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> My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately Amen to that. With a family with small kids, I c

> My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately Amen to that. With a family with small kids, I can only hope that we don't even realise what is happening and die instantly. When COVID was new and we were deep in lockdown and there was no vaccine in sight, there was a definite feeling of "will the world ever be like it was again? Is everything we knew irreversibly changed forever?". It was a worrying feeling. I can only imagine how depressing and frankly terrifying it must feel to know that life as you knew it was over (and it will never "go back to normal"), and you and your kids are now going to live in some sort of hellscape and probably die of some "trivial" injury or accident, if you don't starve or get murdered first.

tablespoon 4y ago
>> My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately > Amen to that. With a family with small kids, I can only hope that we don't even realise what is happening and die instantly. You probably won't, though, unless you deliberately decide stay very close to a high-value target at all times. IIRC, the casualty estimates in NukeMap (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) show large amounts of the population would survive the initial blasts.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  Have fun dealing with the global starvation that happens later.
  - lukan 4y ago
    No one talks about fun here, but it is something different wanting to go on despise hardships vs. giving all up (and the people dependant on you).
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > Have fun dealing with the global starvation that happens later. My point is: most of the people wishing they'd die instantly will probably have that "fun," too, unless they have weird habits meant to maximize that possibility that and/or a solid suicide plan (e.g. running around with a concealed-carry pistol).

tablespoon 4y ago

>> My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately > Amen to that. With a family with small kids, I can only hope that we don't even realise what is happening and die instantly. You probably won't, though, unless you deliberately decide stay very close to a high-value target at all times. IIRC, the casualty estimates in NukeMap (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) show large amounts of the population would survive the initial blasts.

midoridensha 4y ago
Have fun dealing with the global starvation that happens later.
- lukan 4y ago
  No one talks about fun here, but it is something different wanting to go on despise hardships vs. giving all up (and the people dependant on you).
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > Have fun dealing with the global starvation that happens later. My point is: most of the people wishing they'd die instantly will probably have that "fun," too, unless they have weird habits meant to maximize that possibility that and/or a solid suicide plan (e.g. running around with a concealed-carry pistol).