Yes what if an Ukrainian babushka without sense of humour visits me, come on now
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day agoEhhhhhh.
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?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
A friend of mine has birth defects that very likely stem from Tschernobyl radiation. And they were born quite a distance away
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
That sucks
vodka@feddit.org 1 day 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
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
With that attitude, I don’t think you have to worry about anyone visiting you.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
God I wish
TTimo@lemmy.today 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Isn’t trauma the best part of a joke though?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I very much align with the WKUK gag of “comedy is tragedy remembered”
But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else’s. Hence, know your audience.