Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

Look, I got an Environmental Engineering degree. There's an art and science to dumping toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water. Can it be done? Sure. But if you hire me and pay my sky-high salary, I can set it up that it's easy and the municipality will even thank you for the needed influx of capital!

 

[Mannahnin]

Look, I got an Environmental Engineering degree. There's an art and science to dumping toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water. Can it be done? Sure. But if you hire me and pay my sky-high salary, I can set it up that it's easy and the municipality will even thank you for the needed influx of capital!

Those who say a thing must not be done should please keep their voices down while I'm pitching my project to make a lot of money doing so!

 

[Cadence]

It seems to hold as long as Scribe's using "cannot be done" in the sense of "is impossible" as opposed to "must not", which is how I read him.

Clearly people physically CAN dump toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water, though I'd certainly prefer they refrain.

"You can't....", the nuclear edition. With Ed Asner and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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[Umbran]

It seems to hold as long as Scribe's using "cannot be done" in the sense of "is impossible" as opposed to "must not", which is how I read him.

The vague physical/legal/moral stance of the statement is a feature, not a bug.

 

[CleverNickName]

Look, I got an Environmental Engineering degree. There's an art and science to dumping toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water. Can it be done? Sure. But if you hire me and pay my sky-high salary, I can set it up that it's easy and the municipality will even thank you for the needed influx of capital!

I know you wrote this in jest, but....

...municipalities do emit toxic chemicals into the environment (and even into municipal drinking water systems, if you count chlorine). It's an unavoidable aspect of industry at this time: people need their cell phones and SUVs, and the process of making them generates toxic waste. People need safe drinking water on tap in their kitchens, and delivering it safely and inexpensively requires a preservative to kill pathogens.

The role of the environmental engineer is to figure out how it can be done without hurting people, and with the smallest impact to the ecosystem. Their sky-high salary is proportional to their sky-high liability: they only get one shot to get it right.

 

[Mannahnin]

Good reminder that the dose makes the poison!

 

[el-remmen]

I just got back on Bluesky. Anyone here on there and worth following? Right now the only person I follow is Kevin Kulp. lol.

 

[overgeeked]

It’s not possible to write a rule that will survive bad-faith interpretations. So don’t play with people who insist on making those bad-faith interpretations.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I know you wrote this in jest, but....

...municipalities do emit toxic chemicals into the environment (and even into municipal drinking water systems, if you count chlorine). It's an unavoidable aspect of industry at this time: people need their cell phones and SUVs, and the process of making them generates toxic waste. People need safe drinking water on tap in their kitchens, and delivering it safely and inexpensively requires a preservative to kill pathogens.

The role of the environmental engineer is to figure out how it can be done without hurting people, and with the smallest impact to the ecosystem. Their sky-high salary is proportional to their sky-high liability: they only get one shot to get it right.

Look, they aren't paying for good environmental practices, they want to know that their profits are as high as they possibly can be. So long as I cover that base, they don't care how I handle the rest of the matter. So, you'll just have to depend on my, uh, checks dictionary "innate goodness" and, uh, flips pages "feeling of compassion with my fellow man" to make sure it's done, uh, reads something written on wrist with sharpie "safely."

 

[overgeeked]

There’s only so much blatant bad faith I can take. I get different people have different tolerances, but it’s wild to me that so many people call out that poster’s bad faith while still continuing to actively engage with the poster. This is what the ignore feature is for.