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Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is ba
by LittlePeter 6y ago
Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does.
What IBM is would typically be clear from the context: "IBM reported record loss in 2nd quarter of 2020".
- NeutronStar 6y agoWhat DDT is would typically be clear from the context: "L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground". What do you think we dump? > Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does. TFA is explaining quite well. Do your homework instead of going straight to the comment?
- jameshart 6y agoA sentence like this one in paragraph 7? > From 1947 to 1982, the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT — a pesticide so powerful that it poisoned birds and fish — was based in Los Angeles.
- LittlePeter 6y agoYou're right. My expectations we wrong. I expected short concise news article, but this seems to be a long-form article. My bad.
- Izkata 6y agoSome decades ago, DDT was practically its brand name in the US, because of how well it worked on mosquitos. People used it in their backyards.
- jeltz 6y agoMaybe this is a generational thing because I did not think that DDT would need any explanation. It at least used to be a household name which everyone recognized.