• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      291·
      11 hours ago

      Ehhhhhh.

      Stuff like this is hilarious up until you meet someone who had family in the area or who has memories of everyone panicking around them when the NPP failed (said panic spread pretty far throughout Western Europe…)

      Don’t get me wrong. I am all for some dark edgelord jokes. But the kind where I can choose my audience. Because, best case scenario, stuff like this screams “I’m an edgelord” and, at worst, it leads to someone calling you on your bullshit when they come over.

      Its similar to big titty anime girl figures. Yes, it will probably cause a conversation. Think through what kinds of conversations would result and… are those conversations you want to have?

      • TTimo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        16·
        11 hours ago

        Too soon still. In France they were bullshiting us that the radiation had stopped at the border, while all the radiologic alarms in the fire stations were going off.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          11 hours ago

          Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She’ll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.

          Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big “disaster” was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren’t allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don’t know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.

          But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.

      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        22·
        9 hours ago

        Yes what if an Ukrainian babushka without sense of humour visits me, come on now

  • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    I’m reminded of that Loriot sketch in Germany, with grandpa buying a game for Christmas.

    “And when there is an accident all the little trees and cows fall over.”

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

    That inherits radiates a certain kind of humor that could be considered funny. I want one 😁

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.

    There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.

    I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
    No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?

    • Inucune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I saw a store selling “drop and run” cobalt replicas. Some things are just distasteful.

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.

        Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.

        Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    4·
    12 hours ago

    It’s so wrong, yet it’s so right.

    I don’t want to banalize a tragedy but it… Might help us remember it…? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I could think of a few worse ones. Like “Thích Quảng Đức sitting in Lotus position Ari humidifier”.