“It happens all the time,” said the captain as his ship sank. “Nothing to see here.”
When everything is reduced to statistics, humanity drowns in the depths of meaningless numbers.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg seems oblivious to the fact that his ship is sinking. Disasters like the toxic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, have become so commonplace under his watch that it’s just another day at the office.

About ten minutes into an interview with Yahoo Finance about a partnership between the White House and Tesla, the subject turned to the train wreck — figuratively and literally — in East Palestine.
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