Your country sucks ass

[Sean Hayden]

In the interests of helping overcome our shared and immense butthurt, I offer this thread to bash all, but most importantly, your own.

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Heart Disease in the United States

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.

About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.

Heart disease costs the United States about $219 billion each year from 2014 to 2015. This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.

https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

[Joe]

Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water

Of the more than 9,000 known PFAS compounds, 600 are currently used in the U.S. in countless products, including firefighting foam, cookware, cosmetics, carpet treatments and even dental floss. Scientists call PFASs “forever chemicals” because their chemistry keeps them from breaking down under typical environmental conditions. “One of the unique features of PFAS compounds is the carbon-fluorine bond,” explains David Andrews, a senior scientist at EWG. “That bond is incredibly strong.” Ultimately this means that if PFASs enter the environment, they build up. These chemicals can linger on geologic time scales, explains Chris Higgins, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines.

Because of their widespread use, release and disposal over the decades, PFASs show up virtually everywhere: in soil, surface water, the atmosphere, the deep ocean—and even the human body. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site says that the agency has found PFASs in the blood of nearly everyone it has tested for them, “indicating widespread exposure to these PFAS in the U.S. population.” Scientists have found links between a number of the chemicals and many health concerns—including kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, developmental toxicity, ulcerative colitis, high cholesterol, pregnancy-induced preeclampsia and hypertension, and immune dysfunction.

Yeahbut, non-stick cookware.

[Seabass]

I'm full of PFAS.

[JimC]

Absolutely untrue! No donkey sucking in Oz!

We suck arse!

[Joe]

Hopefully, you get a gin break from time to time.

[laklak]

Floridaman don't SUCK no ass...

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water

Of the more than 9,000 known PFAS compounds, 600 are currently used in the U.S. in countless products, including firefighting foam, cookware, cosmetics, carpet treatments and even dental floss. Scientists call PFASs “forever chemicals” because their chemistry keeps them from breaking down under typical environmental conditions. “One of the unique features of PFAS compounds is the carbon-fluorine bond,” explains David Andrews, a senior scientist at EWG. “That bond is incredibly strong.” Ultimately this means that if PFASs enter the environment, they build up. These chemicals can linger on geologic time scales, explains Chris Higgins, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines.

Because of their widespread use, release and disposal over the decades, PFASs show up virtually everywhere: in soil, surface water, the atmosphere, the deep ocean—and even the human body. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site says that the agency has found PFASs in the blood of nearly everyone it has tested for them, “indicating widespread exposure to these PFAS in the U.S. population.” Scientists have found links between a number of the chemicals and many health concerns—including kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, developmental toxicity, ulcerative colitis, high cholesterol, pregnancy-induced preeclampsia and hypertension, and immune dysfunction.

Yeahbut, non-stick cookware.

So what you're saying is there's a chance I've got teflon arteries.

[JimC]

Floridaman don't SUCK no ass...

Slow cooked with lots of spice would be the way to go, I suspect...

[Joe]

Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water

Of the more than 9,000 known PFAS compounds, 600 are currently used in the U.S. in countless products, including firefighting foam, cookware, cosmetics, carpet treatments and even dental floss. Scientists call PFASs “forever chemicals” because their chemistry keeps them from breaking down under typical environmental conditions. “One of the unique features of PFAS compounds is the carbon-fluorine bond,” explains David Andrews, a senior scientist at EWG. “That bond is incredibly strong.” Ultimately this means that if PFASs enter the environment, they build up. These chemicals can linger on geologic time scales, explains Chris Higgins, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines.

Because of their widespread use, release and disposal over the decades, PFASs show up virtually everywhere: in soil, surface water, the atmosphere, the deep ocean—and even the human body. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site says that the agency has found PFASs in the blood of nearly everyone it has tested for them, “indicating widespread exposure to these PFAS in the U.S. population.” Scientists have found links between a number of the chemicals and many health concerns—including kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, developmental toxicity, ulcerative colitis, high cholesterol, pregnancy-induced preeclampsia and hypertension, and immune dysfunction.

Yeahbut, non-stick cookware.

So what you're saying is there's a chance I've got teflon arteries.

Well, it would be a big advantage to have nothing able to stick to your artery walls!

[Sean Hayden]

Federal education data released today by the National Center for Homeless Education (the U.S. Department of Education’s technical assistance center) show that public schools identified 1.5 million children and youth experiencing homelessness in the 2017-2018 school year – an 11% increase over the previous school year and the highest number ever recorded nationally.

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Under federal early care, child nutrition, and education law, children and youth are considered homeless if they are staying in shelters, cars, motels, or with other people temporarily due to lack of alternatives. While students experiencing homelessness move frequently between living situations in the course of a school year, schools are required to keep data only on where students are located when they are first identified as homeless. According to the 2017-2018 school year data:

The number of homeless students in unsheltered situations (cars, parks, streets, etc.) more than doubled between 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 (104% increase).

The number of homeless students staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing decreased by 2%.

The number of homeless students staying in motels increased by 17%.

The number staying with other people temporarily due to lack of alternatives increased by 9%.

https://schoolhouseconnection.org/publi ... and-youth/

[Cunt]

My country sucks ass.

Saw a racist outburst at the race I was photographing. There was a place serving food to runners and volunteers. I didn't see the precedent for this, but heard shouting, and looked over to see a man (not runner OR volunteer) holding a plate of their food, and shouting that they were fucking assholes, and they should go back where they came from. Usual crap, I guess.

Between photos, I made it a point to go over and find out where I could go buy their food (the event was catered - they weren't selling to individuals)

As I went over, not knowing what to say, I overheard a few of the participants apologizing for what they went through. My neighbours are mostly good.

Makes me wonder though...if everyone just lets the ranting asshole walk away peacefully, how can it stop? I certainly didn't know how to intervene (except asking the cook where I could buy their stuff) and lots of other, closer people also let it be until after the nutcase bigot walked away. (did I mention WITH his plate of food?)

Anyway, I'll be taking my sweetheart out for an African picnic, as this place doesn't have a brick&mortar restaurant, but instead puts up a tent at the farmers market, and caters. Smelled yummy. Cook looked trustworthy.

[pErvinalia]

Virtue signalling.

[Seabass]

My country sucks ass.

Saw a racist outburst at the race I was photographing. There was a place serving food to runners and volunteers. I didn't see the precedent for this, but heard shouting, and looked over to see a man (not runner OR volunteer) holding a plate of their food, and shouting that they were fucking assholes, and they should go back where they came from. Usual crap, I guess.

Between photos, I made it a point to go over and find out where I could go buy their food (the event was catered - they weren't selling to individuals)

As I went over, not knowing what to say, I overheard a few of the participants apologizing for what they went through. My neighbours are mostly good.

Makes me wonder though...if everyone just lets the ranting asshole walk away peacefully, how can it stop? I certainly didn't know how to intervene (except asking the cook where I could buy their stuff) and lots of other, closer people also let it be until after the nutcase bigot walked away. (did I mention WITH his plate of food?)

Anyway, I'll be taking my sweetheart out for an African picnic, as this place doesn't have a brick&mortar restaurant, but instead puts up a tent at the farmers market, and caters. Smelled yummy. Cook looked trustworthy.

You are politically aligned with the bigot, dumbass.

[Cunt]

Virtue signalling.

Trolling