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They're going to be selective in their sampling. They're not going to sample rich white neighborhoods.
What are LEOs in this context? All I got is Low Earth Orbit
Law enforcement officers.
Thx
NP! it's a shit acronym to be honest lol. Someone must get off to it because it's used everywhere instead of actual titles and/or departments in the states.
Nah, the reason is the Byzantine law enforcement structure in the US. You can't just say "the police" because they have so many officers running around enforcing parts of the law that are not police. FBI, DEA, AFT, CBP, ICE and god knows what else are state agents, are involved in law enforcement and are all arguably not police.
So to get a proper generic term, of course they add another TLA to the alphabet soup.
...I'm fairly certain monitoring waste waters to determine the rate of drug use is a common and widely used procedure. Like, it is happening and it has been happening for a while now.
Yeah, they have been monitoring the amount of various drugs for as long as I've been paying attention.
Now the religious leo bullshit, that is entirely expected and I don't have the words to say how much I hate it. But like i guess it's just one more front to fight
It sounds like he's using bipartisan rhetoric to justify funding a reasonable strategy. Knowing how many people are taking which psychoactives is important for making policy decisions.
... An accurate monitoring system is needed to prove the effectiveness of different harm-reduction strategies. People lie on self-surveys.
Today is a good day to be on a septic system.
I wouldn't be too sure of that, could actually be worse for septic system users. I could easily see a system implemented where a septic tank truck has to be "inspected" when it goes to process the waste. If sensors tripped or flagged then they would sequester the employee and his logs which would lead them straight to your house or a few handful. Kinda like how junkyards require identification and address the metals came from in case an investigation needs to be launched about stolen goods.
it ends up being red states
sip
And the "good people in red states deserve it for being outnumbered" sentiment from the "fuck you we got ours" states continues.
Interesting considering many rural / red areas of the country are also more likely to be on a septic system and therefore can't have their sewage monitored.
Commented above, it's actually worse for septic tank systems. Your sewage is collected by a business (with your particular address and name associated with billing) and processed at some of the same facilities the monitoring equipment would be setup at. You would have years of drug use stored as evidence (and the tank on your property for further evidence) and they would have a better case of probable cause to investigate your particular residence instead of a county/town wide report.
Septic trucks usually stop at a few different houses before they're full, so the waste from several families ends up all mixed together. You'd have to mandate the collection and analysis of a single home at a time for what you said to be true. It would totally change the logistics of the industry.
Most people only pump their tanks every few years, so you’d be looking at a much longer history rather than what’s happening right now like you would with sewer water analysis. I just don't see how data that old would be relevant.
Unless you have a gas chromatography device embedded in everyone's waste sewage pipe how would that work? You'd only ever know that some people in a neighborhood are doing drugs, you wouldn't know who or how much and you wouldn't know who sold it only who consumed it.
Also a less than one hour old account posting rage bait is suspect as hell.
IMO this administration values psychological impact well over function.
Just making the claim probably accomplishes their goal. Whatever ridiculous half measure they think of to "follow through" is an afterthought
Correct. They know they don't have the means, manpower, or will power to completely subjugate everyone, especially when only %30 of the population (max) actually agrees with what they are doing.
They are hoping that people will 'self police' and comply with whatever bullshit they come up with.
I fear they're right
If everyone is breaking some law, everyone is insecure.
This rings more true to me than trying to make people self police. Just make them feel guilty, weak, targeted.
Rings even more true that they're just pandering to their base
Detection is easy, you just have RFK Jr go around doing taste tests of the sewage for drugs
Fuck dude that made me laugh in the break room at work lol. Lightened up my day a bit too thank you.
You're welcome for my service
Yeah but you can target enforcement efforts to entire communities with lots of drugs in their wastewater, offer federal grants / money to police departments to hire special officers for this task (I bet a religious school trains this special kind of officer). Many insidious ways to weaponize our sewage.
fucked up.
Get white van.
Go to rich neighborhood.
Wear hard hat and hi-vis vest, make fake name badge.
Tell them you're from the toilet company and doing a toilet inspection. Will only be a moment, any toilet will do.
Flush a handful of cold pills and a poppy seed muffin.
Repeat.
Rich neighborhood has meth problem.
As if they don't already have drug problems...
As if they'd actually bother checking the rich neighborhoods, those aren't the people they want to go after
Hell, just find an accessible sewer clean out and use that. No need to trick your way into a house.
It’s the same way that we monitor infection rates , it’s not individual it’s per region.
Region is far too broad for it. They can narrow it down to districts within cities. Your sentiment is still valid, that there's a lot of people there so they can't target individuals, or even streets. But they can use that data for increasing police presence. Any data given to fascists is dangerous.
If only the government took this energy and used it against pedophiles like trump
Why did you spell pedophile twice?
Jokes on them. I have a septic system.
um like where are the sensors. so they know drug use in city increased? so?
Just off the top of my head, blue cities will "skyrocket" in use, giving the feds another reason to harass people there.
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I feel like this would be illegal in Washington state. We already ruled in our supreme courts that our waste, including what is in our trash cans, is considered private. I guess we get to sue Trump, again, if this happens
They are going to ignore the fact drugs are in every neighborhood. No need to add to that sentence. They will though, pretend this is the the proof to move nIce into a poor democrat majority neighborhoods.
Edit: "poor" may be an unnecessary adjective as well.
thisain'tadderall lookin validated more and more everyday
And, of course,
The administration also aims to apply artificial intelligence technologies to screen cargo for illicit drugs at ports of entry, examine electronic health records to "identify patients at high risk of overdose" and create search algorithms to detect emerging threats, the plan says.
I don't know about you, but I signed up for a govt FOR the people BY the people, not this AI bullshit enslaving us for billionaires.
why don't they build their little drug free paradise far away and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
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I’m gonna go ahead and be completely alarmist and say that it’s so RFK Jr. has an excuse to throw people into his “wellness” farms.
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What a colossal waste of money
And they're going to use palantir to do it the same way that palantir got it's claws further into government by tracking covid wastewater
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