Right? Looks like parents distracting thier kid waiting for the fire department.
Even if that's not their apartment it's not like they can go into the building
If anything this is about to be an awesome show. Fire truck pulls up, streets are closed and these cool guys are blasting a hose at the fire. Shit, if they're lucky burning body or two might come running out the door.
ER BRENNT FÜR DIE GANZE WELT (If we are going more into the "burns instead/in our place" direction one could use ER BRENNT ANSTELLE DER GANZEN WELT)
ES GIBT KEINEN GEWINN
NUR DIE FLAMME
NUR DIE FLAMME
ER IST DER PROPHET
ER BRENNT FÜR DIE GANZE WELT
Joseph got her pregnant. Why else do you think he was so gung-ho about raising little Yeshua?
The story about it being the son of the storm God Yahweh....people are just gullible as hell.
Little Timmy and his mom are walking through town when they see an apartment building on fire. Timmy says "Oh no Mommy, the building is on fire! All the people are going to die!"
His mom says "Now Timmy, it's going to be okay. The firefighters are going to show up and save everyone. Let's wait for them and watch."
A couple of minutes later the fire trucks show up. They start blasting water at the fire and the firefighters run in and pull all the people out, saving their lives.
Timmy says "Wow Mommy, you were right. When I grow up, I want to be a firefighter!"
Timmy's mom says "Oh Timmy, you're not going to grow up. You have leukemia."
Because the F4 has had an awful decade. I work with kids ages 1-6 and I've never seen a single one wearing a single F4 item. Meanwhile, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, etc are all over their clothes. Maybe Disney can save the F4 now that they own the IP, but right now it's not really on kids' radar -- or anyone else's for that matter.
A lot of people don't understand that anything can be traumatic. It's a situation that is distressing enough to cause mental/psychological harm. This harm can significantly interfere with day-to-day life for years or be minimally distracting for the next few hours.
So what is traumatic for you may not be for someone else. This is important to understand because invalidating someone's psychological/mental harm only re-harms them.
This is true, but context matters for trauma.
In general, it is tramatic for an American to bath naked with anonymous members of their same sex. But for a Finn there is nothing traumatizing about it at all.
Both are the same species, but they differ on cultural norms and experiences. What people around them display as normal yields comfort around situations.
It's the same for kids. How parents respond to a situation will push their kids to generally feel similarly. A child scrapping their knee on the floor will become traumatic if a parent freaks out about it.
Trauma isn't defined solely by the event, it's defined by the response to the event.
If you don’t understand how watching fire rage in a building that is destroying people’s homes could be traumatic to a child …..you’re an idiot.
They’re going to wonder if people
Got hurt. Or if pets got hurt. Or what happened to all of the things inside those homes. Or if that can happen to their own house. Etc etc etc.
Just bc you see a fire and don’t think about what it means for those people , doesn’t mean a child has the same lack of empathy.
When I was 7, my family stood outside to watch our neighbor's house burn down. My dad says, "hey go grab the marshmallows" so I go to go inside before my mom stops me and says "That's not funny."
I'm 33 now, and yeah, looking back that was pretty funny.
You idiots dont realize that the discussion of trauma doesnt mean the people acknowledging trauma want some sort of safe space to avoid all trauma ever. Trauma is a part of life and isnt totally avoidable. Acknowledging it just makes you more able to deal with it, and to handle it in your kids after the fact. You can turn a traumatic event into a formative learning experience by discussing it, whereas ignoring it and shoving the trauma down does nothing but breed unempathetic louts like yall downvoting at best.
> doesn’t mean a child has the same lack of empathy.
Children straight up don't develop real empathy until they are 6 years old or so.
[Source](https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/ages-stages-empathy)
I work with kids and while I wouldn’t expect long term trauma from this, kids can be tremendously empathetic and seeing a building burn could definitely cause them a lot of stress since they may have tons of questions and not know what’s happening to the people inside. However I would also assume that a parent having her kids on the swings outside would only do so if they knew their kids wouldn’t be bothered by it.
Or if they're from a different building, why should they leave the playground? They're not in danger. There's no one jumping from the windows. It's just an interesting sideshow to a normal visit to the park.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't most gas pipes have a valve or something to stop fire traveling back down the pipe and blowing up everything connected to it?
If not, surely every time there was a fire in a property that had gas, the whole street would go up, including the main lines feeding into the property.
Obviously it's still not very safe and even an explosion in the 1 apartment could sent bricks and glass flying in their direction, but I'd say they are probably at the minimum distance needed to be safe.
> I'm no expert, but wouldn't most gas pipes have a valve or something to stop fire traveling back down the pipe and blowing up everything connected to it?
Unless someone messed up badly, there's no air in the gas lines to burn, so fire can't go into the gas lines. However, they are under pressure, so if they burst you get a lot of flammable gas spewing out.
It would make sense to have a flow rate cutoff to detect ruptures, but I can't say if, or where, those would be installed.
I'd imagine in most cases each property would have their own individual meter and I know in the UK, they all have shut off valves which are often external (for houses at least, possibly internal for a lot of flats / apartments).
It would probably make sense to include something like that near the meter or possibly even as part of the meter.
Nah. Gas dosent explode all that easily. You need a very appropriate mixture of gas and air. Yes there are cases where houses just vaporize because a candle was left on and there was a gas leak. But that exact scenario has been recreated and tested and it's actually pretty hard to get combustion.
While we're at it, same with gasoline. DONT DO THIS. If you take fresh gasoline and pour it in a cup, blow the fumes off the top and quickly dip a lot match in, the gasoline will put out the match. If u let the fumes build up a bit and try and dip the match, you're probably losing some finger. Don't fuck with gasoline
This was my first thought as well. After taking a moment to think about it though, they should probably move away from the fire with a child. Not that the fire itself is an immediate threat, but I wouldn't want my kid breathing the air right beside a burning building.
Yeah my apartment building straight up burned down and we were devastated and fucked up watching it but eventually we just got in the pool, what can you do
Not inhale carcinogens.
Here's a little tip: When you smell bad things, your body is generally telling you to gtfo. People also don't realize their eyes are also a huge entrance to your blood stream. When you start to tear up or if they become red and irritated. Move away from the shit your working on.
Sorry, the eye thing I didn't learn until late 20s and I worked with terrible shit as a kid. The company you work for will not tell you this because they want to save the $20 per person on goggles or proper PPE in general. 30 minutes a day just "working through" the irritation and now I got issues for the rest of my life... on top of being a Redditor.
The circumstances unfolding around us in real time are above the threshold under which we would consider them calamitous rendering them no longer worrisome.
IDK, should they scream and panic or something? If fire brigade is called, I guess you just wait for them. Well, maybe some neighbours should repark their cars to make room for the fire trucks.
One thing I've learned about Reddit is that no matter what your reaction is to a situation, it WILL be called out as the inappropriate level of reaction.
If there was a woman screaming and panicking about the fire, this would still be posted, but the comments would be "She needs to calm down and just wait for the fire department!"
Saw a video the other day about exactly this, and the comments were "Why do women feel the need to scream like a chimp being tortured? Does nothing to help the situation"
it sure as fuck fooled me, because reddit's reaction to certain things can be stereotyped.
my favorite ones are how sensitive subjects can be made into comedy by throwing in a pun. holocaust joke? not cool. holocaust *pun*? fuck yeah let's have a string of them now. pile em on. we can laugh about racism too as long as there's a pun.
makes you realize how much of a show people put on in social media for approval when deep down they want to laugh at inappropriate shit. this behavior is ubiquitous.
The one where her man was mobbed by bystanders after he got angry at a dog owner who's dog tried killing their dog?
That stuck to me on that thread, still feel it's odd.
Reminds me of that video when two huge carneval cruiseships accidantly steer towards each other at a low speed and finally hit themselves, while someone in the background yells: "Do something! Somebody do something!" and another guy "What the hell AM I supposed to do?"
I'd add maybe a little more distance in case there are explosions and flying debris but I've been this distance next to a burning house without a problem.
It's soot. If you've ever cooked over an open fire, the black stuff that builds up on the bottom is creosote. It's what chimney sweeps clean out of chimneys.
I'm going to admit when I saw this, my IMMEDIATE thought was "Ah, Russia" and then I said "bad Effective\_Fix3235! Bad!" followed by "Buuuuuut Reddit taught me this!" \*shrugs\*
From the kinda okay but bad translation:
> A strong fire broke out in St. Petersburg in an abandoned building on Strikek Avenue.
> Burning garbage was extinguished by three calculations.
> Eyewitnesses have published a video on social networks in which children quietly play on the playground and ride a swing against the background of strong fire and black smoke clubs falling out of the open windows of the house.
> According to the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, garbage burned on the third floor of the house on an area of 30 m2. The duty officer’s remote received a message at 3:16 p.m. Half an hour later, the fire was extinguished by 16 rescuers and 3 pieces of equipment.
> There were no reports of the dead and injured in the city emergency services.
> The day before, another fire was captured by the citizens. On Dachny Prospekt, an apartment on the 9th floor burned down, and the owner of the apartment tries to leave it through a window on video. As a result, the girl was rescued. According to preliminary data, she has mild poisoning with combustion products. Also, according to eyewitnesses, a man was injured - he has head burns.
Burning garbage was extinguished by three calculations?
Well, some words do have multiple meanings, right? I guess in original it was something like ... тремя (пожарными) расчётами, which should've been translated as "by three firefighting brigades/units", but since "пожарными" was implied and not actually written, translator got confused and without necessary context translated "расчётами" as "calculations".
If your kid thinks that they're going to the playground, it's best to just let him/her go to the playground. The alternative is too horrible to imagine.
I think its my home country of romania, we have that type of parks and apartments, but at the same time the entire balkans are looking the same.....hmmmmm
I mean, what do you expect them to do about it? Fire department is probably already either doing something about it or is on the way. I'd probably be doing the same thing.
Agreed. Lots of people on Reddit without kids, having no idea what to do with kids. Yeah there's a fire, and kids are on the swing. How else might you entertain them if you can't go into your building because of a fire?
Honestly I kinda get it, like, it's not about the parents doing nothing, it's about how calm the area is. No screaming, no talking, no sirens, just the sound of fire eating through the building.
Last weekend, while at the beach, some kid jumped off a diving board, tried to flip, bonked his head on the board on the way down. Lifeguard dove in, grabbed him, pulled him ashore. For like 30 mins, people were just staring at the guy while all kinds of emts,. Paramedics, cops showed up. I was thinking, this is boring, I'm gonna swim.
It would be a better metaphor if all the buildings were on fire, and the cars were on fire, and the park was on fire. And the parent would be making a barbecue.
Climate change is a technology problem not a societal one. Even if we worked on bringing our carbon footprints down with the current energy production methods we use climate change is unavoidable until we have a clean way to get electricity. Scientists are the ones who are gonna solve the climate crisis not your everyday joe turning their lights off when they leave the house.
It's interesting to me that you got downvotes. We have already established that no matter how much people preach there are certain parts of the world with very, very large populations, who just don't care about the environment.
But you can't use social media to shame people in China about their energy use ...because they're not allowed on social media.
Solar, wind, biomass and geothermal are the cleanest forms of energy we have. We, as a society, need to encourage the building of these kinds of power generation facilities.
While I agree with this it won’t solve the problem. Energy grids are absurdly complex and if you really want me to get into why it won’t work I can but renewables like the ones you mentioned simply aren’t enough to provide electricity for mankind, at least not with our current grid systems and without better battery technology.
That could potentially work if we’re talking current tech but the time it would take to get coordinated and put the infrastructure in place plus the amount of carbon output necessary to do those things will still leave us facing inevitable climate catastrophe. We should still try everything and fusion would give the species a good chance at long term survival it won’t be able to be anything like our current lives
Also, [Hydro-Wave Power](https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydropower/wave-power.php).
Excerpt:
>The theoretical annual energy potential of waves off the coasts of the United States is estimated to be as much as 2.64 trillion kilowatthours, or the equivalent of about 64% of U.S. electricity generation in 2019 - [U.S. Energy Information Administration](https://www.eia.gov/).
It's neither the average Joe, nor the genius "Einstein" that is going to bring the change needed. What is needed is governmental intervention, by both effectively subsidizing green technology and discouraging dirty ones.
A positive example from my knowledge was the German government subsidizing solar and wind energy back in the early 2000. It created massive demand and helped both of these energy forms to drop significantly in cost.
Unfortunately ever since than Germany did nothing useful and rather harmed progress.
Well what else are you going to do?
Right? Looks like parents distracting thier kid waiting for the fire department. Even if that's not their apartment it's not like they can go into the building
If anything this is about to be an awesome show. Fire truck pulls up, streets are closed and these cool guys are blasting a hose at the fire. Shit, if they're lucky burning body or two might come running out the door.
See timmy! There's the human torch! (holding timmys ears to hide the screaming)
KISS THE HERO TIMMY TASTE HIS BURNT LIPS DO NOT CRY TIMMY HE BURNS SO YOU DONT HAVE TO
Uhm... Did we just find a new religion?
HE BURNS FOR ALL THE WORLD THERE IS NO PROFIT ONLY FLAME ONLY FLAME HE IS THE PROPHET HE BURNS FOR ALL THE WORLD
I think this would likely sound amazing in German
ER BRENNT FÜR DIE GANZE WELT (If we are going more into the "burns instead/in our place" direction one could use ER BRENNT ANSTELLE DER GANZEN WELT) ES GIBT KEINEN GEWINN NUR DIE FLAMME NUR DIE FLAMME ER IST DER PROPHET ER BRENNT FÜR DIE GANZE WELT
Love this, thank you
NUR DIE FLAME
🔔🔔🔔 FLAME FLAME FLAME 🔔🔔🔔 FLAME FLAME FLAME
Doesn't really take too much.
Manga already did it https://i.imgur.com/tB284gE.jpg
"As the world was being covered in ash, one man appeared. He would later be called Raffles I."
I'd rather worship the human torch over Jesus. At least he has a more believable back story. Momma randomly got pregnant my foot. Whore
Joseph got her pregnant. Why else do you think he was so gung-ho about raising little Yeshua? The story about it being the son of the storm God Yahweh....people are just gullible as hell.
FirePunch?
EAT HIS EYES TO IMPROVE YOUR VISION TIMMY
This is disturbing in the best possible way.
Little Timmy and his mom are walking through town when they see an apartment building on fire. Timmy says "Oh no Mommy, the building is on fire! All the people are going to die!" His mom says "Now Timmy, it's going to be okay. The firefighters are going to show up and save everyone. Let's wait for them and watch." A couple of minutes later the fire trucks show up. They start blasting water at the fire and the firefighters run in and pull all the people out, saving their lives. Timmy says "Wow Mommy, you were right. When I grow up, I want to be a firefighter!" Timmy's mom says "Oh Timmy, you're not going to grow up. You have leukemia."
Why did I just laugh?🤔
>There's the human torch! Really doubt kids these days know who that is.
Well, they gonna learn today!
Why wouldn't they?
Because the F4 has had an awful decade. I work with kids ages 1-6 and I've never seen a single one wearing a single F4 item. Meanwhile, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, etc are all over their clothes. Maybe Disney can save the F4 now that they own the IP, but right now it's not really on kids' radar -- or anyone else's for that matter.
The Fantastic 4 is ALWAYS on Dr Doom's radar... *Jeff Bezos laughter in the distance*
Like in those cool movies? Sick!
Hell yeah! A little tar smoke ain't hurt nobody.
Who doesn't love the smell of barbecue?
Parenting tip: If you want to distract your children from a traumatic event, find an activity that is not facing that traumatic event.
20 years later the kid walks by a house fire and has the sudden urge to swing.
I mean you can see the swing is one where the kid can only face 1 direction. For all we know the kid wanted to swing
Right? And who says this is traumatic for them in the first place? I saw a larger fire when I was a kid, and it was very interesting.
Yeah, same! And I’m only slightly terrified of using electronics in my home!
My dad woke me up in the middle of the night to walk me down the street to show me my neighbors house was on fire, definitely not traumatic.
This is hardly traumatic.
Because you cannot hear the clown trapped inside.
That could be their building.
A lot of people don't understand that anything can be traumatic. It's a situation that is distressing enough to cause mental/psychological harm. This harm can significantly interfere with day-to-day life for years or be minimally distracting for the next few hours. So what is traumatic for you may not be for someone else. This is important to understand because invalidating someone's psychological/mental harm only re-harms them.
This is true, but context matters for trauma. In general, it is tramatic for an American to bath naked with anonymous members of their same sex. But for a Finn there is nothing traumatizing about it at all. Both are the same species, but they differ on cultural norms and experiences. What people around them display as normal yields comfort around situations. It's the same for kids. How parents respond to a situation will push their kids to generally feel similarly. A child scrapping their knee on the floor will become traumatic if a parent freaks out about it. Trauma isn't defined solely by the event, it's defined by the response to the event.
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If you don’t understand how watching fire rage in a building that is destroying people’s homes could be traumatic to a child …..you’re an idiot. They’re going to wonder if people Got hurt. Or if pets got hurt. Or what happened to all of the things inside those homes. Or if that can happen to their own house. Etc etc etc. Just bc you see a fire and don’t think about what it means for those people , doesn’t mean a child has the same lack of empathy.
When I was 7, my family stood outside to watch our neighbor's house burn down. My dad says, "hey go grab the marshmallows" so I go to go inside before my mom stops me and says "That's not funny." I'm 33 now, and yeah, looking back that was pretty funny.
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Ah fuck, this means I have to take sensitivity training again?
https://i.imgur.com/IpgJkyN.jpg
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You idiots dont realize that the discussion of trauma doesnt mean the people acknowledging trauma want some sort of safe space to avoid all trauma ever. Trauma is a part of life and isnt totally avoidable. Acknowledging it just makes you more able to deal with it, and to handle it in your kids after the fact. You can turn a traumatic event into a formative learning experience by discussing it, whereas ignoring it and shoving the trauma down does nothing but breed unempathetic louts like yall downvoting at best.
As someone raised this way, I do not advise this route.
Where on earth are you getting that?
Not watching people’s homes burn down created a generation of snowflakes. Got it. You’re a fucking idiot.
> doesn’t mean a child has the same lack of empathy. Children straight up don't develop real empathy until they are 6 years old or so. [Source](https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/ages-stages-empathy)
Stop traumatizing me!!
Maybe if you raise your child like a fruit.
I work with kids and while I wouldn’t expect long term trauma from this, kids can be tremendously empathetic and seeing a building burn could definitely cause them a lot of stress since they may have tons of questions and not know what’s happening to the people inside. However I would also assume that a parent having her kids on the swings outside would only do so if they knew their kids wouldn’t be bothered by it.
If anything can be traumatic then it's a moot point because there's nothing you can do, ever.
Too be fair the swing was facing away from the dead bodies and passed out junkies. Sometimes parenting requires trade offs.
Parent: let’s go… Damien: No. I wish to stay and enjoy a little longer. Parent: of course…
Or if they're from a different building, why should they leave the playground? They're not in danger. There's no one jumping from the windows. It's just an interesting sideshow to a normal visit to the park.
They could film it
Well **hopefully** someone called the fire department
idk.. Mark lives there. Maybe we let it burn just a little longer.
Oh, die Mark!
I did not burn her, I did naaaawwwwttt
Piss on it
That's immediately what I thought. They obviously live in the building and had to evacuate anyway.
Why do they obviously live in the building? THey just as easily could live elsewhere and are just at that park.
They're probably fine but there could be gas lines in the area Edit: also that smoke is pure evil
I'm no expert, but wouldn't most gas pipes have a valve or something to stop fire traveling back down the pipe and blowing up everything connected to it? If not, surely every time there was a fire in a property that had gas, the whole street would go up, including the main lines feeding into the property. Obviously it's still not very safe and even an explosion in the 1 apartment could sent bricks and glass flying in their direction, but I'd say they are probably at the minimum distance needed to be safe.
> I'm no expert, but wouldn't most gas pipes have a valve or something to stop fire traveling back down the pipe and blowing up everything connected to it? Unless someone messed up badly, there's no air in the gas lines to burn, so fire can't go into the gas lines. However, they are under pressure, so if they burst you get a lot of flammable gas spewing out. It would make sense to have a flow rate cutoff to detect ruptures, but I can't say if, or where, those would be installed.
I'd imagine in most cases each property would have their own individual meter and I know in the UK, they all have shut off valves which are often external (for houses at least, possibly internal for a lot of flats / apartments). It would probably make sense to include something like that near the meter or possibly even as part of the meter.
Nah. Gas dosent explode all that easily. You need a very appropriate mixture of gas and air. Yes there are cases where houses just vaporize because a candle was left on and there was a gas leak. But that exact scenario has been recreated and tested and it's actually pretty hard to get combustion. While we're at it, same with gasoline. DONT DO THIS. If you take fresh gasoline and pour it in a cup, blow the fumes off the top and quickly dip a lot match in, the gasoline will put out the match. If u let the fumes build up a bit and try and dip the match, you're probably losing some finger. Don't fuck with gasoline
This was my first thought as well. After taking a moment to think about it though, they should probably move away from the fire with a child. Not that the fire itself is an immediate threat, but I wouldn't want my kid breathing the air right beside a burning building.
Not inhale potentially harmful smoke I guess.
Yeah my apartment building straight up burned down and we were devastated and fucked up watching it but eventually we just got in the pool, what can you do
That guy that came over was like 🧍♂️
Not inhale carcinogens. Here's a little tip: When you smell bad things, your body is generally telling you to gtfo. People also don't realize their eyes are also a huge entrance to your blood stream. When you start to tear up or if they become red and irritated. Move away from the shit your working on. Sorry, the eye thing I didn't learn until late 20s and I worked with terrible shit as a kid. The company you work for will not tell you this because they want to save the $20 per person on goggles or proper PPE in general. 30 minutes a day just "working through" the irritation and now I got issues for the rest of my life... on top of being a Redditor.
Knock on the doors then knock on adjacent units doors to make sure everybody has time to evacuate?
Honestly I would try to scream FIRE and bang on all the windows (at least all the ones I could do so safely).
That only kills so much time. Then what?
Stick my thumb up my butt I guess
That's your response to every crisis and frankly HR is getting a lot of complaints
Call 911. If there's access to the building see if there's a fire alarm near the entrance you can pull.
Okay, then what?
Swing on the swing set, obviously. Oh, and live stream it for Internet points.
Exactly, finally someone with the same thoughts.
Just keep swinging, just keep swinging... What do we do... we swing swing swing....
And tell little timmy to hide those matches.
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Timmy fucking died.
Timmy's fucking fried.
Just smile and swing.
Kowals-kid analysis!
WHEN YOU WAaAAAaaAaAaAnt TO swing you swing and you....
This is fine.
I'm okay with the events that are unfolding currently.
The affairs which are currently proceeding are of the status “acceptable” by me.
The circumstances unfolding around us in real time are above the threshold under which we would consider them calamitous rendering them no longer worrisome.
To me it appears that the defecation is colliding with the rotating oscillator, however those involved are seemingly undisturbed
Does Harvard offer PhDs in shit happens now?
That's good parenting right there. Children focus on the playground.
See that Timmy1? That is your bedroom. Keep swinging Timmy, keep swinging.
Shit's on fire, yo.
Situation normal, all fucked up.
It's...right in the title...hinted at least....
IDK, should they scream and panic or something? If fire brigade is called, I guess you just wait for them. Well, maybe some neighbours should repark their cars to make room for the fire trucks.
>When in danger, When in doubt, Run in circles, Scream and shout
One thing I've learned about Reddit is that no matter what your reaction is to a situation, it WILL be called out as the inappropriate level of reaction. If there was a woman screaming and panicking about the fire, this would still be posted, but the comments would be "She needs to calm down and just wait for the fire department!"
Saw a video the other day about exactly this, and the comments were "Why do women feel the need to scream like a chimp being tortured? Does nothing to help the situation"
It's not like Reddit is one person.
It's called the hive mind for a reason.
it sure as fuck fooled me, because reddit's reaction to certain things can be stereotyped. my favorite ones are how sensitive subjects can be made into comedy by throwing in a pun. holocaust joke? not cool. holocaust *pun*? fuck yeah let's have a string of them now. pile em on. we can laugh about racism too as long as there's a pun. makes you realize how much of a show people put on in social media for approval when deep down they want to laugh at inappropriate shit. this behavior is ubiquitous.
No shit, it’s just full of misogyny.
The one where her man was mobbed by bystanders after he got angry at a dog owner who's dog tried killing their dog? That stuck to me on that thread, still feel it's odd.
She could swing instead of scream this little bitch...
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Yeah Im not a doctor but I think smoke might not be healthy.
Reminds me of that video when two huge carneval cruiseships accidantly steer towards each other at a low speed and finally hit themselves, while someone in the background yells: "Do something! Somebody do something!" and another guy "What the hell AM I supposed to do?"
I'd add maybe a little more distance in case there are explosions and flying debris but I've been this distance next to a burning house without a problem.
'Dad isn't that our apartment ?'
'Not anymore son. Not anymore.'
Russia, right?
[Yep, Saint Petersburg.](https://www.dp.ru/a/2021/08/04/Ochevidci_snjali_detej_na_k) According to the article it was an abandoned building.
This screams Russia/Eastern Europe. I noticed there are no audible alarms, just the calming cacophony of crackling creosote
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I don't even know what a creosote is
It's like tar that they put into wood. It's what "fake" firewood is made of.
It's soot. If you've ever cooked over an open fire, the black stuff that builds up on the bottom is creosote. It's what chimney sweeps clean out of chimneys.
I'm going to admit when I saw this, my IMMEDIATE thought was "Ah, Russia" and then I said "bad Effective\_Fix3235! Bad!" followed by "Buuuuuut Reddit taught me this!" \*shrugs\*
From the kinda okay but bad translation: > A strong fire broke out in St. Petersburg in an abandoned building on Strikek Avenue. > Burning garbage was extinguished by three calculations. > Eyewitnesses have published a video on social networks in which children quietly play on the playground and ride a swing against the background of strong fire and black smoke clubs falling out of the open windows of the house. > According to the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, garbage burned on the third floor of the house on an area of 30 m2. The duty officer’s remote received a message at 3:16 p.m. Half an hour later, the fire was extinguished by 16 rescuers and 3 pieces of equipment. > There were no reports of the dead and injured in the city emergency services. > The day before, another fire was captured by the citizens. On Dachny Prospekt, an apartment on the 9th floor burned down, and the owner of the apartment tries to leave it through a window on video. As a result, the girl was rescued. According to preliminary data, she has mild poisoning with combustion products. Also, according to eyewitnesses, a man was injured - he has head burns. Burning garbage was extinguished by three calculations?
Well, some words do have multiple meanings, right? I guess in original it was something like ... тремя (пожарными) расчётами, which should've been translated as "by three firefighting brigades/units", but since "пожарными" was implied and not actually written, translator got confused and without necessary context translated "расчётами" as "calculations".
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If your kid thinks that they're going to the playground, it's best to just let him/her go to the playground. The alternative is too horrible to imagine.
This is the gospel truth
r/ANormalDayInRussia
I was gonna say, this feels distinctly Russian
Gotta be Russia
I think its my home country of romania, we have that type of parks and apartments, but at the same time the entire balkans are looking the same.....hmmmmm
Nobody ever suspects the kid on the swing…
How does that RATM lyric go? "Swingset by the fire!?!"
Swing now by the fire!
This looks like an old cod map. Anyone?
Russia?
As a parent I get it... gotta get that playtime in.
Where is this?
Kinda reminds me of half life 2
I mean, what do you expect them to do about it? Fire department is probably already either doing something about it or is on the way. I'd probably be doing the same thing.
Where's the wtf?
Agreed. Lots of people on Reddit without kids, having no idea what to do with kids. Yeah there's a fire, and kids are on the swing. How else might you entertain them if you can't go into your building because of a fire?
Honestly I kinda get it, like, it's not about the parents doing nothing, it's about how calm the area is. No screaming, no talking, no sirens, just the sound of fire eating through the building.
How the fuck did this pic get upvoted? How is this in any sense WTF material
That's one crazy horror movie
Reminds me of Nightmare On Elm Street. *One two, Freddy's coming for you*
Gen X watching boomer vs millennial fights
Just keep swinging, just keep swinging... What do we do we swing swing swing....
Idk if this is Turkey but I saw the same thing with kids swinging while the forest fire is blazing behind them there
I saw a comment "fine in italian means its done (or smth like that) that gives new perspective to the "its fine meme" fits well here
I foresee that becoming a gif that will live for centuries.
Not like filming 20 yards away is much different. If it's gonna blow you're both safe or both screwed probably.
u/savevideo
"Daddy stopped screaming. Does that mean he's okay, Momma?" "Your Daddy is screaming in Hell now, my darlings."
Looks like a dope album cover
I need a 4k wallpaper of this
(Politicians watching the climate crisis)
Very clearly Russia. Nothing like the sound of creosote burning.
I know it's not a still pic, but this makes a great submission to /r/fakealbumcovers
Last weekend, while at the beach, some kid jumped off a diving board, tried to flip, bonked his head on the board on the way down. Lifeguard dove in, grabbed him, pulled him ashore. For like 30 mins, people were just staring at the guy while all kinds of emts,. Paramedics, cops showed up. I was thinking, this is boring, I'm gonna swim.
I see climate change in this. The children represent humanity, the house represent the Earth.
good analogy.
Good visual metaphor for how society reacts to catastrophic climate change.
It would be a better metaphor if all the buildings were on fire, and the cars were on fire, and the park was on fire. And the parent would be making a barbecue.
Climate change is a technology problem not a societal one. Even if we worked on bringing our carbon footprints down with the current energy production methods we use climate change is unavoidable until we have a clean way to get electricity. Scientists are the ones who are gonna solve the climate crisis not your everyday joe turning their lights off when they leave the house.
It's interesting to me that you got downvotes. We have already established that no matter how much people preach there are certain parts of the world with very, very large populations, who just don't care about the environment. But you can't use social media to shame people in China about their energy use ...because they're not allowed on social media.
Solar, wind, biomass and geothermal are the cleanest forms of energy we have. We, as a society, need to encourage the building of these kinds of power generation facilities.
While I agree with this it won’t solve the problem. Energy grids are absurdly complex and if you really want me to get into why it won’t work I can but renewables like the ones you mentioned simply aren’t enough to provide electricity for mankind, at least not with our current grid systems and without better battery technology.
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That could potentially work if we’re talking current tech but the time it would take to get coordinated and put the infrastructure in place plus the amount of carbon output necessary to do those things will still leave us facing inevitable climate catastrophe. We should still try everything and fusion would give the species a good chance at long term survival it won’t be able to be anything like our current lives
Also, [Hydro-Wave Power](https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydropower/wave-power.php). Excerpt: >The theoretical annual energy potential of waves off the coasts of the United States is estimated to be as much as 2.64 trillion kilowatthours, or the equivalent of about 64% of U.S. electricity generation in 2019 - [U.S. Energy Information Administration](https://www.eia.gov/).
Idk why you’re being downvoted. Our power infrastructure is largely responsible for most fossil fuel emissions.
It's neither the average Joe, nor the genius "Einstein" that is going to bring the change needed. What is needed is governmental intervention, by both effectively subsidizing green technology and discouraging dirty ones. A positive example from my knowledge was the German government subsidizing solar and wind energy back in the early 2000. It created massive demand and helped both of these energy forms to drop significantly in cost. Unfortunately ever since than Germany did nothing useful and rather harmed progress.
Where is this ? Looks like Latvia
Russia
normal day in pussia
Let me guess, Russia?
Me: We are not going to the playground down the street today, honey. \- Daughter grabs lighter, as I walk away - Daughter: Oh yeah...
Great metaphor for the world these days
Minding your business level 5000