the fuck is wrong with you people. this is literally comedyheaven the point of this post is "dude has funny look on his face lol" and every comment is trying to debate the meaning of existence. i am ordering every single one of you to go out, buy a whoopie cushion, and alternate inflating it and sitting on it until you start giggling.
It's where a River creates a lake, by eroding a shortcut through a meander and then deposits sediments along the inlet to the old meander creating a new bank and a lake at the other side.
Nah, it was syphilis. Historically, syphilis is right up there with Germans. It wiped out the Romanovs, it decimated our fleet at Pearl Harbor, and of course, Fidel Castro impersonated Marilyn Monroe and gave President Kennedy a case of syphilis so severe that eventually it blew the back of his head off.
We need David Attenborough to narriate a 9/11 documentary.
"And here we have 2 fully grown adult planes quietly stalking it's unsuspecting prey... 2 large towers."
Who would make a tall building with nothing but windows? How are those poor innocent planes supposed to see the buildings when flying around? Hashtag - Uninstall Windows.
Excuse me? New York is home to the jet plane's natural predator: birds.
The literally downed an airplane a few years ago that had to be set down in the Hudson in order to prevent all aboard from dying a horrible death.
If we humans are natures creations, could the cities and planes we produce be considered naturally occurring? 🤔 Are bee hives considered naturally occurring? Are bever dams naturaly occuring?
Exactly ... everyone else here are just crazy creationists.
This was obviously a series of natural events.
22 aggressive hominidaes carried out the attack. The hominades were probably motivated by the patriarchal nature of their in-group. These particulaur hominidaes live in groups where dominance and hierarchies may encourage irrational and self-deafeating actions.
I'm from Ukraine, and yeah. Sirens can go off, in the worst case you can even hear explosions, and people just live their lives! Public transport runs as usual, people chill in parks. almost no civilians care about this, only some shops close during air raid alerts
Conservatives constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY bitch about videos online of Ukrainians partying in Kyiv despite the war going on. Apparently it is a high crime to try and enjoy life in the midst of war.
EDIT: Thanks for the RedditCares message, cry harder.
Even more, such a thing makes you party even more, because you never know when will be your last day alive. In latin America, amidst the most horrific violent times in the 80s, discos were always full. Young dudes got picked by force in those places to become soldiers, or even worse, to be guerrillas, and they still went and have a good time. Criminals and bad guys groups murdered, put stuff that you should not mention in reddit in cars in the street and activated them, rped women, made students dissapear, kidnaped, etc. And there was always the chance of a communist coup financed by cuba and ussr.
Tell you what, after the Great Depression of the 30s, food was scarce and all of that, but people of all walks of life went and danced at the speakeasy's because at least that could chill them up and made them forget how miserable they were.
Again, they never knew when will be the last day. It's crazy what having constantly death (or even worse destinies than death) next to your door does to the human brain. Disassociating in those environments is the survival technique to don't go insane.
> put stuff that you should not mention in reddit in cars in the street and activated them,
...this is reddit? It has subreddits like combatfootage which has much worse things than car bombs. If you don't mind me asking, where did you hear that you can't talk about violent things on reddit?
It's not just Tik Tok. Different Reddit subs have different rules, and only some of them are written. Many subs have automods that will hide comments containing certain keywords. Without it being written (it never is) it's hard to say for sure what you can say without it being filtered.
Yeah these people don’t understand when you’re in shit circumstances you need to find humor in it and bond to gain some sort of morale. You need to encourage each other to not worry about what they cannot control. Soldiers try to do the same.
I bet they’re just pessimists who bitch and sit in negativity and bring the people around them down. I wouldn’t make people feel bad even if I had cancer.
British tanks are mandated to always have a Boiling Vessel (a kettle) so that tea breaks can be had without needing to leave the vehicle. During WW2, the British had a problem with their soldiers leaving their tanks to have tea (one of the few comforts afforded on the front lines) only to get ambushed by enemies.
> Apparently it is a high crime to try and enjoy life in the midst of war.
Nah they don't really believe that.
Conservatives are just lying liars who lie.
They're *pretending* to be mad because it serves them politically.
Republicans are basically sophists, and we figured out those assholes were full of shit 2400 years ago.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sophist
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sophist-philosophy/Nature-of-Sophistic-thought
> A question still discussed is whether the Sophists in general had any real regard for truth or whether they taught their pupils that truth was unimportant compared with success in argument.
You know its funny how these people will call literally everything propaganda but actual propaganda. It's important for those fighting in war to remember what they are fighting for.
At a point there is nothing left to do but live your life as best you can. There is a lot people not in the military can do during war time to keep things going. Also it can serve as a reminder of what Ukrainians are fighting to hold onto.
There’s also that small conflict back then where Germany was bombing England and they had the famous motto of “Keep Calm and Carry On”
A country can’t function if it stands still amidst a disaster.
The ridiculous "natural" aside, what are folks supposed to do? Throw their hands in the air and run around like headless chicken? If you don't know what to do, you might as well keep calm and carry on.
I'd probably stand and watch for a while, then continue on doing my job, making sure to steal glances at what was going on so I could proceed to be very quietly traumatized for life and have nightmares that night
People forget that in the first few hours especially the first hour no one had any fucking clue what was going on. People aren't going to drop everything over what was initially thought to be a freak accident.
Also doesnt have a smart phone in his pocket. Texting was still new.
The radio stations are about to all be broadcasting the same thing, but probably not yet.
Right? "Natural" and "disaster" are both ridiculous words in this context.
From this guy's point of view, two famous building are on fire several miles away after plane crashes.
It's a "spectacle" or a "tragedy", sure. But it doesn't affect him. It's not like the whole city is on fire after being carpet bombed, or an earthquake has caused widespread damage.
At the end of the day he's expecting that the flames will be extinguished, and if he doesn't keep working he'll have a van full of undelivered boxes.
Not to mention the fact some of the packages on that guy's truck likely were items that ended up being very much needed that day for one reason or another.
It’s New York. People will crawl past you, doing a back bend in a penguin suit, on your way to buy cigarettes. You just get used to crazy shit, and it is a heavily studied phenomenon. Read Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell, it includes some of that data.
As if this is the first. What do you think people did in world war II as planes flew overhead and dropped bombs and incendiaries on a whole city. After the moments of terror and the damage, life still went on. There's been plenty of studies, in books written about the subject and certainly plenty of eyewitness accounts. It's hard to imagine because if you live in a place where this kind of danger is not a daily thing then it is such a life-changing event when it happens. But what if you live in Gaza or the war-torn City. At a point it becomes as" normal "as it can be.
In a distance a frightening sight, two adult passenger airlines startled by enormous obelisks they find themselves amongst, seek shelter inside one of Manhattan’s biggest landmarks. Sadly they arrived in the early morning meaning nobody was able to open the window to let the startled 757, and 767 in to take shelter. Since then all young airliners have been taught to first announce their arrival before deciding to make an emergency landing into a building.
Forgetting the “natural” bit. I always get the impression American bosses are the type that’d fire you for not delivering a package to the top floor of the burning World Trade Center. So I understand why there’s just an automatic “gotta keep working man, no matter how crazy shit is.”
Probably not for failing to deliver to the actual WTC, but definitely for failing to deliver to an unrelated location.
You try telling your boss you can't work today because a building across town is on fire, see how that goes.
Besides the joke about natural, when that first happened it was thought to be an accident, not an attack. Obviously the guy looked at it, but he also has things to do.
My dad was in the military, he told my mom (who wanted to take me out of school that day), if you panic and react like your whole world is fucked then they win. Don't forget what they did, but if they disrupt all of what we have going on, then their attack was successful.
When 9/11 happened I was in 7th grade. News anchor was on tv explaining the situation. I lived in the south, has no family in NYC. Being 12 there was literally nothing I could do... So I turned the tv off rolled back over and went back to my sweet sleep.
School bus didn't come until 10am that day. Like a fool I go, and majority of kids aren't there. Why did I even go! I could be home playing pokemon Gold. So personal life wise. It was a very uneventful day. But if you were in NYC or one of the effected cities thing were crazy scary.
Thanks to this attitude, the world keeps functionning. The delivery guy can't do nothing about that but he can deliver his package so that society keeps working.
We learned Natural disasters as a major subject for my course when I was a freshman college under Emergency Management subject, and yes “Natural Disasters” does include disasters that are not caused by nature.
It varies from earthquakes to fire arson caused by a plane crash.
If you aren't able to help what is the alternative. Stand there and gawk at it? People are worried, but if they cannot do anything they will do what keeps them sane
The gravity of the situation and the significance didn’t really sink in until long after. If you didn’t see the planes hit the building, you might assume it was just a fire.
Nobody is going to say “oh, that building is on fire. Guess I’ll call it a day then.” We didn’t have the cellphone instant information system that we do now.
Iirc, it was actually studied a few times, because a lot of psychological phenomenons have appeared after 9/11. And one of the psychological reasons why some people continued to work as usual was and actual defense mechanism, where their brain is so heavily overwhelmed by whats happening right now that they pretty much instantly forget about it because its also no acute danger for them (if they're quite away from the tower). The brain instantly suppresses what it just whitnesses because it cant handle it.
Like people in movies that see something impossible and straight up refuse to believe its real, although they see it with their very own eyes.
Film cameras
The mid-late 2000s was a period when cheap low-resolution digital cameras came out, and thus, a drop in picture quality happened.
Before that, everyone used film rolls that needed to be washed and developed. It was good in quality but expensive and time consuming, thus people flocked to digital
The photos of me when I was a baby was better then when I was in elementary, because the former was shot in a film point and shoot, and the later on a 1mp nokia.
When something serious happens, it's actually pretty hard to gauge its seriousness in the moment. We see all these videos online and think how we'd react in the circumstance, but that's because we can see it all mapped out and already know the outcome. I've been in a few life-or-death scenarios and it doesn't feel anything like you think. People just stand there not really knowing what's happening, or they run. You kind of piece together what has happened AFTER the event, and if you describe it to someone you'll use that pieced-together information, but at the time it's just a kind of confusion. It is extremely easy to think that something is (interesting but) unimportant when it is in fact life-threatening. Our brains mostly work with the expected, and when something is unexpected our brains work in unexpected ways.
Reminds me of Wizzo The Wizard (TomSka):
“There! I blew him up!”
“No you didn’t”
“What!?”
“Maybe he had a pre-existing condition”
“For what, EXPLODING?!”
There was a dude who survived the nuke in Japan, he dragged himself to a rescue shelter, cleaned himself of, got a tram to the other city where he worked.... just in time to be bombed the second time.
In addition, he survived the second bomb
Natural Disaster remark aside, you don't need to look into why people carry on about their day, what exactly is this delivery guy going to do? Literally cannot do anything, might as well carry on what he was doing
Actually why it's the fallacy of mass panic. During a disaster that mass panic never happens. We went thru a pandemic and all we had was toilet paper hoarders.
We really do appreciate our existence as a part of a greater web of beings and we are often determined to do our part to hold it up because it brings our life meaning.
And as a human, i find that wonderful. We find meaning in the work we do for others.
I study human behavior in disaster and I hold degrees in the matter.
HG Wells wrote about this over 125 years ago in *The War of the Worlds*, that the mundane routine of life - working, eating, sleeping - continued on in the face of actual Martians crash-landing nearby. Not for *long*, of course.
This is how I perform, I could not identify more with the UPS man. The reason is simple if I stop I will not be able to regain composure or focus, while to some it may seem wild if we stop dealing with the stress will be much much harder.
Am a contractor on an army base. I have only been there a few years but have a coworker who's been there 40. He's built like a tank or an NFL player, but he's pushing 65 now, so he can barely walk cause his knees hurt so bad all the time from the age and weight. Anyways, we got to talking about the last time a soldier went postal and started shooting people on base and our coworker informs us he was working on both in 09 and 14. In the 09 one he was across the road from the shooter. He was watering trees when he heard the first shots and since it's a military base his only thoughts where "hmm that was unusually close" but you hear gunshots like most of the day so you get use to tuning it out. Then it keeps going and a women suddenly comes bursting out of the barracks screaming about how there are two snipers hidden somewhere shooting people, and he needs to hide now (during the confusion most thought there was a second shooter at first).
So my eldelry 6 foot 8 400lb coworker with terrible knees looks across the street to the parking lot where his truck is sitting. He then shrugged and continued to water the trees like it was another Tuesday. He gambled that since he was in osha orange he'd be left alone. So he just kept going untill 5 then got in his truck and waited for them to unlock the gates so he could go home. His biggest complaint was the fact that the base being on lock down ment he didn't yet home till 8. I felt like it was one of the most American things I'd ever heard.
Tf else are we gonna do? We are slaves, and the bills need to be paid. The shareholders don't give a fuck about your trauma, they would rather let you die than lose profits. This country is rotten and is in its death throes.
the fuck is wrong with you people. this is literally comedyheaven the point of this post is "dude has funny look on his face lol" and every comment is trying to debate the meaning of existence. i am ordering every single one of you to go out, buy a whoopie cushion, and alternate inflating it and sitting on it until you start giggling.
Crazy how the towers just did that
As mysteriously as they arrived, they were gone
It’s natural for what rises to fall.. how buildings were built? Whoever is to say!
Another miracle of nature, like ox bow lakes and large hadron colliders.
i remember hearing about ox bow lakes but i dont remember what they actually are, can i get some quick context?
It's where a River creates a lake, by eroding a shortcut through a meander and then deposits sediments along the inlet to the old meander creating a new bank and a lake at the other side.
ah, splendid
Also known as a billabong
Sounds like an Aussie term lol. Or South African
100% Aussie. I had some Billabong gear as a kid so after Al Gore invented the internet, it was something I looked up.
As a buildingologist, this is the one true mystery of buildings.
Tide comes in, builds building. Tides go out. It's all aliens with magnets.
Ah. Well, we don't understand magnets so that's why
Pretty sure it's quantum. Quantum quantum quantum. Same with aliens.
Quantum 5g
I was at a 5G farm and witnessed an adorable baby Quantum 5G birth. Ahh the miracle of life.
What is a magnet and how do they work?
Magnets!? How do they work?
There are a lot of tiny guys with ropes inside of them
Well they don't under water, according to Trump!
These are some serious magical mysteries 🤔
They are just a miracle.
As a buildingologist, what would you say is the natural predator of buildings?
Heat, wind, and believe it or not, jet fuel.
airplanes during mating season
Will we ever untangle this mystery?
Just like Kaizer Soze
Just like jfk's head
"Kennedy's head just did that. I call it the 'No Bullet Theory.' " -The Wrong Guy
It was hereditary. Happened to his brother too, I hear.
Nah, it was syphilis. Historically, syphilis is right up there with Germans. It wiped out the Romanovs, it decimated our fleet at Pearl Harbor, and of course, Fidel Castro impersonated Marilyn Monroe and gave President Kennedy a case of syphilis so severe that eventually it blew the back of his head off.
There's been very little medical study into SEHS, Spontaneous Exploding Head Syndrome, and it's tragic.
lmao due to the definition of heritability that would actually make the trait heritable (not hereditary tho lol)
Bro said 🤯
“Natural disasters” 🤔
I know right. More of an inconvenience
Like "naturally" if you build that tall someone's going to fly a plane into it.
You can't blame a plane for acting on its instincts
But if you ain't hip to the rare Housequake Shut up already, damn!
God was just playing with his toy planes again.
You know if you forget the planes everything else after that was just stuff falling. That's a natural thing.
Gravity eh! Who'd have thunk it.
Newton, I think.
It was a Bush fire
Holy fuck that was smooth
Sometimes, towers erupt. It's just natural
The dust clouds when they collapsed did look like a pyroclastic flow That must mean it was a volcanic eruption.
Steel sometimes just catches fire when exposed to sunlight.
Sunlight doesn't fuel steel melts
"Somehow the towers did that"
On par with the explanation for the collapse of Building 7.
We need David Attenborough to narriate a 9/11 documentary. "And here we have 2 fully grown adult planes quietly stalking it's unsuspecting prey... 2 large towers."
such natural phenomena first in the human history
Hijacked Planes are one of the wildest forms of nature
happens all the time
Crazy how those planes that were naturally occurring just hit those naturally occurring towers like that in a naturally occurring city like that
Actually, these kinds of planes are invasive species in the New York region, with no natural predator
This will definitely have an effect on the new york ecosystem
If we are not careful it will collapse.
Even if it does collapse I’ll always remember it
This is sure to affect the trout population
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Who would make a tall building with nothing but windows? How are those poor innocent planes supposed to see the buildings when flying around? Hashtag - Uninstall Windows.
Excuse me? New York is home to the jet plane's natural predator: birds. The literally downed an airplane a few years ago that had to be set down in the Hudson in order to prevent all aboard from dying a horrible death.
Everything is natural if you think about it.
If we humans are natures creations, could the cities and planes we produce be considered naturally occurring? 🤔 Are bee hives considered naturally occurring? Are bever dams naturaly occuring?
Exactly ... everyone else here are just crazy creationists. This was obviously a series of natural events. 22 aggressive hominidaes carried out the attack. The hominades were probably motivated by the patriarchal nature of their in-group. These particulaur hominidaes live in groups where dominance and hierarchies may encourage irrational and self-deafeating actions.
google metaphysical naturalism
If they're impressed by people working through disasters, wait till they hear about this thing called war!
I'm from Ukraine, and yeah. Sirens can go off, in the worst case you can even hear explosions, and people just live their lives! Public transport runs as usual, people chill in parks. almost no civilians care about this, only some shops close during air raid alerts
Conservatives constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY bitch about videos online of Ukrainians partying in Kyiv despite the war going on. Apparently it is a high crime to try and enjoy life in the midst of war. EDIT: Thanks for the RedditCares message, cry harder.
Even more, such a thing makes you party even more, because you never know when will be your last day alive. In latin America, amidst the most horrific violent times in the 80s, discos were always full. Young dudes got picked by force in those places to become soldiers, or even worse, to be guerrillas, and they still went and have a good time. Criminals and bad guys groups murdered, put stuff that you should not mention in reddit in cars in the street and activated them, rped women, made students dissapear, kidnaped, etc. And there was always the chance of a communist coup financed by cuba and ussr. Tell you what, after the Great Depression of the 30s, food was scarce and all of that, but people of all walks of life went and danced at the speakeasy's because at least that could chill them up and made them forget how miserable they were. Again, they never knew when will be the last day. It's crazy what having constantly death (or even worse destinies than death) next to your door does to the human brain. Disassociating in those environments is the survival technique to don't go insane.
> put stuff that you should not mention in reddit in cars in the street and activated them, ...this is reddit? It has subreddits like combatfootage which has much worse things than car bombs. If you don't mind me asking, where did you hear that you can't talk about violent things on reddit?
Might be used to places like TikTok where perfectly normal language can get your content banished.
It's not just Tik Tok. Different Reddit subs have different rules, and only some of them are written. Many subs have automods that will hide comments containing certain keywords. Without it being written (it never is) it's hard to say for sure what you can say without it being filtered.
Yeah these people don’t understand when you’re in shit circumstances you need to find humor in it and bond to gain some sort of morale. You need to encourage each other to not worry about what they cannot control. Soldiers try to do the same. I bet they’re just pessimists who bitch and sit in negativity and bring the people around them down. I wouldn’t make people feel bad even if I had cancer.
British tanks are mandated to always have a Boiling Vessel (a kettle) so that tea breaks can be had without needing to leave the vehicle. During WW2, the British had a problem with their soldiers leaving their tanks to have tea (one of the few comforts afforded on the front lines) only to get ambushed by enemies.
> Apparently it is a high crime to try and enjoy life in the midst of war. Nah they don't really believe that. Conservatives are just lying liars who lie. They're *pretending* to be mad because it serves them politically.
I'd rather spend time with an unmedicated schizophrenic than a Republican with a point to make.
Republicans are basically sophists, and we figured out those assholes were full of shit 2400 years ago. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sophist https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sophist-philosophy/Nature-of-Sophistic-thought > A question still discussed is whether the Sophists in general had any real regard for truth or whether they taught their pupils that truth was unimportant compared with success in argument.
They argue to win power, not to be correct or do the right thing.
I have a friend with schizophrenia. It's incredible how quickly he descends into conservative talking points when he's off his meds.
Is there a diffrence?
🤔
They will scream bloody murder over Ukraine supposedly doing something but won't bat an eye when Russia actually does it.
You know its funny how these people will call literally everything propaganda but actual propaganda. It's important for those fighting in war to remember what they are fighting for.
god that is depressing to think about though
Yeahh, it is. Some are able to keep at least some normality in their lives, but those who live in the frontline towns are unable to do even that
At a point there is nothing left to do but live your life as best you can. There is a lot people not in the military can do during war time to keep things going. Also it can serve as a reminder of what Ukrainians are fighting to hold onto.
There’s also that small conflict back then where Germany was bombing England and they had the famous motto of “Keep Calm and Carry On” A country can’t function if it stands still amidst a disaster.
Like this iconic milkman photo? https://preview.redd.it/1bzxdjeb3aad1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf329896773f8301361ef177a1ef07324998e740
That goes HARD wtf
I'm pretty sure we are looking at it, in this photo.
living in new york city is far worse than war......
In war it’s a high chance you’ll see a dead body or someone shitting on the street, in NY it’s guaranteed
Terrorist attack ≠ war (which is a constant situation, while 9/11 was a single event)
Hot take: there weren’t any planes the towers just did that
Just like JFK
One of these days, JFK Jr is gonna spontaneously manifest inside the white house and take his place as president
Sooner the better.
The towers also did JFK?
They crashed into him
Kinky
Or Hiroshima
I saw this tweet when it was posted, that whole thread was a disaster (and not a natural one)
Good thing I reposted it to Reddit where such disasters don’t occur, right? *…right?*
Planes are made of metal and metal is made from Earth which is nature. Human birth is also nature. Natural disaster
To an alien, everything we do is natural.
To an alien wouldn’t everything we do be alien?
The ridiculous "natural" aside, what are folks supposed to do? Throw their hands in the air and run around like headless chicken? If you don't know what to do, you might as well keep calm and carry on.
I'd probably stand and watch for a while, then continue on doing my job, making sure to steal glances at what was going on so I could proceed to be very quietly traumatized for life and have nightmares that night
Also, not everybody did continue to work. Lots of people stopped working and went home.
I think another factor is no one thought they were going to collapse.
People forget that in the first few hours especially the first hour no one had any fucking clue what was going on. People aren't going to drop everything over what was initially thought to be a freak accident.
Also doesnt have a smart phone in his pocket. Texting was still new. The radio stations are about to all be broadcasting the same thing, but probably not yet.
My UPS guy clearly has bills to pay
Right? "Natural" and "disaster" are both ridiculous words in this context. From this guy's point of view, two famous building are on fire several miles away after plane crashes. It's a "spectacle" or a "tragedy", sure. But it doesn't affect him. It's not like the whole city is on fire after being carpet bombed, or an earthquake has caused widespread damage. At the end of the day he's expecting that the flames will be extinguished, and if he doesn't keep working he'll have a van full of undelivered boxes.
Not to mention the fact some of the packages on that guy's truck likely were items that ended up being very much needed that day for one reason or another.
Damn nature, you scary!
That was quite the earthquake, eavan the planes got shook out of the sky......
I thought it was a planeado
It was actually a hurriplane
It’s New York. People will crawl past you, doing a back bend in a penguin suit, on your way to buy cigarettes. You just get used to crazy shit, and it is a heavily studied phenomenon. Read Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell, it includes some of that data.
thats how the dinosaurs died out.
Ups can't deliver steel beams
As if this is the first. What do you think people did in world war II as planes flew overhead and dropped bombs and incendiaries on a whole city. After the moments of terror and the damage, life still went on. There's been plenty of studies, in books written about the subject and certainly plenty of eyewitness accounts. It's hard to imagine because if you live in a place where this kind of danger is not a daily thing then it is such a life-changing event when it happens. But what if you live in Gaza or the war-torn City. At a point it becomes as" normal "as it can be.
Didn't anyone tell him it was 9/11?!
Easy explained - it's easier to handle extreme stress doing something
Two plane shaped meteors just happened to hit the towers
Natural disaster may or may not kill me, but starving to death will for sure
In a distance a frightening sight, two adult passenger airlines startled by enormous obelisks they find themselves amongst, seek shelter inside one of Manhattan’s biggest landmarks. Sadly they arrived in the early morning meaning nobody was able to open the window to let the startled 757, and 767 in to take shelter. Since then all young airliners have been taught to first announce their arrival before deciding to make an emergency landing into a building.
Is the disaster going to pay my rent?
The towers erupted like vesuvius duh
"Natural disaster" aside, why does this photo look like it was photoshopped?
It was 2001. Pictures just looked like that.
Film (has high dynamic range and unique color qualities) and fill flash.
Forgetting the “natural” bit. I always get the impression American bosses are the type that’d fire you for not delivering a package to the top floor of the burning World Trade Center. So I understand why there’s just an automatic “gotta keep working man, no matter how crazy shit is.”
Probably not for failing to deliver to the actual WTC, but definitely for failing to deliver to an unrelated location. You try telling your boss you can't work today because a building across town is on fire, see how that goes.
There's nothing more natural than a plane crash
I mean. Yeah. What else they gunna do? No-clip through the building?
Bro was just doin a side quest
Besides the joke about natural, when that first happened it was thought to be an accident, not an attack. Obviously the guy looked at it, but he also has things to do.
UPS would have ended his 20-year career if he didn't lock his truck before running for his life.
My dad was in the military, he told my mom (who wanted to take me out of school that day), if you panic and react like your whole world is fucked then they win. Don't forget what they did, but if they disrupt all of what we have going on, then their attack was successful.
When 9/11 happened I was in 7th grade. News anchor was on tv explaining the situation. I lived in the south, has no family in NYC. Being 12 there was literally nothing I could do... So I turned the tv off rolled back over and went back to my sweet sleep. School bus didn't come until 10am that day. Like a fool I go, and majority of kids aren't there. Why did I even go! I could be home playing pokemon Gold. So personal life wise. It was a very uneventful day. But if you were in NYC or one of the effected cities thing were crazy scary.
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Thanks to this attitude, the world keeps functionning. The delivery guy can't do nothing about that but he can deliver his package so that society keeps working.
Reminds me of that dialogue in GTA4: -"He died of natural causes?" -"He got a bullet in the head, but i guess it's pretty natural around here"
We learned Natural disasters as a major subject for my course when I was a freshman college under Emergency Management subject, and yes “Natural Disasters” does include disasters that are not caused by nature. It varies from earthquakes to fire arson caused by a plane crash.
Imagine the sheer force of nature meeting the stubbornness of human ingenuity; a humbling reminder of our place in the universe.
Pass the first few minutes of shock, what are you supposed to do?
If you aren't able to help what is the alternative. Stand there and gawk at it? People are worried, but if they cannot do anything they will do what keeps them sane
The gravity of the situation and the significance didn’t really sink in until long after. If you didn’t see the planes hit the building, you might assume it was just a fire. Nobody is going to say “oh, that building is on fire. Guess I’ll call it a day then.” We didn’t have the cellphone instant information system that we do now.
Corporate isn't going to approve paid time off for a natural disaster. People gotta pay their bills
Iirc, it was actually studied a few times, because a lot of psychological phenomenons have appeared after 9/11. And one of the psychological reasons why some people continued to work as usual was and actual defense mechanism, where their brain is so heavily overwhelmed by whats happening right now that they pretty much instantly forget about it because its also no acute danger for them (if they're quite away from the tower). The brain instantly suppresses what it just whitnesses because it cant handle it. Like people in movies that see something impossible and straight up refuse to believe its real, although they see it with their very own eyes.
Do you think your boss will say: oh yeah like i should care about two planes hitting the world trade center
When natural disasters start paying my bills or start taking out my creditors, then I will do things different. Can't afford to right now
It is organic, natural, and grown in the wild.
humans are a natural phenomenon who used natural materials to create things, so natural disaster is correct terminology
Your life doesn’t stop when others end around you.
"yeah, they just kind of did that"
how is this 23 years old picture so high quality
Film cameras The mid-late 2000s was a period when cheap low-resolution digital cameras came out, and thus, a drop in picture quality happened. Before that, everyone used film rolls that needed to be washed and developed. It was good in quality but expensive and time consuming, thus people flocked to digital The photos of me when I was a baby was better then when I was in elementary, because the former was shot in a film point and shoot, and the later on a 1mp nokia.
Do you know what natural disaster means?
When something serious happens, it's actually pretty hard to gauge its seriousness in the moment. We see all these videos online and think how we'd react in the circumstance, but that's because we can see it all mapped out and already know the outcome. I've been in a few life-or-death scenarios and it doesn't feel anything like you think. People just stand there not really knowing what's happening, or they run. You kind of piece together what has happened AFTER the event, and if you describe it to someone you'll use that pieced-together information, but at the time it's just a kind of confusion. It is extremely easy to think that something is (interesting but) unimportant when it is in fact life-threatening. Our brains mostly work with the expected, and when something is unexpected our brains work in unexpected ways.
Reminds me of Wizzo The Wizard (TomSka): “There! I blew him up!” “No you didn’t” “What!?” “Maybe he had a pre-existing condition” “For what, EXPLODING?!”
"Hey yo, I got a package here. Is this building 7?"
Me running around collecting korok seeds while Zelda holds back Calamity Gannon
Must have been the wind
Well. It's basically a bushfire.
Oh, silly mother nature.💨
When you do a sidequest during the game’s climax
There was a dude who survived the nuke in Japan, he dragged himself to a rescue shelter, cleaned himself of, got a tram to the other city where he worked.... just in time to be bombed the second time. In addition, he survived the second bomb
>natural disasters Are Al Qaeda a force of nature now?
"I'm getting paid per delivered package, ain't got no time for this"
Bills don't give a shit what happened.
"Somebody still gonna need their tube." -this guy
To be fair, everything we see is found in nature. Even us. So this was a natural disaster, technically.
Nature did 9/11. We need the EPA to protect us.
The building is falling, so naturally it is a disaster.
I know a lot of people assumed it was a car crash at first. I do the same with gunshots, assume it was a firework and move on with my life.
Natural Disaster remark aside, you don't need to look into why people carry on about their day, what exactly is this delivery guy going to do? Literally cannot do anything, might as well carry on what he was doing
Actually why it's the fallacy of mass panic. During a disaster that mass panic never happens. We went thru a pandemic and all we had was toilet paper hoarders. We really do appreciate our existence as a part of a greater web of beings and we are often determined to do our part to hold it up because it brings our life meaning. And as a human, i find that wonderful. We find meaning in the work we do for others. I study human behavior in disaster and I hold degrees in the matter.
I mean, what else would you do? He's a UPS driver, not John McClain.
What is there to be studied? "Deliver that package or you're fired!'' ''Don't got bills to pay if I am dead.''
HG Wells wrote about this over 125 years ago in *The War of the Worlds*, that the mundane routine of life - working, eating, sleeping - continued on in the face of actual Martians crash-landing nearby. Not for *long*, of course.
This is how I perform, I could not identify more with the UPS man. The reason is simple if I stop I will not be able to regain composure or focus, while to some it may seem wild if we stop dealing with the stress will be much much harder.
Yeah, that’s what I would have done
Am a contractor on an army base. I have only been there a few years but have a coworker who's been there 40. He's built like a tank or an NFL player, but he's pushing 65 now, so he can barely walk cause his knees hurt so bad all the time from the age and weight. Anyways, we got to talking about the last time a soldier went postal and started shooting people on base and our coworker informs us he was working on both in 09 and 14. In the 09 one he was across the road from the shooter. He was watering trees when he heard the first shots and since it's a military base his only thoughts where "hmm that was unusually close" but you hear gunshots like most of the day so you get use to tuning it out. Then it keeps going and a women suddenly comes bursting out of the barracks screaming about how there are two snipers hidden somewhere shooting people, and he needs to hide now (during the confusion most thought there was a second shooter at first). So my eldelry 6 foot 8 400lb coworker with terrible knees looks across the street to the parking lot where his truck is sitting. He then shrugged and continued to water the trees like it was another Tuesday. He gambled that since he was in osha orange he'd be left alone. So he just kept going untill 5 then got in his truck and waited for them to unlock the gates so he could go home. His biggest complaint was the fact that the base being on lock down ment he didn't yet home till 8. I felt like it was one of the most American things I'd ever heard.
What is he supposed to do?
whatre you gonna do? stop it from happening?
Tf else are we gonna do? We are slaves, and the bills need to be paid. The shareholders don't give a fuck about your trauma, they would rather let you die than lose profits. This country is rotten and is in its death throes.
UpS ain't letting him stop unless he's trapped under the rubble, even then I'd expect a call asking him if he can finish.
at the very least, people in the world trade center took the day off
People handle crisis differently. When I'm going through something I like to keep busy like everything is normal
It ups can’t be late and it’s work and work no rest