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#Post#: 6231--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: rp
Date: May 8, 2021, 10:48 pm
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--- Quote from: 90sRetroFan link ---
>
> Just another day in Western civilization:
>
>
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KPXxh97H40
>
> TYT is far too superficial in only blaming big business for
this. There was big business in ancient times too but no such
problems. Why not? The real problem is not big business, but
Western machines.
>
--- End Quote ---
As if fertilizers weren't bad enough, now we have to deal with
the waste left from the processing fertilizers also!
What a shitshow Western Civilization is.
#Post#: 6243--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 9, 2021, 1:40 am
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Western logic:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-plans-kick-sea-turtle-191800398.html
--- Quote ---
> Florida plans to kick sea turtle rescuers off the beach,
calling them a threat to environment
>
> FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Florida wildlife commission has
identified a new menace to the marine environment: volunteers
who protect sea turtle nests.
>
> For more than a decade, unpaid guardians have watched over sea
turtle nests in Broward County, rescuing thousands of hatchlings
led astray by artificial lights.
>
> Now the state wants to cut the number of volunteers as a step
toward ejecting them completely from the beach. The state
wildlife commission told three sea turtle rescue groups that
their nighttime vigils are unnecessary and harmful, saying in a
letter “the increased human presence on the beach at night
during nesting and hatching season in effect endangers the
health and safety of marine life.”
>
> The turtle groups find this reasoning laughable, saying lights
from cities still blaze over the beach, drawing hatchlings
inland.
>
> “They’re saying they would rather have dead sea turtle
hatchlings in storm drains, parking lots and in the roadways,
and dehydrated on the beaches, versus having our rescue staff,
our volunteers on the beach,” said Richard WhiteCloud, founder
and director of Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, which has more
than 140 volunteers. “People who are out there doing the right
thing are being punished.”
>
> WhiteCloud promises a legal fight, and activists who volunteer
to spend hours each night guarding the nests are unlikely to go
quietly.
>
> “I am absolutely going to go out and rescue these animals,
whether it’s legal or not,” said Dr. Holly Wilson, a physician
who has guarded nests for years. “We’re not getting a salary. We
just want the turtles in the water. If this goes through,
turtles are going to die.”
>
> The fight is taking place over beaches used for thousands of
years by female loggerhead, green and leatherback turtles. These
behemoths, which weigh hundreds of pounds, crawl ashore at
night, dig holes and deposit 100 or so golf-ball-sized eggs.
When the eggs hatch, the baby turtles race toward the brightest
light, an instinct that served them well when it drew them
toward moonlight shining on the ocean.
>
> But condo towers, hotels and restaurants generate lights that
draw hatchlings inland, where they get run over, dry out, or end
up easy prey for birds and raccoons.
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#Post#: 6405--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 15, 2021, 10:18 pm
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Chemist Thomas Midgley invented both leaded gasoline and CFC
chemicals (the leading cause of the destruction of the ozone
layer). Of course, if he didn't invent them, some other
Westerner would have.
--- Quote ---
> Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an
American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major
role in developing leaded gasoline (Tetraethyllead) and some of
the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the USA by
the brand name Freon; both products were later banned due to
concerns about their impact on human health and the environment.
> [...]
> In 1923, Midgley took a long vacation in Miami, Florida, to
cure himself of lead poisoning. He found "that my lungs have
been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get
a large supply of fresh air".[9]
> [...]
> In 1924, unsatisfied with the speed of DuPont's TEL production
using the "bromide process", General Motors and the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey (now known as ExxonMobil) created the
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation to produce and market TEL. Ethyl
Corporation built a new chemical plant using a high-temperature
ethyl chloride process at the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey.[9]
However, within the first two months of its operation, the new
plant was plagued by more cases of lead poisoning,
hallucinations, insanity, and five deaths.[7]
>
> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press
conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which
he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical
under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring
that he could do this every day without succumbing to any
problems.[7][10] However, the State of New Jersey ordered the
Bayway plant to be closed a few days later, and Jersey Standard
was forbidden to manufacture TEL again without state permission.
Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work
after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.[11]
> [...]
> In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis,
which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system
of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he
became entangled in the device and died of
strangulation.[17][18][19]
> [...]
> Midgley's legacy has been scarred by the negative
environmental impact of leaded gasoline and Freon.[20]
Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had
more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in
Earth's history",[21] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley
possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost
uncanny".[22] Use of leaded gasoline, which he invented,
released large quantities of lead into the atmosphere all over
the world.[20] High atmospheric lead levels have been linked
with serious long-term health problems from childhood, including
neurological impairment,[23][24][25] and with increased levels
of violence and criminality in cities.[26][27][28] Time magazine
included both leaded gasoline and CFCs on its list of "The 50
Worst Inventions".[29]
>
> Midgley died three decades before the ozone-depleting and
greenhouse gas effects of CFCs in the atmosphere became widely
known.[30] In 1987, the Montreal Protocol phased out the use of
CFCs like Freon.[31]
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
#Post#: 6565--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 20, 2021, 10:45 pm
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Musk probably gets excited every time he hears someone died beta
testing his machines
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> Tesla driver slept as car was going over 80 mph on Autopilot,
Wisconsin officials say
>
> A 38-year-old driver from Palatine, Illinois, was ticketed and
accused of sleeping behind the wheel of a 2019 Tesla, according
to a sheriff's report.
> [...]
> The deputy tried to perform a traffic stop but noted that "the
driver was not pulling over as he followed behind it for
approximately 2 miles at 82 mph through Kenosha County."
> [...]
> Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has been linked to
multiple recent collisions.
>
> In Washington state Saturday night, a Tesla on Autopilot
crashed into a state trooper's vehicle. No one was injured, and
the driver was ticketed.
>
> A California man died this month when his Tesla collided with
a stopped tractor-trailer; the man had shared videos on social
media of him driving with Autopilot before the crash.
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HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tesla-driver-slept-car-was-going-over-80-mph-autopilot-n1267805
#Post#: 6595--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 21, 2021, 11:02 pm
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I also want to talk about:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothole
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> A pothole is a depression in a road surface, usually asphalt
pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the
pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying
soil structure and traffic passing over the affected area. Water
first weakens the underlying soil; traffic then fatigues and
breaks the poorly supported asphalt surface in the affected
area. Continued traffic action ejects both asphalt and the
underlying soil material to create a hole in the pavement.[1]
> ...
> The American Automobile Association estimated in the five
years prior to 2016 that 16 million drivers in the United States
have suffered damage from potholes to their vehicle including
tire punctures, bent wheels, and damaged suspensions with a cost
of $3 billion a year. In India, 3,000 people per year are killed
in accidents involving potholes. Britain has estimated that the
cost of fixing all roads with potholes in the country would cost
£12 billion.[6]
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The Western reaction, however, is to just keep
reinforcing/repairing:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothole#Prevention
--- Quote ---
> Preventive maintenance
>
> Preventive maintenance adds maintaining pavement structural
integrity with thickness and continuity to the mix of preventing
water penetration and promoting water migration away from the
roadway.[3]
> ...
> Sealing Asphalt Cracks
>
> According to the US Federal Highway Administration, 70% of
unsealed cracks become potholes within 3 years. Sealing the
cracks through asphalt crack filling can help prevent potholes
and further pavement damage.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothole#Repair
--- Quote ---
> Throw-and-roll repair
>
> The FHWA manual[1] cites the throw-and-roll method as the most
basic method, best used as a temporary repair under conditions
when it is difficult to control the placement of material, such
as winter-time. It consists of:
>
> Placing the hot or cold patch material into a pothole
> Compacting the patch with a vehicle, such as a truck
> Achieving a crown on the compacted patch of between 3 and 6 mm
>
> This method is widely used due to its simplicity and speed,
especially as an expedient method when the material is placed
under unfavorable conditions of water or temperature. It can
also be employed at times when the pothole is dry and clean with
more lasting results.[5] Eaton, et al., noted that the failure
rate of expedient repairs is high and that they can cost as much
as five times the cost of properly done repairs. They advocate
this type of repair only when weather conditions prevent proper
techniques.[3]
>
> Researchers from the University of Minnesota Duluth have
tested mixing asphalt with iron ore containing magnetite which
is then heated using ferromagnetic resonance (using microwaves
at a specific frequency) to heat the mixed asphalt. The mixture
used a compound of between 1% and 2% magnetite. The group
discovered that material could be heated for a patch to 100 °C
(212 °F) in approximately ten minutes which then applied a more
effective repair and drove out moisture which improved
adhesion.[6]
>
> Semi-permanent repair
>
> The FHWA manual[1] cites the semi-permanent repair method as
one of the best for repairing potholes, short of full-depth
roadway replacement. It consists of:
>
> 1. Removing water and debris from the pothole
> 2. Making clean cuts along the sides of prospective patch area
to assure that vertical sides of the repair are in sound
pavement (Eaton, et al.,[3] recommend a bituminous tack coat in
the open cavity, prior to placement of patch material.)
> 3. Placing the hot or cold patch mix material
> 4. Compacting the patch with a device that is smaller than the
patch area, e.g. vibratory rollers or a vibratory plate
>
> While this repair procedure provides durable results, it
requires more labor and is more equipment-intensive than the
throw-and-roll or the spray-injection procedure.
>
> Spray-injection repair
>
> The FHWA manual[1] cites the spray-injection procedure as an
efficient alternative to semi-permanent repair. It requires
specialized equipment, however. It consists of:
>
> 1. Blowing water and debris from the pothole
> 2. Spraying a tack coat of binder on the sides and bottom of
the pothole
> 3. Blowing asphalt and aggregate into the pothole
> 4. Covering the patched area with a layer of aggregate
>
> This procedure requires no compaction after the cover
aggregate has been placed
>
> Edge seal repair
>
> The FHWA manual[1] cites the edge seal method as an
alternative to the above techniques. It consists of:
>
> 1. Following the "throw-and-roll" steps
> 2. After the repaired section has dried, placing a ribbon of
asphaltic tack material on top of the patch edge, overlapping
the pavement and the patch
> 3. Placing sand on the tack material to prevent tracking by
vehicle tires
>
> In this procedure, waiting for any water to dry may require a
second visit to place the tack coat. The tack material prevents
water from getting through the edge of the patch and helps bond
the patch to the surrounding pavement.
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which themselves worsen the environment:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt#Health_and_safety
--- Quote ---
> IARC has classified paving asphalt fumes as a Class 2B
possible carcinogen, indicating inadequate evidence of
carcinogenicity in humans.[103]
>
> In 2020 scientists reported that asphalt currently is a
significant and largely overlooked source of air pollution in
urban areas, especially during hot and sunny periods.[105][106]
--- End Quote ---
And, yes, guess which civilization is to blame for asphalt:
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> In the 1830s there was a surge of interest, and asphalt became
widely used "for pavements, flat roofs, and the lining of
cisterns, and in England, some use of it had been made of it for
similar purposes". Its rise in Europe was "a sudden phenomenon",
after natural deposits were found "in France at Osbann
(Bas-Rhin), the Parc (Ain) and the Puy-de-la-Poix
(Puy-de-Dôme)", although it could also be made artificially.[36]
One of the earliest uses in France was the laying of about
24,000 square yards of Seyssel asphalt at the Place de la
Concorde in 1835.[37]
--- End Quote ---
A non-Westerner, in contrast, would understand that potholes are
trying to tell us something. Let's look at the first paragraph
again:
--- Quote ---
> A pothole is a depression in a road surface, usually asphalt
pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the
pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying
soil structure and traffic passing over the affected area. Water
first weakens the underlying soil; traffic then fatigues and
breaks the poorly supported asphalt surface in the affected
area. Continued traffic action ejects both asphalt and the
underlying soil material to create a hole in the pavement.[1]
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Factors_leading_to_pothole_failure_by_fatigue.png/330px-Factors_leading_to_pothole_failure_by_fatigue.png
Potholes are obviously telling us to stop using cars! But not
only will Westerners ignore this, they will actually complain
about potholes not being constantly repaired (and thus their
message covered up instead of given attention) as an example of
"Third World" behaviour:
HTML https://www.amren.com/features/2021/05/a-letter-to-white-americans/
--- Quote ---
> A South African Woman, American Renaissance, May 21, 2021
> ...
> Most of our secondary roads have become like the rest of
Africa: potholes, no shoulder, grass growing into the center of
the road. There are small forests, with trees as tall as a man
growing out of sidewalks and right up to roadsides. Everyone
sees the decay, but the ANC doesn’t seem to care.
--- End Quote ---
This is not "decay"; this is things going back to the way they
were before Westerners turned up and ruined everything! (Last
time I checked, trees are not carcinogenic, unlike asphalt.) For
thousands of years we were doing fine without cars, and roads
back then didn't have potholes either. I wonder what happened?
--- Quote ---
> Whites arrived in South Africa in 1652, not long after the
Mayflower arrival in America.
> ...
> For 350 years, we toiled to sow the seeds of Western
Civilization.
--- End Quote ---
Yeah, I noticed.....
--- Quote ---
> They had as much right to be there as any other new-world
settlers. They built a wonderful country against daunting odds.
--- End Quote ---
FUCK YOU.
--- Quote ---
> Years ago, I heard a former Transkei official tell a visiting
American that “we don’t care if the roads turn to dust, as long
as we get rid of the whites.”
--- End Quote ---
This is wisdom.
#Post#: 6708--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 25, 2021, 10:19 pm
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Balloons:
HTML https://balloonsblow.org/
Which civilization invented these?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon#History
--- Quote ---
> The first modern, rubber balloons on record were made by
Michael Faraday in 1824. He used these to contain gasses he was
experimenting with, especially hydrogen. By 1825 similar
balloons were being sold by Thomas Hancock
--- End Quote ---
What is their impact?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon#Safety_and_environmental_concerns
--- Quote ---
> Released balloons can land anywhere, including on nature
reserves or other areas where they can pose a hazard to animals
through ingestion or entanglement.
> ...
> When balloons eventually return to the ground, they begin the
degradation process. Latex balloons are the most used because of
their ability to biodegrade. The problem with this is that it
can take at least 4 weeks to show substantial degradation of the
polymer in the environment, and around 6 months in aquatic
environments.[17][18] This issue can have an effect on the
wildlife on both land and in aquatic systems because animals
will confuse deflated balloons as food, nesting material, or
simply something to play with. When that happens, it can lead to
negative effects for the animals. For example, a bird will use a
deflated balloon as a component for its nest. When the eggs
hatch, they will get tangled in the balloon and that can lead to
death.[19]
>
> Anthony Andrady says that releases of latex balloons that
descend into the sea pose a serious ingestion and/or
entanglement hazard to marine animals because balloons exposed
floating in seawater deteriorate much more slowly than those
exposed in air.[20] Balloon manufacturers will often state that
a latex balloon is perfectly safe to release into the
environment as it is made from a natural substance and will
biodegrade over time. However, a latex balloon can take up to a
year to degrade if it lands in the sea and during this time it
is possible for a marine animal to ingest the balloon and die
from slow starvation if its digestive system is blocked.
> ...
> Another environmental problem with latex balloons is not the
effects the balloons have on the environment once they are
decomposed, but when they are being made. When latex is being
produced, it produces greenhouse gases, such as CO2, CH4, N2O.
This is becoming an increasing problem, especially in Thailand
which is responsible for 35% of the worlds natural rubber
production.[27]
--- End Quote ---
The relationship between balloons and Westerners:
HTML https://cdn.prime1studio.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/d/hdmmit-01_b22.jpg
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: rp
Date: May 26, 2021, 5:00 pm
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Western Civilization is a health hazard for non-humans:
HTML https://youtu.be/lsJqMmuFWO4
Even then, Westerners are only concerned with how it affects
them, i.e. that they cannot consume the fish anymore. So
Westerners are actually concerned that they cannot commit more
violence!
#Post#: 6785--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 29, 2021, 10:17 pm
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Even worse than I imagined:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCw39p69-o
As usual, remember that we wouldn't have this problem if Western
civilization had never existed.
#Post#: 6820--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 31, 2021, 1:23 am
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It's OK for polluters to be "white":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/chemicals-pipelines-destroying-black-communities-023153459.html
--- Quote ---
> Chemicals, pipelines destroying Black communities today. And
poor of color are dying.
>
> Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, land where Black
people were once enslaved on plantations is now being poisoned
by petrochemical plants that have given the place a new name:
Cancer Alley. In the fall of 2019, Robert Taylor told a Poor
People’s Campaign gathering there about the toll of watching his
family and neighbors die. Taylor’s daughter has a rare disease
that her doctor told her she had a 1 in 5 million chance of
contracting. She has since learned that three other neighbors
are dying of the same disease.
>
> Four hundred miles north in Memphis, Tennessee, Black
residents invited the Poor People’s Campaign to support their
organizing to stop the Byhalia Pipeline. The proposed crude oil
pipeline would repeat the systemic racism of the 1970s urban
renewal by running the line through Memphis’ African American
communities. In this place where Ida B. Wells once challenged
the lies used to justify lynching, Black Memphians are again
resisting lies that would harm their community.
>
> More than 150 years after slavery was abolished in the United
States, descendants of enslaved Americans continue to challenge
systemic racism because they experience the ongoing impact of
America’s original sin on the very land where it first occurred.
>
> But slavery’s legacy doesn't stop in those communities.
>
> Neighborhoods of color across the country are hit by
industrial waste and air pollution and deprived of green spaces
at significantly higher rates than white communities. Poverty,
redlining (a practice that segregated housing) and the
overwhelming lack of diversity in the environmental space keep
the cycle of pollution and community destruction concentrated in
Black America.
>
> In fact, whites in America experience 17% less air pollution
than they cause. Black people experience 56% more than their
consumption causes, according to a 2019 study.
--- End Quote ---
Also:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/global-heating-study-shows-impact-150744439.html
--- Quote ---
> A new study says that black people living in most US cities
are subject to double the level of heat stress as their white
counterparts.
>
> The researchers say the differences were not explained by
poverty but by historic racism and segregation.
>
> As a result, people of colour more generally, live in areas
with fewer green spaces and more buildings and roads.
>
> These exacerbate the impacts of rising temperatures and a
changing climate.
> ...
> Using satellite temperature data combined with demographic
information from the US Census, the authors found that the
average person of colour lives in an area with far higher summer
daytime temperatures than non-Hispanic white people.
>
> For the purposes of the paper, the scientists defined "people
of colour" as including all Hispanic people (regardless of race)
and anyone who does not identify as white alone.
>
> In all but six of the 175 largest urbanised areas in the
continental US, people of colour endure much greater heat
impacts in summer.
>
> For black people this was particularly stark. The researchers
say they are exposed to an extra 3.12C of heating, on average,
in urban neighbourhoods, compared to an extra 1.47C for white
people.
>
> Exposure to heat not only leads to to increased mortality, it
is also connected to a range of impacts including heat stroke,
loss of productivity in work and impaired learning.
>
> "Our study helps to provide more quantitative evidence that
climate racism, environmental racism exists," said Dr Angel Hsu,
from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the lead
author of the paper.
>
> "And it's not just an isolated incident, it's pervasive all
across the United States."
>
> While being poor was certainly a factor for exposure to
increased urban heat in the summer, it didn't provide a full
explanation.
>
> In around half the cities, the average person of colour faced
higher summertime heat than people living below the poverty
line, even though just 10% of people of colour were classed as
poor.
> ...
> With temperatures likely to increase due to global heating
over the coming decades, this is a problem that is likely to get
worse
--- End Quote ---
We all know the solution. But no one will implement it.
#Post#: 6824--------------------------------------------------
Heat Listed
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 31, 2021, 12:40 pm
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Heat Listed
--- Quote ---
> Chicago’s predictive policing program told a man he would be
involved with a shooting.
> But it couldn’t determine which side of the gun he would be
on.
> Instead, it made him the victim of a violent crime — twice.
--- End Quote ---
--- Quote ---
> In McDaniel’s view, the heat list caused the harm its creators
hoped to avoid: it predicted a shooting that wouldn’t have
happened if it hadn’t predicted the shooting.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.theverge.com/22444020/chicago-pd-predictive-policing-heat-list?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Westerners show us how to create a self-fulfilling prophecy
using an algorithm.
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