate civilization
LesbianRedwings
Yeah..... all that sucks so much. We know these chemicals are bad, and people still dump them illegally.
CottonTShirtz
TCE map: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2018-tce/
amagiciannamedgob
404 message: Just like the government’s action on personal care product safety laws, this page doesn’t exist!
CottonTShirtz
The link is working for me, though I assume you're being sardonic...
amagiciannamedgob
It's the website's 404. The site itself is working.
RElGNMAN
If those in the military uses high amounts of shoe polish regularly, wouldn’t a study show that Parkinson’s is associated with TCE?
CanadaIdentifier
It has been. If a veteran served at camp lejeuene they are entitled to a presumption that their Parkinson’s was caused by service due to the
CanadaIdentifier
TCE in the water supply
EroticZombiePants
Does this include Resolve Carpet Foam? I grabbed it to check because it's right by me, and it doesn't even list ingredients ...
Zindarak1
don't know how accurate this is https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/2756-RESOLVEPetHighTrafficFoamCarpetUpholsteryCleaner/
EroticZombiePants
Well I figured there would be some problems, because all cleaners that aren't all-natural would have chemicals that can affect breathing.
Dajova
You guys need to start investing in stuff like this: https://productimages.biltema.com/v1/image/imagebyfilename/84-059_xl_1.jpg
SwedeOnAnIsland
What’s that?
STINKPICKEL
Looks like A steam cleaner, plain hot H2O, cleans and disinfects.
ClayinVA
Tri-clor is a really strong degreaser but it’s use is way down since the 80’s. Also call BS on the study, used to work at an auto plant.
ClayinVA
The place used to have lead plating operation in the 70’s and 80’s. Still had a bunch of staff still working after 65 and 70 years old.
ClayinVA
Did not have a big cluster of cases. So probably not using or breathing it for 8 hour days. Maybe the drinking contamination could be it.
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
The sad thing is that this has nothing on our daily pollutant exposure from traffic exhaust fumes. Formaldehyde, benzene, mercury, arsenic,…
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
polycyclic hydrocarbons, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, mono-nitrogen oxides that react with ammonia to form lung tissue-destroying …
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
nitric acid vapor, and plenty of other toxic, carcinogenic and teratogenic goodies. Inhaling this mixture contributes to a long list of ...
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
diseases that starts with asthma and Alzheimer's and ends with vascular tumors. It also contains Parkinson's of course. Yet it is barely ...
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
ever mentioned because we all love our cars and hate being reminded of the fact that we're condemning our kids to a life with a host of ...
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
avoidable health issues. We hate it so much that I'm being downvoted by some cunt as I'm typing this. We'd much rather let the clickbait …
isetprettygirlsonfire
I'm always cleaning TCE out of the groundwater. It has been spilled everywhere. It gets into the drinking water supply
YesButAlsoYes
Super hard to clean up too. Pump and treat till the end of time
isetprettygirlsonfire
I usually recommend an aggressive bioremediation program. Much more effective and faster than P&T.
YesButAlsoYes
Damn I wish one of my sites would cop that. They all want cheap upfront but long cleanup so they can go “bankrupt” and use small trust funds
isetprettygirlsonfire
Dang that sucks. Most of the states I work in are paid through state insurance funds where effective cleanup is priority.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Exceot for CA, which has the worst system ever. See.s like the priority is shift blame (hire lots of lawyers) and drag thing out as much 2/
GenshiV
Additional sauce: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31996877/ Worth keeping an eye on how it's affecting more than Parkinson's, too.
GenshiV
Could be extremely serious, though it'll likely take a decade or more to prove it to the point that chemical companies might be held liable.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
Chemical companies held liable.
Kbantar
It took how long for tobacco companies to be held liable even after MOUNTAINS of evidence? Yeah, I ain't holdin' my breath.
GenshiV
Monsanto (post merger) is still tied up in litigation in Oregon, so yeah... I'm not optimistic.
OberynNymeros
Whats nuts to me is how we just let companies put chemicals in food, products, and the environment and assume its fine until ppl get hurt
OberynNymeros
we heavily regulate drugs of course, but for essentially every other product you can put chemicals in it’s a total free for all
OberynNymeros
and only after a bunch of people get sick and then other people prove it’s your product does anything happen to remediate it. Total bananas
SlappedStupid
I was "evacuated" from my home in 2018 so that the gov can install fans under my house to pump out the TCE fumes that are coming out of ->
SlappedStupid
the ground. They installed solar panels too, to compensate for the electricity bills, to power the fans, but it's been almost 3 years and ->
SlappedStupid
they're still not connected. I've given up. I've lived here 20 years & I have weird health problems that nobody can diagnose. Oh well...
sjs260563
40 years ago we didn't do part of O-level chemistry practical because our teacher didn't want to expose us to Trichloroethylene (RIP Pongo)
CambreathdTheSecound
my high school chem teacher got yelled at for letting us synthesize benzene. (It was properly illegal and it's like super cariogenic.)
TanithRosenbaum
If you do it with proper PPE and procedures, it's perfectly safe. Problem is, most things in chemistry react well (that's kinda the point)>>
CambreathdTheSecound
We used fume hoods.. :) He was an awesome teacher He used to be an industrial chemist, but his disregard for PPE left him allergic >>
CambreathdTheSecound
to among many things Benzene..
TanithRosenbaum
>>and since we're large wet bags of chemistry, they react well with us too. I have a degree in chemistry, and half of the time in Uni>>
TanithRosenbaum
>>we spent learning how not to kill ourselves. So the point of chemistry should be teach how to do all that safely, not to avoid all>>
TanithRosenbaum
should be to teach (missed a word there)
TanithRosenbaum
>>contact with "evil chemistry". After all, in shop class, you use tools that can easily cut off a finger or worse too, but instead of >>
Somerandomoldguy
As an non-detracting aside. I'm not looking forward to everything being referred to as an epidemic or pandemic for the next 5-10 years.
hajimedj
*laughs in H1N1, H5N1, BSE, foot&mouth disease, SARS, MERS, ...* First time?
Somerandomoldguy
Yeah but this will go to 11
VileEverett
Shoe polish? Carpet cleaner? Dry cleaning? I’m totally safe
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Sounds like rich people problems.
PosthumousExile
Also degreaser
meganical
Also, in a lot of water in America. But not Minnesota or NY
Domehammer
I still doubt for other reasons the water is that safe in NY, tap water shouldn't taste like you squeezed lemons into it.
ZombieZooZombieZoo
Oh hey, I'm in one of those!
CanadaIdentifier
Veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune get a presumption that a lot of conditions were caused by their service because the water there was so
CanadaIdentifier
Contaminated with TCE
JLB36602
Don't worry, Minnesota has those pesky PFAS's to deal with. Thanks, 3M!
IOnlyNeedOneBall
Long Island has that in spades too. NYC water is fine though. Damn wells and corporate pollution.
none442
Why are those two states safe?
TheBestSpiderQueen
Probably stricter regulations. I'm in NY and a lot of land is state owned parks. Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger lakes.
IOnlyNeedOneBall
Some of the most beautiful in the country. Letchworth and Watkin's Glen are astounding.
IOnlyNeedOneBall
Mainly those states are geographically self filtering and largely uninhabited. NYS; lowest 10 counties have twice the pop of the upper 53.
SoulTakerWasSupposedToBeMyUsernameButSomebodyStoleIT
Wait, you guys still use tce? That shit is toxic af! We don't even touch the stuff at work
ComicSansHumor
I didn't think we used TCE but it turns out it was wafting it's way up from the quad for years.
Beleethisnow
I don't touch anything at work..
TarrkertheNewt
Haven't seen anything with that in it for years. Things like this make me glad I live in a commonwealth x_x
oldradios19772000
Hasn't been used here in decades. The problem is that it's now in the ground
loki6969s
Welcome to the combo of capitalism as a pseudo religion combined with almost complete lack of regulation... but long live 'Merica right..?
dingofdong
I mean... that feels less like a combo and more like a tautology tbh, one's kinda lead to the other & there's a huge positive feedback loop
moxiefoxxy
What name brand products use it?
Raven1108
I'm curious as well! I haven't had much luck finding any concrete list of products that have it in them yet.
YesButAlsoYes
LOTS. Most dry cleaners, lots of industrial solvents and cleansers. Just gotta look
AceOfShovels
Apparently yes, because muh freedomz
dingofdong
Ah yes, that most treasured of American freedoms... the freedom for a corporation to recklessly sicken and kill thousands of people in +
dingofdong
+ pursuit of shareholder profits.
YesButAlsoYes
It’s been banned since 1977 for use in food production and extraction processes.Full ban was proposed in 2016 but was delayed by the cheeto
Barkinsons
Makes you wonder if people will go all asbestos with their lawyers in a few years against companies that still used it until the end
cowsarekool
I love that you can say Cheeto and I know exactly what you mean
tegfdd77
But I still love real Cheetos... the kind you get at the gas station!
cheesedogs
Mango moussolini
GlisteringApple
Every single post about US negligence has some European commentor losing their monocle over it. Piss off, we get it.
dingofdong
Except clearly the US doesn't get it because you're still recklessly killing thousands each year in pursuit of shareholder profit?
SoulTakerWasSupposedToBeMyUsernameButSomebodyStoleIT
Don't worry, I'll just let my insurance pay for new monocle. BTW, would you like some nontoxic tap water to soothe the butt hurt?
Deekermanns
And every one of those comments gets a reply from a particularly salty American. You're throwing your bile the wrong direction.
ikbeneengeit
Haha jokes on you, my monocle has a chain so I don't lose it
Illogicallykitten
Such cutting edge technology!
FunnyThingsHappening6677
Made ne laugh but honestly, you are totally f'ed. Seems to me as if the US sold its soul to the devil for business and $$$.
TheSmallTennisRaquetUsedToStunFlies
And now we all clearly see the state of the USA, thanks trump is been enlightening
dingofdong
I mean... it was pretty obviously fucked before that point if you looked tbf, the tangerine nightmare just rammed the point home with the +
dingofdong
+ subtlety of a house brick thrown through a window. The ridiculous health"care" system, the comical amounts of money in politics, the +
TheSmallTennisRaquetUsedToStunFlies
Not to be confused with the majority of Americans I've met, who on both sides of the isle have been great people+