No real connection to the old name but fuck DTE, so any other name is better. (well other than little caesars).
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Metro Detroit’s drinking water is unsafe, and it’s not just lead
Flint and Benton Harbor aren’t the only Michigan communities that have been plagued with tainted drinking water. Metro Detroit residents are unwittingly drinking tap water...
Our water is supply garbage and filled with toxic chemicals. Even if you use water filters it's still not enough to filter out all of the contaminants.
Oh also everyone keep an eye on the promote the vote ballot initiative. They're gonna need signatures to get it on the ballot this year.
www.mlive.com
‘Promote the Vote’ ballot initiative launches to protect voting rights in Michigan
A voting rights group announced Monday it has plans to collect signatures for a ballot initiative aimed at protecting Michigan voters access to the polls.
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Very cool....Metro Detroit’s drinking water is unsafe, and it’s not just lead
Flint and Benton Harbor aren’t the only Michigan communities that have been plagued with tainted drinking water. Metro Detroit residents are unwittingly drinking tap water...m.metrotimes.com
Our water is supply garbage and filled with toxic chemicals. Even if you use water filters it's still not enough to filter out all of the contaminants.
I hope my undersink filter does at least something...
Metro Detroit’s drinking water is unsafe, and it’s not just lead
Flint and Benton Harbor aren’t the only Michigan communities that have been plagued with tainted drinking water. Metro Detroit residents are unwittingly drinking tap water...
Our water is supply garbage and filled with toxic chemicals. Even if you use water filters it's still not enough to filter out all of the contaminants.
Is it sad that every time I see this thread bumped my reaction is "great, what is it now"
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Until the next wave happens 🤦♂️
Anyways I have a refrigerator filter and one of those lifestraw filters. Better than nothing but will probably do a little research to see if there's any bottled water options that are actually filtered.
Here's a link to lifestraw if anyone is interested: https://lifestraw.com/
Their stuff is better quality than brita at least.
Anyways I have a refrigerator filter and one of those lifestraw filters. Better than nothing but will probably do a little research to see if there's any bottled water options that are actually filtered.
Here's a link to lifestraw if anyone is interested: https://lifestraw.com/
Their stuff is better quality than brita at least.
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Looks like investors are really bullish about south of 9 mile....
They bought over 80% in the east side....
www.resetera.com
They bought over 80% in the east side....
Investors bought a record share of homes in 2021. See where.
Yes the US has an abundance of land but sprawl isn't the solution. There are plenty of places in the country where you could buy a house for dirt cheap, but would you really want to live in the middle of nowhere? Most people want to live in a metro area near a major city, so the solution is...
www.resetera.com
looooool it's still coming down though. Did one round in the evening, left the rest for tomorrow morning.
I did basically the same thing but I do double since I do my neighbors too.
I just finished the 2nd round and it wasn't much better.
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Anecdotally I have been hearing about more Covid cases among my local peers....
State numbers seem to bear that out... 🙃
Anyone know if MI changed anything about how [much] they test?
State numbers seem to bear that out... 🙃
Anyone know if MI changed anything about how [much] they test?
Anecdotally I have been hearing about more Covid cases among my local peers....
State numbers seem to bear that out... 🙃
Anyone know if MI changed anything about how [much] they test?
I'll just say that in my immediate circle, this is by far the most people I've heard of getting Covid throughout the duration of the pandemic. Shit, I even got it earlier last month. Thankfully, it was all very minor (I've had 2 shots and the booster) and felt well enough to work from home as I quarantined a few days after I tested positive. But the amount of people I know getting it right now is crazy, and to the best of my knowledge, they're all up to date on their shots as well.
Many of them are teachers and while they're getting it, they also said their classes are half full because the kids are getting it as well. Sounds like wild times out there right now.
Oh no, now we got spring. I'm over the rain. Can we get no rain spring/summer now?
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This tracks with what I'm hearing from many teachers too. 😩
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There is also a protest by a bunch of local orgs at 5 today.
📣 ABORTION RIGHTS RALLY TODAY @ 5PM
Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse (231 W Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit)
My older Sister and younger cousin are Teachers in the Pontiac area. My sister got Covid in December. Be safe out there.
Just an FYI Dream Cruise is the weekend of the 20th. Don't expect it to be any different than years past.
I realized it was cruise season the other day, but I haven't been on Woodward after mid afternoon in weeks, so I've no idea how many of the usual "park and watch traffic while we huff exhaust" types have been out.
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I don't care about it at all now that we don't live a couple blocks from Woodward. We made a habit of leaving town cruise weekend when we did.
I always enjoyed it since I moved here but I've always been into cars. I'll be at the events Friday night in Ferndale with my kids.
Now this is what I'd like to do down to 9 mile since it's so close but I have no idea where I'd park my bike with the buggy for the kids behind me.
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I don't hate it. Just ambivalent about it
I will avoid driving like the plague though.
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At your place of work? Maybe they can make some accommodations?
I've been lobbying my employer to lobby the building management to install some bike lockers in the park deck. So far no dice yet.
While a good idea, I'm remote so nothing close for me.
Looking it up I'm guessing the dot parking garage in Ferndale doesn't have any lockers as well.
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Yo folks,
my good friends sister works for the state in water control & protection. She basically told us to stay the f out of Kensington, the huron river and all surrounding areas.
The PFAS contamination is out of control. It's everywhere, water, soil and all the wildlife is affected. Just don't go visit it anymore at all. You don't want to touch it and definitely not breathe it in. It's highly carcinogenic.
She was not joking and rather upset about the whole thing... In her opinion it was seriously underreported and not taken seriously enough.
my good friends sister works for the state in water control & protection. She basically told us to stay the f out of Kensington, the huron river and all surrounding areas.
The PFAS contamination is out of control. It's everywhere, water, soil and all the wildlife is affected. Just don't go visit it anymore at all. You don't want to touch it and definitely not breathe it in. It's highly carcinogenic.
She was not joking and rather upset about the whole thing... In her opinion it was seriously underreported and not taken seriously enough.
Yo folks,
my good friends sister works for the state in water control & protection. She basically told us to stay the f out of Kensington, the huron river and all surrounding areas.
The PFAS contamination is out of control. It's everywhere, water, soil and all the wildlife is affected. Just don't go visit it anymore at all. You don't want to touch it and definitely not breathe it in. It's highly carcinogenic.
She was not joking and rather upset about the whole thing... In her opinion it was seriously underreported and not taken seriously enough.
Well, shit
Well that's fun.
We've switched to going to Lake St Clair more anyway because of the better playground and splash pad so we'll just continue with that.
We've switched to going to Lake St Clair more anyway because of the better playground and splash pad so we'll just continue with that.
I was volunteering last weekend in Clinton Township. Glad I don't work there any more. Sounds like a nightmare.
For real? Redford here. Ditched wv. Sucks the same group that fucked up fishin in areas before fucked up the huron. Wondering how its gonna affect where I work in Ann Arbor. Were waiting for when it arrives. Was told it wouldn't hit detroit though. Maybe i should switch to bottled water. Sucks cuz detroit had summa the best water in the country according to our lab tests.
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Did I miss the memo?
We were driving around Detroit today and within 10 min we saw four different cars gingerly ignoring red lights. They treated them like stop signs. I guess at least they stopped and didn't just smash through. Still wild though.
We were driving around Detroit today and within 10 min we saw four different cars gingerly ignoring red lights. They treated them like stop signs. I guess at least they stopped and didn't just smash through. Still wild though.
Oh shit haha.
Also interesting to about Detroits water, would have never guessed.
Like 75% of all suburbanites I've ever known ignore all traffic laws in Detroit because "it's too dangerous" and "I don't want to get mugged." While simultaneously complaining that actual Detroiters never follow the law.
Clinton Township is the Clinton River, though, so I think this more for the Huron watershed (which is west side of the metro, mostly)?
My girlfriend and i just got back from Dearborn (shoutout to the nice Papaya Fruit Market), and i make her do all the driving in that area because it can be crazy. I hate the southfield fwy the most, its a free for all. She's grew up and learned to drive in that area and she always yells that I drive too "safe" for it.
I had a little on Monday but thankfully none has been sticking yet.
I'm not ready.