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Oh Well I guess I'd better go back to the old thunderbox** in the backyard.....

** (Australia, slang) An outhouse or latrine: a rudimentary outdoor toilet. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thunderbox

Oh Well I guess I'd better go back to the old thunderbox** in the backyard..... ** (Australia, slang) An outhouse or latrine: a rudimentary outdoor toilet. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thunderbox

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Did you see the article where they're putting "smart sewers" to monitor all wastes? And the toilet camera to keep an eye on your asshole? Things are getting way out of hand.

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Yep that is the one I was talking about.

Who needs privacy in the pursuit of immortality?

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This is most likely disinformation. If they can convince people that their laboratories can be detected in wastewater they could try to dispose of those chemicals in other ways which are actually far easier to detect and trace back to the origin. Flushing them down the drain would dilute them and makes the origin extremely hard to trace. However, if they actually had this technology they wouldn't announce it at all. They would simply use it and catch the drug producers. By announcing it they would only risk people finding ways to circumvent it.

So if it were real they would keep quiet. The fact that it is announced strongly suggests that it is not real, or at least doesn't work.

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The paper was in the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Journal by , I think, a Russian university. I think they're more interested in an accredited paper than disinformation. This journal is a peer reviewed journal owned by Elsevier, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biosensors-and-bioelectronics/ .

That's not to say it hasn't been duplicated somewhere else and kept quiet.

PS: I have other issues with the journal being owned by Elsevier.

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Journals don't run waste water treatment plants. They don't run cities. They don't run drug enforcement agencies.

College students attempt to make things for the sake of making them. To see if they can, to demonstrate their understanding of concepts, and to demonstrate their ability to make them. They make up uses for their inventions after the fact the same way a porn movie might have a story attached to it, but the porn movie isn't about a pizza delivery. Just because the students said this could be used to catch drug manufacturers does not mean it will ever be sued that way. There are a lot of holes in that story, just like in porn movies.

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Imagine being a boot-licking scientist.