We're all pretty aware by now of the train derailment that occurred February 3rd in Ohio. This Board has a lot of posts related to it, especially in the last few days.
If you read through the comments on Twitter threads, or elsewhere, you will see a lot of fear stemming from information chaos.
What is information chaos? In my opinion, it's a purposeful disruption of truth so that the most prominent outcome is fear, confusion, anger and other unproductive emotions with the ultimate goal of preventing (or at least delaying) consensus that can lead to the people taking action.
At this point, I can't confirm that the black clouds in one guy's video are smoke or actual storm clouds. I can't confirm if burning the chemicals was the lesser of evils compared to trying to clean it up and allowing it to soak into the ground before it could be cleaned up. I can't confirm if the entire Mississippi River and delta will be polluted from the Ohio River, or not. I can't confirm if the chemical cloud has made the farmland useless for eons, or not. I can't confirm if everyone in PA and NY will get cancer in the next 3 months or not. And on and on and on.
Things happen. Often by design, but not always. But for sure, everything big like this that does happen will be used as an opportunity to undermine the effectiveness of, and thus the trust in the information sharing mechanisms we have in place and the sources that people like to go to... it's another form of division.
Back in 2005 or thereabouts the saying was, "You can't trust everything you see on the internet." Now it's "You can't trust anything. Period. Ever. Fuck the internet and that guy who said this or that, because I have MY source, and I'm too fragile to think differently."
And that's EXACTLY where the Cabal wants us, in my opinion: with no ability to arrive at consensus about the truth [Which is the beauty of THIS BOARD!]
So, my plea for those who have read this far is to simply say this: We have to figure out a better way to brand either the Q community or Truth Social or something else as THE source of fact (without abandoning the responsibility to dig and learn what you can on your own). And, to make things worse... the Cabal is already ahead of us on that--ChatGPT is going to quickly become the source of "fact" to replace Alexa, which replaced Wikipedia, which was the easy answer for lazy people.
Sorry... I don't have a suggestion just yet. Just sharing my observation for now.
Is it Friday, yet?
So, I know I don't always have too much to offer, but ... after reading a stickied post yesterday and seeing this anons same post/comment over and over again on every thread, it got me to thinking.
So, I called my ex- step-dad who worked for the railroad for 40 years. I said, hey got a weird question for ya, it's about thr rr. He said oh ok. You heard about this derailment. He said yes. I'll skip to this thing called the " hot box" what's that? He said, on the older cars there was like a tub that had a lid in between the wheels, and it had oil in it and sponge. That you had to check to make sure the oil was in, or low before the trip and during. If it caught fire, it looked like a bonfire!
Now, he also said they haven't made them like that in years. And now the cars have roller bearings on them, that if they get hot only put out a puff of smoke, and that their are sensors on the tracks every 30- 50 miles or so to detect if they are hot. And depending on where the car is sitting ( with the roller bearings) you wouldn't be able to see it. But the sensors would go off and you need to stop the train, either let it cool, or remove that car. Just like you would if you had a "hot box" catch on fire! You would stop the train, remove that car and maybe even the one in front and behind it.
He went on to say, yes he worked for a different railroad company, and policies might be different. But the rr would Not let a train on fire go that long. I told him I read about it on here. He said he doesn't know alot about this site but his wife is familiar. So. I'm sorry. This is all I can help with at this point and time.
Very interesting, indeed. Thanks for sharing. I saw one article that seemed to suggest that a car that was on fire (perhaps the hot box) was on fire for 20 miles. There is a video of the train passing through a crossing in a town and the wheels/axle were on fire.
Everyone is blaming the company for not paying RR professionals to do the safety checks, etc. Is that true? Who knows?
Maybe it was truly an accident. If that's the case, it certainly has become a source of chaos.
You're welcome. I didn't know if it would be helpful. But, I called him anyway. 40 years if figured hey. Lol. I guess from talking to him though, if it was a car with a hot box, it was an older car according to how he explained it to me. And how it would've looked like a bonfire, they should've stopped because you can see that. In the way you can't see the roller bearing ones, the sensors let you know. So, was it intentional, is I suppose my next question? I'm not taking his word for it, but even he said the rr would prevent something like this from happening. Look at the liability and harm?! Idk. Thank you.
Sorry he did also mention a company Timken they have something to do with roller bearings and or friction bearings. Don't know if that helps.