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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by zionic »

jasonlotito wrote: post #48
zionic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

> blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person That's not what is happening here in the slightest.

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world

Seems like a pretty straightforward statement to me

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by idontpost »

zionic wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by idontpost »

zionic wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by cwillu »

shakezula wrote: post #33
clsec wrote: post #26

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Probably getting rid of the alcoholics that they have to deal with on a daily basis. It's not right, but cops are cops.

That's a complete non-sequitur. Assuming they're alcoholics is pretty racist and, even if they are, doesn't even begin to justify these actions by police.

Worth noting from a cold climate survival perspective that alcohol and a long walk in the cold is a death sentence. Your body will normally constrict bloodflow to the extremities, significantly reducing heat loss. Alcohol counteracts that. It makes you feel warm, in the same way that the final stages of hypothermia make you feel warm.

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by hinkley »

qqtt wrote: post #45
hinkley wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

Friendly reminder that leaded gasoline is still used today in airports all over the USA. If you live near an airport you are still affected by this in 2022.

When I was shopping for garden hoses I looked for contamination possibilities and it turns out some of those green hoses have lead in them as a stiffener. That may help explain the high lead tests in some areas. Especially where paint is not a likely vector. Old car exhaust does settle into soil particles.

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by Muromec »

fxtentacle wrote: post #12
mrpopo wrote: post #7

When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immunized population. A bit like the diseases brought into the new world in the 19th century, but this time psychological. [1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283…

Fully agree. For some inventions, such as LSD-trips for your lunch break, I truly wonder how people can be so f-ed up that they consider that a good idea. But then again, I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. BTW, it's not just Inuit having high suicide rates: "Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest lev…

> LSD-trips for your lunch break,

It should be a very nice job that allows 5 hour lunch breaks.

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by carapace »

everyone wrote: post #20
fxtentacle wrote: post #12

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Fully agree. For some inventions, such as LSD-trips for your lunch break, I truly wonder how people can be so f-ed up that they consider that a good idea. But then again, I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. BTW, it's not just Inuit having high suicide rates: "Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest lev…

"I see so many people with depressing faces every day" How much information are you making up based on how a persons face subjectively looks to you? How someone's face looks is a superficial thing and really doesn't give you any solid information.

The human face is literally a communication device.

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by llip »

mrpopo wrote: post #7

When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immunized population. A bit like the diseases brought into the new world in the 19th century, but this time psychological. [1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283…

We brought alcohol, they brought tobacco. Also masculine, peyote, mushrooms, etc

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by [deleted] »

zionic wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by cwillu »

username223 wrote: post #38

I hesitate to post this, but Canada is in a lot of ways a museum of the American West. The first time I visited BC, I turned on public radio and heard a story about tailings ponds collapsing into rivers. The logging is beyond what you get used to in modern OR, WA, and MT. The boarding schools that tried to eradicate native languages in the 1900s were like the ones the States had a few decades earlier. It’s a hard lan…

TIL I'm hard people. (Doesn't everyone go for 4 hour walks in -40° to prove that they still can?)
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