President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing theĀ nationā€™s unsafeĀ leadĀ pipes,Ā a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking waterĀ that will be paidĀ for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Biden unveiled the new fundingĀ in North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have lost to Donald Trump in the past two presidential electionsĀ but are feeling more bullish toward due to an abortion measure on the stateā€™s ballot this November.

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The Environmental Protection Agency will invest $3 billion in theĀ leadĀ pipe effort annually through 2026, Administrator Michael Regan told reporters. He said that nearly 50% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities ā€“ and a fact sheet from the Biden administration noted that ā€œlead exposure disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families.ā€

  • rottingleaf
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    2 months ago

    You shouldnā€™t write anything on subjects requiring knowledge of Russian without that knowledge.

    ŠšŠ¾Š»Ń…Š¾Š·Š½ŠøŠŗ means, naturally, someone living and working in ŠŗŠ¾Š»Ń…Š¾Š· .

    And ā€œŠ»ŠµŠŗцŠøя Š“Š»Ń ŠŗŠ¾Š»Ń…Š¾Š·Š½ŠøŠŗŠ¾Š²ā€ is a reference to a well-known (in ex-USSR) anecdote.

    And you are an idiot.

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      2 months ago

      So I was going to apologize for my misinterpretation and express some appreciation for giving me some new knowledge, but then that last sentence happened.

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        Sorry for insulting you.

        But how else do you call a person who finds an ethnic slur in a word they donā€™t understand? Iā€™d understand if Iā€™d say anything about Ukrainians at all.

        If I do something like that (happens regularly) I admit that Iā€™m an idiot. Iā€™m actually glad to discharge some of the frustration through that.

        Well, if you liked the clarification part, the anecdote itself is:

        "Thatā€™s a skull of Alexander when he was 5, thatā€™s when he was 25, thatā€™s when he was dead. Any questions?

        • How can one person have 3 skulls?

        • And youā€™re what?

        • A dachnik (that is, a person with a garden and now usually, then maybe a house without utilities in the countryside, living in the city).

        • Then go to hell, the lecture is for kolkhozniks."

        The anecdote refers to the expected intelligence level of typical Soviet brochures, like of an enthusiast worker who offered to reduce the acceptable percentage of discarded product to ā€œnoneā€ instead of some percent and similar.

        And, well, maybe to how Soviet officials viewed their population.