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Dr. Massassi or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Misanthropy
2014-10-06, 9:20 AM #1
Post why we should hate humanity today.
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2014-10-06, 9:20 AM #2
Today, humanity has been fluoridating my water and polluting my precious bodily fluids. Therefore, I've made this thread to ensure mutually-assured hatred is shared among everyone.
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2014-10-06, 2:24 PM #3
But water fluoridation is good for your teeth and has no proven adverse effects + all natural water from a healthy non-depleted source is supposed to be slightly fluoridated.
2014-10-06, 3:33 PM #4
Don't forget they also use ultraviolet light on treated water, Gebohq! It is clear They want to give us cancer.
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2014-10-06, 6:16 PM #5
Originally posted by Jon`C:
But water fluoridation is good for your teeth and has no proven adverse effects + all natural water from a healthy non-depleted source is supposed to be slightly fluoridated.


To be perfectly clear, this is true if "water fluoridation" is taken to mean that the fluoride concentration achieved by the water district is consistent with government targets. It's certainly possible to O.D. on fluoride (maybe by swallowing gobs of toothpaste), but there's no reason to worry about this (especially especially if you are an adult).
2014-10-06, 6:20 PM #6
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Don't forget they also use ultraviolet light on treated water, Gebohq! It is clear They want to give us cancer.


Irradiation of food has also been done for years, and is entirely safe AFAIK, though I haven't looked into it, or whether the practice is still prevalent. It could be that the anti-science / Natur über alles crowd spread enough FUD to effectively end the practice.
2014-10-06, 8:10 PM #7
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
It could be that the anti-science / Natur über alles crowd spread enough FUD to effectively end the practice.


The use is increasing, thankfully.

It's also being used for equipment and medical devices. It's too bad radscare is a thing, otherwise it would be prevalent enough to e.g. treat farm equipment, which is how a lot of plant diseases get spread.
2014-10-07, 6:03 AM #8
In all seriousness, NY built a neat, new ultraviolet light disinfectant facility last year to be used as secondary treatment for water. Originally I thought there would be large holding tanks lined with UV lights but it looks like the water is passed through big pipes with UV "rods" going through the flow. NYC is blessed to have nice, ample supplies of water from the Catskills and surrounding area, although a lot of the plumbing and water mains pipes in the city sucks and cause the water to taste funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HlEmuRe54I

Don't we have a resident water resources engineer on Massassi? My water resources textbooks don't really cover UV light treatment (honestly, they all tend to suck and filled with errors), it would be cool to know more the specifics on the design.
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2014-10-07, 6:41 AM #9
I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at Water Resource Engineering University, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret repairs on NYC's water mains, and I have over 300 confirmed water treatment plants. I am trained in flood forecasting and I’m the top sediment transport specialist in the entire US. You are nothing to me but just another mudflow. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with asking me that **** over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of civil engineers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with stormwater runoff. Not only am I extensively trained in hydrology, but I have access to the entire irrigation system of the east coast and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.
2014-10-07, 11:11 AM #10
I did a quick % grep -v /gratuitous insult/ on ${SABEROPUS_POST_1187271} for you guys:

Originally posted by saberopus:
I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at Water Resource Engineering University, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret repairs on NYC's water mains, and I have over 300 confirmed water treatment plants. I am trained in flood forecasting and I’m the top sediment transport specialist in the entire US. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of civil engineers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now. I can be anywhere, anytime. Not only am I extensively trained in hydrology, but I have access to the entire irrigation system of the east coast and I will use it.


Sounds dandy! Care to share more details?

Sincerely,
Mr. Jones
2014-10-07, 11:16 AM #11
I will use it
2014-10-07, 2:06 PM #12
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2014-10-07, 2:23 PM #13
Hey sbp, are you in a position to confirm or deny that there are sewer alligators?
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2014-10-07, 3:05 PM #14
True story: a university professor with a PhD. in biology* at a UC Campus once showed us a video about alternative medicine, which, among other things, uncritically promoted homeopathy.

* thankfully this was not a biology course, though, but an unrelated G.E. course, so the biology department can't be blamed for hiring her.
2014-10-07, 3:13 PM #15
Originally posted by Reid:
(meaning, sympathy for the religious aspect of the extremism, not the violence).


Wait, you mean to tell me so-called many American "Christian" fundamentalists aren't so keen on the progressive reforms that Christ made on the Abrahamic religion?
2014-10-07, 3:35 PM #16
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2014-10-07, 3:43 PM #17
Originally posted by Reid:
No, I'm saying so-called many American "Christian" fundamentalists aren't so keen.


One would hope that intelligence isn't always required for people to behave ethically.
2014-10-07, 3:44 PM #18
Then again, organized religion in general has a rather laughable and hypocritical track record w.r.t. ethics, historically (in many regards).
2014-10-07, 3:49 PM #19
Originally posted by Reid:
I'm happy Massassi left antivaxxers for me to rant about.

Absolute morons reject the most basic empiricism and place their faith in unfounded mysticism and basic distrust of scientific authority seeded by rupert murdoch and oil money. good game. the worst part is, i'm repeatedly finding sympathy within conservative christian ranks for muslim extremism and that's disturbing (meaning, sympathy for the religious aspect of the extremism, not the violence). i'm frustrated by the continual lack in all americans to address the seriousness of global warming and the necessity to shift to renewable and well-planned, controlled nuclear energy (BUT MUH GUBMINTS EVIL AND STUPID). i'm frustrated that there isn't a bigger push for women's rights in 3rd world nations, where it's most desperately needed (reducted birth rate and a stronger middle class world wide) but that doesn't benefit the psychopathic neoliberal capitalists who need exploited labor forces for dem profit margins and the investors so intent on having a rich, spoiled retirement that they're not willing to benefit anyone else at the expense of the value of their shares


Likewise, I'm similarly peeved that my local rodent population hasn't spontaneously assembled itself into a utopian society of sophisticated, talking animals.
2014-10-07, 4:09 PM #20
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2014-10-07, 4:10 PM #21
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2014-10-07, 5:26 PM #22
Originally posted by Jon`C:
But water fluoridation is good for your teeth and has no proven adverse effects + all natural water from a healthy non-depleted source is supposed to be slightly fluoridated.


But a lifetime of consuming fluoridated water will petrify your pineal gland, and as we all know, the pineal gland is the seat of the soul, which means that over time you will become permanently disconnected from the astral plane, and without a functioning pineal gland to release a large quantity of dimethyltryptamine upon death, you will not be able to enter the afterlife!
I'm just a little boy.
2014-10-07, 6:43 PM #23
Pro-Life people who believe the only solution to the too many abortions problem is to make it illegal, even though that has been shown to be the worst way to reduce abortions.

Outcomes matter. Rhetorical purity does not.
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2014-10-07, 7:02 PM #24
What the United States has done to Christianity.

(Note: Much like industrialism, slavery, and capitalism, Europe might have started the hurt first, but the United States owned it.)
2014-10-07, 9:24 PM #25
Originally posted by Jon`C:
What the United States has done to Christianity.

(Note: Much like industrialism, slavery, and capitalism, Europe might have started the hurt first, but the United States owned it.)


Well, second generation wealth is the most insufferable, so....
2014-10-09, 7:51 AM #26
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2014-10-10, 3:36 AM #27
Originally posted by Reid:
I never would have thought you were a Christian


Yeah, because that was stated at absolutely any point.
>>untie shoes
2014-10-10, 6:56 PM #28
Originally posted by Antony:
Yeah, because that was stated at absolutely any point.


It was never stated at any point that you like unicorns, but come on, the evidence is out there.
2014-10-11, 6:04 AM #29
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
It was never stated at any point that you like unicorns, but come on, the evidence is out there.



>>untie shoes
2014-10-13, 9:05 AM #30
I would never have thought Antony liked unicorns
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2014-10-13, 9:25 AM #31
Speaking as someone who doesn't know anything about Adam Baldwin the person... is he joking or not?
2014-10-13, 11:57 AM #32
A sense of humor is characteristic of a liberal whiner, so no.
>>untie shoes
2014-10-13, 12:05 PM #33
yikes

but also, super incredible
2014-10-13, 2:13 PM #34
Nothing of value has ever come from Twitter.


Nobody of value has ever posted on Twitter.
2014-10-13, 7:50 PM #35
Where is the hard evidence that the moon landing evidence is indeed hard?
2014-10-13, 10:11 PM #36
Twitter has some funny jokes sometimes.

That's about it.
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2014-10-13, 10:25 PM #37
The only funny joke on Twitter is the fact that politicians and corporations take it seriously.
2014-10-13, 10:32 PM #38
Quote:
Too many tweets might make a ****


--David Cameron
2014-10-15, 12:42 PM #39
Originally posted by Antony:
A sense of humor is characteristic of a liberal whiner, so no.


oh holy **** i just scrolled through the past few days of his twitter feed. what a ****ing lunatic.
2014-10-16, 1:21 PM #40
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Nothing of value has ever come from Twitter.


Nobody of value has ever posted on Twitter.

dril
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