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Geeky Girl Engineer
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Sarcastic Ph.D, P.E. environmental engineer, environmental health scientist over run by cats; I work on risk from hazardous substances, my professional life is all #PFAS; crafting is a personal obsession
website: geekygirlengineer.com
I do not understand people. Why, just why?
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Possibly the worst one was a wastewater treatment plant with a malfunctioning aeration chamber in San Antonio in July. Hence it smelled like human excrement cooking in south Texas heat. I will go away now and leave the rest to your nightmares.
December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Having spent several years in the lab cooking human urine with concentrated sulfuric acid, I would like to make the counterpoint that that smell is lower perhaps only maybe number 10 of worst smells I have smelled. Perhaps not even that high.
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
One of the things I miss from Twitter is hilarious toxicology discussions we used to have. [Possible I just haven't found those same people on here.] However, I love the irony that toxicology textbooks discuss acetaminophen constantly, but stores only worry about you getting high in impossible ways.
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I am afraid after reading your thread, the first thing that popped into my head was "Video killed the radio star"
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Disclaimer, I'm white. I'm by no means saying racial discrimination in any manner is good. I understand seeing racial discrimination in print like a covenant can be hurtful. I'm trying to convey that the documents are sort of contracts and historical records. I'm not a lawyer. Maybe I'm wrong.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A lot of rural property has covenants guaranteeing it is never subdivided or built on. If government could change covenants, they would, and we would lose protected land, so someone could build a subdivision.
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I understand what you are saying, but covenants can't be altered like that. They can be made illegal, but they can't be changed. That is not necessarily a bad thing either. [Racist yes] However if someone puts a conservation easement on property, government can't change even if they want.
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A house I owned in TX years ago had a racial covenant as well as a couple of more humorous covenants. It was disturbing, but all racial covenants were deemed illegal by law, so it didn't affect actual present day ownership. I am not clear what you Arlington to do.
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM