lol I saw someone suggest nuclear war may only kill as few as 10,000 people. What??
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A single prehistoric nuclear bomb developed by nomads living in the steppes of the North American subcontinent killed over 100,000 people. What are these people on?
A single prehistoric nuclear bomb developed by nomads living in the steppes of the North American subcontinent
If I had to guess, they assume all nukes will only hit other silos.
A what? Genuinely what are you referring to with nomads using a nuke? Is this some kind of attempt to mock the amerikkkans that I'm just too dumb to get?
I hate explaining jokes since it's not funny, but
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Steppe - Hanford site where the nuclear bomb was first created and tested is a steppe.
Nomad - Scientists traveled from all over the country to the Hanford site and returned back months or years later, which is a nomadic migratory pattern.
I'm just using words that colonizers use to describe native cultures in a description of the Manhattan Project. Quite accurately, in fact. That's the joke haha...
Ah. So it's a healing rituals of the nacirema type thing, that I just lack the context of. Clever, unlike me
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Oooh, I thought you meant to describe The US like how history books describe barbarian tribes fucking around and breaking everything
Cause they're just barbarous colonizers
To be fair, America is a barbarian tribe fucking around and breaking everything. The absolute lowest amount of cultural, scientific, and social output possible compared to other hegemons throughout history. Well, with the exception of the Brits but I mentioned Americans already so I'm repeating myself.
Yeah that's why I liked your joke so much!
"well, you see, 99.9% of Russia's nukes don't work,. of course all our nukes work, but we don't consider Russians to be 'people' so they aren't added to the count"
Have you considered the world deserves to die for not sufficiently supporting Ukraine in this time of need
Humbly requesting you add pronouns. I almost thought you were serious.
If you're worth talking to, you have your pronouns on display
Honest to god had a nuclear engineering chud argue to my face that China would lose a hot war to the US because “they don’t spend enough to keep their nukes working”. Literal nuclear grade copium. I laughed at him
Reminds me of when my 
- fan friend was enthusing about how American missile defense would protect us from incoming Russian ICBMs. He was saying this in the context of wishing we'd done a Highway of Death to Russian forces nearing Kiev and how we could've gotten away with it.
never mind that Russian missile/rocket tech is better that the US, and always has been lol
Come on, let's have a nuclear war. It's not that bad. It's just the immediate destruction of all major population centres of the developed world and fallout that will haunt survivors for generations. It's no big deal! Stop being such a chicken about it!
I'm getting rather concerned about all these "nuclear war isn't that bad, actually" takes from libs
You mean you actually care about the world going up in an atomic hellstorm?
But what about freedom and liberty as held to my own strange and self-destructive definition? 
They can only ban so many Russian athletes from sporting events before their frustration overflows
Better city planning
"TIL Nuclear Winter is almost impossible in modern times"
