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1. Hollyjollytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:28:44 JST Hollyjollytailspike
   There are 1700 train derailments each year. Not everything is a secret plot to make eggs expensive.
   thehill.com/homenews/3539221-how-often-do-trains-derail-more-than-you-think/
   • 💮Space Elf🐝 (spaceelf@leafposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:28:44 JST 💮Space Elf🐝

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     @monsterislandcolonizer Rail workers were on strike earlier this year regarding the poor safety standards, maintenance quality and the lack of staff conducting inspections. They explained they've generally got 30 seconds per carriage to make sure it's safe. They need a couple times that. Railways in the US have been cutting costs as a means of increasing profits for shareholders for quite a while. The Ohio derailment was caused by existing damage to the train, for example.
     
     The US Govt shut their strike down. Presumably because lobbyists were able to angle this as a bullshit industrial action that was a threat to the state, while media angled it as being exclusively about sick days. Sure it's not about making eggs expensive, but people made choices that explicitly lead to things like the East Palestine situation for the purposes of wringing out every dollar from the railroads.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:30:11 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @SpaceElf @monsterislandcolonizer Railroads and airlines are governed by this old regulation too, they basically go through the motions of striking and voting but it’s all voided at an instant because of something like the NRLB act of 1898

     They had been saying they kept carrying mile long trains when a sane country would be limiting them to half that, or something along those lines.

   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:34:51 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @SpaceElf @monsterislandcolonizer Bbbut then they'd actually have to hire more people and hiring actual Americans to do a job rather than diversity sinecures plus infinite third world indentures or under the table serviles? Sounds rayciss.
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