Apparently now “a death is being investigated”, which is a form of passive voice I have not yet encountered.
Also, “shelter in place” is one of those examples of American English that I really don’t get. I suppose it’s something from school shootings? Or hurricanes?
In Texas, it certainly does not mean the police state is coming. If anything, maybe a come of hicks with badges to stand around for 15 minutes, but usually just means “stay were you are because we don’t know wtf to do and aren’t funded to do anything anyway.”
During the Stockholm terror attack (en.wikipedia.org/…/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack) I had my first interaction with Facebook’s “mark as safe” feature which was pretty dystopian. I quickly figured out that this was an isolated incident, but all subways were shut down so me and a coworker walked homewards together. She was legitimately terrified and I did my best to reassure her it was going to be OK.
Sadly I’m just waiting for another thing to happen, which is more and more likely as obvious agent provocateurs are burning the Quran every chance they get…
I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.
But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I’m angry again.
oh wow, I was living in Tokyo in 2011 when the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear plant disaster happened. I think this was the event that led to the creation of the “mark as safe” feature.
I think the main problem people will face is overflowing septic tanks and then 70k people looking for places to poop that aren’t the increasingly threatening portapotties. Like, day one you’re not going to be able tell if that’s mud or poop on the floor, and there’s definitely going to be urine mixed in even if it is mud. If you were storing your food or water on the ground, um… Good luck
Trash works a little differently, I think. Food trash people are comfortable with dealing with, mostly. I think a lot of the kitchy hippy crap that gets waterlogged will get discarded, as well as soiled clothing. People generally don’t want to take plastic bags with poop in them in their cars.
But also some people take the trash thing way less seriously than others, and if you do take all your own trash how willing are you to take another camp’s worth?
(Our local one has a clean up volunteer group that goes a few weeks after so that the land can be used as a barley field during other parts of the year, the fact that that’s necessary says that there’s a decent amount of clean up to do)
sorry reminds me of this particular billboard ad that ran in Sydney. Just couldn’t make my brain interpret the “how did I get here?” in the positive sense they intended. Even the look on the girls face… it’s like sadness in her eyes. Anyway, there you go gym billboard photo of girl at burning man with tagline “how did I get here?”
@gerikson It’s all about experiencing the beauty of nature and appreciating the fragility of our planet by driving thousands of miles in air-conditioned gas guzzlers before burning even more fossil fuels and a small rainforest of wood you get there. But it’s okay because you have to take your trash home with you.
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