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wessijmo t1_j8uyrq4 wrote

C’mon guys, this graph is total catfart since it should put North America as the number #1 polluter of oceans due to the unlimited supply of oily plastics since they ship their garbage/trash to the Philippines and now the Philippines want to SEND it BACK! Going to be a shitty situation when all you see is garbage, garbage, garbage. Prepare a hole to burn and get some gas masks for the rest of your life cause things will get worse before you realize.

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Menacingamaranth OP t1_j8uylvv wrote

Reply to comment by dulwichman2 in [OC] Job Search by Menacingamaranth

You ask me like I know the answers to these questions 😅. A lot of them were small businesses so I didn’t have as long to decide as some larger companies give you. I had about a week on average. And I did decide to roll the dice a few times, the $75k job was actually the first one I got offered but I decided to keep looking - I think it’s just a matter of what your goals are and how big a risk you’re willing to take

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shawizkid t1_j8uy4k3 wrote

Yeah. I mean to be fair you sound like you know more about chemistry than I do. But why can’t the graph it with some range of suspected densities of base chemicals/byproducts/etc. ?

The graphic may not be completely accurate but would be pretty representative of the direction, distance and density the compounds were likely to have dispersed.

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crimeo t1_j8uuhys wrote

> just because they don’t know exactly what’s been released, doesn’t mean it’s not concern.

No, my argument was that they shouldn't be physically able to graph it AT ALL, if they don't know what it is at all. How... did they make the graph/model then...? If they don't know what the density of any of it is, or the temperature, or whatever? Even if all you know was that it was from the combustion column, then you should know roughly what all those things produce when they burn and be able to give a pretty good likely summary.

And if they do know what it is, why did they not label it?

> You say you would be worried at 200 miles. But how about 50? Or 30?

I only commented on this cause the guy directly asked me, it wasn't my original or main point "how bad" it is. That being said, even if this contains some of all of those chemicals listed above for sake of argument, but MOSTLY combustion products, a cloud in the light blue zone at hundreds of miles away, at 1 part per billion total and maybe 0.1-0.2 part per billion of worst-stuff is not terribly concerning IMO.

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shawizkid t1_j8uttwa wrote

I get your point, the graph doesn’t indicate what it’s tracking, which makes the data mostly irrelevant.

However you can’t argue that just because they don’t know exactly what’s been released, doesn’t mean it’s not concern. You say you would be worried at 200 miles. But how about 50? Or 30?

There’s a collective 1,400,000 people within a 40 mile radius of the town.

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alehanro t1_j8us9q0 wrote

I guess maybe the source considers the police a government agency and thus not “para”military? 🤷‍♂️ I guess we’d have to ask the source

Edit: So I was curious and checked the source. The US is dead last with 0 forces, which I reckon is their way of saying “we have no statistics” for the US

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theFuzz1 t1_j8uqbaj wrote

Oh wow, I misread the title in an amazingly funny way. I came here thinking these data were showing states where children consumed more snacks immediately prior to, during, or post surgery. So, I was thinking:

are more sacks consumed by kids in states where they need more surgeries?

why are these states giving kids snacks during surgery?

why didn’t I get any snacks during my surgery?!

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