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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 26, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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  1. Is the search not working for anyone else? "Ohio" gets no results.

  2. How do you do spoiler tags on this site?

  3. I haven't heard any news about Ohio recently. I was hoping we'd know how bad the situation is by now. Is there any reason to be optimistic? I have friends and family in Cleveland and Columbus.

I was hoping we'd know how bad the situation is by now. Is there any reason to be optimistic?

There's probably going to be some incidental cancer and endocrine disruption issues over the next couple decades for those nearest the East Palestine site, but these sort of massive release crashes aren't that uncommon, and their impacts are usually felt more in the statistical-SuperFund sense.

It's possible there's some other reasons to expect this one to be Much Worse or more immediate, especially given the hemming and hawwing over what chemicals, precisely, were involved. But it's more just normal bad.

  1. Search serves post results by default. Switch to the comments tab.

  2. There's a Formatting help link under the preview when you're typing a response.

  3. No idea. I kept up with the memes for a bit, but I have no idea how dangerous the whole thing is. All the best to you and yours.