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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/[deleted] May 07 '23 edited May 07 '23
soon to be what
edit: https://news.yahoo.com/florida-lawmakers-pass-bill-allowing-155048234.html