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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think I've finally reached old, everyone.

This meme has never been funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Damn!

I'd like to direct you to someone who can help, who can explain what's funny about it.

But maybe despite their expertise they won't provide the context you need.

And you'll still be at a loss.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I don't even understand it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

God dammit.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... and the text is a proposed text to warn future civilizations of our nuclear waste that's supposed to transcend cultural changes until then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

It’s always loss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

God damn it. It's everywhere

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And the text is riffing on long-term nuclear waste warning messages (or, rather, Sandia's wording for what the non-verbal warnings should try to convey)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Still does not make any sense to me. Should it make sense at some point?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

People hide this pattern called "loss" in unrelated context to confuse people. And people who recognize it feel smart, or angry, or disappointed. It's a form of mild trolling, there is not much more to it. The meme originates from a comic but this is completely irrelevant.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It’s like the nerds that came up with those nuclear warnings have never consumed a piece of fantasy or sci-fi media. “Oh, this ancient civilisation had immense power and locked it away in a concrete vault underground surrounded by harrowing warnings? Fuck yes I’m digging that shit up or settling my town on the ancient site of power. Blessings of the glowing soil! My son has been born with 6 fingers on each hand! Surely a wonderful portent!”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

If I'm finding a dungeon in the wild, I'm delving, and I have the education to know better. The post apocalyptic grunts stand no chance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I read a really interesting book which dealt, in part, with how to let people in the far future know about a nuclear waste dump from one of the people who helped design it (sci-fi author Gregory Benford). And one of the suggestions was not to let anyone know about it at all because if you do tell them, they'll go dig it up. But then they also have to contend with ideas like mining robots that just tunnel through the soil looking for useful materials that might accidentally tunnel into the waste dump.

There were a lot of ideas including things like a landscape of nasty-looking concrete spikes and buried radio warnings. The final design was more modest and I don't think would have deterred me, but I also don't remember the details well enough because I read it decades ago.

Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

Looks to be available to read on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/deeptimehowhuman0000benf/page/n5/mode/2up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Children of the Atom!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Is this loss?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can we please stop with the loss memes... I have seen 3 already! Come on!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean like this morning or in general?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

Oh lucky you

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I'm at a loss for words.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? Well now your ears are ringing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are now aware of your breathing

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I losst The Game before reading this because of the dang image.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

That's half of it. The other half sounds like the project to warn a future civilization 10k years from now about buried radioactive waste.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's going the way of ligma. Not particularly funny and beaten to death, but it keeps getting regurgitated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Just like how I found all those Chuck Norris jokes back in the day. Like yeah okay, I get it, but I'm not as entertained as others.

Behind Chuck Norris's beard is another fist. Lol.

If you say so.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Nothing valued is here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I'm a complete idiot

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

In addition to what others have said about Loss, the text of the tweet is referring to the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning message from the early 90s

This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location…it increases towards a center…the center of danger is here…of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I am at a loss for words that I could recognize it almost immediately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A mash-up of the (overdone) "loss" meme and the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messaging

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The culture was no great loss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You son of a bitch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I briefly thought this was mocking our language or communication or something by showing a sentence diagram, but after the comments revealed it to be loss, I found myself disappointed.

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