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(The Hill)   Biden, Harris to announce funding for lead pipe removal in Philadelphia; McConnell criticizes White House for not focussing instead on rope, revolver or dagger removal from Glendale, AZ   (thehill.com) divider line
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mistahtom
2023-02-03 3:08:50 AM  
Rick Scott

With the turd

In the punch bowl

📁
 
dailygrinds
2023-02-03 3:10:38 AM  
I love this kind of competent, mundane government.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:17:57 AM  
Lead water pipes? Well, that kinda explains certain aspects of Philly.
 
ElPrimitivo
2023-02-03 3:20:56 AM  
But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin L?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-03 3:23:48 AM  
The people of Philadelphia literally get down on their hands an knees and eat horse shiat.  In celebration of their football team winning a game.
Eagles Fan Eats Horse Poop!!! | TMZ TV
Youtube I_eNhKQKyvI


The city can't be saved. It's too far gone.  The only funding that will end the scourge of lead poisoning is money for the nukes Biden must unleash to mercy Philadelphia.  Not murder.  Mercy.  Atomic fusion powered mercy.
 
dailygrinds
2023-02-03 3:32:33 AM  

AmbassadorBooze: The people of Philadelphia literally get down on their hands an knees and eat horse shiat.  In celebration of their football team winning a game.
[YouTube video: Eagles Fan Eats Horse Poop!!! | TMZ TV]

The city can't be saved. It's too far gone.  The only funding that will end the scourge of lead poisoning is money for the nukes Biden must unleash to mercy Philadelphia.  Not murder.  Mercy.  Atomic fusion powered mercy.


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Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:39:59 AM  
Bill Burr - The Philadelphia Incident (Better Audio)
Youtube 3jMhoGUiIkk
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:59:56 AM  

ElPrimitivo: But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin LPb?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?


FTFY
 
DORMAMU
2023-02-03 4:16:33 AM  
Flint Michigan?

All these other places that have lead pipes still and the local government still hasn't done shiat?
 
ekdikeo4
2023-02-03 4:25:16 AM  

DORMAMU: Flint Michigan?

All these other places that have lead pipes still and the local government still hasn't done shiat?


Nearly all of the inhabitated houses in Flint that had both lead pipes and people willing to let the government come in and replace them, have had that performed.

Nearly everything that remains are people who refused, or buildings that are uninhabited.
 
LordJiro [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:27:38 AM  
Utilities (water, electricity, heating, and arguably internet lines) should be nationalized, and there should be a massive program to get them up to 21st century standards. The fact that they (and healthcare) were EVER privatized in the first place is a farking disgrace.

Utilities should focus on working properly first, with finances a distant second. There's no room for competition, and thus no room for an actual market.
 
ekdikeo4
2023-02-03 4:43:56 AM  

LordJiro: Utilities (water, electricity, heating, and arguably internet lines) should be nationalized, and there should be a massive program to get them up to 21st century standards. The fact that they (and healthcare) were EVER privatized in the first place is a farking disgrace.

Utilities should focus on working properly first, with finances a distant second. There's no room for competition, and thus no room for an actual market.


finances shouldn't even be a thing for the utilities.
 
LordJiro [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:53:44 AM  

ekdikeo4: LordJiro: Utilities (water, electricity, heating, and arguably internet lines) should be nationalized, and there should be a massive program to get them up to 21st century standards. The fact that they (and healthcare) were EVER privatized in the first place is a farking disgrace.

Utilities should focus on working properly first, with finances a distant second. There's no room for competition, and thus no room for an actual market.

finances shouldn't even be a thing for the utilities.


True, my bad. The only concern should be getting them to everyone and making sure they work properly.
 
DORMAMU
2023-02-03 5:11:03 AM  

ekdikeo4: DORMAMU: Flint Michigan?

All these other places that have lead pipes still and the local government still hasn't done shiat?

Nearly all of the inhabitated houses in Flint that had both lead pipes and people willing to let the government come in and replace them, have had that performed.

Nearly everything that remains are people who refused, or buildings that are uninhabited.


honestly glad  to hear
 
Roastbeast Sammich
2023-02-03 5:15:26 AM  
I really do wonder how much of that money is going to MTG's home district. When the bill was proposed, she claimed to have been "shocked" that there was money for pipes in an infrastructure bill. Pipes can't possibly have anything to do with infrastructure!
 
The Envoy
2023-02-03 5:24:59 AM  

Roastbeast Sammich: I really do wonder how much of that money is going to MTG's home district. When the bill was proposed, she claimed to have been "shocked" that there was money for pipes in an infrastructure bill. Pipes can't possibly have anything to do with infrastructure!


Possibly most of it.  Extreme cretinism from lead poisoning would explain her and the turds who vote for her.
 
Night Train to Wakanda
2023-02-03 5:29:34 AM  
Eagles fans in disarray.
 
Cheron
2023-02-03 5:59:45 AM  
rope, revolver or dagger? Is this a variant of rock, paper scissors they play in Scottsdale?
 
Clearly Canadian [OhFark]
2023-02-03 6:01:09 AM  
I was literally re-reading the lead-crime hypothesis wikipedia page yesterday and reminding a friend that there is a leaded gasoline superfund site literally attached to the city. It's so big you have to zoom out to see the whole thing in the map in that article.

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This is 500,000,000 dollars that will save 50,000,000,000 dollars.
 
King Keepo
2023-02-03 6:06:25 AM  

Cheron: rope, revolver or dagger? Is this a variant of rock, paper scissors they play in Scottsdale?


Do you need a Clue?
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-03 6:13:34 AM  
I used to manage a small manufacturing facility in Indiana, PA. We were going to do some lead casting of prototypes there and one of the first things you do as part of a proper protocol is to baseline your employees by running blood tests. Every employee we had from Johnstown (and a couple not from there) was lead poisoned. Abandoned the project then, before an ingot ever hit the floor. Those with high lead levels were our problem children, of we had blindly rated employees from 1 to 10 it would have been a map of lead levels. shiat is real.
 
dailygrinds
2023-02-03 6:19:21 AM  

Clearly Canadian: I was literally re-reading the lead-crime hypothesis wikipedia page yesterday and reminding a friend that there is a leaded gasoline superfund site literally attached to the city. It's so big you have to zoom out to see the whole thing in the map in that article.

[Fark user image image 661x618]

This is 500,000,000 dollars that will save 50,000,000,000 dollars.


Neat. I just saw that thing being dismantled recently on the way to the airport.
 
FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 6:34:18 AM  

LordJiro: Utilities (water, electricity, heating, and arguably internet lines) should be nationalized, and there should be a massive program to get them up to 21st century standards. The fact that they (and healthcare) were EVER privatized in the first place is a farking disgrace.

Utilities should focus on working properly first, with finances a distant second. There's no room for competition, and thus no room for an actual market.


The main principle behind Reagan's turn to neoliberalism is "profits first." It's also about privatizing EVERYTHING, including the things that shouldn't be privatized. In their (feeble) minds, making utilities profit-driven makes them more competitive and therefore cheaper plus better quality. We all know that's BS, but while Republicans continue to get elected, there's nothing we can do about it.
 
Eunice's Social Calendar [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 6:36:57 AM  

DORMAMU: Flint Michigan?

All these other places that have lead pipes still and the local government still hasn't done shiat?


It's worse than you think.
/seriously...still?  yeah, big gov aint the prob
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HomoHabilis
2023-02-03 7:30:12 AM  
Live near Glendale AZ; don't get reference subby
 
alechemist [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:35:06 AM  

ElPrimitivo: But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin L?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?


Visiting wildwood or OC Jersey  ?
 
trerro [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:45:31 AM  
The fact that lead pipes even still exist in a major city of the US tell you how farked we are with our governing priorities. I can understand people finding out some tiny settlement of 20 people on the top of a mountain or something got missed when they were replaced... but it should be that rare at this point, and there should be a number even those people could call to get it fixed within the month.
 
qorkfiend
2023-02-03 7:48:18 AM  

trerro: The fact that lead pipes even still exist in a major city of the US tell you how farked we are with our governing priorities. I can understand people finding out some tiny settlement of 20 people on the top of a mountain or something got missed when they were replaced... but it should be that rare at this point, and there should be a number even those people could call to get it fixed within the month.


It is several dozen orders of magnitude easier to replace the piping for 20 people than it is to replace the piping for a city of 1.5 million people.
 
towatchoverme
2023-02-03 7:49:00 AM  
"Biden is taking your Freedom Lead!" - Tucker, probably.
 
trerro [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:53:57 AM  

qorkfiend: trerro: The fact that lead pipes even still exist in a major city of the US tell you how farked we are with our governing priorities. I can understand people finding out some tiny settlement of 20 people on the top of a mountain or something got missed when they were replaced... but it should be that rare at this point, and there should be a number even those people could call to get it fixed within the month.

It is several dozen orders of magnitude easier to replace the piping for 20 people than it is to replace the piping for a city of 1.5 million people.


I didn't say it wasn't. But we knew the lead pipes were poisonous well over a century ago. There should have been a massive effort to get rid of them, and there's no reason said effort shouldn't be 99.99% complete in 2023.
 
qorkfiend
2023-02-03 8:05:42 AM  

trerro: qorkfiend: trerro: The fact that lead pipes even still exist in a major city of the US tell you how farked we are with our governing priorities. I can understand people finding out some tiny settlement of 20 people on the top of a mountain or something got missed when they were replaced... but it should be that rare at this point, and there should be a number even those people could call to get it fixed within the month.

It is several dozen orders of magnitude easier to replace the piping for 20 people than it is to replace the piping for a city of 1.5 million people.

I didn't say it wasn't. But we knew the lead pipes were poisonous well over a century ago. There should have been a massive effort to get rid of them, and there's no reason said effort shouldn't be 99.99% complete in 2023.


Lead plumbing wasn't banned in the US until 1986, which is somewhat more recently than a century ago.
 
LarryDan43
2023-02-03 8:36:15 AM  

DORMAMU: Flint Michigan?

All these other places that have lead pipes still and the local government still hasn't done shiat?


Many cities have funding and a program in place to remove lead pipes. They are being quiet about it. Call your water department and request a test kit, if it comes back at a dangerous level you can probably get them replaced at no cost to you.
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-02-03 8:47:51 AM  

ElPrimitivo: But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin L?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?


Wall candy is free, sir. In these tough economic times, everybody is looking for a bargain.
 
Broktun
2023-02-03 8:48:13 AM  
Acute lead poisoning is more of an issue in Phili.
 
Broktun
2023-02-03 8:54:52 AM  

trerro: qorkfiend: trerro: The fact that lead pipes even still exist in a major city of the US tell you how farked we are with our governing priorities. I can understand people finding out some tiny settlement of 20 people on the top of a mountain or something got missed when they were replaced... but it should be that rare at this point, and there should be a number even those people could call to get it fixed within the month.

It is several dozen orders of magnitude easier to replace the piping for 20 people than it is to replace the piping for a city of 1.5 million people.

I didn't say it wasn't. But we knew the lead pipes were poisonous well over a century ago. There should have been a massive effort to get rid of them, and there's no reason said effort shouldn't be 99.99% complete in 2023.


If the water has a certain mineral content, the lead pipes get coated so the lead doesn't leech into the water.

Plus solder has lead, so even new brass indoor plumbing can still leach lead for a few years until the pipes get coated.
 
ElPrimitivo
2023-02-03 10:04:15 AM  

FriarReb98: ElPrimitivo: But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin LPb?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?

FTFY


So, Vitamin C is just carbon?
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:21:32 AM  

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: ElPrimitivo: But where will Philadelphians get their Vitamin L?

Are they going to be able to scrape enough paint off the walls to get keep their levels up?

Wall candy is free, sir. In these tough economic times, everybody is looking for a bargain.


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TomDooley
2023-02-03 12:41:47 PM  

FatherChaos: LordJiro: Utilities (water, electricity, heating, and arguably internet lines) should be nationalized, and there should be a massive program to get them up to 21st century standards. The fact that they (and healthcare) were EVER privatized in the first place is a farking disgrace.

Utilities should focus on working properly first, with finances a distant second. There's no room for competition, and thus no room for an actual market.

The main principle behind Reagan's turn to neoliberalism is "profits first." It's also about privatizing EVERYTHING, including the things that shouldn't be privatized. In their (feeble) minds, making utilities profit-driven makes them more competitive and therefore cheaper plus better quality. We all know that's BS, but while Republicans continue to get elected, there's nothing we can do about it.


It's about privatizing the profit and publicizing the risk.  And privatizing mostly means raising capital via corporate stocks and bonds which is more expensive than public bonds and saddles utilities and in turn rate payers with a higher level of debt.
 
Jodeo
2023-02-04 12:43:54 PM  

HomoHabilis: Live near Glendale AZ; don't get reference subby


Just between you and me, my Clue sheet has it narrowed down to Nick Sirianni, in the State Farm Stadium...
(Maybe?)
 
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