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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by xattt on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:06PM (#34784713)
Tinfoil hat spin: the “no one is talking about it” angle is being propagated by foreign psy-ops as a distraction from the balloon stories. The “look, we found balloons too” angle floated like a lead aerostat.

The general population pays closer attention to the derailment story because a cover-up is intimated by a “grassroots” perspective, and the balloon story floats away into thin air.

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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by aaomidi on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:33PM (#34784913)
Pretty sure this is a way fucking bigger deal than a bunch of balloons.
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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by unethical_ban on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:50PM (#34785443)
I say this earnestly: I trust that the military has interest in making sure our national security is protected. I don't harbor suspicions of intentional negligence with these balloons.

I totally believe that our civilian federal government and executive agencies have no capacity to deal with massive environmental crises like the one in Ohio, or Flint, or in CA with PG&E or many other places. Our system is too weak, and the companies too powerful, the problems too costly to be dealt with without significant pushback.

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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by mikrotikker on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:50AM (#34785922)
The companies have progressively made the system weak through lobbying and regulatory capture
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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by vGPU on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:50AM (#34785924)
Because literally nobody cares about the balloons aside from the laughingstock the US military became after they let the first one float across the entire United States before finally shooting it down.
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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by winrid on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:41AM (#34786580)
Not sure if true but I read that we couldn't shoot it down where it was. It was in an odd elevation, too high for some equipment, too low for others.

Supposedly we shot it down after it lost elevation on the coast.

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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by winrid on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:48AM (#34786620)
These chemicals will have a major impact on the environment and people around the wreckage. People in the town are already reporting illness.

People 1.5 miles away from the wreck are having their dogs die in their yard while letting them out to pee.

The balloon is just bullshit, but this isn't.

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Re:A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and yo... by winrid on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:52AM (#34786657)
It should also be noted that they just fixed the train tracks and just covered up the spill, instead of doing a proper cleanup.
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