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It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

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Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

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post #2

Dang, can we get the title changed to "It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment". I don't think title offers much info as is.

The most effective way to get mods' attention is to email hn@ycombinator.com

(I've done so suggesting the title alteration you've made here.)

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#13
post #2

Dang, can we get the title changed to "It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment". I don't think title offers much info as is.

The most effective way to get mods' attention is to email hn@ycombinator.com (I've done so suggesting the title alteration you've made here.)

Thanks! done now

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#15
post #5

I can’t get over the pompous writing of this article. It was so distracting I had to move on.

Someone needs to tell that Erik Baker that using lots of big words doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a smartarse 15-year-old trying to impress their English teacher.

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#16
post #5

I can’t get over the pompous writing of this article. It was so distracting I had to move on.

Someone needs to tell that Erik Baker that using lots of big words doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a smartarse 15-year-old trying to impress their English teacher.

It didn't seem excessive to me. "pusillanimous" stuck out, but apart from that it seemed like fairly normal prose.

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#17

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  > The only way to prove me wrong is to actually give these people somewhere safe to stay.
actually, the burden of proof is on you firstly, since you are the one making the initial claim that this is happening "because they are white"

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#18
post #5

I can’t get over the pompous writing of this article. It was so distracting I had to move on.

Someone needs to tell that Erik Baker that using lots of big words doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a smartarse 15-year-old trying to impress their English teacher.

That’s some doubleplusgoodthink. Having more words for concepts leads to crimethink, ante-vapourisation.

Re: It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment

#20
“More than a week after the crash, CNN discovered that some East Palestine residents had served as extras in the recent Netflix film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise—specifically while filming the novel’s “Airborne Toxic Event” sequence, in which an errant rail car spills chemicals that produce a noxious black cloud over a midwestern town.”

Hadn’t heard this tidbit about the crash before, what a truly insane coincidence. The airborne toxic event in the novel/movie causes deja vu, too.

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