Meet the effects of one of the worst regulated industries
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[url]http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/[/url]
There's a lot to read and this isn't standard Huffington Post, it reads more like a Vice Journalism article.
For gods sake would it kill you to put what the article is about in the title?
Also : warning, very loud, autoplaying videos at random parts and godawful website design
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Also, my avatar is disappointed with yours
well shit du pont
that may just be [i]the[/i] worst presentation of an article i've ever seen
Is this the future of web design? I'm so fucking tired of scrolling.
I'm not sure which is more horrifying, the results of chemical waste dumping going unchecked, or this article's ridiculous format.
one SH thread where you're not frontloaded with an opinion and people instantly complain about having to actually read it
[QUOTE=Kommodore;48565996]one SH thread where you're not frontloaded with an opinion and people instantly complain about having to actually read it[/QUOTE]
Well, less reading, and more forced scrolling. Like, to switch between pages, you have to repeatedly scroll over a single area. Still, those guys have apparently caused world-wide contaimnation.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;48565996]one SH thread where you're not frontloaded with an opinion and people instantly complain about having to actually read it[/QUOTE]
This thread consists of an un-descriptive thread title and an information-deprived opening post.
Like shouldn't there be a summary or something in the op?
[QUOTE=Karmah;48566014]This thread consists of an un-descriptive thread title and an information-deprived opening post.
Like shouldn't there be a summary or something in the op?[/QUOTE]
much better this way instead of selected bites op wants you to read or bolded pieces and namedropping entities that instantly conjure feelings and emotional reactions which is what happens 90% of the time
Read the whole thing because I'm not a little bitch and I have a ripped as fuck finger from all sorts of wild masturbation that let me scroll like a pro.
All I got to say about this is DuPont is a company of straight up motherfuckers, fuck them. Fuck the people sticking up for them too.
I want to read it but i got bored at jim and his tractor
There's a deep message in this thread about humanity, somewhere.
[QUOTE=ridinmybike;48566062]I want to read it but i got bored at jim and his tractor[/QUOTE]
I'll spoil the article for you;
Jim, and his tractor, both have cancer. In fact, pretty much everyone has cancer. One dude shits so much he is afraid to go anywhere, even just to church, cuz he doesn't want to shit on everyone. And it's all over the world, it's in your blood for sure, and since they'll be eventually regulated away from using this one, they've just started using other ones which are as bad or maybe worse. And in order to make a claim against them now, you have to go through a team of lawyers that they hired whose sole job is to make it as complicated and ridiculous as possible to make a claim.
Then the article just ends like welp guys we tried and we failed. They're still doing it, in fact it's worse now, and they're pretty much just rubbing it in at this point with purposefully making the claim process difficult just to deter claimants. It's like, they're not even at the point where they can say "oh yeah our bad, we fucked up, here's some cash", they're pretty much not budging a bit, against the advice of their own teams of in-house attorneys.
[QUOTE=Sonador;48566083]There's a deep message in this thread about humanity, somewhere.[/QUOTE]
I prefer hearing about the points, not jim and his tractor.
[QUOTE=edberg;48565973]Is this the future of web design? I'm so fucking tired of scrolling.[/QUOTE]
Who thought it was a good idea to try and implement smooth animations that are powered by scrolling, an action which is literally designed to take place in short increments?
[QUOTE=J Paul;48566096]I'll spoil the article for you;
Jim, and his tractor, both have cancer.[/QUOTE]
I wish we still had funny ratings in SH :(
It boggles my mind that people are dying of horrible diseases and the [I]world[/I] is being polluted because some people think shit not sticking to their pans is neat.
[QUOTE=Sonador;48566679]It boggles my mind that people are dying of horrible diseases and the [I]world[/I] is being polluted because some people think shit not sticking to their pans is neat.[/QUOTE]
This has nothing to do with consumers and everything to do with [the leaders of] companies being profit whoring pieces of shit who could give a fuck less about what they do to people or the environment so long as they can maximize their profits here and now, because what fucks do they give if the world goes to shit after they die. Along with regulators being push overs and the government being borderline corrupt.
They spent decades covering up the side-effects of the chemicals, and are still trying to minimize how "bad" it sounds.
Shame the article/web page is so terribly laid out and long winded that people won't even bother to read it.
Not surprising to me in the least, it happens much more than the general population believes.
A prominent plastic/chemical manufacturer has a similar cover up in California. My father worked at the plant that caused the problem and was important enough to plant operations that he had to be made privy about it. It was never made public in any fashion.
To this day one of the largest cities in CA has no idea that one of their main water lines is toxic as shit, once lethally for a few weeks but is now down to "just" severe health issues. Ironically that specific line is almost never used for water in [I]that[/I] city, but rather passed on to others. People underestimate just how far you can keep something quiet when enough people are given a check with many zeroes.
That was a terrifying read, and it's scary that shit like this happens today. I assumed it kind of tailed off in the 70s-80s after the leaded fuel shit, but no companies still figure out how to get away with major crimes.
What kind of sociopaths run these things?
Near the end of the article they post a link to a map where you can see which counties in the nation have been surveyed for chemicals in the water supplies
[url]http://static.ewg.org/reports/2015/pfoa_drinking_water/interactive_map/index.html[/url]
apparently i'm in an affected county with .094 concentration (whatever that means, but it's much higher than the surrounding affected counties) I read this drinking from my plastic water bottle i've had for over a year!
makes me a bit worried. What is funny though, a few years back I lived in another county 20 minutes away and it has no detection of contaminants in the water supply, but the water tasted like ass. Now, I live in a county with known contaminants and the water tastes great! :v:
[QUOTE=cherrytrees;48567306]That was a terrifying read, and it's scary that shit like this happens today. I assumed it kind of tailed off in the 70s-80s after the leaded fuel shit, but no companies still figure out how to get away with major crimes.
What kind of sociopaths run these things?[/QUOTE]
The [b]$$$[/b] kind.
Good ol' duPont, good to see they're just as good as Ford & Diamond Alkali Co.
The article was confusing at first but then you realize, it's actually very good, it's designed to be a vlog of sorts with embedded article and video in-between.
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[QUOTE=/dev/sda1;48565971]that may just be [i]the[/i] worst presentation of an article i've ever seen[/QUOTE]
I guess your the kind of guy who thinks their xbox is a toaster.
This reads like a very articulate conspiracy blog especially in the frequent vague chemical boogeyman references. But I'm guessing it's reliable since it's on a mostly sane website.
[QUOTE=CrimsonChin;48568242]This reads like a very articulate conspiracy blog especially in the frequent vague chemical boogeyman references. But I'm guessing it's reliable since it's on a mostly sane website.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure how you got to "conspiracy blog" from what they put up tbh. It's pretty well sourced, the groups and people they mention exist and have demonstrably done the things they mention. It's not some scare piece about "omg the gubment putting flurordieided in the watur!!", it tries it's hardest to not provoke that response actually without playing down the effects of C8.
I'm not sure either, I think it's because of the way it uses mostly personal stories instead of cold scientificness that I have more trust towards.
But yeah I don't know why these companies haven't been stopped or regulated yet, shouldn't the government be doing something?
[QUOTE=CrimsonChin;48569368]I'm not sure either, I think it's because of the way it uses mostly personal stories instead of cold scientificness that I have more trust towards.
But yeah I don't know why these companies haven't been stopped or regulated yet, shouldn't the government be doing something?[/QUOTE]
When you have a team of the best sleazeball lawyers, anything is possible.
[QUOTE=CrimsonChin;48569368]I'm not sure either, I think it's because of the way it uses mostly personal stories instead of cold scientificness that I have more trust towards.
But yeah I don't know why these companies haven't been stopped or regulated yet, shouldn't the government be doing something?[/QUOTE]
Theres nothing wrong with personal experience in a news article. Besides this, most of the reason nothing is done is republican senators and voters are bought by corporations and have them turn a blind eye to the problems caused by these corporations. My friend one time said "Republicans will always believe Republicans, as long as they have a truck."
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