#cw disaster

[ayeforscotland]

Terrible plane crash in Brazil. Can’t begin to imagine how the families must be feeling.

Just a heads up but there is a video of it online so just be aware if you want to avoid it.

[dizazter-dragoon]

If you are the spiritual type, please light a candle or say a prayer for the families of: Miguel Luna, Dorlian Cabrera, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, Maynor Yassir Suazo, and the unnamed presumed dead victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse. These men were loved, and will be missed terribly by their community. The Latino Racial Justice Circle has managed to raise funds for the families of the victims, but they could use more help than ever. If you're able to, please donate to Key Bridge Emergency Response Fund

[oingus-boingus]

You're just being obstinate at this point. It's okay to be wrong, but trying to save face in all this is just gonna make you dig your heels in. Just apologize and move on. What you did was insensitive, but it's not the end of the world. I don't get why you insist on implying an erp blog is spreading misinformation when it's becoming increasingly certain that's not the case.

There's nothing "increasingly certain" when there's no sources? Jesus christ, I'm not apologizing! For asking! For sources!

I never said the death toll wouldn't go up, I never refuted the points made about people suffering and losing everything. I'm skeptical of claims to a numerical value to lives lost, I'm skeptical of grossly maudlin claims at people calling loved ones as they're part of an active conflagration, I'm skeptical of claims that hotels aren't helping without elaboration about how one can be certain they even CAN help (do they have the employees to do so? Is local government okay with them pushing in non-essential peoples to assist in staffing? And is their lack of help possibly due to the fact that they're waiting on FEMA organizers to guide them?

It should be as easy as opening one's doors, but it isn't (for a host of reasons), and it assuredly isn't as simple as hotels turning their nose up at pesky locals. Racism and prioritization of tourists is for sure an issue and is for sure contributing, but to present that as the end-all-be-all cause of this is unnecessarily incendiary and is all the more spurious because OP lacks sources for that too!

[exclusion-pr]

It has come to our attention that an Ultra Beast attack is underway at the Twin Cities in Unova! We urge citizens to remain calm and stay safe! We do have some shelters in the area that can be utilized, but stay indoors first and foremost! Rangers are on the way.

[exclusion-pr]

I'm starting to actually hope the machine explodes instead of melting.

Mhm.

Out of curiosity, would you happen to reside within our universe?

Because if so, you may not have been accounted for in your region's latest opinion survey. For the record, 36% of people worldwide have a favorable opinion of our work. 49% in Alola. And about 46% of people worldwide have a neutral or near-neutral opinion. "Unfortunate but necessary" seems to have been a common sentiment, one which I can certainly sympathize with.

There are endless possibilities for why you may feel they way you do, so speculating is pointless. Nonetheless, allow me to do so for a moment.

In this world, Alola was devastated by the Ultra Crisis. Exact number of deaths is still unknown, landing somewhere in the low hundreds. Ecologically, we have still not yet recovered 7 years later, despite the incredible and continuous work by those at Pelago Paradise. Our civilization could have been destroyed, and perhaps other regions could have suffered as well. Perhaps it was not quite so severe in other worlds? Perhaps you simply did not live through what we have?

Please do not mistake this speculation for malice. I do not mean to imply that your experiences, or even opinions, are somehow "wrong", but simply that they do not align with our world.

[windandwater]

have started listening to a podcast about survival stories (my fucking. shit. let me tell you.) and they covered Ernest Shackleton and as I've mentioned before I have this newfound fascination with polar expeditions and explorers because it's something I would absolutely never do yet find it so interesting how people are successful (and fail!) at it.

cut for gross talk (not in this story but in similar ones)

because I listen to a lot of disaster stories, let me tell you, I was fully waiting for like. due to frostbite a dude's leg had to be amputated. and then he couldn't make it. and that's when the cannibalism started. everyone got scurvy and they started dropping one by one. you know. just because it's a survival story doesn't mean everyone survived. this expedition started in 19 fucking 14, some of them were in Antarctica for three years, and I had just listened to a mountaineering disaster from 2008 where 11 people out of 18 died over the course of a couple days.

but no. every single god damn one of them made it. all 22. and they weren't like--feeling great. but they were still completely alive.

at one point Shackleton and a couple others reached South Georgia Island but they were on the opposite side of civilization, in completely uncharted territory, surrounded by impassible cliffs, and to get down? they resorted to sliding down 1,000 feet of snow & rock. and survived. and went back to rescue all of the others still stranded, and it took three months to get past the ice but they made it.

they spent 456 days of that three years just. trapped in ice. their ship just sitting in ice. and at the end of that it completely sank into it and they had to abandon the ship altogether.

I think after listening to stories about how hard it is to get this right meant that this just fucking. blew my mind. everyone puts it down to his leadership and I believe it. I would say luck and planning, but this man had weathered multiple other expeditions & got everyone out alive then, too. you have to be smart as shit and able to keep everyone sane. I'm in complete awe and if you want to learn about polar exploration that went horribly wrong but also incredibly right, that's your guy to research.

the podcast is Against the Odds. it contains every content warning imaginable for different arcs so tread carefully.

another thing: I don't think people know that Antarctica is fucking. beautiful. it's something I knew--because my dad went there for work while he was at NASA. it's always been a pie in the sky bucket list item for me and now I want to go even more.

I had never looked up the price ticket for tourism out there? and. oof.

sole regret of my life: when my dad recommended getting a job washing dishes on McMurdo in my 20s I should've looked into it! wtf!

[oingus-boingus]

Official toll is 80 and rising.

I'm aware and keeping abreast of it all (as much as I can).

I'm sure the toll will rise as they identify more bodies as families return and they're able to assure buildings are safe enough to enter and search. Still, I'm... hopeful isn't the word...but I'm...something...when I see updates and see that the numbers aren't rising by the hundreds I feared to see.

I don't hold much positivity, but I wonder if the missing persons list will shorten as more people arrive back and can reunite with people lacking signal or devices to communicate.