Yeah put it across from the model of MH370, by the photo of JFK getting shot
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ngl this seems like a great conversation starter.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Next to Charlie Kirk getting shot
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ehhhhhh.
Stuff like this is hilarious up until you meet someone who had family in the area or who has memories of everyone panicking around them when the NPP failed.
Don’t get me wrong. I am all for some dark edgelord jokes. But the kind where I can choose my audience. Because, best case scenario, stuff like this screams “I’m an edgelord” and, at worst, it leads to someone calling you on your bullshit when they come over.
Its similar to big titty anime girl figures. Yes, it will probably cause a conversation. Think through what kinds of conversations would result and… are those conversations you want to have?
TTimo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Too soon still. In France they were bullshiting us that the radiation had stopped at the border, while all the radiologic alarms in the fire stations were going off.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She’ll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.
Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big “disaster” was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren’t allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don’t know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.
But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Isn’t trauma the best part of a joke though?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yes what if an Ukrainian babushka without sense of humour visits me, come on now
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
With that attitude, I don’t think you have to worry about anyone visiting you.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
God I wish
vodka@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
To be fair just mentioning nuclear power at all in a lot of Europe makes some 60+ year olds scream about it being the worst thing ever
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
A friend of mine has birth defects that very likely stem from Tschernobyl radiation. And they were born quite a distance away
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I have several birth defects like hole in my heart or worse mobility in my hips, making me walk weird. I was born in 90s Latvia. I cannot tell for sure whether Chernobyl played a role in said defects, but what I know for sure is that I really love everything Chernobyl, have played the shit out of STALKER games and love the humor revolving around it. Used to even do a lot of shitposting related to Chernobyl accident (in relevant subs of course). To me it seems like people closest to Chernobyl tend to take it well.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That sucks
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh come on, this is over 40 years ago, and a tiny amount of people died from it.
It’s not my thing, I think it’s a waste of money, but why would I judge someone for liking the humor of it?