Oh yay the latest way that Trump will kill more Americans!

  • Riskable@programming.dev
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    19 hours ago

    Of all the things… Do they have meetings where they’re like, “we’re not doing enough pointlessly evil things that have no benefit to anyone!” ‽

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      17 hours ago

      “People always tell me that water is great for you. Water’s great. Water’s great. Which is why I want to do even better than water. Hydrogen sulfide is even better than water, you know. They call water H2O. Well, they call this H2S. And H2S is better for you because it has more protons in it. The sulfur has more protons. And protons are basically hydrogen, and hydrogen is good for you, otherwise water wouldn’t be good for you. So everyone should try some hydrogen sulfide, also known as Trump Water. It’s real good for you. It is.”

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            14 hours ago

            It really does, but it sounds too intelligent is the give away, this guy isn’t going to remember new words like that either. I guess that’s the tell.

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      16 hours ago

      It will save coal power plants something like 20,000/year, almost nothing considering the amounts they make, according to what I read if I recall correctly.

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      18 hours ago

      I actually wouldn’t be surprised… In this case it’s more likely a call to Trump that went something like “heya fellow rapy, rich dude. Listen, I could afford a lot more new yachts if I didn’t have to pay for all this pesky nercury detection and filtering stuff, can you help me out by being your douchy self?”

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        17 hours ago

        That’s the thing, though: Removing that mercury filtration system is going to be expensive and require re-certification. There’s no point. The price has already been paid.

        It’s like someone heard that mercury removal from coal power plants costs a lot of money and saves lives so they said to themselves, “saving lives‽ We can’t have that! The more people that die from pollution, the better!” And set policy based on that instead of examining the reality of the economics.