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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by hypercube33 on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:48AM (#36758930)
Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing...
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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by reaperducer on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:40AM (#36759552)
Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing...

I guess you haven't read a newspaper in the last 70 years.

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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by selimthegrim on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:21PM (#36761077)
They probably were too busy worrying about the lead type at the printers…
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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by chickenbittle on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#36759056)
I believe plumbers used plumbum.
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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by no_wizard on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:03AM (#36759118)
immediately made me think of this package I used to use when I did Python development

https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Re:What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for De... by elzbardico on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:21PM (#36763507)
Unless you are a civil engineer or an activist, probably the reason you know about lead plumbing is because journalists extensively wrote about it for decades.

Yes, journalism is not perfect, sometimes they err catastrophically, but let's not discount all the good things good journalists have done and are still doing.

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