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1. Jim (jim@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:19:07 JST Jim
   So what are we rating East Palenstine? Is it going to be a Flint Michigan (inconvenient and embarrassing), Three Mile Island (fuck up but not catastrophic), or Love Canal (lol sorry we waited 25 years to tell you that entire community you built was right on top of toxic waste, whoops).
   • JubtheNub (jubthenub@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:18:59 JST JubtheNub

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   • SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:19:05 JST SheistyPenguin

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     Reminds me of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a coal seam fire started over 50 years ago and is still burning today. Turned the entire town into a wasteland. https://www.history.com/news/mine-fire-burning-more-50-years-ghost-town
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   • AirborneAce (airborneace@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:19:06 JST AirborneAce

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     @Jim ever heard of Picher, Oklahoma? Discovered it when I did a road trip on Route 66. Entire town was surrounded by mines and the mining company was piling up waste all over town, kids were playing in it and it was leaching into the water supply. People had giant mountains of mine waste literally in their backyards. The federal government came in and forced the entire population to move out then tore most of the town down. It's a creepy, post apocalyptic maze of street grids with driveways to nowhere, overgrown grass and yet has large mining trucks still driving around everywhere
   • billy_hughes (billy_hughes@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:19:07 JST billy_hughes

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     @Jim Love Canal, never heard of it before but that sounds like how this will be handled
   • Jim (jim@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 03:19:07 JST Jim

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     @billy_hughes Company uses large plot of land to dump toxic waste in barrels, covers it in clay, then sells it for one dollar to a school and doesn't tell them. School builds near the land, community pops up around it, decades of people getting sick as fuck, 90 percent plus exposure to cancer causing agents. Community finally finds out, entire settlement has to leave due to it being far too hazardous to live there. Real fucked up shit.