Isn’t Australia like that now?

True, but there are certainly worse ways to spend the apocalypse than hanging out with a 1985-vintage Tina Turner.

If only, then we wouldn’t have been able to see it.

Haha nice

At least we’ll look forward to cool Mad Max cars.

Dammit, Ashes! What the hell?!?

A few years ago, I said I thought it would be awesome to live long enough to see an apocalypse.

Its in the back of my mind, but I’m not super afraid at the moment. I don’t think NK has an arsenal that could attack the USA, but I am afraid for NK’s neighbors and our troops around that area.

The theory is that the West Coast can be reached, given the type of missiles they have displayed previously. No one knows how many, how reliable, etc. Well, I’m sure there are people that know in the US military, but us regular folks don’t have access to that type of info. And anything further east? That seems to be a…

American chiming in: the Trump Administration itself is, top-down, a ignoramus game-show host who shows obvious signs of dementia, members of the ignoramus’ yes-man family, a gaggle of hard right-wing white nationalists, right-wing conspiracy nuts, some gung-ho generals who have spent a lifetime viewing every problem…

Yeah, I live where the air war college is, so not only do we have lots of USAF but also officers from air forces from basically the entire world. People can get real panicky.

You seem to be saying the same thing other non-Americans have said to me. I’ve talked to people from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Kenya and the response is always some version of “you Americans think the whole world revolves around you. Shut up, we’ll be fine.”

I’m also a West Coaster, and less than 20 miles from what I can only assume would be high value targets (I live within 1000 feet of one, in fact). So I’m terrified. I am old enough to remember the Cold War and especially the end of it, but the nuclear threat was never on my radar. We practiced duck and cover but…

It’s really fucked. The two main purposes of food are to sustain life, and for social bonding. This is a meal given to someone that’s going to be killed in an hour, eaten alone. I get that these are often terrible people eating the meals, but this is really some sadistic shit designed by the state.

Yes, because we have two crazed morons waving their dicks at each other. Each is completely capable of devastating the planet with a nuclear strike in order to satisfy some insane need to be seen as manly or virile or strong or whatever.

I’ve just realised it’s someone’s job to put together these meals. They’re often unusual, and include favourite childhood foods. Someone’s job is to go to a supermarket looking for these things.

It’s called being pro-life, apparently...

I can’t. I really don’t want to

Imagine being so excited for people to die that you schedule 8 of them to be executed over a short period of time. Just imagine it.

Short answer: Yes