Billionaires living on an exclusive island near Miami are at the center of a heated debate over sewage disposal. With no system in place, they’ve proposed sending their waste to a nearby town, but the deal comes with a hefty price tag.

Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/indian-creek-surfside-billionaire-sewage.html

Without the paywall: https://archive.li/HrE38

Alternative: https://gizmodo.com/billionaire-island-where-bezos-lives-lobbies-state-gov-to-flush-its-poop-down-neighbor-towns-pipes-2000615795

Note

While the news is concerning, it seems Daily Galaxy had all the hallmarks of a content mill aping more legit sources. I had no idea because I follow a lot of RSS feeds and this had been sitting there for a while now. I choose it for the science stuff. Sorry. I honestly wasn’t aware.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    13 hours ago

    Many billionaires live on a man made island ioff the coast of Florida?

    It’s inside the Miami metropolitan area.

    Last cenus was in 2020, showing 41 homes and 84 people across 0.43 sq mi/1.11km2. It is sometimes referred to as “Billionaire bunker”, because it’s a gated community on an island, and the one bridge in and out has a police checkpoint, it also apparently has its own government and law enforcement. If you try to get close by water, a police boat shows up.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        9 hours ago

        ever see a drone light show? you literally can’t see the whole swarm of them until the lights are on.

        on an unrelated note, an electronically actuated ghost gun wouldn’t need to have a conventional shape and wouldn’t need a bunch of conventional parts.