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I never experienced an earthquake, in Tokyo, but those who have, say that the buildings wave around like drunk dancers. Things fall off of shelves, but the bui

I never experienced an earthquake, in Tokyo, but those who have, say that the buildings wave around like drunk dancers. Things fall off of shelves, but the buildings seem to come out OK. The Japanese are hard core about building standards. Compared to other nations (deliberately not gonna name them), that have corruption problems, as well as frequent earthquakes, you always have a bunch of buildings fall down, there's a surge of anger, a couple of unpopular scapegoats get jailed, then, it happens again, the next time. I have a bunch of friends in the LA area. So far, none of them have been in the line of [literal] fire, but everyone is freaking out. These fires are under no control, whatsoever.

Dalewyn 2y ago
>The Japanese are hard core about building standards. Note that this has been built on their fair share of blood and tears[1]. Japan gloated in the wakes of the 1989 Loma Prieta[2] and 1994 Northridge[3] earthquakes that such structural destruction[3][4] would be impossible for them, but then they got their gloating ass burned off.[6] Japan has been dead fucking serious about earthquake measures ever since, never taking anything for granted and certainly never ever pretending they are kings of the earthquake world anymore. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_structure.jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_structure.jpeg [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northridge_earthquake_10_frwy3.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northridge_earthquake_10_... [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin_Expressway_Nada_b059.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin_Expressway_Nada_b...
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  Addendum to note I got my reference numbers subtly wrong. "such structural destruction[3][4]" should be [4] and [5] instead, apologies.
onecommentman 2y ago
David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was quoted as saying “It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.” True for wildfires under windy conditions as well. Probably the reason why the word “wildfire” in American English is used as a simile to refer to any fast, destructive, uncontrolled phenomenon, appearing back when those earlier generations lived though them without modern firefighting tech. Your friends’ go-to attack and defense strategies, perhaps their entire realities, are just words…but wildfires have no online presence and can’t read. Umm, earthquakes don’t read either. Side note: modern media has used exaggeration and hype to make a myriad of small or remote things sound scary. Wildfires are actually scary…what words do we use to describe the clear and present threat of death within minutes when the media has described minor inconveniences as “horrors” and “catastrophes”? People today should refamiliarize themselves with the story of the “boy who cried wolf”.

Dalewyn 2y ago

>The Japanese are hard core about building standards. Note that this has been built on their fair share of blood and tears[1]. Japan gloated in the wakes of the 1989 Loma Prieta[2] and 1994 Northridge[3] earthquakes that such structural destruction[3][4] would be impossible for them, but then they got their gloating ass burned off.[6] Japan has been dead fucking serious about earthquake measures ever since, never taking anything for granted and certainly never ever pretending they are kings of the earthquake world anymore. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_structure.jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_structure.jpeg [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northridge_earthquake_10_frwy3.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northridge_earthquake_10_... [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin_Expressway_Nada_b059.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin_Expressway_Nada_b...

Dalewyn 2y ago
Addendum to note I got my reference numbers subtly wrong. "such structural destruction[3][4]" should be [4] and [5] instead, apologies.

onecommentman 2y ago

David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was quoted as saying “It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.” True for wildfires under windy conditions as well. Probably the reason why the word “wildfire” in American English is used as a simile to refer to any fast, destructive, uncontrolled phenomenon, appearing back when those earlier generations lived though them without modern firefighting tech. Your friends’ go-to attack and defense strategies, perhaps their entire realities, are just words…but wildfires have no online presence and can’t read. Umm, earthquakes don’t read either. Side note: modern media has used exaggeration and hype to make a myriad of small or remote things sound scary. Wildfires are actually scary…what words do we use to describe the clear and present threat of death within minutes when the media has described minor inconveniences as “horrors” and “catastrophes”? People today should refamiliarize themselves with the story of the “boy who cried wolf”.