https://nitter.pussthecat.org/MorePerfectUS/status/1624119078804652039
Remember the rail strike over sick pay and unsafe working conditions that our government shot down in December?
Oops
:porky-happy: "We know there is a lot of fear and morale is low, so we're throwing the whole town a pizza party!"
:angery: "Why are all of the boxes sealed with liability waivers?!"
How about I buy you something off the value menu at McDonalds and we call it even?
Sure, we poisoned your land, killed your livestock, and gave you cancer; but we did give you some sweet ring pop's from the dollar store.
Theres probably something going on where if they accept the check they promise not to sue and hte company is making the lowest ball offer possible to head off lawsuits.
There's a good (great?) "canary in a coalmine" joke waiting to be made. But I can't find it.
Even without accounting for inflation, 25K is chump change for damage of this magnitude. :porky-happy: knows the message he's sending.
When are the Chinese Police Stations across the US going to bring these criminals to justice?
I have thoughts about this but they would be removed by a moderator
Just because I remove a comment doesn't mean I disagree with the sentiment, necessarily...
there's a thread on r/railroading showing a security cam still of what looks like a bearing on one of the train wheels having caught fire, likely causing the failure. I don't understand all the terminology the operators use, but reading through the thread, it seems like the derailment is probably a direct consequence of the carrier's chronic cost-cutting/short staffing (something 30 seconds per train car to perform inspections)
sorry got distracted on my way over there lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/railroading/comments/10wcw21/32n_over_hbdsalem_oh_20_miles_before_derailing/
edit: interesting reading. Seems that even if there was enough time and staff, inspecting for this issue is not something a human can really do. Seems like the systems in place are simply antiquated and/or inadequate. one guy mentions bearing failures are extremely rare, but the reply mentions that there have been two other recent disasters linked to bearing failures. Hard to say what is going on exactly. But having lurked in there a bit since the strike news was going around, the rail carriers are certainly taking cost cutting to the extreme.
thread of the ongoing ecocide https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/1624102477309116416?s=46&t=smxPGXEBUO25Lz746RWNKw
what a fucking disaster.
How big was the exclusion zone? That wouldn't even cover the gas used by people fleeing their homes for their lives.
