• delgato
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    11 hours ago

    One of my close friends got her doctorate last year and recently hired as a scientist at EPA. She is improving methods of surveying urban soils using remote methods like ground penetrating radar, this helps to inform landowners/potential developers the true conditions of the soil they are building on. A shame the government doesn’t think that’s important anymore.

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      2 hours ago

      The government is being run by the sorts of people who are doing the illegal dumping of hazardous waste that your EPA friend is trying to detect. Of course they don’t want her to do it; they don’t want to be held accountable!

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      3 hours ago

      Sounds like woke DEI garbage. Everyone knows plants need Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator. It’s got what plants crave.

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      4 hours ago

      A shame the government doesn’t think that’s important anymore.

      Not just unimportant, sand in the gears of their capitalist steamroller. The true conditions of anything must not interfere with the advertised conditions.

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      6 hours ago

      and also the funding on research in general is going out the window, making people trying to enter stem industries all that unlikely. when its already very hard to enter stems as it is.