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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think I've finally reached old, everyone.

This meme has never been funny to me.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago

    God dammit.

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    Still does not make any sense to me. Should it make sense at some point?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It’s like the nerds that came up with those nuclear warnings have never consumed a piece of fantasy or sci-fi media. “Oh, this ancient civilisation had immense power and locked it away in a concrete vault underground surrounded by harrowing warnings? Fuck yes I’m digging that shit up or settling my town on the ancient site of power. Blessings of the glowing soil! My son has been born with 6 fingers on each hand! Surely a wonderful portent!”

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I read a really interesting book which dealt, in part, with how to let people in the far future know about a nuclear waste dump from one of the people who helped design it (sci-fi author Gregory Benford). And one of the suggestions was not to let anyone know about it at all because if you do tell them, they'll go dig it up. But then they also have to contend with ideas like mining robots that just tunnel through the soil looking for useful materials that might accidentally tunnel into the waste dump.

    There were a lot of ideas including things like a landscape of nasty-looking concrete spikes and buried radio warnings. The final design was more modest and I don't think would have deterred me, but I also don't remember the details well enough because I read it decades ago.

    Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

    Looks to be available to read on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/deeptimehowhuman0000benf/page/n5/mode/2up

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Is this loss?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can we please stop with the loss memes... I have seen 3 already! Come on!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I'm at a loss for words.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's going the way of ligma. Not particularly funny and beaten to death, but it keeps getting regurgitated

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Just like how I found all those Chuck Norris jokes back in the day. Like yeah okay, I get it, but I'm not as entertained as others.

    Behind Chuck Norris's beard is another fist. Lol.

    If you say so.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Nothing valued is here.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I'm a complete idiot

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    In addition to what others have said about Loss, the text of the tweet is referring to the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning message from the early 90s

    This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!

    Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.

    What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location…it increases towards a center…the center of danger is here…of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    The culture was no great loss

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    You son of a bitch!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I briefly thought this was mocking our language or communication or something by showing a sentence diagram, but after the comments revealed it to be loss, I found myself disappointed.

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