That tracks. There’s also the folks living out on Lake Travis who refuse to move from the lower elevations, but still hate flood control regulations when it gets too bad. You can’t have it both ways, folks!
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What isn’t mentioned in most of the reports:
The epicentre is on the edge of Kurdistan. They’re not allowed to upset Erdogan though, so all the talk is about Turkish and Syrian casualties.
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A mile? That sounds very explodey.
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Evacuation guidelines for rail hazmat derailments uses the “rule of thumb”. Keep running until an outstretched thumb can cover the scene, and only then are you far enough away.
(Pedants: consult the latest Emergency Response Guidebook)
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…and then keep running as best you can at 90 degrees to the wind direction if you are even a bit downwind. When there’s H₂S in play, “up” is a good idea too… 
…that stuff settles.
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That’s awful. Especially the erasure of the Kurdish victims…
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Yes, let them set the agenda. There’s no way that will go wrong. /s
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They are thinking the death toll could get up to 20,000 people in the earthquake in Turkiye, Syria, and Kurdistan…
And…
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… why, I feel more enthusiastic about voting for Democrats already—imagine if they keep that up
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We’re gonna need bigger thumbs.
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Looking at that derailment site scene, this was the wrong week to start watching 
that is truly grim.
it’s also horrible to think that so many of those people are dead because the buildings have almost no regulation at all. the world will (hopefully) pour money into the recovery, but if the money had been there before hand: so many lives would have been saved
like climate change: a completely foreseeable, human made catastrophe
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American racists seem much more inclusive then European racists. Then again from a racists view almost all of them are mixed race.
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Ah yes, the evil place
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