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In the laboratory/manufacturing world we use this thing called the heirarchy of hazards control. It defines the steps you should go through when trying to make a process safer. The heirarchy is Elimination - Substitution - engineering controls - administrative controls - ppe.

What most safety campaigns focus on is the administrative controls, or the 2nd to last step. Slogans and driving laws and things that can easily be ignored. Here, Hoboken has applied engineering controls - physical barriers that separate the person from the hazard. I guess in this case it's removing an obstructing barrier.

on Do your part · c/lemmyshitpost · 13 pts · 272d

Its only gatekeeping if its about medieval defense structures, otherweise its just sparkling assholery.

on Spill · c/historymemes · 28 pts · 281d

Paramount Pictures was created 1 month before Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

Every treatment plant in the country is already collecting samples of wastewater as it enters and leaves the plant as they have to take certain measurements every day to show compliance. To my knowledge, there is no way to identify/track individuals based on wastewater. There is a government database of everyone's license plate.

So this is actually my industry - Wastewater Based Epidemiology or WBE. It is very anonymous. There is no way to pick out one person's identity from the waste stream. What we get is a about 100mL of blend from 24 hour's worth of shit water passing into the treatment plant. A tiny treatment plant is processing 100,000 gallons per day, while a top 10 plant is processing > 100 Million gallons per day.