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Just say you’re okay with using state-sanctioned violence against an individual who harmed nobody and move on with your day.

It’s okay to be an authoritarian, but there’s no need to be a dick about it.

Where would you go? You can’t go further east, we’re already near the coast.

I mean, "detectable" no but if you substitute "hazardous" then I'd agree. We can detect absurdly low concentrations of stuff

Apparently the toxic cloud is going to disappear over Ohio, and reappear just outside the Beltway.

The fire ended a week ago. It has come and gone.

The amount of chemical exposure isn’t even a blip relative to the background deluge we willingly and/or unknowingly expose ourselves on a daily basis.

Even at that, our risk decreases exponentially with our distance from the site.

> Sure it’s illegal to have a gun in DC, but if he didn’t brandish it or use it against anyone, did he really need to be thrown in jail?

Look, he just had a sarin bomb but didn't actually set it off, can't we just give the man a break?

To be fair... fire leads to smoke and particle dissemination which outlasts the fire itself.

If a chemical factory is dumping waste in a river, does the waste just disappear when the dumping stops?

To go where exactly?

Looks like someone just watched White Noise

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the balloons are just a distraction from the train chemical spill. There's a pretty obvious news blackout on the chemical burn because it undercuts Biden's anti-union stance which almost directly led to this exact situation.

https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=15933

> February 7, 2023 Update

>During Norfolk Southern’s controlled burn yesterday of rail cars containing vinyl chloride, U.S. EPA air monitoring detected particulate matter resulting from the fire. U.S. EPA air monitoring did not detect chemical contaminants of concern in the hours following the controlled burn.

>Residents in the area and tens of miles away may smell odors coming from the site. This is because the byproducts of the controlled burn have a low odor threshold. This means people may smell these contaminants at levels much lower than what is considered hazardous.

Do not listen to insane fear mongering on Twitter. The air quality effects of local highways and power plants are more impacful than an accident that is already over.

If it could get all the way to us and still be the least bit detectable, everyone in Pittsburgh would be dead.

this, I hate when tourists start conversations with me on the metro

The controlled release burned until Wednesday. The fire is out.

Yeah, and the controlled release will burn much longer and will likely do far more damage than any countless number of Chinese balloons.

The controlled release was a week ago. Like 4 Chinese balloons have come and gone since then.

Uh, we could leave town if it’s expected to impact the region in any significant way. That’s what I’m getting at.

At the end of the day there is nothing we could do about it and it is affecting far more people than those in the DMV.

They’re the exceptions When in doubt, expect cops to be irrational

Yeah but it's not always the case, we have plenty of contrary examples.

Do you think being acerbic towards strangers on the internet helps sway them towards your viewpoint in any way whatsoever?

There's the bad faith