• VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Looks like it’s been shut down. You can see an X painted onto it. Probably don’t wanna land there unless you hate having your license

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      3 months ago

      Did mr-beast buy up some land at an abandoned airport, loaded with toxins from jet fuel, and wants his playthings to roam around there, then? you-are-a-serf

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        3 months ago

        Looks like a general aviation airport, in which case most planes would be burning 100LL gasoline (the LL stands for “low lead” - so called not because it has low lead content (it’s very high) but because it’s a bit lower than its predecessor).

        I used to work as a flight instructor so I was around the stuff all the time. It’s, uh, not good for you.

        What I mean to say is everyone living there is gonna get lead poisoned

        Edit: This is it

        So uhh, living there is gonna take a couple decades off your life expectancy

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            3 months ago

            I’ve never dealt with motorboat fuel so I can’t really compare, but I can say that it’s not “horrible” in a certain sense - the stuff isn’t sticky and evaporates pretty quickly, it’s easy to wash off, it’s not sticky like jet fuel (it’s almost water-like), it doesn’t smell bad and it’s not as combustible as jet fuel.

            In the health sense - well, have you ever bought canned 1970s LA air and breathed it in all day long? That’s what you’re doing to your lungs. And if you handle it up close, most folks don’t wear gloves and it readily absorbs into the skin. It’s basically what happened to the boomers in the 60s but today.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              3 months ago

              Fuck. And no meaningful regulations, let alone laws, seem to be able to touch a sufficiently rich asshole that wants playthings at his cult compound.

              doomer