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Put out a giant fan, like the ones used in stables, facing yr neighbor’s place when those guys (who are being poisoned Every Day) show up to spray.

That really fucking sucks.

ETA:
A wonderful next door neighbor briefly worked for a lawn-spraying company, and mom felt obliged to let them do ours. All our cats got cancer and died. She didn’t tell me how long they did it; I know he was with them less than a year.

Her husband was a warpedly jealous asshole who wouldn’t let us have the cats indoors, but mom didn’t have the sense to keep 'em permanently indoors anyway.

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Ugh, that’s fucking awful too!

The fan idea is tempting. :rofl:

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Bonus points if you do it while wearing a Tyvek suit, garden gloves, and a mask…

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The research, collected in 2021, focused on Black and Latina women after previous studies showed they are more often exposed to formaldehyde in nail and hair products than white women. Researchers have questioned whether African American women’s frequent use of chemical hair straighteners, suspected of containing formaldehyde-releasing agents, might explain why breast, uterine and ovarian cancers kill disproportionately more Black than white women.

In 2023, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration was tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair straighteners. Two years later, the government still has failed to act. The FDA declined to comment.

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Some companies changed to glutaraldehyde in their hair straighteners. The chemical is used to tan pig heart valves to replace a person’s bad heart valve. I’m not sure how much better it is.

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There are thousands of pfas chemicals, not just these two, but at least your poop will be good. :+1:

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