They're guessing based on labels on barrels, but admitted they want to test everything because they don't trust that the contents match the labels. It's ugly. They showed some photos - they'd stick the logs inside these huge pressure chambers to force the chemicals into the wood, then pull them out and let them drip dry over the ground. Where people walked through it, tracking it all over the site. That somehow people were complaining for 40 years and the EPA only got allowed on site in Dec 2022 is sobering. (DEQ fined them in 2020, but still, absolutely wild how blatant this was and frankly lacking in any sense of care for their workers or community. And I'm not impressed with the regulatory response. Like how did they not know this was happening?)

I got the Korean Corn which is somehow corn niblets immersed in cheesey goo and spicy deliciousness on sourdough (vegetarian) my partner got a buffalo chicken, I think also on sourdough. We split a cup of watermelon chunks and cucumber soaked in balsamic glaze. I'm not usually a watermelon person but this was so lovely and flavorful.

Whoa. Terrifying. Thanks for sharing that.

(I had this random thought last night that we'd all be safer if someone - long enough ago that folks wouldn't get twigged off about it being inaccurate - had declared Independence Day like February 4th and then it would be generally damper and folks could set off fireworks at like 5pm and call it done.)

I downloaded Contact as an app and it's helping with the log in issues. Navigation is still a little clunky and I keeping hitting bad gateway errors but it's improving!

I don't think we federate with lemmy.world, so I couldn't even see it!

What's weird is that I still can't log in here unless I'm on my ancient laptop. Tablet won't open (I get the login page but it won't take) I've tried clearing the caches. Hopefully the bugs get worked out soon!

All right! I finally made it! For the record, it's taken me consistent attempts and two computers since Friday to create a lemmy account and then log in here. I trust other people are also trying, but it's a heck of a exercise in patience. (I've been on Mastodon since 2017, so not new to the vagaries of the fediverse, but this was seriously testing me.)

Anyway - thank you! Glad to have Eug (and those folks across the river) in the house!