I don’t think any of us will ever feel normal again. It’s so exhausting. I just want to go back to, like, 2009 so fucking badly.
A seismic weapon? You mean detonating a nuke underground at an active fault line? Easily achievable. Just need a good drill.
A similar conspiracy theory was discussed by some people after the tsunami in December 2004.
Some people theorized that UK/US were testing an underwater nuke on their base in Indian Ocean (Diego Garcia) and it caused the tsunami because the blast was near fault lines and caused an earthquake.
The firehose of lies we’re all being blasted with 24/7 is taking its toll on people. When Boeing murders a whistleblower right in front of everyone and we all know it’s a murder, but we also know nothing will happen to those responsible for the murder, it shakes all the foundational bullshit we were all taught about living in a fair and just society. Once you start thinking critically, you see that almost everything we were taught about the world our entire lives is a lie.
We are cogs in a machine designed for the sole purpose of enriching the already-wealthy. The misery in the world- the poverty, the endless wars, etc., is the result of the system working as intended.
You are being radicalized. Remember the conspiracy to fascism pipeline. Once they get you to disbelieve reality, they can convince you to believe a new reality of their making.
It’s one of the most earthquake prone areas in the world. It has earthquakes.
Fair points. But I’d also like you to consider this:
A person who frequents a meme board (and one that’s far removed from the most popular social media sites) and makes memes, and just made a literally self-conscious and self-referential meme MIGHT BE A LITTLE MORE SELF-AWARE THAN YOU’RE GIVING ME FUCKING CREDIT FOR.
I was just pointing out that the world is going fucking crazy under our feet. We are still in the middle of a fucking pandemic, even though people declared it was over two-and-a-half years ago. Fascists are indeed rising up to threaten democracy, across the industrialized world. We’re beginning to observe the destructive and unpredictable effects of climate change, even sooner than even the most pessimistic experts predicted. Suddenly, artificial intelligence is literally a threat to some people’s jobs, and panic about it might become an even greater threat to the heretofore unchecked march of computer technology, and not even the smartest, most experienced humans on the planet have any clue how to best respond to the situation. Teachers are reporting that middle-school and high-school students are increasingly functionally illiterate, and unable to complete basic mental tasks, leaving us to wonder how the basic machinery of civilization will be maintained, when these kids become the majority of the working population.
All of this is true.
SO DO YOU THINK YOU COULD CUT ME SOME FUCKING SLACK, AND LET ME MEME ABOUT HOW ALL THIS SHIT MIGHT MAKE A MAN FEEL LIKE HE’S GOING A LITTLE CRAZY?
Goddamn. I really ought to just keep my mouth shut, stop contributing any content on any platform, and wait for death. Congratulations, chief. I made this goddamned meme as an outlet, to have a little fun with my anxiety about the state of the world, and you just came along and turned any relief it could have given me into fucking poison. I hope your smug ass is fucking satisfied.
Hi, hey, hi. Meme makers on the 4chan made nazis come back. And someone was giving helpful advice in response to your meme. Sure, that advice wasn’t helpful to you, but it was still helpful. You could’ve just let it slide on by. I’m certain they were just trying to be helpful and I know that you felt needlessly attacked, but sometimes we can let the help help other people if it doesn’t help us, ya know?
Also, the internet is really bad at conveying tone, so I just want to reiterate that I’m not talking down to you, just explaining and trying to help.
I really appreciate this perspective. Fucking 4chan memelords really did have a hand in bringing about the river of diarrhea that we’re currently swimming in. I certainly should have remembered that.
So yeah, maybe I overreacted. More like, I definitely overreacted, but mostly out of genuine frustration.
Thanks for taking the time to put that shit in perspective, Lemmybro.
You dont need to come up with crazy conspiracy theories to prove, we already have few confirmed ones you can be invested in right now. You can start with planned obsolescence.
…so those buildings in Taiwan were already planned to be obsolete? Then the quake itself was just a formality.
I think I get it. <nods confidently>
Yes. Limited building space, so to stay in business, construction firms intentionally complete shoddy craftsmanship.
Every product gets ideally obsolete at some point in time. Easy way to keep demand going.
Given Taiwan’s position around the edge of the Pacific, aren’t earthquakes entirely to be expected there?
See, that’s why it’s upsetting that I had the thought that I had.
The world has become so precarious, so permeated with the tension of a looming World War that can never happen because nukes, and so off-kilter, with recent extreme and abnormal events (like pandemics, the rise of neo-fascism, suddenly artificial intelligence is literally a thing, etc) that we find ourselves easily considering truly ridiculous, extreme, and improbable possibilities.
… It’s the ring of fire, of course there will be huge quakes?
…it’s a meme? I was joking?
The thing is, a seismic weapon would be China’s wet dream. A capability to attack Taiwan with plausible deniability, especially given that an amphibious assault would be hard pressed to make land without massive casualties.
As you said, crazy in ~2010, maybe not that crazy in 2024…
To be honest, what does China have to gain? They are destroying the very “province” they seek to reunify? If they don’t claim responsibility, I don’t see how that brings them closer to claiming the island.
It would make sense if China were to use it against the US though. To stoke “America first” Republicans and make the US withdraw from geopolitical positions.
Playing devil’s advocate: they wouldn’t, as you said US would be main target for such a weapon.
But weapons in development need testing…
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Consider the physics of it, a seismic event of a sufficient scale as to be a useful weapon would represent a colossal release of energy. Where would that energy come from?
Sounds like someone is going crazy. How many servings of paint chips do you eat a day? Should be sparingly according to the crazy diet pyramid the aliens gave us.
Did you consider that maybe, just maybe, I was exaggerating for comic effect? On a goddamned meme board?
Jesus, do you also think those “big brain” memes are actually reporting sightings of cosmic motherfuckers, with galaxy brains, in the sky?
Since ww2 life itself on earth is becoming safer and more peaceful in general, but people feel more and more unsafe. Hm. As if people believe more and more media propaganda. Yes, I know, wars all over, I’m talking about the general average, and that’s a fact - I’m not saying “don’t be concerned”. No. I am concerned. But a culture of fear and hatred is very much detrimental to human development. That actually concerns me. Call me naive, but i sincerely believe that - if we survive - it’ll be better in the end. Some day. It’s just so sad about all the suffering until then. And it’s so painfully sloooooow.
The Blue Dot Effect (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap8731) demonstrates that when stimuli, especially negative stimuli, become rare, human brains broaden the accepted criteria for those stimuli.
Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; when threatening faces became rare, participants began to see neutral faces as threatening; and when unethical requests became rare, participants began to see innocuous requests as unethical. This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it. Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to see more of them.
This is the plot for ARMA 3’s single player campaign. Except Taiwan is instead the fictional Greek island of Altis.
shit, so i wasn’t the only one to think that ._.
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I thought exactly the same thing as you. I feel like I am standing exaclty where you are, everything is possible
Seriously. At this point, if a sasquatch ambushed me while I was bending over to put groceries into my car, and grunted “nobody will believe you,” while sticking his fully fur-covered schlong up my ass, I’d yell back over my shoulder, “I wouldn’t be too sure about that anymore, motherfucker.”
