[Serious] Nuclear war survival guide.

[Jehanne]

What to do in those last 20 minutes? Everyone is different, I suppose. I have decided to at least preoccupy myself with trying to survive.

All of this is so insane. I grew up worrying about global thermonuclear war. I thought that Humanity had gotten over it.

[brewer]

The humans will go extinct, one way or the other.

[Jehanne]

True, but, if any moral principle at all exists, it is Humanity's duty to survive and expand beyond this World into the Cosmos, preserving our knowledge and heritage along the way.

[brewer]

True, but, if any moral principle at all exists, it is Humanity's duty to survive and expand beyond this World into the Cosmos, preserving our knowledge and heritage along the way.

Woah, not taking on the responsibility/commitment of riding that horse.

[Disagreeable]

I live as a hermit. Is this helpful for survival?

I have servants. Surely this is helpful.

[Jehanne]

I live as a hermit. Is this helpful for survival?

I have servants. Surely this is helpful.

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[Disagreeable]

I live as a hermit. Is this helpful for survival?

I have servants. Surely this is helpful.

Please note the Serious tag on this thread.

I am serious.

[Rev. Rye]

I’ve looked into the facts of nuclear war. The one thing that’s become obvious: try to die before everyone else. To do otherwise will only increase your suffering.

Have you ever watched Threads? If you remember The Day After, picture a version that’s from Britain, is even bleaker, and pretty much all the horrible things that occur are what scientists legit expect will happen after the bomb drops. If you dare to watch it, it’s on Tubi for free.

I saw The Day After when it premiered on national television while at home; I broke down and openly wept. The next day my chemistry teacher was giddy, describing how "cool" the graphics were, presumably, of human beings being vaporized. I have not seen the movie since.

Just remember that the movie that made you openly weep is the bowdlerised version of what nuclear exchange looks like. That’s the version that was considered safe for American TV to show in 1983. If I say that’s why I say the best thing is to die before everyone else, that is 100% why. It’s not me being edgy or melodramatic or pessimistic and it isn’t my depression or antinatalism talking. This is a situation where the living will almost certainly envy the dead before long. The only reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended up coming back is because the bombs that hit them are a Hell of a lot smaller than the ones that came after.

[The Grand Nudger]

I live as a hermit. Is this helpful for survival?

I have servants. Surely this is helpful.

One explanation for why human beings (or any other species) attempt diffuse colonization, beyond the search for resources, is that it prevents every genetic egg from being in the same habitat basket.  If human beings had never left our little rift valley in africa, alot of which would have amounted to self induced hermitage or isolation, we probably wouldn't be here to wonder about it today.  So, yeah, I think that people living like hermits, even the ones who do so because of some specific negative ideations about humanity, are equally engaged in the business of our survival as the rest of us.  Particularly in a discussion about surviving nuclear war.  I'm not as worried about the hermits as I am about the rest of us.  I'd expect to find those hermits over represented in the human gene pool pretty quick after some unthinkable nuclear catastrophe.  They'll be alive, they'll be desireable..and even if they weren't, they're the ones that will have something to trade for sex as a commodity, too. This is, conveniently, what prepper nutballs spend some time fantasizing about. The day when they can finally get a girl, because chocolate bars.

Sure, having servants creates some kind of local economy and organization...though, in context of surviving the immediate and near effects of nuclear disaster, less people is better.  The metrics change pretty quickly there, though.

[arewethereyet]

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