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Consider, what are the odds we don't have a dozen or so problems like this every year out of some 36,000 facilities? I'd say pretty low. If the odds of this happening at any random facility 1:1000 we'd generally expect around 36 per year.
If two dozen such incidents happened, we'd be talking about 24/36000 - or about 0.07% of plants affected. In my estimation there simply are not enough for it not to be sheer coincidence.
By the way, that's where I get my Space Weather news each day. Just add .org and make sure to spell observers with a 0 (zero)
Same goes for any sorry sneaky Schiffs out to burn down our food chain.
When I saw that awful Hollywood depiction of Darius I (or was that Darius II?) I was appalled. The King Of Persia never looked so creepy. I wonder how many think that was a reasonable depiction - not even close!
When the lie is being told to someone else who is himself guilty of such a lie (when he has stolen something by fraud, and the person hearing the lie knows he has forfeited the right to expect the truth.) (This applies to telling a hold-up man you don't have any money, and, similarly, to dealings with the IRS).
I don't think it is moral in cases that are not like that.
It wasn't supposed to be a theme park, but an experimental fully-planned city. It was to have residential areas, services, the works. But quickly Disney started carving stuff off to avoid making those things, then, after Walt passed, the basically abandoned the idea of building and running a city.
It went well beyond zoning and building codes. Everything a city or county would ordinarily do, Disney had. roads, fire department, bridges, building codes, sidewalks, taxes - all of it.
Essentially I think it helps to think of what we'd want an actual Gulch to have at that level.
Because it was run by the Disney corporation it wasn't a matter of "passing laws" but instead making corporate decisions. They have/had a board of supervisors (or similar name) that had 5-6 people on it "elected" by the residents. That may sound not so bad, but understand that "residents" is not only a very narrow term here, it is very narrow in scope.
If memory serves, those "residents" are the senior (18-20ish?) employees of the company, and their "residence" is literally undeveloped land. Then there is a second class of "resident" and these are some employees and their family - numbering still under fifty or so. And by "second class" I mean that they have no say in the board of supervisors, only in the city officials' election - because they don't own any land there.
Granted, my knowledge of it is a bit dated, but I suspect it hasn't really changed much in the last several years.
There is a solid argument for dissolving this that had nothing to do with their wokeness virus. Chief among them would be that Disney Corp, rather quickly, abandoned its side of the agreement. They never built the city they were supposed to, and actively took measures to not do the things it agreed to. From that perspective, they've not upheld their end of the contract, and dissolution is an appropriate response.
Edit: oh, and the bill wasn't just about Disney, it also abolished 5-6 other such districts in Florida.
They are starting to eat their own.