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Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ding ding ding!

  The reason it feels like people from that era are angrier and dumber than they used to be is because they literally are! It’s literal brain damage!

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• Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They still do. General aviation still uses 100LL aka low lead

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blood concentrations of lead are laughable today compared to when leaded gas was in cars. It’s a decrease of 94%. Yes, we still have a lead problem. No, it is no longer anywhere near as bad as it was.

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True, but the safe level of lead is none. This is especially true for children.

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  • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The FAA finally approved 100UL (unleaded), so the US is on track to stop using 100LL in most cases within the next 20 years

    EPA has tight regulations on washing your plane though, so there’s no problem with lead /s

    Disclaimer: It’s better than nothing that the EPA tried to do something, but the government really should have gotten their shit together and approved 100UL decades ago

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shh, don’t say it too loud or Maga will legislate the lead back in.

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      • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh don’t worry about that, they already caused their havoc

        Thanks to the FAA’s shoestring budget, they don’t have the funds to just issue an STC to allow existing planes to use it. Each plane owner will have to pay for one to be issued. It costs me $200 to get one issued. It costs that much because the FAA hasn’t had the budget to upgrade their systems, so handling applications takes a lot of labor. They need to manually verify the make and model of aircraft will not be at risk of adverse effects from unleaded gasoline, since safety > all else

        It’s a good thing the FAA verifies this, but it shouldn’t be such an inefficient process. The only reason it’s so inefficient is because conservatives have gutted federal agencies for so many years. MAGA will still point to the inefficient process as an example of why they should keep cutting funding, “see how inefficient the FAA is? They don’t deserve our money!”

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      • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hahaha … heh … but seriously, MAGA does want brain damaged voters.

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While lead pipes were banned in 1986, millions of lead service lines remain in service across the US to this day…

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    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lead pipes are less of an issue that it would seem, as the pipes quickly develop a layer of calcium salts on the inside, preventing the water from actually coming into contact with the lead.

      By all means, they need replaced. But they’re nowhere near the contributor that leaded gasoline was.

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      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lead gasoline for cars is gone. Lead pipes are still around.

        You’re concerned about the big problem that we already solved? Bro, you need to re-prioritize.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Get out of here with your fact-based science, it sounds like you did your own research. We don’t like that. Please comply.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also faucets and fittings are still made with a brass alloy containing lead

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      • pika@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait, what? In what country(ies)?

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