Well, that's a great way to get a really bad infection.
Flood waters contain everything from sewage to dead animals to parasites.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
350 points (99.4% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
7372 readers
735 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Man, he’s a college student, he probably eats worse.
Rafts of fire ants are also a sure way to liven things up
Fire ants rafting is a sure sign there is no god. At least not a benevolent, personal one.
Edit: The downvotes are making me wonder how many people didn't get past the first sentence before skipping the rest.
God is God to all living things, fire ants included. And did He not say, 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.' (Genesis 9:3). And lo, the fire ants rejoiced, and partook of his great bounty (college students sitting in flood waters), and were fruitful.
I wonder what the fire ant commandments are, and how many burning bushes were involved
Kill, consume, multiply, conquer. As they follow the goddess of cancer.
At first I read that as dead animals and peasants.
Bring out your dead!
Jesus, that’s the basest of bacterial soups he’s basting in. That’s sewage and corpse water.
Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t a single bacteria. It’s a bacteria gone wild such that the tissue dies under the stress of it. This guy’s feet and junk are in that mess.
Horrifying outcomes may happen.
It's ok. He has his beer.
Psh, you wouldn't be saying that if you saw the 2-day-old, cold, left out pizza he ate just before the pic was taken!
And it was only slight wet, nothing a few paper towel couldnt dry up.
The box was floating still and keeping it on top of the water so it’s totally fine
Holy shit this dude needs to get out of that water
"It's just dirt!"
Microbiology is optional at North Carolina State University.
What is he watching