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by Skunkleton 183 days ago
> The spontaneous explosions become so common and normalized that just about everyone knows someone who got caught up in one, a dead friend of a friend, at least

That’s an extraordinary claim.

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This is a metaphor; do you think it’s an extraordinary claim to make for traffic accidents or even traffic deaths? To me it isn’t, at all.