“Mind you I am no chemist, but simply looking up what these compounds can do is worrying,”

*completely omits any mention of interviews with actual chemists who have been sounding the alarm.

"writes about online information flows" is quite the way to say "gets paid to be on twitter every waking minute"

Mr. Carlson called Mr. Buttigieg “flamboyantly incompetent” and said his actions were uncaring “almost to the point of evil.”

I hate to say it, but the fascist homophobe's got a point here

"We have to stick to the facts™️! It's too early to say that the giant poison death cloud is what is making people sick and killing animals and it is irresponsible to say so until we can autopsy every dead animal and do blood work for every sick individual! Until then we have to assume that the air and water quality is fine..." :this-is-fine:

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article: literal apocalyptic image at the very top

also article: "loony conspiracy theorists are RUNNING WILD with CRAZY SPECULATION!"

a nuke could go off in the middle of a major urban center and kill hundreds of thousands of people and the NYT would still gaslight everyone about it

Yeah it's insane. I have seen some overly pessimistic assessments, which is fine as long as people don't overplay their hand when radicalizing people, eg claiming the ecosystem death of the entire Ohio River watershed is compelling but not remotely realistic and could cause reputation loss. Just because it's not a doomsday event doesn't mean it's not gravely seriously, it's entirely reasonable to attribute every out of the norm event, plant, or animal death/illness in the region to this disaster in the mean time until it can be demonstrated to not be the cause.

In a reasonable country the state would immediately sequester at least a quarter billion dollars from Norfolk Southern to finance a cleanup effort, permanent relocation of those nearby, or lifelong medical compensation should they opt to stay. Those responsible should also obviously stand trial, whatever role they played in prior deregulation as a lobbyist/executive of a lobbying firm/bureaucrat either elected or appointed, and of course anyone at Norfolk Southern whose actions could be seen as resulting in deferred maintenance or unsafe operation on the railways.

When it comes to crimes against society by amalgamations of humans, like corporations, you really have to aim for maximum punishment of those involved. It's far too easy to deflect and spread blame when something goes wrong and a large organization is responsible. They have to pay, otherwise nothing will ever change.

2019: Random Lib - "Wow Chernobyl sure was one hell of a show. I'm glad I live in the west. Only communism can lead to that kind of incompetence!"

2023: :troll:

Stuart A. Thompson

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In North Korea,

Only the corporate media has the real story. Censorship will take care of all other views.

Does anyone know of a place where I can try to keep up to date on news about this event? I saw a tiktok (not the most reliable source) that said that the chemical fallout has spread to Ontario / Quebec but I'm not sure if that's accurate or not