Nobody Cares: PRS

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I have to add, I have a hard time with motivational type posters and the like.

 

[Isabeau]

Except that one. It’s a classic

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Jason K Pargin, author (@jasonkpargin.bsky.social)

Good things will still happen

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"If your friends seem to be getting depressed, ditch them before you get sad-cooties! Depressed people - gross!!!"

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Casey Pelous]

"If your friends seem to be getting depressed, ditch them before you get sad-cooties! Depressed people - gross!!!"

"Divisiveness gotcha down in the dumps? I hear ya, pal. Know what you need? More divisiveness!"

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I have to add, I have a hard time with motivational type posters and the like. Nothing against being positive, but I really dislike the type of glib posts on social media that are photos of a quote in a coloured background, or in this case, a little video of the head of a guy being an asshole pretending to know all about how to stay positive.

Maybe it helps others, idk, so…

The guy is an idiot.

I'm sure I'm older than he is, I lived at ground zero growing up, knew it, dealt with cold war futility... My parents did the duck and cover b.s. that was retired long before I got to grade school.

This is worse. Before, there was a chance of nuclear war, it was a possibility not a certainly.

Now, the fascist take-over of the u.s. and the wrecking ball they're taking to our rights, our history, our culture, our economy, our healthcare, our status as a world leader, ... There's nothing "maybe" about it. We aren't approaching a slippery slope, we're in free fall. Maybe we'll grab a tree branch and save ourselves from a terminal landing, but rebuilding will take decades. And they'll fight us every step of the way.

The only hope now is for things to get so bad that their own useful idiots turn on them.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'm sure I'm older than he is, I lived at ground zero growing up, knew it, dealt with cold war futility... My parents did the duck and cover b.s. that was retired long before I got to grade school.

I'm kinda curious about that. Dude's wiki page says he was born in 1975, which means he started going to school in the 80's. I know that's still cold war territory, but it felt to me like a little too late for kids to actually still be doing duck and cover drills in school. But I don't have the relevant personal experience so I just figured maybe I was wrong.

At any rate, the Soviet Union collapsed before he graduated high school, so it would be really weird for him to be carrying nuclear anxiety into his adult life.

 

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I'm kinda curious about that. Dude's wiki page says he was born in 1975, which means he started going to school in the 80's. I know that's still cold war territory, but it felt to me like a little too late for kids to actually still be doing duck and cover drills in school. But I don't have the relevant personal experience so I just figured maybe I was wrong.

I was born in '77, and experienced plenty of duck and cover drills in school. Now in the case of living in central Indiana, they were dual-use for tornado drills, as well. Most of my existential nightmares were filled with tornados and alien invasions. The rare atomic bomb drops during dreams registered only because they were not that common.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I'm kinda curious about that. Dude's wiki page says he was born in 1975, which means he started going to school in the 80's. I know that's still cold war territory, but it felt to me like a little too late for kids to actually still be doing duck and cover drills in school. But I don't have the relevant personal experience so I just figured maybe I was wrong.

At any rate, the Soviet Union collapsed before he graduated high school, so it would be really weird for him to be carrying nuclear anxiety into his adult life.

I was born in 65. We just assumed that the school would be vaporized no matter what so why bother.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I was born in '77, and experienced plenty of duck and cover drills in school. Now in the case of living in central Indiana, they were dual-use for tornado drills, as well. Most of my existential nightmares were filled with tornados and alien invasions. The rare atomic bomb drops during dreams registered only because they were not that common.

In the 90's we had -tornado- drills, which were duck, maybe not so much cover. But I never heard a word about nuclear weapons, at least not in the context of a drill.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

About the helicopter:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm kinda curious about that. Dude's wiki page says he was born in 1975, which means he started going to school in the 80's. I know that's still cold war territory, but it felt to me like a little too late for kids to actually still be doing duck and cover drills in school. But I don't have the relevant personal experience so I just figured maybe I was wrong.

At any rate, the Soviet Union collapsed before he graduated high school, so it would be really weird for him to be carrying nuclear anxiety into his adult life.

I’m a few years older, duck and cover was replaced by “lol, the lucky ones die first.” Nuclear anxiety was absolutely a thing when you saw Threads in your early teens. If he saw Threads at 9, holy shit, absolutely nuclear anxiety.

Gen X parents let us watch anything. Gen X school ‘scare em straight’ movies were bonkers. Did you see esophagus surgery mixed with cigarette ads at age 7-8?

I totally believe someone might have shown him The Day After or Threads before he was ten.

 

[Noodles]

I'm kinda curious about that. Dude's wiki page says he was born in 1975, which means he started going to school in the 80's. I know that's still cold war territory, but it felt to me like a little too late for kids to actually still be doing duck and cover drills in school. But I don't have the relevant personal experience so I just figured maybe I was wrong.

We never did "Duck and cover" but we did do regular Tornado Drills, which I feel were basically the same idea. Essentially all the kids went to the hall and curled up face down against the walls/lockers.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yup that's how we did it as well.

 

[Isabeau]

We just had fire drills.

And snow days.

 

[Govi]

While Kennedy was president, we did duck-and-cover drills in school; the Cuban Missile Crisis was still very much on our minds. The San Francisco Chronicle did a piece on the destruction a multi-megaton bomb would inflict on the Bay Area were it to explode above Treasure Island. Where we were practicing our drills, we had a direct line-of-sight to the potential explosion. We figured we had no chance as long was we were above ground. Our drills became a point of humor, once we all understood this.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I’m a few years older, duck and cover was replaced by “lol, the lucky ones die first.” Nuclear anxiety was absolutely a thing when you saw Threads in your early teens. If he saw Threads at 9, holy shit, absolutely nuclear anxiety.

Gen X parents let us watch anything. Gen X school ‘scare em straight’ movies were bonkers. Did you see esophagus surgery mixed with cigarette ads at age 7-8?

I totally believe someone might have shown him The Day After or Threads before he was ten.

I went to a vocational high school, so we got the pleasure of endless industrial safety videos. learned lots of ways to dismember/explode people in shop class.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I went to a vocational high school, so we got the pleasure of endless industrial safety videos. learned lots of ways to dismember/explode people in shop class.

Explains how you went on to literature.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I was born in '69, and, growing up in a military family, got shuffled around a lot before settling in California. The only duck-and-cover drills I remember were earthquake drills. Living on military bases growing up, I don't think anyone bothered with nuke drills because we all figured if WW3 started, we'd all be vaporized anyways.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I was born in '69

April 20? Nice.