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The World's 10 Dirtiest Cities
neever writes "You may already know about the pollution plight of Linfen, China. But how about the heavy metals Pittsburghers breathe in on a daily basis? Or the incomparable smog Milanesi put up with? PopSci has culled an eye-opening selection of some of the world's most problematic cities. From the painfully high cancer rates in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan to the acid rain destroying La Oroya, Peru, writer Jason Daley walks readers through the lowest of the low; and explains why, despite it all, there's still hope for these places."
Air pollution is a liberal myth that is propagated simply to prevent the glorious libertarian utopia that results from the pure beauty of unrestricted capitalism.
While reading the title of this article, my interest peaked just before I realized that by "dirtiest", it was actually talking about dirt.
Property is theft.
It may not be a city, but New Jersey deserves at least an honorable mention.
Take him to Detroit!
Ay! I've just signed myself up for four years of university in Pittsburgh. Anyone know a good method of limiting heavy metal exposure in such an environment.... Wait... Why would I want that?.. I'll be IRON MAN!
It has not been slashdotted. They just had to shut the web server down due to increasing HTTP pollution.
Ezekiel 23:20
>you could see the buildings of LA on the horizon
So it was a clear day then?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Your greatest heavy metal risk is an object around 100 - 250 grains moving at roughly Mach 1.1.
To avoid exposure, Kevlar is reccomended. To avoid repeat exposure, first puchase a return mechanism, minimum size 9mm, but preferentially .45" in diameter. Second, obtain permission from the Allegheny County Sheriff to posesss such mechanism in any place desired. Third, have such mechanism available.
Seriously - Pitt is in the middle of Oakland, and right next to "Da Hood" (The Hill District). Lived there, been there, avoid it at almost any costs now.
No wonder. Only bears and ice there.
Nice pictures! I also found this quote interesting:
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A lovely gin and tonic to start the flight off and the option to stretch ones legs out and work on the MacBook Air in-between looking out the window to take pictures makes every flight much more pleasant.
Is this how people usually turn out when they buy a Mac?
How do you find those things out? I just googled for live sex shows and got 16800000 hits. Should I check them all?
Why not? It sounds like a worthwhile enterprise.
Well, its an even trade.
When it rains in Pittsburgh, the effluvia travels down the Ohio and gives those of us downstream unsafe levels of human waste in our water, so we give you back our carbon.
Its the circle of life, Ohio valley style.
You're welcome!
signed:
Cincinnati
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order- Ed Howdershelt Via Tass
>It's come a long way, but you can smell the air, sometimes quite strongly.
Don't trust air you can't see.
The boundary you saw between the smog and clean air above is from an inversion layer
One of the last times I flew into LAX, I recall my surprise as the plane hit a bump as we descended from the clear air into the brown air. It took me a moment to recall the temperature inversion and that the change in density probably caused the bump. Even in LA the air can't get so nasty it has lumps in it. Corrosive and toxic, yes, but lumps, no.Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
And while not all the ladies shave, pretty much all of them are down.
I guess I'm not familiar with this hip new term 'down' with regards to the ladies' pubis...
I know what it means if they shave, what's it mean if they are 'down'??
Yeah, I know this is off-topic, but it's an important fine point!!
And air that you CAN see is better? :-P
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
And I had already promised the wife and kids that we could go to Norilsk this year. Damn!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Portland has 50 strip clubs and about 500,000 people.
Elko, NV has 16,000 people and 5 active brothels.
On a per capita basis, I think they've got Portland beat for dirtiness.
Sounds like a whorrible idea to me.