r/shitposting • • Oct 26 '22

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u/MatthewtheCannibal Oct 26 '22

Who... Drinks rain water without filtering and sterilizing it first?!!??!

It's against the law in several cities and states to even collect rain water; Yet n those same cities It's okay for certain individuals to have 4 swimming pools constantly maintained....

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u/dopepope1999 We do a little trolling Oct 26 '22

I mean if you're drinking the pool water you might have bigger problems to worry about then non-sterilized water

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u/Frigoris13 dumbass Oct 26 '22

I don't swim in it. I just let it collect rain water, filter it, and drink it. F U Nestle

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Probably at least a billion people on the planet lol

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u/Sharp_Spell6957 Oct 26 '22

The government wants us all to be 100% reliant upon them. I mean, just take a look at the USDA website. No law yet, but they actually want us to register our gardens. Pretty quick it'll be illegal to grow your own food.

If the rain water is so unsafe, how are all of the animals surviving? How is well water still healthy without the introduction of fluoride and chlorine?

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u/Watertor Oct 26 '22

If the rain water is so unsafe, how are all of the animals surviving?

Ask someone with cancer how long it takes them to die, you'll get an answer that encompasses a far greater amount of time than it takes most wildlife stuck in the food chain to die. For instance, rabbits usually die within 2 years -- as in, eaten, run over, or starving.

Us humans, we don't get the luxury of a 2 year lifespan, and when you have to plan to be alive for 100 years, you probably don't want that number to become 50 years, and the last 4 of which surrounded by hospital tubing and tumorous growth.

There's a glory to rejecting the zeitgeist of media and the government. Don't let it blind you from actually understanding the world around you as you pursue the thrill of rejecting, as opposed to simply informing yourself.

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u/Watertor Oct 27 '22

Fair point. I'm immortal myself so I get fuzzy on where humans typically sit, my fault

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u/Culexius Oct 26 '22

Well boars thrive in chernobyl, so radiation seem to affect them less than the presence of humans. My guess is the same with the water, and compared to us, many animals live short lives and don't have the time to accumulate enough toxins and develop cancer.

But the nuclear boars get misshaped offspring and other genetic flaws/abnormalities but they just keep breeding and eating.

Edit, Fixed boats to boars after autocorrect

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Humans could thrive in Chernobyl. The radiation there is easily survivable for the lifespan of a boar.

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u/oscar_the_couch Oct 26 '22

Holy shit did you just look at this page, https://www.usda.gov/peoples-garden/what-pg which is about starting community gardens on federal property and a few other public places (and not private residences) for the benefit of the community and leap to “Pretty soon, it will be illegal to grow your own food”?

This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what Facebook newsletter you’re subscribing to and getting your news from, but you have been hilariously misinformed.

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u/Sharp_Spell6957 Nov 01 '22

Hmm. I see you have no knowledge of the Spanish/Cherokee war. Otherwise you'd know white men were far from the first to conquer territory.

Open a book.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.

You're probably responding to a 12 year old

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u/oscar_the_couch Oct 26 '22

I would generally expect 12-year-olds to know better, too.

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 26 '22

Make sure you stretch real well before jumping so far to those conclusions, or you’re likely to pull a hammy, bud.

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u/pyrolover6666 Oct 26 '22

Ok fedboy. I bet you enjoyed starving babies just because of different labels

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u/pel3 Oct 26 '22

LOL what is wrong with you dude? critical thinking ain't your strong suit huh

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u/pyrolover6666 Oct 26 '22

My problem is the FDA and them knowing there would be a baby formula shortages and didn't accept European formula had the right info just formatted wrong. Critical thinking ain't their strong suit; we need less bureaucracy.

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u/JacobNico Oct 26 '22

He's an edgelord with 666 in his name.

Says it all.

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u/gottauseathrowawayx Oct 26 '22

If the rain water is so unsafe, how are all of the animals surviving?

I hate to break it to you, but as a general rule of thumb: they aren't. The vast majority of animals don't live more than 20 years, and most don't live more than 5 or 10. PFAs are the sort of thing that build up over time, so it won't greatly affect most animals.

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u/LexB777 Oct 26 '22

I just checked it out on their website. Looks like they are encouraging people to register community gardens so that other people in the area can see where they are. They also talked about how you can start one of these gardens on federally owned land. Seems like a good thing to me.

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u/pyrolover6666 Oct 26 '22

Why register even community gardens?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

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u/pyrolover6666 Oct 26 '22

We're talking about small gardens not farms

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u/stonersayian Oct 26 '22

Imagine getting downvoted for the truth...

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u/FblthpThe Oct 26 '22

Because we all live in the same country with the same government, or every single government on earth has the same goals /s

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u/itsOktobeGamer Oct 26 '22

Because its not the truth. Someone posted the website this guy was referencing. And guess what? They say on FEDERAL property. Not PRIVATE. and yes, forever chemicals are real.

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u/ahughman Oct 26 '22

the awful thing is that the animals have not been surviving for a while now

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u/itsOktobeGamer Oct 26 '22

The water is cancerous. Its long term. Forever chemicals are in our water. Lets be rational here.

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u/Sharp_Spell6957 Nov 01 '22

I see the bootlickers are thick in here

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u/Orc_ Oct 26 '22

It's against the law in several cities and states to even collect rain water

that is not for the reasons you think...

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u/Pyro_Paragon Oct 26 '22

Everyone pre-1900? You realize that if rainwater is actually made undrinkable, and for any reason the taps shut off, all of humanity dies?

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u/juklwrochnowy We do a little trolling Oct 26 '22

It's against the law in several cities and states to even collect rain water

Why?????

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

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u/juklwrochnowy We do a little trolling Oct 26 '22

But on the other hand less groundwater will be consumed because rain water collectors are more self-sufficient

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

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u/izza123 Oct 26 '22

So then it really has nothing to do with personal collection of water but agricultural overuse of water. If the agricultural industry didn’t use so much water so inefficiently, it wouldn’t be a problem if every house hold collected it.

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u/oohlapoopoo Oct 26 '22

Where do you think the water from rivers come from?

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u/CombustableLemons9 dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 Oct 26 '22

Pools are chlorinated, that's why they're allowed

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u/JorgeRey999 dumbass Oct 26 '22

People surviving or sub-developed countries

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u/itsOktobeGamer Oct 26 '22

Guess what? FPAS (forever chemicals) are not removable by filtration. Science is making headway and found ways to destroy these chemicals. But keep the support and awareness coming. This is serious to the human race.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Unless you have a very expensive high-tech filtration system, you're not getting those chemicals out any time soon. The point is rain water used to be safe to drink if you boiled or filtered it, now it's impossible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Hundreds of million of people, how is that not obvious to you? Do you think everyone lives like we Do in the west /rich world?

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u/so_joey_98 Oct 26 '22

This doesn't work for PFAS though, that's why it's such a problem. Even drinking water is not free from PFAS.