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jeffbee
on April 8, 2021
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Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A comm...
It's not like this is Google-specific. Santa Clara County is just toxic. All of this junk, for example, is built on a plume of TCE.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3823386,-121.9841579,458m/da...
outworlder
on April 8, 2021
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Just curious, what specifically are you pointing at? Is there any manufacturing going on? I'd think these are mostly office buildings.
jeffbee
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It was semiconductor manufacturing before, then it was an empty lot, now its offices and parking. This would have been an orchard, 50 years ago.
quantified
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And to emphasize, semiconductor manufacturing has a lot of toxic chemistry along the way.
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