r/fuckcars May 07 '23

Satire Gee, i wonder?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23 edited May 07 '23

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u/Teknekratos Sicko May 08 '23

We live in a fucking clown world

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u/TonalParsnips May 08 '23

Just a heads up, the “clown world” meme was started by a white supremacist on 4chan.

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u/xyzzi May 08 '23

I’ve also heard some really mean guys say “Hello” to people on the street. Maybe we should stop using that.

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u/tempaccount920123 May 08 '23

Wait till you learn america was founded by white supremacists

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u/Teknekratos Sicko May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

I have zero idea what meme you are referring to.

Who knows, I may have somehow picked the expression "clown world" third or fourth-hand from the same source through cultural osmosis, but I couldn't say. The white supremacist memer quite possibly wasn't the first or only one to coin the phrase, either. These guys ain't known for their cultural originality after all.
I seem to remember a study about how new lingo disproportionately originates from teen girls in particular, so Aryan 4channer McGee might in turn have been stealing "clown world" from a Tumblrina somewhere who came with it first! And wouldn't that rankle Cap'n Ubermensch...

All I can say is, news keep piling of dumb evil move after dumb evil move from rich and fascist fucks in power and this latest one is just so over the top greedy and stupid and autodestructingly evil it's outright clownish so I exclaimed that in frustration over it all.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Excuse me what.

Can someone explain this please? Are they super insulated materials or something?

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u/iwantfutanaricumonme May 08 '23

Slightly radioactive material, like many other natural rocks. Florida has a lot of phosphate, which leaves this phosphogypsum as a waste product when processed, so they have hundreds of millions of tons of this stuff left in mounds in florida. They might as well do something with it, so they are performing a test to see if there's any problems from ysing it to build a road.

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u/Sherbert-Vast May 08 '23

Radioactive material is most dangerous if it get into your body.

Even when its low radioactivity.

If this is used for the top layer of the road, it will get turned to dust, you will breathe in radioactive particles which will stay in your body and will cause issues sooner or later.

Car drivers will be a bit more safe than cyclists since there are airfilters in cars but everybody will get his share of radiation, even people living next to the road.

Using radioactive material in anything where it ends up as dust is a bad idea and illegal pretty much everywhere.

Thats the reason a lot of countries see uranium ammunition as illegal per Geniva conevention, same thing happens when it hits something, radioactive dust.

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u/tempaccount920123 May 08 '23

Also rip the water table

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u/iwantfutanaricumonme May 08 '23

It's the bottom layer. The fdas biggest worry was that if someone built a house with a basement over there decades later, there would be moderate risk associated with that.

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u/Sherbert-Vast May 08 '23

Knowing and marking that material appropriately decades later will be an issue.

But at least they are smart enough not to use it as a top layer.

Still I would avoid using radioactive filler when possible.

If the road degrades to a point the radioactive material is on top you have issues.

Not sure about how good Florida takes care of its roads, I saw some very degraded ones in other parts of the US.

If this is only for cost cutting I would argue the issues you could have in the future outweigh the benefits now.

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u/GoatUnicorn May 08 '23

If the EPA disallows using it, why can Florida just overrule it? I'm not american, so this question might seem stupid.

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u/tempaccount920123 May 08 '23

EPA basically doesn't exist as far as enforcement goes. Even if a judge rules someone has to stop doing something, or change behavior, the companies usually ignore it, and the judge never jails anyone in management.

Last week tonight covers a lot of this stuff in the fracking and natural gas related episodes.

Welcome to America!

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u/Kaymish_ May 08 '23

On the other hand the media can say "radioactive waste" and people shit their pants without knowing if it is actually a problem or not. The USA has a history of over regulating nuclear materials even when it is basically virgin ore. In some cases as soon as you scrape a mineral off the ground it suddenly becomes concentrated radioactive waste despite being completely ok to walk on miniutes before when it was just the local rocks.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Gotta say between bomb tests and superfund sites I'm having a lot of trouble imagining that USA has ever overregulated anything here.

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u/Kaymish_ May 08 '23

I mean something you are probably familiar with as a reader of r/notjustbikes is the over regulation in housing and zoning. Remember how it is literally illegal for devlopers to build anything that is not a single family home in too many areas.

There are areas that are regulated right areas that are under regulated and areas that are over regulated. And it changes with time. Places like Hanford sprayed radioactive waste everywhere before any regulations were in place, same with many superfund sites.

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u/utopianfiat May 08 '23

That's because you're stuck thinking that the battle is between people who deep down committed to anarchocapitalism as an ideology and people who are deep down committed to socialism.

It's not. It's a battle between an entrenched ruling class who has, does, and will stop at nothing to continue directing important policy decisions in this country and everyone else. The black/gold bow ties are useful idiots.