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The Lebanese government is fucked. Apparently a store of (confiscated?, discarded?) ammonium nitrate is responsible for the explosion. It’s also being reported that this store of ammonium nitrate has been left unchecked for 6 years. 6 years! 

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For context, the Oklahoma City bomber used 2 tons of ammonium nitrate to carry out his terrorist attack. The store of the same material that exploded in Beirut today was somewhere around 1,300 times larger. 

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One hospital as been completely decommissioned by the blast, and ABC is reporting that people are driving to cities 50 miles away from Beirut in order to seek treatment, since hospitals in Beirut have reached capacity.

I’ve seen media outlets reporting as many as 4000 (or more than that because numbers still aren’t fully known) people injured. It’s a complete catastrophe :cry: 

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Lebanon was already dealing with an economic collapse

 

 

 

With whatever's left of it pretty much relying on...yep, the port of Beirut.

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For some context, here you see the grain store (the building basically touching the ! notification), to the east of it are two warehouses. The northern one (with a ship next to it) is now a ruin, the southern one (where the stuff was presumably stored), is now a water-filled crater..

 

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It’s official! The American Song Contest is coming in 2021!

 

Rules will be similar to Eurovision, format will be different. The American Song Contest will be held in a one-v-one knockout elimination format (March Madness style as it has been labeled). 
 

More info: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/eurovision-song-contest-american-song-contest-1234726887/

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