First as Tragedy, Then as Farce -
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. Where is the social stability?
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Thursday, 24 August 2017
quote [ In 2011 a tsunami engulfed Japan’s north-east coast. More than 18,000 people were killed. ]
74 of 78 kids died because the did what they were told instead of running up the nearby hill. The parents were later awarded $11m. 10 of the 11 teachers perished.
Of the 18,000 who died however, only those 74 and one other were in the care of their teachers. In other words, being at school and following instructions was typically a very safe course of action. The system and the disaster planning fundamentally worked, in was only in this one case where the planning was insufficient, neglecting to give specific instructions for a tsunami, and people in charge were too complacent to realize the full danger they were in.
Individual resourcefulness or following orders and group planning? I guess there is an element of chance to it either way.
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cb361 said @ 8:35am GMT on 24th Aug
Well that was fucking depressing. And surprising. The one thing that one imagines all Japanese living near the coast know is what to do after an earthquake.
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Kama-Kiri said @ 2:14pm GMT on 24th Aug
I don't know when the last really big tsunami hit Japan, but I think it was over 40 years go, possibly twice that. The one in 2011 was once-in-two-millennia event. Tsunami warnings, on the other hard are perhaps too frequent. After the strong but relatively uneventful earthquake like the one in Sendai, it is usual to expect a tsunami warning - and basically ignore it because nothing ever comes of it usually.
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mwooody said[1] @ 11:25am GMT on 24th Aug
The weird and unexpected dig at gender politics ("It was another enactment of the ancient dialogue, its lines written centuries ago, between the entreating voices of women, and the oblivious, overbearing dismissiveness of old men") felt out of place and gauche in the description of a tragedy, but overall fascinating. Points for the last line.
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butthole said[1] @ 12:09am GMT on 26th Aug
I was just watching this video last week. I got sucked into the youtube rabbit hole on tsunami videos.
EDIT: Here I go again |
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