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submitted 2 weeks ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/news@lemmy.world

Agricultural Research Service sent out a list of 110 terms that can no longer be used

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 167 points 2 weeks ago

It is long past overdue for torches and pitchforks.

[-] Jinx@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, death to progress, bring back the dark ages! 😂

Edit: Why the downvotes, I meant it sarcastically!! Hence the “😂”
I guess it wasn’t obvious.

[-] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Actually I feel you, like despite others disagreeing (apparently). We've got better tools for this job.

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[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

The protests start tomorrow. Big one is somehow 4/20(we live in a TV show). The only ones I can see them swaying are congress though so I guess we're all in on the House and Senate caving to protestors and a rapidly cratering economy... We're going to need a general strike.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

Start tomorrow? They’ve been every damn day for months now. Tomorrow is a big one.

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[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 117 points 2 weeks ago

Pollution remediation banned terms runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution

What a massive gift to the worst people

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I feel like at some point there will be so much banned that every government document is just going to be like caveman talk about how amazing petroleum and guns are

Gas good and drill good so money good too. All is good if gas is gas. Oil and gas and drilling is great. Guns for army man. Make America great again.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Newspeak, don't you?

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

They could save a lot of ink by just saying the word pollution, but that's not the point

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 86 points 2 weeks ago

"Party Of Small Government"

This is fascism, by the way.

[-] cnirrad@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

God forbid someone mentions ”clean water”.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah man. Nestle owns that word.

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Please don't say the "N" word.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago

What's interesting is that other then three minor places reporting in this. Not even a comment from the democratic party. Nothing in major news publications. Nothing on CNN that I can find. Nothing on AP or NPR. I'm questioning if this is even real.

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of the time major publications won't print something like this unless it can be verified. They are probably trying to get confirmation it is real.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago

Gonna make it hard to talk about home REDACTED loans

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 17 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, but that’s ok, because you can always REDACTED using the REDACTED by speaking the REDACTED. That’s the best way to REDACTED REDACTED the REDACTED.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

All I hear is the Nutshack theme

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man... i just completed my home microplastic loan application.

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago

TIL that clean water is “woke”

I better not see any anti-woke types drinking clean water!

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Only coca-cola™ will be allowed for drinking, and Gatorade to water the plants of course (it's got what plants crave).

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[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

These people are so ridiculously evil. Banning the phrase clean water is insane.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

Hard to believe there are still people willing to pose for a photo with Elon.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago

So they can't reference the Clean Water Act?

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like some diversity language to me.

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[-] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Let me tell you a little story about The Fenhalloway River. About a year before I moved to that area as a kid in the early 80's, some reporter came to report on it. Some locals assaulted her buy burning her with cigars and cigarettes, then pouring the river water into her burns.

I remember wandering some places with my step brother. One spot was along that river. The spot was out there, but still on a decently used dirt (sand) road. We got to the end and to an area we heard was a swimming hole. This was before we heard the river was badly polluted. It was littered with empty bullet casings, KKK signs and nazi symbols. We noped the fuck out of there quick.

While I lived there, at one point, the EPA provided everyone who wanted it with cases of bottled water. We lived close enough to see the sign over highway 19. A 30 second walk and I could just read it. Our well water stunk of the paper mill and you couldn't see the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. The EPA water program lasted about a year. Then...nothing. The river wasn't any cleaner. It was still black coffee. Still smelled of satan's farts. I just now get the irony of living there and watching Captain Planet.

The mill shut down last year. It will probably take some time before the pollution from it will fade. Decades.

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[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

This is some truly 1984 double speak bullshit

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago

Microplastics are woke? Fellas, is accumulating microplastics in your balls gay?

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Its woke to drink anything but pisswater.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Step 1 prevent agency from doing it's job

Step 2 shriek about how agency does nothing and must be dismantled

[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

We are so fucked.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

I never in my lifetime thought this country could turn such a complete 180 in such a short period of time and yet here we are.

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To be fair though the Democrats tried to stop dumb shitheads from pushing horse paste on Twitter during a pandemic, so no one's blameless in the censorship game.

(Please don't make me reply clarifying the intent of this statement.)

[-] BoulevardBlvd 5 points 2 weeks ago

Genuine question because you absolutelyalready took the time out of your day to clarify the intent with your parenthetical at the end there: is this an ego thing? Like what is it about tone indicators like "/s" that you hate so deeply that you feel the need to go out of your way to create a bespoke, alternate tone indicator which was 10x longer and 100x whiny-er? Where did these feelings come from? Clearly you understand that they're needed, so why do you persist in this nonsense?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't know why because I've never done it before today, but as I was about to post that I imagined someone taking it seriously and I was not in the mood to deal with that today so I cut it off proactively. And I've never liked /s.

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

So, in other words, we will no longer be able to trust the USDA to safeguard our food supply and companies will be able to bastardize any and all foodstuffs without any kind of oversight whatsoever.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine being opposed to clean water. Death cultists, one and all.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

next we see Trump saying "Microplastics? I solved that too, it no longer exists folks. America is great!"

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

We need to get those social media kids to start coming up with alternatives asap. They're good at that shit

[-] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Freedom juice, bootstrap subscriptions, and trickle down polymers

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Trickledown polymers is incredible ngl

[-] TJC@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Let's replace them with "dirty water" "polluting plastics" and "preferred discrimination".

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

Paper bags for everyone's head! No more problems!

[-] Sizing2673@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Another day another fascist idiot move hurting everyone

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