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I haven't yet been able to properly internalize the horror of this scene. Maybe because we're exposed to so many images from disaster and action movies/videogam

• verdverm 1mo ago
  Tragedy happens every day, this is likely one of those freak events we cannot do anything about. Millions of people die from hunger and malnutrician every year. Perhaps we could focus our energies on that were it not for the media (us by proxy) that prefers the edgier stuff, since we've desensitized ourselves and seek that fix with something new
• debo_ 1mo ago
  About 18 years ago, some guy at work was laughing at a video of someone being blown to pieces by an explosive device. People kept walking by his desk and laughing, I suppose because it looked so cartoonish that it felt more like looney tunes than real life. As an experiment, I showed the same video to my 85-year old grandmother, and she cried out in horror and prayed for the people in the video for a solid hour afterwards.
  • Fricken 1mo ago
    I go around with the general awareness that about 200k people die every day. I know that disasters and tragedies happen around the world on a regular basis. I know that cameras are nearly ubiquitous even in the developing world, so there is a good chance that any sensational event will be recorded and posted on the internet. Armed with these priors it's not a huge surprise or shock to me. It is still impressive, however.
  • dwd 1mo ago
    The drone footage out of Ukraine was like this. Some of it is cartoonish or like watching an action movie or video game. It's when you recognise the humanity of the individual - for example IR footage of a soldier trying to sleep in a foxhole before a drone drops a grenade. The aftermath starkly reminders you that this was a living person a few moments earlier.
  • HDBaseT 1mo ago
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  • pjc50 1mo ago
    Internet desentitization is real and not good. The accumulation of easily accessed horrors dulls the natural empathy.
• bamboozled 1mo ago
  What scares me about climate change is how frequent these “little figures” are getting wrecked. In Japan we have had these sudden flood events this year, people just die as their cars are washed away. Never in my life have I considered checking the weather forecast and flood watch warnings almost every time I get in the car but I do this year. We have really fucked the climate and this is just the beginning.
• IncreasePosts 1mo ago
  You might want to take an intense media break. I went to 4chan to find more videos of the event, something it's rather good for, and even those guys were largely shocked and flabbergasted at the scale of the carnage and destruction
  • Markoff 1mo ago
    any link or to way how to find it there? I though it will be in the current events but can't find it and search feature doesnt work edit: seems the only way to search the site is the google, this thread has few videos https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/541442303 https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/541442303 https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/541527487/nepal-images https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/541527487/nepal-images
    • IncreasePosts 1mo ago
      I was looking on /gif and you can just search the titles for nepal
• tim333 1mo ago
  About 160,000 people die each day if less dramatically.
  • cryptonector 1mo ago
    We all must die, if we're to have progeny. If we lived forever, we could not procreate. How we die does matter. No one should be murdered. Many would prefer to die peacefully, in their sleep, unaware. Survivors generally prefer that the dead have died peacefully -- it can be disturbing to think about a loved one's painful and scary final moments. The number that die naturally and daily is not scarier or more upsetting than the much smaller number that die violent deaths daily.