Universal Chat Thread

[Moonface]

Given that Godzilla is well-known to be an allegory for the atomic bombs hitting Japan, I have my doubts that people have forgotten what happened to them. Then again, it's also hard to deny that they never happened when (*In Worst Death Grips impression*) I've seen footage! No, but seriously, we filmed the bombings of Japan, and there's all sorts of external evidence that you have to handwave away before you can begin to claim that the bombings didn't happen. Ukraine never forgot the Holodomor, Germany refuses to let it's people forget the Holocaust, and Japan will not forget what we did to them. Now, THE REASONS why this happened may not get taught properly, but they won't forget the fact that it did happen.

I can, however, see similarities to the Moon Landing Hoaxers in that kind of assessment. The big difference between the two, however, is you can visit Japan. You can go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You can't just go to the Moon. So, verifying it is a lot harder, especially with the time element of it being so long ago. And speaking of the Moon Landing Hoaxers, my favorite debunk of that myth is the guy who said "Yeah, we went to the Moon because it would have been impossible to film it on Earth." It's VERY interesting to watch him explain that the tech to be able to fake it just wasn't there yet, and it literally would have been easier to just go to the Moon!

I forgot about Godzilla.  I also was under the impression Japan tries to be rather hush about their actions in the World Wars which if they are makes it seem like it would be difficult to then explain why they had a couple of nukes dropped on them. Like, if the explanation given is "We did some kinda fucked up shit" or something that sounds bad enough to not make a nuke seem like a huge overreaction I would think a lot of people would get curious of what their country did that could be bad enough that we won't get told that but we will get told that another country chose to respond to it with a weapon that isn't topped by anything else when it comes to sheer power and destruction.

As for being able to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't feel like doing that would dissuade someone who thinks the nukes didn't happen. They'd pull some "Well if it was that bad how are these places so well recovered in less than half a century?" style questioning or something. Although I would agree with that question only in the sense that it is pretty dang impressive how you wouldn't know by looking at it that those areas of Japan were hit by something of that power and rebuilt to their current states in <50 years or so.


Saw an interesting icon on my phone home screen during work that I hadn't seen before, and saw that it was an alert icon for poor air quality, which is currently sitting at this where I live:



I can't say I've ever seen an alert for air quality before, and when I went outside to come home from work I could actually see how bad the air quality is. Everything has this smoggy haze to it that I don't think I've ever seen before in my life to that extent.