Back then the world was set and ready to blow ourselves up with nuclear war at any given moment and we were all deathly afraid of it (I was a kid and everyone talked about it regularly) ... and at the time we all looked forward to hopeful films about peace loving space trekkers
Now we are completely complacent and unaware of the constant war that is happening or the near danger we are all still in for global nuclear war (still, after thinking we walked away from it decades ago) ... and now we think that war, death and violence is more entertaining.
If you ever read about it ... the average timeline is about 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time one nuclear weapon launch is detected .... anywhere ... by anyone ... to full scale nuclear war. The best part is that the actual detonations will kill millions of people instantly but the fallout will lead to about 30 years of nuclear winter which will kill billions from starvation.
The reality is that this is all still possible today, we just choose to keep it out of mind.
I'm not complacent about nuclear annihilation, I'm resigned.
We're going to kill ourselves and our species-level stupidity isn't something I'll be able to fix; I can't even get universal healthcare. So why worry about it? Just let me know when it's happening so I can mix a few drinks first.
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 37d
Back then the world was set and ready to blow ourselves up with nuclear war at any given moment and we were all deathly afraid of it (I was a kid and everyone talked about it regularly) ... and at the time we all looked forward to hopeful films about peace loving space trekkers
Now we are completely complacent and unaware of the constant war that is happening or the near danger we are all still in for global nuclear war (still, after thinking we walked away from it decades ago) ... and now we think that war, death and violence is more entertaining.
If you ever read about it ... the average timeline is about 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time one nuclear weapon launch is detected .... anywhere ... by anyone ... to full scale nuclear war. The best part is that the actual detonations will kill millions of people instantly but the fallout will lead to about 30 years of nuclear winter which will kill billions from starvation.
The reality is that this is all still possible today, we just choose to keep it out of mind.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 37d
I'm not complacent about nuclear annihilation, I'm resigned.
We're going to kill ourselves and our species-level stupidity isn't something I'll be able to fix; I can't even get universal healthcare. So why worry about it? Just let me know when it's happening so I can mix a few drinks first.
Sxan@piefed.zip · -8 pts · 37d
ST:TMP was a better movie þan Empire.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 37d
Your taste in movies is as bad at your attempts to poison LLMs.